Martin Scorsese has started casting his fim version of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. 

Adult stars may include Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen.

The two child leads have also been cast:

Asa Butterfield as Hugo and Chloe Moretz

Some first photos from Legend of the Guardians, the film version of Guardians of Ga’Hoole, have been released at USA Today.  The film is based on the first three books in the lengthy series.  The film will be released on September 24th, 2010.

The images are simply amazing with beautiful lighting and gorgeous textures:

Visit USA Today to see more.

According to Variety, Fox 2000 has purchased the film rights to Catherine Fisher’s series.  John Palermo will produce the film.  There was a bidding war for the series with at least two other studios competing for it. 

I adored the book Incarceron and it does read very cinematically, so I can see it adapting with ease to the screen.  What do you think?

According to /Film, the film adaptation of Tunnels will be directed by Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube and Splice. 

Cinematical has the news that the principal stars of the Twilight movie franchise have been signed to do a fifth film.  That was the major stumbling block in having Breaking Dawn broken into two films. 

Summit films is also said to be looking for “high-end” directors to do the final movie. 

So Twi-hards, what do you think of two films?  And what dream director would you love to see tackle the final films?

/Film has the news that the film rights for Ally Carter’s Heist Society have been purchased by Warner Brothers.  The book is due out next week, and I have to say the cover is rocking.  Unfortunately, the teen novel’s characters will be aged to their 20s instead of remaining teen characters.  Sad, because I would think it would make a better movie with teen protagonists rather than college-aged ones.

I look forward to reading the book which has been called a teen-aged Thomas Crown Affair.

Amazing news that Martin Scorsese will be directing the film version of The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  Shooting is scheduled to start in June.

I will be interested to see how his style works in a family film.

According to FirstShowing.net, the adaptation of The Graveyard book has been declared by dead project by Neil Gaiman.  On top of the demise of Miramax, the lack of funding for films right now has ended the project.

Perhaps sometime in the future?  We will see.

Brace yourself.  The film version of the book Beezus and Ramona, which will be titled Ramona and Beezus, will star Selena Gomez as Beezus.  She’s the lead in Disney’s The Wizards of Waverly Place. They are obviously cashing in on her rising star status.

The 17-year-old Gomez will be playing a character who is supposed to be ten in the book.  And the actress playing Ramona, who is 4 in the book, is 10 years old. 

This makes no sense to me.  Surely there was a more appropriate vehicle for her?  Though of course her squeaky-clean Disney image should be clung to as long as possible.  My, I’m snarky today!  But really, don’t mess with Ramona!

Anyone else mortified at this?  Cinematical certainly is!