After a morning packed with Christmas presents, consider this Movie News Cheat Sheet a bit of an after dinner drink to the main meal. Okay, not every item on this week’s list will bring you comfort and joy, but the good most certainly outweighs the not so good. Not a fan of 3D? It pains me to report that both The Avengers and Star Trek 2 will go under the post conversion knife. On the bright and unrelated side, the big screen adaptation of Ender’s Game just snagged a slew of new cast members including Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin. In other casting news, Lovelace picked up four and might…

David Carradine is much on my mind recently, having just finished up his rather excellent “Kill Bill Diary” — a thorough, intellectually rangy and assuredly entertaining read of his time spent on Quentin Tarantino’s two-part revenge epic. A workaholic without necessarily the most discerning taste, Carradine’s sudden death at the age of 72 (in June, 2009, he was found nude in the closet of a Thai hotel room, the result of accidental autoerotic asphyxiation) nonetheless put the brakes on what just might have been one of the more interesting sunset career reinventions of modern Hollywood. After all, here was a worldly, well-read guy with a reawakened fire in his belly…

Hello there, Shockya readers. My sincere apologies for this belated edition of Movie News Cheat Sheet. Let’s all agree to blame Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. Sound good? Anyways, to make up for my tardiness I bring you an extra news tidbit today. By the time you hit the office or get to school tomorrow, you’ll be fully loaded with not ten, but the 11 most pivotal movie news stories of the week. Ready? Set? Go! 1. Arnold to Return as The Terminator: Terminator fans get ready and I’m not talking McG’s Terminator Salvation; this is the real deal, Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator! Schwarzenegger is attached to star in…

Who knew that one person who would help revive interest in the “Terminator” franchise would be now-former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? Ever since he went on Twitter and openly expressed his desire to re-start his acting career, buzz over another “Terminator” film has been going through the roof. It comes as a surprise due to the franchise’s semi-demise over the bankruptcy that took place last year. There were a couple of companies that were looking to scoop up the property, but in the end Pacificor won. They opened up the option to Sony Pictures and Lionsgate to be part of distribution for any future “Terminator” movies, but that isn’t happening…

Lionsgate Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment will be co-producing the thriller “The Vatican Tapes,” The Hollywood Reporter is reporting. The suspense-filled film is written by Christopher Borrelli, based on a story by Borrelli and Chris Morgan. Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Chris Cowles and Morgan are producing “The Vatican Tapes”. Borrelli and Chris Fenton are onboard also as executive producers. Lucchesi, Jim Miller and Matthew Janzen are are all overseeing the project for Lakeshore and Lionsgate. No other information about the project, including casting, has been announced yet. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “The Vatican Tapes” news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

Variety reports that the upcoming “Gears of War” adaptation has got its helmer. Director Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) and writer Chris Morgan (Fast and Furious) will develop the story. “We want to get it right. There’s no timetable for us. We just want to make as good a movie as we can, and we think (Wiseman’s) the guy who will do it,” says Mark Rein from Epic Games. “Gears of War” is based on the hit XBox 360 Epic Games and Microsoft game that follows a team of soldiers who fight to take back the planet Sera from an invasion of super aliens. Stay tuned to Toxic…