Weekend Recap: 'Up,' 'New Moon,' Too Many Remakes and Prequels

Perhaps you were glued to your set this weekend as half of the NBA's wet dream came true. I mean, hell, they even had Kobe and LeBron muppets building up to the Finals that won't happen. Or, perhaps you were otherwise occupied and couldn't keep up with the weekend's headlines. We've got a bunch of them for you. As you know, Up was the big movie of the weekend, so we focused on that a little bit, plus we've got some new trailers for Toy Story 3 and New Moon, among other items o' the day: Up debuts with $68 million No more wild weight swings for Christian Bale. Mood swings? Negotiable. New Moon trailer hits the web Tony Scott confirms that there will be an Alien prequel If you think that's bad, the same studio is remaking Girls Just Want To Have Fun The first teaser for the 3-D Toy Story 3 Just where does Up rank among all the Pixar films?
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Columbia will make the inevitable Somali pirate movie (Film Junk) James Cameron says we'll see Avatar footage "very soon" (MarketSaw) Eli Roth talks up his next two films (IGN) Kevin Smith adds more cast members to his sell-out movie, A Couple of Dicks (Cinema Blend) Oscar nominee Michael Shannon joins Kristen Stewart in rock bio-pic The Runaways (Empire) http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24940