Michael Moore released his new film Slacker Uprising online and for free this week, but the world premiere will take place the old-fashioned way: in a movie house. It happens Thursday at the historic Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, which seats 1,700. Admission is free and first-come, first-served.

Doors open at 4 p.m. Following a talk by Moore, the film gets under way at 6:20.

Slacker Uprising tells the story of Moore's 62-city tour during the 2004 presidential campaign, which included a stop at the University of Michigan.

It's the first major film provided online at no charge.

Moore says he's doing it this way to thank his fans with the approach of next year's 20th anniversary of his first film, Roger & Me. Hey, it's good to now there's at least something still free these days...

Pixar seems to be in a hurry to get the sequel to its most poorly reviewed product out the door. Cars 2 is being bumped up from its initial release of 2012 to summer 2011.

Brad Lewis, who served as a producer on Antz and Ratatouille, is directing the film, which Lasseter said takes inspiration from cars around the world  he saw while doing publicity tours on behalf of the first Cars.

In the meantime, Pixar will keep the Cars engine humming with a series of animated shorts that it will dub Cars Toons -- the first is titled Mater's Tall Tales, taking its title from the name of the character played by Larry the Cable Guy (The Get 'Er Done Guy).

We were okay with Toy Story sequels, we wouldn't mind seeing more Ratatouille or continue to work with Monsters Inc. Heck we'd even continue looking for Nemo if Pixar asked it of us, but Cars 2? The first one was kind of a hollow experience that seemed to be the first time Pixar decided to just blow us away with visuals and forgot to make us love their storytelling. Let's hope this one cranks out a worthwhile script, oh, and decides to totally ditch Larry the Cable Guy. How does that guy even have a career still?

Bruce Willis, the man who wrote the spectacularly misunderstood Hudson Hawk, will make his directorial debut with the indie psychological drama Three Stories About Joan. The Hollywood hardman will have a supporting role in the film and has picked Camilla Belle to play the lead role of Joan.  Kieran Culkin has also joined the cast.

The screenplay centers on a young woman at three points in her life and the family tragedies that cause her to lose her grip on reality. Willis will play the father of Belle’s character.

Shooting will start in early October in Shreveport, La.

Todd Phillips (Old School, Starsky and Hutch) has just picked up two cast members in Justin Bartha and Heather Graham for his new comedy The Hangover for Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures.

The movie is said to start production this week in Las Vegas.

The story revolves around three buddies, played by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis, who lose their best friend (Bartha) at his Caesars Palace bachelor party just 40 hours before his wedding. The trio must attempt to retrace all their bad decisions from the night before and figure out where things went wrong.

We don't know about you guys but Phillips seems to know how to helm a comedy, and thinking of Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper sharing the screen seems like it has some serious hilarity potential. The casting of that National Treasure kid isn't much of a selling point for us, though. (Note from Darcie: he IS however dating an Olson, so...nope, nevermind, that still isn't a selling point)

John Wells is supposedly set to direct The Ben Affleck in The Company Men, a timely drama about a man whose life is upended by a financial downsizing.

Wells will produce and also write the screenplay about a man who is laid off and must cope with the financial consequences and the fallout at home. The script calls for a second male lead that has yet to be cast.

Is everyone ready for Affleck to come back? The man has talent that can't be denied. He seems to be lining up a slew of films to either write, direct, or act in, so we had all prepare ourselves for the renaissance de Affleck. We mean look at that photo. No shoes! He's so method is makes us hurt sometimes.

Shane Black will direct Universal Pictures’ Cold Warrior. Based on a script by Chuck Mondry, the film revolves around a spy from the Cold War era who comes out of retirement to parnter with a younger agent from the new school to confront a domestic terrorism threat orchestrated by Russia.

Best known for writing box office hits like the Lethal Weapon series, Black has also proved himself to be capable of some witticism and some excellent direction with 2005's super underrated yet super awesome Robert Downey Jr. starrer Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. We hope Black brings Val Kilmer back for the retired Cold war spy. We've heard nothing, but we are hoping.

Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures made a preemptive purchase of Moby Dick, a reimagining of the Herman Melville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Day & Night Watch) will direct.

The writers revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.

This change will allow them to depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.

"Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s Moby Dick," the writers say. "This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story."

Bekmambetov is currently working on a sequel script for the planned trilogy of the James McAvoy film Wanted.

Let's hope it's nothing like Wolfgang Peterson's re-imagining of Poseidon, because we think that would be bad news for everyone. Here's to hoping Bekmambetov doesn't turn into an Ahab himself.

Nick Cassavetes has signed on to direct The Beautiful and the Damned, a period love story about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. Cassavetes and company are currently in discussion with Keira Knightley to play Fitzgerald's lover and party-time accomplice, Zelda

The story will revolve around Zelda Sayre (Knightley) and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high, and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre -- who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own but ended up being admitted to a sanitarium, also ended up penning works based on their relationship.

Production is said to be looking to a April start date for you Fitzgerald super fans out there.

DiCaprio and Winslet are back together again and steaming up the screen for director (and Winslet's husband) Sam Mendes. Seems weird doesn't it? This one looks to be an Academy pleaser come its late December release.

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