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Published: Thursday, September 4, 2008

Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Movie trailer Voice silenced

Don LaFontaine, better known as the narrator from more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday night. He will be remembered for the "In a world where ... " phrase, coloring our first impressions of many great films.

Gunning for Rommel

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney now have the rights to Killing Rommel, a novel on the notorious Nazi general. Author Steven Pressfield will pen the script, along with Randall Wallace (Pearl Harbor).

Sommers on Tarzan

With Guillermo del Toro tied up with The Hobbit, the reigns for Warner Bros.'s Tarzan project have been passed to Stephen Sommers (The Mummy). Also, Stu Beattie (Collateral) will now write the script rather than del Toro's attached writer, John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).

Clashing on Button

Paramount Studios and director David Fincher (Zodiac) are fighting over cuts to Fincher's forthcoming film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The standoff prompted Fincher to move his planned Heavy Metal adaptation to Sony Pictures.

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