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 -- Variety is reporting that Summit Entertainment's teen vampire film, "Twilight", has sold out around 2,000 showings, including 600 midnight showings. The film has broken into Fandango.com's Top 10 Advnace Ticket-Sellers list, beating "Spider-Man 3" and "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King." This film has all the markings to be huge this weekend.
-- 20th Century Fox has signed "Gossip Girl" creator Josh Schwartz to write "X-Men: First Class" based on the comic of the same name. Characters such as Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat appear in those comics.
-- THR is reporting that Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has joined the cast of "Dead Man Running." The film is about an ex-con trying to go straight who is given 24 hours to raise $150,000 and pay a loan shark, which will be played by Jackson.
-- Warner Bros' "Jonah Hex is in trouble after the exit of directing team Neveldine/Taylor. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have left the project after "creative differences" with the studio. WB is trying to find a replacement, because star Josh Brolin has a tight schedule to begin filming.
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-- According to Studio Briefing...Hollywood studios appear to be abandoning Tuesday as the traditional release day for new DVDs, Video Business observed on its website Tuesday. The trade publication noted that Paramount, Sony and Anchor Bay Entertainment are all releasing new titles on different days in the fourth quarter. Paramount, in fact, plans to release three films on December 28, a Sunday. The films are Eagle Eye, Ghost Town and The Duchess. Meanwhile Sony is releasing The House Bunny and Anchor Bay, Traitor on December 19, a Friday. Video Business has noted that the non-Tuesday releases will likely encourage retailers to break the official street date since it will be difficult to police the movable dates. Tom Paine, owner of the DVD Now chain, told the publication, "Everyone will just have their own street date ... and if stores have their own dates, it will just be too chaotic."
-- According to Studio Briefing...Amid reports that pirates in China are using a high-definition format built into many new camcorders to produce bootleg discs, Sony Pictures said Tuesday that it will become the first Hollywood studio to release its films on Blu-ray discs in that country. The company's consumer electronics division also plans to begin distributing on Blu-ray player there. The studio does not intend to compete with the pirates on price, however; the Blu-ray releases will cost about $30 each. While the Blu-ray format provides better definition than the pirates' Advanced Video Codec High Definition (Avchd) format, Avchd is considered a step up from the quality of conventional DVDs. Moreover, discs recorded in the format can be played on Blu-ray players (and the pirates even disguise the discs by using copies of Blu-ray's blue plastic boxes and employ the Blu-ray holograms.
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