ZDONK is reporting that Alan Rickman is set to join Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland as the hookah-smoking, wise caterpillar. While we normally try to reserve our excitement for official announcements, we already had quite the celebration. Rickman has the perfect voice for the Caterpillar and oozes charm (hello, Sense and Sensibility).

Some other noteworthy news about the film: Alice is being played by 18 year old Austrailian actress, Mia Wasikowska; Anne Hathaway plays the White Queen; Helena Bonham Carter plays the Red Queen, which we reported to you Movie Pressers a couple of weeks ago.

Other cast includes: Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter; Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts; Michael Sheen as the Cheshire Cat; and Matt Lucas (HBO’s Little Britain) as Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

The film, which will blend live action with CGI, motion capture, and 3D and is set for a 2010 release.

While Greg pretends to not enjoy the Harry Potter films, I'm a total Harry Potter nerd, well, I don't dress up in character and go to the book releases, so perhaps I'm only a half-blood Harry Potter nerd. Anyhoo, a new international trailer came out this week, and it looks frickin' awesome. Who else wishes WB didn't push this back til next year?

Another hot Disney Channel act is poised to make a big screen splash at 20th Century Fox. Fox has locked the Jonas Brothers to make their feature starring debut in Walter the Farting Dog. Based on a bestselling series of books by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, the film is being adapted by Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen into a family film that will revolve around Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas, as well as their younger brother Frankie (aka the "other one").

Pic shoots next spring and is a potential directing project for Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who'll produce. Seriously?

The Jonas Brothers have become wildly popular through the boy band's appearances playing music and acting in such Disney Channel programming as the telepic Camp Rock. Frankie has also gained a profile appearing with his brothers.

The title character in the Walter books is a fat dog with severe flatulence. Again, seriously? The brothers play musicians whose parents are asked to care for the dog by an aunt just before she passes away.

"By the time they've driven the dog home, everybody's head is out the window of the family station wagon but Frankie, and only because he has a serious sinus problem and doesn't notice the stench coming from Walter," said Peter Farrelly.

While his brothers play music, Frankie and the gaseous hound get involved in a plot that involves liberating a koi fish and thwarting jewel thieves. SERIOUSLY? We bet this movie makes a bajillion dollars. Seriously.

After witnessing Hurricane Efron firsthand this weekend, Paramount is very keen to fast-track their Footloose remake with hopes of next spring in mind.

Peter Sollett, director of the very enjoyable Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist, has been picked up to work on the re-write of the script which will aim for an older teen and adult demo. Efron is just about set in a deal that will pay him a mid-seven-figure salary and give him script approval to kick off his Sunday shoes. And with abs like that, why shouldn't he have all that and more? While Sollett rewrites the script, the studio is working on new songs that will complement some of the memorable original tunes.

See what's new this week on DVD in our DVD Section and feel free to click on the links to order these bad boys. We could have gone with the flashy new releases, but it was the HiDef release of a classic that got us all aflutter this Tuesday. Check out Elf and more! And remember, if you buy through us, you help support us. If we didn't cover what you're looking for, you can always us our Amazon search boxes on the sides of the pages. Thanks people!

For fans of all things totally awesome, Jean Reno has just been cast in Couple's Retreat with Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn.

Story follows four couples who go to a tropical island resort, where they discover that participation in the resort's couples therapy is not optional.

Reno will play a therapist and operator of the resort.

The rest of the cast includes Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, and Faizon Love.

For those unfamiliar with Jean Reno's work, Google "kick-ass", and feast your eyes on his French glory.

Alex Tse, co-writer of the upcoming uber-hyped Watchmen, has been nabbed by Warner Brothers to adapt one of the most popular Anime films of all time, Ninja Scroll.

Set in feudal Japan, the story follows a ninja who must fight eight demonic warriors in order to save Japan. The hard-R movie, released in 1993 in Japan, featured a villain with stone skin, a hunchback with a wasp nest as his hump, and a woman whose snake tattoos come to life.

First the Chihuahua movie, now a made for television movie's third outing takes the cake. Just behind, the fifth Saw picture performed on Saw standards and ensures we have more of those for every Halloween to come. Check out the box office estimates and more over in our Box Office Section.

Paramount has tapped Chris Columbus to direct their long gestating Ripley's Believe It or Not film after Columbus himself pitched an overhaul idea. The film was originally to be directed by Tim Burton but fell through. Its intended star, Jim Carrey, is still on board, and the the story will follow reporter/explorer Robert Ripley on an adventure that explores the worlds oddities. The studio is eying a 2011 release, with hopes of franchising opportunities.

Steven Soderberg has just announced he is plotting a 3-D Rock Musical for Cleopatra. He hopes to have Catherin Zeta-Jones star as the titular dame and Hugh Jackman as her lover Marc Antony.

The film, titled Cleo, has music written by indie-rock band Guided by Voices.

Sounds weird...we mean interesting.