- 20th Century Fox has signed Oliver Stone to return as director of the sequel to his 1987 hit Wall Street. Shia LaBeouf is negotiating to join Michael Douglas, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in the original film. The sequel will once again involve a young Wall Street trader, and the recent economic meltdown spurred by rampant greed and corruption will fit prominently into the plot.
- Lauren Conrad wont be returning to "The Hills," but that's not stopping MTV from having yet another season. As part of its "upfront" presentations to advertisers, MTV said Tuesday that the docusoap will continue without the 23-year-old designer, building a new story line around newlyweds Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.
- Nickelodeon is set to launch the live-action kids show "The Jumparounds," which joins the cabler this summer. "Jumparounds" is centered around music appreciation and life lessons for kids age 4 to 7.
- "Bank Job" director Roger Donaldson will film a screen adaptation of Seymour Reit book "The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa" for Phoenix Pictures. The book centers on the theft of the world's most famous painting from the Louvre in 1911. It was missing over two years before an Italian carpenter named Vincent Perugia showed up with it in Florence. The film centers on the conman who masterminded the theft.
- Actor Lee Perkins has joined the cast of "Slime City Massacre", Gregory Lamberson's sequel to his 1988 cult midnight film "Slime City", which shoots in Buffalo this July. Perkins will play one of four squatters trying to survive in New York City after a terrorist attack brings down the financial system.
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