The 3PM Dispatch: No Nudes, Dragon Tattoo 2, Starbuck, Police Academy

Fincher To Be Dropped From 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Sequel?
Deadline are reporting that despite The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo's "mediocre" performance at both the American and international box office, Sony have still decided to move forward on the sequel, titled The Girl Who Played With Fire. Writer Steve Zaillian has already finished the script and is currently adapting the third book (The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest) into a screenplay. Dragon Tattoo director David Fincher has not yet been "locked in" to return to the director's chair for any of the sequels.

Steve Soderbergh's Male Strippers Not Going Full Monty.
The star of Steve Soderbergh's forthcoming male stripper film Magic Mike has revealed that there won't be any sneak peeks of full frontal nudity in the fillm. "You've got a bunch of naked guys [but] it won't be full frontal," Channing Tatum told Collider.com. "It's just thongs or whatever you want to call them. And underwear."

Hansel And Gretel: Push Overs.
The Hollywood Reporter have the scoop that Paramount have pushed back the release of Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters by nearly a year. The film, which stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton
in the titular roles, was due out on the 1st of March but now won't be released until Januray 2013.

Starbuck To Hunt Down Riddick...
Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff has just signed on to play a lead role in Vin Diesel's third Riddick film. Sackhoff will play Dahl, a Nordic mercenary tasked with hunting down Diesel's popular sci-fi action anti-hero.

Unnecessary Sequel Alert! Could Carrey Star In Third 'Almighty' Film?
The Press Association are reporting that Universal has hired writers to start penning a third film in the Almighty series and that they are hoping to get Jim Carrey to reprise his Bruce Almighty role of Bruce, a reporter who gets God's powers for a week. There is no news yet on whether Morgan Freeman would return as God or if Jennifer Aniston would return as Bruce's wife..

Police Man To Direct 'Police Academy' Reboot. Also, 'Police Academy' Being Rebooted...
New Line Cinema have announced that they are resurrecting the thoroughly beaten dead horse of a franchise that is Police Academy. The film will be a reboot and is to be directed by West Hollywood reserve police officer Scott Zabielski.The original Police Academy franchise ran for ten years, spawning seven films and its own cartoon series.

Today In What A Jerk: When you put it like this James Bond is a bit of a jerk... ***NSFW and not suitable for under 18s.

Today In Trivia: Police Academy was the most succesful film of 1984 in Germany.

Today's Bad Movie Tagline: The tagline for Vin Diesel's 2006 courtroom comedy Find Me Guilty: "Sometimes the best defense... is a wiseguy". AKA the "cousin Vinny" defense.

Happy Birthday: To horror director and once great groove metaller Rob Zombie, who is 46 today. We'll be spinning La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 after a few beers later tonight to celebrate!

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THURSDAY'S POLL RESULTS
Most Flicksters would like to televisually explore the seedy underbelly of the Star Wars universe...

What Do You Think Of The Concept Of 'Star Wars: Underworld'?
65.85% - Love it! Sounds awesome with plenty of scope for bad-assery
24.39% - Hate it! George, stop ruining my childhood!
09.76% - Don't care! I don't care for these wars that take place amongst the stars