Vin Diesel is probably realizing that walking away from movies that could be strong franchises was a big mistake.

After going back to Fast and The Furious, he is now in talks to return for the XXX sequel. Variety reports that Diesel is in talks to star in XXX: The Return of Xander Cage and original XXX director Rob Cohen may also come back.

Revolution Studios, which owns the XXX property, made the XXX sequel with Ice Cube and director Lee Tamahori. It is reported that Diesel and Cohen are quite certain to return. What needs to be discussed, really, is how to bring Xander Cage back to life as he was killed off in the XXX sequel.

Reports on various fan sites on the internet are saying that Devastator will be one of the robots appearing in the Transformers sequel Revenge of The Fallen.

Devastator, in the TV series, is actually a mega robot that is formed after six different vehicles/robots called the Constructicons join together. The funny thing here is that “Devastator” has already appeared in the first movie. But it was all a mistake, apparently. When the Decepticon Brawl first appeared on screen, the screen typed in his name as Devastator. This, it has been revealed, was a typo that was never corrected.

So expect the real Devastator to appear in the sequel, that is, if this news does prove to be true.

With Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno being shown at the Toronto Film Festival, focus has now shifted on Smith’s reported new movie, which is in the horror genre.

The movie, called Red State, is about a group of people who encounter fundamentalists “in the heart of the country.” Smith said that he hopes to be able to make the movie but he is still looking for funding for it. He said the movie is not commercial and this will really make it hard to find the funding that is needed. He hopes to be able to make the movie for about $5 million and wants a cast of unknowns.

Long-time Smith fans are excited about the project because this is Smith’s first foray to the horror genre so he may come out with a lot of surprises.

Hopefully, Smith gets the funding he needs for Red State.

Prepare for a new Ghostbusters movie.

According to different media sources a new Ghostbusters film is being developed by Columbia Pictures. This is not going to be a reboot though, but a sequel to the original movies. The script is reportedly already being developed. What’s bugging Ghostbusters fans is whether the original cast of Billy Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson will be back.

Harold Ramis, in an interview, revealed that the Judd Apatow will be involved in the new movie as a producer and that Ramis, Aykroyd and original director Ivan Reitman are consulting on the project. Bill Murray may also get involved at some point in the project. The coup here is that the old ghostbusters will appear in the movie as mentors.

Who do you guys think should be the new Ghostbusters?

Rumors are abuzz that director Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire has signed on to work on Spider-man 4 and Spider-man 5. The plan is that the movies will be shot using a script by James Vanderbilt, which is going to span two films. The first of the two movies is reportedly slated to be released on 2011.

There are no news about Kirsten Dunst but Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson character will be featured in the movies. There are no reports though of recasting for the role.

Principal photography for the movies will reportedly begin fall of 2009 and only by then will the villain be determined. The early buzz though is that it will be The Lizard, which is Dylan Baker’s character Dr. Curt Connors.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could appear again on the big screen.

TMNT co-creater Kevin Eastman has confirmed that Warner Bros. is pursuing making a live action movie on the characters. The CGI movie that was released a couple of years ago did well in the box office but the current belief is that a live action movie is a better candidate for re-inventing the Turtles to a newer audience. The idea is to reintroduce the characters and re-tell even their origin stories.

We’ll keep you posted as this story develops.

The Dark Knight may have broken its last record this week. The highly successful movie has surpassed the $500 million mark in the US box office this weekend. Its total take domestically now stands at $502.4 million. Titanic, which still holds the top spot, has a domestic haul of $600.8 million.

TDK is only the second movie after Titanic to break the 500 million mark and now has the record for the fastest to reach that mark by doing it in 45 days, compared to Titanic, which reached it in 98 days. Another piece of interesting information is that Titanic reached the 600 million mark in 252 days. This means that if TDK could actually last that long, it has a big chance of beating Titanic.

Four years after The Chronicles of Riddick, details about a new Riddick movie are finally coming out.

In an interview, Vin Diesel revealed that the possibility of getting two sequels to Riddick is there. He said that David Twohy is already writing the script for the two movies and they are considering doing the Lord of The Rings route and filming both at the same time.

Of course, that’s a method of actually saving up on funds. The possibility of getting the sequels done had been quite low because TCoR was not well received and only made $115 million out of a $100 million budget. I love the two Riddick movies though and I really hope that the other two sequels will be made.

He now thinks there will be two.

“David Twowy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time. There are two more in mind,” he said of Riddick, the Furyan warrior first introduced in the 2000 film “Pitch Black.” “‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ was presented as a three part trilogy that would answer ‘Pitch Black’ in the same way that ‘Lord of the Rings’ answered ‘The Hobbit.’”

Those are lofty goals indeed for a movie that was very poorly received when it opened in 2004, and had a mediocre performance at the domestic box-office (where it made just $57 million). Diesel, though, is undaunted, insisting that the long space between sequels has nothing to do with convincing others to get on board, and everything to do with wanting to get it right. (To be fair, “Riddick” performed well overseas, and also spawned a best-selling video game which many considered to be better than the movie.)

“Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it,” Diesel asserted. “It just takes five years to make another one because David Twohy and I are so precious about it.”

It’s been reported that actor Shia LaBeouf is now back on the set of the Transformers sequel.

If the picture above is any indication, LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky character is in for a world of hurt. There are talks that the injury he sustained in his car accident more than a month ago will be written into the movie so that the production of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, will not get delayed.

Great news! The new Bond movie will be released earlier than expected. The movie “Quantum of Solace” will hit theaters on November 14.