Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Did the Giants win yet? While you’re all downing all of the beer, pigs in a blanket and football you can, I’m here to make sure you’ve got your weekly dose of movies news here waiting for you when you’re ready. Let’s face it, there’s just so long the Super Bowl will sustain a conversation at school or work this week. Well, unless the Giants really do win and you’re from New York like myself. Anyway, on the table this week is the return of James Wan’s Insidious as well as some casting updates for the remake of Evil Dead. Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain and Joel…

Douglas Cook and David Weisberg have been attached to write a big-screen adaptation of “Nick Ratchet,” a Stan Lee/POW Entertainment project set up at Disney. The lighthearted mystery thriller follows a shy and ineffectual police officer and his rough and tough online avatar/persona named Nick Rachet, and a Jekyll & Hyde-type struggle between the two when Nick Ratchet emerges from inside his video game to take over the life of his creator. Richard LaGravenese is attached to direct, and the concept is from Stan Lee. Larry Jacobson and Sonny Grosso are producing, and Lee is exec producing with Gill Champion from POW. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more news. By…

Actor Michael Douglas is confirmed to play Liberace in a biopic based on the life of the famous pianist. Steven Soderbergh is currently developing the project and has hired Richard LaGravanese to pen the script. Liberace was a huge star in the 1950s/60s, famous for his lavish shows and glittery suits. Aside from his talent behind the piano, he was also in the spotlight for being known as the celebrity who successfully sued a British tabloid after it released he was gay. Throughout his life he refused to admit he was, indeed, homosexual until he was diagnosed with AIDS. He died from complications of the disease in 1987 at the…