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Matt Damon, BOURNE to run.

In the Observer, here's a profile of director Paul Greengrass -- the man behind UNITED 93 and the two most recent BOURNE movies.

He's not nearly as shaky as his camera.

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Dread Central reports that RESIDENT EVIL Paul W.S. Anderson's next gig will be not CASTLEVANIA but DEATH RACE 3000 -- the remake of the 1976 action comedy about a no-holds-barred race through the desert -- and over pedestrians who get in the way. There is a videogame version, too: As in the Paul Bartel-directed movie, you rack up points by running down hapless old people, kids and wrecked cars with rival drivers inside: kaboom, splat, etc. (For some reason, the original DEATH RACE 2000 is mixed up in my mind with the cartoon show THE WACKY RACES (featuring Snidely Whiplash and his laughing dog Mutley)

Props to reporter Johnny Butane being for the exclusive ) and but boo, dude, for even quicker with a reflexive slam on Anderson's "entire career" (Douse the lighter, Butane and put away your little internet-sized pitchfork. Who died and made you the arbiter of "potentially cool movies"?

I've never quite understood why the fanboys recoil from Anderson -- when pressed, they'll acknowledge that EVENT HORIZON did scare the hell out of them, RESIDENT EVIL -- while it did not follow the strictures

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via Cinematical

Preparations for the next James Bond film -- aka Bond 22-- are moving along, according to Cinematical's Patrick Walsh. The follow up to CASINO ROYALE -- now being written by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade -- will not be an adaptation of any one Ian Fleming novel or story, but will reportedly contain elements of the Bond creators short stories "The Hildebrand Rarity," "The Property of a Lady," "Risico" and "007 in New York."

Read more here -- Walsh has a quote from a Sony executive confirming star Daniel Craig's participation and the start date. Costar casting has not been confirmed, but as always, villain and Bond babe rumors remain the most fun guessing game around. Who do you think should play the the late Vesper Lynd's Algerian boyfriend (the man who troubled her heart as much as Bond did?) And which up and coming dangerous beauty ought to portray the "kickboxing babe" mentioned in Walsh's story?

Honor Blackman (GOLDFINGER) and Famke Janssen (GOLDENEYE), the two brainiest, most dangerous beauties of the series, have set the bar rather high -- so think hard.

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