Director Martin Scorsese is going to be the next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The award is one of the most prestigious citations at the annual Golden Globe Awards. The 67th awards ceremony will be held on January 17.

I think it’s high time that Scorsese starts receiving these awards to commemorate his achievements in filmmaking. the man is a superstar and one of the most brilliant directors of our time. Many of his films can be considered as some of the most important masterpieces of our time. I’m a huge fan of Scorsese and his films transcend fads and trends and are things of beauty.

I think it is wonderful that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (whose votes the Golden Globe Awards are based on) have seen it as the appropriate time to give Scorsese a well deserved award.

The planned sequel for Meet The Parents has gained another recruit. Harvey Keitel has officially been cast for Tribeca Productions‘ sequel Little Fockers.

Keitel will be joining other new additions to the cast Jessica Alba and Laura Dern. Franchise regulars Ben Stiller, Teri Polo , Robert de Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson will be returning to reprise their roles.

Paul Weitz will be directing the movie.

Another reboot is in the offing in Hollywood.

Chris Pine is reportedly in talks with Paramount Pictures to play Jack Ryan, the popular CIA analyst character in Tom Clancy’s novels.

A script is currently being written for the planned reboot. Although the movie’s title wasn’t revealed yet, I’m guessing they’ll restart the franchise with the first novel, The Hunt for Red October.

If Pine accepts, he will be the fourth actor to assume the role of Ryan. Alec Baldwin starred in The Hunt for Red October. Then Harrison Ford assumed the role when Baldwin decided to do The Shadow instead of Patriot Games. The last actor to play Ryan was Ben Affleck.

Sir Ian McKellen recently shared some news about The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of The Rings trilogy, which will be helmed by Guillermo del Toro.

In an interview with Empire Magazin, McKellen said the scripts for the two films (yes, it will be divided into two movies) will be submitted very soon. The next step will be budgeting the movies and then finally casting can begin. He did reveal in a latter interview that the Lord of The Rings cast whose characters were included in The Hobbit will be returning. Of course, this includes McKellen who will reprise his role of Gandalf.

McKellen shared that Del Toro plans to shoot the movie for 383 days, which is quite a long time.

Independence Day was one of the biggest grossing movies of 1996. Knowing that Hollywood has a severe case of sequel-itis especially for movies that earn big bucks, it’s quite strange that Independence Day didn’t get a sequel.

Roland Emmerich, who directed Independence Day, recently weighed in on a possible sequel. The director revealed that he and producer Dean Devlin are still intent on making a sequel especially since they’ve already thought up of a good idea. The difficulty is on how Fox is going to incorporate Devlin’s, Emmerich’s and Will Smith’s deals together. The studio is thinking up of a way to make a package that all parties will be happy with. Fox has floated the idea of doing it without Smith who is a “gross player,” but Emmerich said that the mega actor is crucial to the franchise.

You guys know how I feel about this constant release of “rebooted” material from Hollywood. Now a new reboot is has taken a significant step towards completion.

Robert Rodriguez’s reboot of Predator has finally completed its cast. The list of actors will be headed by Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody. Another rumored addition is Topher Grace, who will play the role of an accountant who is actually a lethal serial killer.

Other actors confirmed to be included in Predators include Rodriguez regular Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, and Louiz Ozawa.

Predators will be directed by Hungarian director Nimrod Antal, who directed last year’s Vacancy.

Transformers 3 fans now have a real reason to get excited. Director Michael Bay has officially announced the release date for the third installment in the hit franchise.

In his official web site he revealed that a story has now been developed for the Transformers sequel and the release date is slated for July 1, 2011, a year earlier from the speculated 2012 release date.

Bay revealed that he had a meeting with Industrial Light and Magic and that he will be going to Hasbro’s headquarters with writer Ehren Kruger to talk about new characters for the movie.

Oh, and he also left a little note for Megan Fox, who has been badmouthing the Michael Bay and the Transformers franchise.

“P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to your health, please consult your Doctor to determine if this is right for you.”

Hilarious, and just slightly upped Bay’s cred for me.

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the new Scream sequel being developed. Courtney Cox was set to reprise her role as Gail Weathers but Neve Campbell was iffy about joining the new movie.

Speculations can now end now that Campbell has signed on to return and reprise her role of Sidney Prescott. Production for Scream 4 will begin in April or May.

Scream 4 is the first part of another Scream trilogy so better dust off that Scream mask, it’s going to get popular next Halloween again.

Sam Raimi directed one of the coolest Hollywood horror movies in years with Drag Me To Hell. He’s also notched up quite a reputation for producing some of the more entertaining horror movies in recent years, like The Grudge remake, 30 Days of Night and The Messengers. So I’m looking forward to the new horror movie Raimi will be producing.

Raimi has officially signed on as producer for the supernatural horror movie Refuge. The movie will revolve around a town that is being attacked by a Yeti.

I’m looking forward to this movie.

Movie remakes in Hollywood are being developed at a fairly regular rate of late. I’ve always maintained that it’s Hollywood running out of original ideas and just zeroing in on a quick buck. I’ve already accepted it as par for the course.

But what made me do a double-take was news of a remake OF A REMAKE. And no less than acclaimed director David Cronenberg is behind this.

Cronenberg is reportedly developing a remake of The Fly, which he famously remade in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. Of course, the original The Fly movie was released in 1958 and has been one of the venerated sci-fi classics. Cronenberg will be directing the new remake and will probably also write the screenplay.

It makes you think — what do you call a remake of a remake?