Filmmaker Tim Burton (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands) will be honored with the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award and a day named for him at the 64th annual Venice International Film Festival, which starts on August 29, according to The Hollywood Reporter. September 5 will be noted as Tim Burton Day and will include a special “surprise offering.” The Venice festival has previously hosted the international premiere of Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in 1994 and the world premiere of his Oscar-nominated Corpse Bride in 2005.
Tom Cruise will star in Bryan Singer‘s untitled United Artists World World II thriller scripted by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, which will be produced by Singer and McQuarrie with production scheduled to begin early this summer, reportedly should not interfere with Singer’s sequel to Superman Returns for Warner Brothers early next year.
Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown) is in final talks to star as the title character in Speed Racer, the Joel Silver-produced live-action flick, according to Variety.The Warner Brothers film, which will mark the directing return of the Matrix‘s trilogy’s Wachowski brothers, is scheduled for a May 9, 2008 release.
The April 3 episode of ABC’s Boston Legal will use footage of William Shatner from a 50-year-old TV pilot he did called The Defender to look back at an old court case of Shatner’s character Denny Crane. [Link, via SFSignal]
The trailer for 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Danny Boyle‘s zombie flick 28 Days Later, will be attached to prints of The Hills Have Eyes 2 in theaters March 23. 28 Weeks Later opens May 11.
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