It’s Elementary: Robert Downey Jr is Sherlock Holmes
Posted July 10, 2008 
Comments(0) 
Great news for Sherlock Holmes and Robert Downey Jr fans: the Iron Man actor will don the funny hat, the pipe, the drug habit and the accent to play the great Victorian detective. The bad news is: the movie will be directed by Guy Richie.
This might be a good movie if Richie can get his pre-Madonna brilliant groove back and do work like he did with “Snatch” and “Two Smoking Guns”. If not, or if he finds a reason to cast wife Madonna in the film, it’s gonna be a wreck.
With a box office take of $107.3 million since opening last Tuesday, Will Smith has scored yet another milestone as ‘Hancock’ becomes his eighth movie to open at No. 1 and his fifth movie to debut at No. 1 over the Fourth of July.
Producer J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves sound like they are having trouble coming up with a script - hell, even a concept - for ‘Cloverfield 2′. That barely-seen monster is still rampaging through Manhattan and crushing building, cars, choppers and eating folks but Abrams wants to do something “fresh” and “unique” for a sequel.
The official website for ‘X-Files: I Want to Believe’ has finally been updated with a splashy new … intro! Well it’s actually more interactive than that and worthy of a look. You can download the cool theme music for your ringtone but there’s still no hint of the plot and what happens between Skully and Mulder. 
Sir Anthony Hopkins is reportedly thrilled to be given the shot of playing King Lear in a big screen movie of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Gwyneth Paltrow and Naomi Watts will play the bitchy conniving older daughters and Keira Knightley will likely play lithe Cordelia who’s dead body Hopkins will have to carry around and weep over insanely in Act V. 
Mike Myers should stick to Austin Powers and Shrek - his Borat-inspired comedy film has been universally panned and reviled by critics as being un-funny garbage that goes for gross-out more than anything else. Myers spent 5 years trying to get this made?
Lots of rumors swirling around this week that scrawny Titanic actor Leonardo DiCaprio is being considered for the Captain America movie. No, not to play sidekick Bucky Barnes - which would be a better fit - but as the military man superhero himself. Say it ain’t so!
No Princess Leia here: Amanda Lucas, the adopted daughter of Star Wars director George Lucas has taken up an odd past time - she likes to hit other girls. 
Christian Bale says he was thisclose to losing his pretty head by rotor blades of a helicopter on the set of the new Batman movie. The star narrowly avoided a grisly death when the plunging chopper missed him by just feet. 
Sarah Jessica Parker and her ‘Sex and the City’ co-stars have attended the American premiere of their movie in New York.