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Kevin Smith has completed the script for Clerks 3!

The writer/director posted a picture of the script on Instagram, along with a description:

"IT IS ACCOMPLISHED! First draft of CLERKS III is 137 pages. Plays like the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK of the Clerks trilogy."

Smith originally planned to crowdfund the film on Kickstarter, but after the recent Zach Braff backlash, has scrapped that idea.

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An American remake is in the works for the 2009 Italian film The Double Hour, and Michelle Williams and Joel Edgerton have signed on to star.

The original film starred Kseniya Rappoport and Filippo Timi as a couple who meets at a speed dating event. While on vacation, they become victims in a dangerous robbery plot.

Joshua Marston will write the screenplay and direct.

The original film was directed by Giuseppe Capotondi, with a script by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi, and Stefano Sardo. It is currently streaming on various internet video services.

The Iron Man 2 crew is getting back together, with Scarlett Johansson joining the cast of Chef.

Johansson made her Marvel debut as Natasha Romanoff in Iron Man 2, and she will be rejoining director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey, Jr. for the new film.

The film will star Favreau as a disgraced former chef who loses his family and his job. In order to win them back, he opens a food truck.

 Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo, and Bobby Cannavale will also star.

There is no word yet on Johansson's role, or when the film will begin production.

Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to join the cast of Into the Woods.

The film is an adaptation of the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim.

Into the Woods follows a baker and his wife as they seek a witch in order to reverse an infertility curse she put on them.

Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep are already attached to star, presumably as the Baker and the Witch, respectively.

Rob Marshall, who is a seasoned adapter of stage musicals to screen, will direct.

A remake of The Wild Bunch is in the works, and Will Smith is in talks to lead the project.

Warner Bros. is looking to rework the project as a vehicle for the actor, with the original 1969 Sam Peckinpah Western acting as an ensemble film.

The new film will be set in present day, and will follow a disgraced DEA agent as he heads to the Mexican border to steal a Drug Lord's fortune.

A remake of the film has been in the works at Warner for a while, but after the death of director Tony Scott, who was attached to direct, the project was shelved.

Smith, meanwhile, is dealing with an emancipation request from his son Jaden. Perfect time to negotiate a major movie role!

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand.

So reads the tagline of a new poster for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, reciting a passage from the movie on which the film is based and depicting Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, standing atop a mountain.

Bow and arrow in our heroine's hands, the image also shows the clouds overheard forming a Mockingjay. How very cool. See for yourself now:

The Hunger Games sequel opens in theaters November 22.

View the first Catching Fire trailer now.

Michael Caine and Jennifer Garner have joined the cast of Imagine.

The film centers around an aging rock star, played by Al Pacino, who discovers an unopened letter from John Lennon.

Upon reading the letter, he learns that he has an adult son that he never knew about.

Annette Bening and Bobby Cannavale are also set to star.

Dan Fogelman wrote the script, and will make his directorial debut with the film.

Iron Man 3 is an unstoppable force.

Despite the second big Summer Movie of the year premiering on Friday, Iron Man 3 stayed in first place in the weekend box office, earning $72.47 million for a two-week total of $284.9.

The Great Gatsby, whose release date was moved from Christmas to May in order to capitalize on the Summer movie season, had a sub-par opening in Iron Man's shadow.

The film took in $51.1 million in its first weekend.

Read our Iron Man 3 review and our The Great Gatsby review, then hit the jump for the full Box Office Report.

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Chloe Moretz has joined the cast of The Equalizer.

The film, which is based on the 1980s TV show, will star Denzel Washington as a covert operations officer who moves on to a life of atonement by helping people in need.

Moretz will play a young prostitute, in a role that is being equated to Jodie Foster's in Taxi Driver.

The role was originally intended for an actress in her twenties, but Washington and director Antoine Fuqua ultimately liked Moretz's on-screen chemistry with the star.

The Equalizer is expected to be released April 11, 2014.

The cast of Seth MacFarlane's upcoming film A Million Ways to Die in the West has just gotten bigger.

Neil Patrick Harris has joined the film, which marks MacFarlane's second live-action comedy.

MacFarlane stars as a dopey cowboy whose girlfriend leaves him. In order to become more manly, he begins to train with an infamous outlaw, but ends up falling for his wife.

Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi, and Sarah Silverman also star.

A Million Ways to Die in the West is set to premiere May 30, 2014.