Currently attached to four billion projects (Disclaimer: statement may include exaggeration), Will Smith has also signed up to produce and star in The Legend of Cain, reports Deadline. Yes THAT Cain, the biblical son of Adam and Eve who committed the first murder by killing his brother Abel. Read the full story

Someone out there really, really wants to get Men in Black III into theaters. Jemaine “Flight of the Conchords” Clement is in final talks to join Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin in the sequel to the tired alien-action-comedy franchise. Barry Sonnenfield has also returned to direct.

Clement will play Boris, “who is described as being charmy and creepy at the same time.” [THR]

Brolin, as previously established, will play a young Agent K (Jones) and take up much of the film, presumably teaming up with Smith, a.k.a. Agent J.

What do you think of this news? Do you like Clement? Conchords? Men In Black?

Cinematical has it official. Men in Black III is going to be release May 25, 2012. Paramount released this after a wave of ‘MIB’ rumors including the state of the two stars of the original, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and a bizarre one that had Josh Brolin in talks to play a younger Kay.

Well it’s all true. Smith and director of the previous two Barry Sonnenfeld are returning with Jones finalizing negotiations. Brolin will be making his introduction to the franchise as well. The film is being written by Etan Cohen (not Ethan Coen) who co-wrote Tropic Thunder. And, as expected, it will all be in 3D, for better or worse.

Are you happy to see another ‘Men in Black’ in production?

Yes, it’s been rumbling for awhile but the Men in Black will return, in 3D. Director Barry Sonnenfield told Showbiz at the Tribeca Film Festival kick-off party that the film is “ready to roll”. It will be in 3D and that both Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones have signed on to return. After Spider-Man 4 fell apart at Sony they are looking for a Memorial Day 2011 film and this is the one. Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Coen is finishing up the script now.

/Film also reports the rumor that SPOILER ALERT – the film will “feature a time travel scenario which would team a present-day J with a younger Agent K, possibly played by Josh Brolin.” We also reported that Sacha Baron Cohen and Jemaine Clement may play aliens in the film.

Will Smith was choosing this or Andrew Niccol‘s The City That Sailed for his next project and it looks like the made the (wrong) choice. Smith hasn’t made a movie since 2008′s Seven Pounds so it is no surprise he is returning with this nearly guaranteed success.

What do you think about another Men In Black, in 3D?

IESB has uncovered a rumor that Will Smith has agreed to star in two sequels to the 1996 (nearly fifteen years old) blockbuster Independence Day. There have been rumors of a sequel for several years now, but the busy schedules of many of the original’s key players has kept it from ever moving forward. Now, however, it looks like we’re closer to a sequel than ever before. Read the full story

For someone as famous, as talented and as financially reliable as Will Smith, he sure isn’t great at making decisions (his last film was 2007′s abysmal Seven Pounds). But then, Lord knows he’s got plenty of decisions to make. His IMDB shows no less than 27 projects in pre-production.

Apparently there’s two potential projects he’ll jump to next: Men in Black III (written by Tropic Thunder scribe Etan Cohen) or The City That Sailed, written by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War), which is owned by Smith’s own production company, Overbrook Films.

Here’s the logline on the film, concerning a magician separated from his daughter:

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With the major success of the first two Men in Black films it’s about time for Sony to try and get some more life out of the franchise. Josh Brolin is apparently on board and set to join series star Will Smith; although the presence of Tommy Lee Jones is not yet decided upon. Perhaps this is the reason that we’re now hearing casting rumors for the potential third picture, and why they’re also from actors of a comedic persuasion.

The two names being thrown around are that of Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for the films Borat and Bruno, and Jemaine Clement, one half of New Zealand’s formerly fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo, Flight of the Conchords. The character is said to be named “Yaz” and is possibly a new agent, although not much else is known at this time. The script was penned by Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Coen (add an “H” into the first name and I would be more excited for this movie).

What do you think of this potential casting? Are you excited for Men in Black III?

Source: Gordon and the Whale, Bloody Disgusting

Few have done it blatantly (kudos to Gus Van Sant for trying, remakes of Rear Window and The Lodger are eternally forgettable), but many have paid enough homage to Hitch to warrant an uber-collection of pseudo-remakes, from Brian De Palma’s entire film career (Femme Fatale is his Vertigo) to Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, which takes a considerable amount of style, and even a little substance, from Hitch’s Spellbound. How many times has Rope been remade in concept? Murder By Numbers, Swoon, etc.

So why not remake Suspicion, starring Will Smith? The movie star, in many ways, is his generation’s Cary Grant: the charming good guy with a sweet smile and a hint of mischievousness. As much of a Cary Grant as George Clooney is anyway.

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Hero Complex (of LA Times Blog) is reporting that No Country For Old Men and Milk star Josh Brolin may be suiting up for the next Men In Black. His possible role in the film is rumored to be “a new single-monikered government agent, with Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K passing the baton to Brolin’s character. Or he could play Agent K as a young man. Or something else entirely.” Will Smith will be returning and assuming the film does get a greenlit, shooting would begin next year. As we reported over a month ago Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Madagascar 2) has written the script. Brolin has quite a lot on his plate including the summer comic western Jonah Hex, the sequel to Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street. Each of those films are wrapped but he has two more shooting next year including the Coen brothers‘ remake of True Grit and the mafia crime drama Cartel.

Do you want to see Brolin as a man in black?

According to Latino Review the American remake to Park Chan-wook’s South Korean hit Oldboy that was set to star Will Smith and be directed by Steven Spielberg is dead. Apparently Spielberg’s production company Dreamworks couldn’t come to terms with the producers of the original manga series authored by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi and distributed by Mandate who also own the rights. It is unknown if Mandate just didn’t want the project taken over by Hollywood or if Dreamwroks simply wanted too big a piece of the money train the film was sure to make. Read the full story