Some Stuff: August 10, 2009

Check our blog for a cool video of a batting cage machine shooting a baseball at a samurai, who cuts it in half with his sword.

Steven Spielberg has taken over development on the Halo movie that Peter Jackson previously tried to make. Jackson and Spielberg are working together on Tintin, so they've probably had plenty of time to talk about bringing one of the greatest video games in history to the big screen.

Sony Moving Forward on Developing Underworld 4 in 3D

TOM CRUISE'S son CONNOR has joined the cast of "Red Dawn" . . . a remake of the CLASSIC 1984 flick about a group of teenagers who fight back when their town is invaded by the Russians.

Louis Leterrier's Awesome Idea for a Summer of The Avengers

I’ll tell you my real dream: To work with Joe Johnston and ["Thor" director] Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau(director of iron man) and make like a triptych. We do four movies. We release them one a month for the summer. And the whole summer would be Avengers summer. So we do it the way they make television shows. One story arc but told in installments by different directors. So all of the directors that touch part of the Avengers world would do a part; we could make the movies shorter, maybe less than an hour and a half, and we use the same sets and save Marvel money.

Lamborghini plans to start building hybrids by 2015. CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the German magazine Automobile-woche that much like the Toyota Prius, the Hybrid electric motor will power the car around town, before switching over to a V-10 or V-12 motor on the open road. The problem is that this ignores the main reason people buy Lambos in the first place.