Casting for Robert Rodriguez's (Grindhouse, Spy Kids) Predator reboot, Predators, was announced by Variety magazine today. The film followers a group of mercenaries and killers who find themselves stranded on a foreign planet overrun with Predator aliens. The film is set to feature Adrien Brody (King Kong, The Pianist), Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3), Danny Trejo, Walter Goggins (Both from the Shield) , Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali ("The 4400"). Shooting is to begin in Hawaii later this year, and the film is penned for a July 2010 release date.

Last week, director Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon) announced that work on the third Transformers movie had reached the planning phase, and that release was to be penned for summer of 2011. The move comes as no surprise seeing as Transformers, and its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were both huge financial successes (the critical end is another story). However, two contributors to the series will not be returning for the third outing, writers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The writers, known for their work on J.J. Abram's Star Trek and Fringe, announced today that they will not be returning for the third installment. One might argue that this might be one of the best moves of their career seeing how panned the second installment was. In fact, it is hard at times to believe that the same people who write the complex and moving stories of Fringe and Star Trek are responsible for the same drivel that is the Transformers saga.

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