This week:

The box office is still Cloudy; Neve Campbell Screams again; Dourif and Plummer confess to a Priest; TNT give some Basterd’s $12 million and Paul Dano decides to Cruise with Diaz.

For those of you looking forward to the upcoming Paul Bettany starrer, Legion, you’ll definitely be excited for his next partnership with Legion director Scott Stewart on a movie called Priest.

There’ve been quite a few announcements about Priest recently, starting with the announcement and first look at the Priest poster from the Legion panel at San Diego Comic-Con last month. This week, we also found out that Karl Urban has joined the cast as the evil vampire named Black Hat and earlier, Maggie Q signed on as a warrior priestess who joins Bettany’s character on his mission.

This Week:

The Basterds have landed at the top of the box office; Karl Urban takes a bite out of Priest; Summit attempts to grab Jodie Foster’s Beaver; Rosario Dawson boards Unstoppable; The Twilight Saga: Eclipse begins; Pandorum is pushed back and is it a trick or a treat for Trick r’ Treat?

This week:

Aliens invade the box office with District 9; get ready to see more Saw; Elvis talks Bubba Nosferatu; St Elmo’s Fire gets remade; Dennis Quaid and Tim Allen join Ron Shelton in Q School, while Maggie Q looks for a Priest; Godzilla may be going on the warpath again; Sony takes a dose of Doctor Parnassus and Wall Street 2 adds another cast member.

Box Office

It looks like originality won out at the box office for a change. Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 banked a cool $37 million over the weekend. The Peter Jackson produced Sci-Fi film had a negative cost of just $30 million and with great reviews it looks like this could do well in the long run too.

A striking first poster has been released for the upcoming comic book adaptation, Priest. The film is set in a world where humans and vampires have been at war for centuries, and it follows a priest who disobeys the church by going after a band of murderous vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

Priest was originally set to be produced by Sam Raimi, star Gerard Butler, and released last year – however both Raimi and Butler evidently left the project some time before production started. It now stars Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code) and Cam Gigandet (Twilight), and lies in the hands of director Scott Stewart, who’s also directing the upcoming Legion (also starring Bettany).

There’s been word of an adaptation of the TokyoPop (the company which publish it in English) graphic novel Priest for a while now but it looks like things are finally getting moving for sure.

Starting with the signing on of a director: FX guru Scott Charles Stewart. The film is also confirmed to be written by Cory Goodman, whose first writing projects are the upcoming Kung Fu and Brood.

At one point it was even rumored that Priest would star 300’s Gerard Butler.