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The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing right now. Movies are being watched by critics, photos are being taken by papparazzi and studios are trying to get their upcoming films distributed. Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Midnight Meat Train) has a new film in the works called Marble City. Nicolas Cage and now Mickey Rourke are set to star in the film that is being described as "Kill Bill meets Drive".

Jason Piette, Managing Director of Stealth Media Group La office made the announcement today. Marble City wil be financed by Polaris Pictures' Producer Jeremy Wall along with Premiere Pictures. Mike Nilon, Cage’s manager, is also producing.

Director Kitamura stated:

"This is Kill Bill meets Drive. The movie is a story of one man's journey of vengeance on a road filled with rage, bullets and ultra-violence. He needs to go through the darkest places to reach the light in a classic story of revenge,...

Pinocchio

Daniel Radcliffe has reportedly approached filmmaker Guillermo del Toro "to get involved in" the latter's upcoming stop-motion adaptation of "Pinocchio" which aims to hit cinemas in 2014.

Tom Waits is also on the filmmaker's wish list to play one of the voice cast… [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]

Maleficent

Juno Temple has joined the cast of Robert Stromberg's live-action "Maleficent", Disney's revisionist retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" starring Angelina Jolie as the title character. Shooting kicks off this Summer in London.

Temple will play one of three pixie fairies who are tasked with taking care of Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) in the cottage in the woods. Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville have already been cast as the other two. [Source: Heat Vision]

Marble City

Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke are in talks to star in "Midnight Meat Train" director Ryuhei Kitamura's "Marble City" for Stealth Media Group, Polaris Pictures and Premiere Pictures.

Tom Sjolund penned the script...

Guys and girls, we have some news: Cinema is over. Not that it's being replaced or anything, but if you're a professional screenwriter or director, it might be time to start looking for work in another industry. Because the movies have entered their endgame: some time in 2013, the artform will reach the aim it was created for, and present-day Nicolas Cage and present-day Mickey Rourke will share a screen together. And after that, there will be no point in making any new movies.

The two actors appeared together at the start of their careers in 1983's "Rumble Fish," of course, but that was when they were young, and handsome, and in control of their mental faculties. And they've passed like ships in the night over the years: there was talk that they might both appear in "The Expendables 2," although it never came to pass, while Cage was briefly attached to...

It’s a pairing made in both heaven and hell. As a press release from Stealth Media Group reports, Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke — “his career should have crashed” and “his career will crash over and over again” — are planning to collaborate on Marble City, a revenge picture succinctly described as “Kill Bill meets Drive.” That’s all well and good, but a better way to describe it would be, in terms of plot, “a journey of a newly released prisoner who seeks revenge on those that put him inside.”

Director Ryûhei Kitamura (Midnight Mean Train) — who sees it as “the story of a man who finds his inner peace through vengeance” — will work from the Thomas Sjölund-penned screenplay, while Cage and Rourke will go head-to-head in a battle of overacting that’s sure to ultimately underwhelm our socks into a slight breeze. Well, okay, it’s possible I...