Simon Pegg Starring in Psycho Comedy ‘A Fantastic Fear of Everything’

The latest project to star Simon Pegg isn't Star Trek 2. It is A Fantastic Fear of Everything, but don't just label it as a comedy. It is a 'psycho comedy,' according to the trade report on the project. What does that mean? The central character, to be played by Mr. Pegg, is "a children’s author turned crime novelist whose research into the lives of Victorian serial killers turns him into a paranoid wreck, especially when a Hollywood executive decides he wants to make a film out of his findings." We've got a more extensive synopsis after the break. Screen Daily [1] broke the news of the casting, which Simon Pegg has been teasing via Twitter for some time. He said of the script [2] not long ago, when the project was still a mystery, "It’s this really odd but brilliant script…it’s just a little low-budget British » By : IMDb.CoM

J.J. Abrams Finally Decides To Direct 'Star Trek 2' But 'G.I. Joe 2' Will Get Its July 29, 2012 Date

  The long wait for this inevitable piece of news is over. After playing coy forever, and now riding high off the success of "Super 8," Deadline reveals that J.J. Abrams has finally committed to directing the long awaited "Star Trek 2." But as expected, his delay and quest for the right story and script have caused plans at Paramount to move around a bit. As the director himself suggested last month, as the filming start date for "Star Trek 2" kept getting pushed further and further back the studio date of July 29, 2012 kept looking more and more unrealistic.… » By : IMDb.CoM

Ron Howard will not direct 'The Lost Symbol'; 'Rush' is next

Ron Howard will not direct the next Robert Langdon film based on Dan Brown’s best-seller, The Lost Symbol. EW has confirmed a Deadline report that the Oscar-winning director, who directed Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, will produce Symbol instead. A spokesperson for Howard says his next directing project will be Rush, a racing movie about 1970s Formula 1 drivers. Howard and Hanks have worked together on four films, including Splash and Apollo 13, but Howard’s reduced involvement should not effect Hanks’ plans. His spokesperson tells EW in an email, “Tom hopes to still play » By : IMDb.CoM