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  • The incipit of a bit in the Coventry Telegraph last week: CLASH OF THE TITANS director Louis Leterrier says he is hoping the film will be the start of a franchise and has mapped out a possible trilogy centring on ancient Greek mythology. He said: “We’ve talked about it loosely. Any movie of this size,…

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  • … sounds suspiciously like undergrad life … Top ten passions of Ancient Rome | The Independent.

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  • Spartacus Marketing

    Since up in Canada here we don’t get the new Spartacus until Monday (on TMN), I was looking to see if it was on iTunes … while waiting for the predicted iTunes update to install (why do folks tolerate these constant wholesale updates? If that were a Windows thing there’d be no end of complaints),…

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  • Haven’t been keeping up with all the Clash of the Titans gossip of late … this incipit from Reuters is very interesting: Warner Bros. will decide in the next 10 days whether to release Louis Leterrier’s remake of action fantasy “Clash of the Titans” in 3D.FilmThe studio has ordered a 3D test of the film…

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  • I, Claudius Remake

    From the incipit of a movie column in the Times: William Graves, son of the writer and poet Robert Graves, has sold the rights of his father’s I, Claudius for a big-screen feature, to be directed by Jim Sheridan. Leonardo DiCaprio, whose production company is appropriately called Appian Way, has expressed interest in the project…

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