A ccording to Deadline Hollywood, David Goyer (Blade: Trinity) has left his role as showrunner on ABC's sci-fi drama "FlashForward" to concentrate on his movie career. David Goyer has been one of the "behind-the-scenes" guys of the "Batman Begins" franchise since the very beginning, having scripted/contributed story ideas to the first two movies. Nikki Finke says that David Goyer's decision to quit as showrunner on ABC's Flashforward is so he can work on writing the script for Batman 3 with co-scribe Jonathan Nolan. (Read More...)

D r. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star's death last summer. A criminal complaint filed earlier in the day alleged that Murray "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson". Dr. Conrad Murray, who has been trying to surrender to authorities for a week, will likely get his chance with prosecutors saying they will file a charge Monday in the death of Michael Jackson. (Read More...)

M oviegoers turned their attention to a mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation over the weekend as "Dear John" ended the seven-week run of "Avatar" as the No. 1 movie in North America. Starring two of Hollywood's ascending young actors, Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, right, "Dear John" (Relativity Media) sold an estimated $32.4 million in tickets. UPDATE: Final numbers on Monday show Dear John grossed $30.5 million over the weekend, down nearly $2 million from estimates, and not enough to set a new Super Bowl weekend record. (Read More...)

W hile doing the press rounds for his newest film "The Wolfman," which opens in theaters this Friday, director Joe Johnston obviously knew he was going to be bombarded with questions regarding his next film. It's a pretty safe bet the nuggets of information released during his batch of interviews were carefully screened and selected tidbits meant to whet the appetite of anxious fanboys. According to a new interview with director Joe Johnston, he'll have some buddies at his back, and they're not the Avengers. (Read More...)

L ast night's Super Bowl may have been a sentimental victory for New Orleans, but let's take a moment to honor the other disaster survivors who celebrated a win: David Letterman and Jay Leno. Both parties, recovering from a year of scandal and weeks of monologue warfare, shocked viewers by appearing side-by-side (well, with Oprah lodged in between) for a spot promoting the Late Show with David Letterman. EW talked to "The Late Show" executive producer Rob Burnett about David Letterman's surprising decision to include Jay Leno in a promotional spot during the Super Bowl. (Read More...)

C ontinuing his quest to star in, or at least become attached to every movie ever made by Hollywood from 2009 onward, Aussie Sam Worthington has officially signed on to star in the true-life murder mystery "The Texas Killing Fields". Sam Worthington's goal of being a part of every high concept project continues, as, according to Variety, he is officially set to star in THE TEXAS KILLING FIELDS, which may be going through a name change to simply THE FIELDS. The film is set to be produced by Michael Mann with Mann's daughter, Ami Canaan, stepping in as the film's director. (Read More...)

T he prequel film for John Carpenter's The Thing starts filming next month with newcomer actors Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Winstead. But does the audience really care what happened to the science team before the monster ran into Kurt Russell? Matthijs Van Heijningen is directing the film which was penned by Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore, and rewritten a few times since then.

I t's either this year's The Wrestler, or the film equivalent of that nasty drunk at the bar who's just slowly making the biggest ass of himself with each passing minute. Oh Mickey, what will you say next? In Passion Play, Rourke plays a down-and-out trumpet player who looks to a young winged angel for redemption in 1950s Los Angeles. On Fox's character, Rourke notes, " She has wings, so she was sort of an oddity trapped in a carnival act. (Read More...)

B ack in November, we told you that Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo would be reprising their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, but not for another big screen sequel (not yet, at least...). The television spot advertised a new Vacation "mini-movie" titled Hotel Hell Vacation, featuring Chase, D'Angelo, and an exact replica of the film's iconic Wagon Queen Family Truckster. Remember that Christmas time Movies We Love article I wrote about Christmas Vacation? I'm not ashamed to say that I have been following the journeys of Clark W. Griswold (Chevy Chase) and his accident-prone family for years. (Read More...)

H BO's "Entourage" will be on its seventh season when it returns to the cable network this year, and a lot of things have changed during its run. Over at MTV, they had an opportunity to speak to Adrian Grenier, the actor alter ego of Vinnie Chase and he explained that this season his character will finally go off the deep end. Before he broke out with any talk about the upcoming season, he spoke on the rumored "Entourage" movie. (Read More...)

F ile this story in the "I wish I were joking" pile: Gary Marshall s ensemble romantic comedy Valentine's Day doesn't even open until Friday but Hollywood is already planning a sequel. According to Finke, the film's producers have hired screenwriter Katherine Fugate write another holiday-themed film as a follow-up titled New Years Eve. The sequel/spin-off will feature some of the Los Angeles-based cast/characters from Valentine's Day, in a new setting - New York City, over the course of 24 hours surrounding the new year. (Read More...)

B rad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have begun legal action against a British tabloid that reported the celebrity couple was going to split, a lawyer acting on their behalf confirmed Monday. Keith Schillings, of London-based Schillings lawyers, said in a statement that the couple had begun legal proceedings against the News of The World, a Sunday tabloid and Britain's highest selling newspaper. Lawyers for the couple lodged a claim at London's High Court on Monday to begin a legal case against the newspaper, Schillings said. (Read More...)

T eenage heart-throb Taylor Lautner is to star as "Stretch Armstrong" in the latest Hollywood movie inspired by a best-selling action figure from toymakers Hasbro, a statement said Monday. Lautner, one of the stars of the "Twilight" vampire films, will play Armstrong, a popular 1970s toy featuring gel-filled limbs that stretch to improbable lengths, Universal Studios said in a statement. "In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office," Universal Pictures co-chairman Donna Langley said. (Read More...)

N ow that the final season of "Lost" has begun, the end is becoming more real. We'll be saying goodbye to our favorite castaways this May, and some of the show's actors have already lined up their next gigs. According to THR, Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin Kwon on the series has booked a role on the CBS revamp of "Hawaii Five-O". (Read More...)

T oday we have the Super Bowl XLIV TV spot for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). In the Jerry Bruckheimer -produced video game adaptation, a rogue prince (Gyllenhaal) reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess (Arterton) and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time-a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world. The new television spot gives us a look at some of the film's tentpole special effects-filled sequences. (Read More...)