Random Rumblings from the web....

By Matt Holmes /

Click on each highlighted bit for more info on each story.... There's a new poster for The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer over at Rope of Silicon. You can enlarge the poster by clicking on the image to the left. The movie comes out in just two months, so I would expect a rather longer trailer to be released on the web soon. Old School director Todd Phillips has been hired to direct the comedy movie The Chadster for Warner Brothers. The movie will follow a best man for a wedding who's position becomes threatened when a long lost friend childhood friend shows up and causes trouble. Yes we are talking about The Christmas Cottage again!! This time it's Marcia Gay Harden who has signed on for the movie... she will be playing painter Thomas Kinkade's mother. Reign Over Me helmer Mike Binder will direct Julia Roberts in The Friday Knitting Club. The movie is an adaptation of a Kate Jacobs novel of the same name that follows a single mum who struggles to juggle the demands of a knitting store with raising her teenage daughter. Amy Adams and Francis McDormand will star together in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. The romantic period drama set in 1939 will begin filming in the U.K. this week, shot by helmer Bharat Nalluri for Focus Features.