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For those whove held out hope for the extended editions of Lord of the Rings series on Blu-ray, Warner Brothers has now put out a fifteen-disc set of the franchise, with each film getting a new mastering. Peter Jacksons triumphant version of the Tolkien books won big at the Oscars seventeen awards in total, including best picture for Return of the King and the box office, and did so for a reason: its great. Watching them again, the films still feel perfect, and though there may be some bad jokes, and perfectionists may wish that more of the books made it on screen or were added to the extended cuts, the sheer scale that Jackson gets to by the final chapter is one of the great achievements of cinema. Yes, the guy who directed Bad Taste had the right stuff. One wonders if hell ever be as good again. Our review of The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy Extended Edition on Blu-ray follows after the jump. Ian McShane has signed on to play Caesar, the leader of the dwarfs in Snow White and the Huntsman. That s easily the coolest sentence I ve written in months. For those keeping track, this is Universal s Snow White project, the one that stars Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth. The Relativity Snow White project which has no title and stars other people just entered into principal photography to be in theaters by March 16, 20 According to Heat Vision, director Rupert Sanders will shoot Snow White and the Huntsman in August, content to open a couple months later on June 1, 20 Heat Vision provides this logline: Snow White and the Huntsman is a revisionist take on the fairy tale and features Snow White Stewart as a princess who escapes her evil stepmother Theron with the help of a huntsman Hemsworth who was to have killed her but now trains the princess to survive and fight back. Let it be decreed that any Snow White movie that casts Ian McShane as a dwarf no less! has the advantage, no matter the release date. The Ides of March tops my list of most anticipated awards contenders. If it weren t opening earlier than most of the other films on the list October 7, I might be planning a trip to Italy right now instead of passing along this information: Deadline reports The Ides of March will open the 2011 Venice Film Festival on August George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood star in The Ides of March. Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov Good Night, and Good Luck adapted the script from the Beau Willimon play Farragut North, about a young press secretary who falls prey to dirty backroom politics as he works to get his candidate elected in a tight race. A decade has passed since Warren Beatty s last appeared on screen in Town Country. Last week at the Hero Complex Film Festival, Beatty brought up the possibility of a Dick Tracy sequel but the skeptics outnumber the faithful 20 to 1 on that claim. The Dick Tracy comment at least demonstrated Beatty s disinterest in retirement. Moreover, Beatty has reportedly been shopping around an original screenplay for the past couple weeks. Tonight Paramount announced a deal with Beatty to produced, direct, and star in the untitled project. Paramount declined to reveal story details Variety hints it may be the Howard Hughes movie that Beatty has long wanted to do, yet Deadline refers to the project as a comedy. Not sure what to make of that. If Dick Tracy fought Howard Hughes, that would be funny, right? Casting is currently underway; production is scheduled for later this year. As someone who always wondered why follow the last stage of the Clint Eastwood career arc, I d like to say, Welcome back, Mr. Beatty. Godspeed. Penn Badgley Easy A and Gossip Girl has signed on to play the late Jeff Buckley in co-writer/director Dan Algrant s Naked in New York and People I Know upcoming drama Greetings from Tim Buckley. Per the press release from Smuggler Films, the film will center on the days leading up to Buckley s 1991 performance at his father s the late Tim Buckley tribute concert and will feature a romance with a young woman who helps him better understand his father who died at the age of In discussing the role, Badgley showed reverence for the opportunity to play the legendary singer-songwriter, saying: To play a man who was singularly gifted as an artist, greatly misunderstood mythologized as a human being It s something very special and sacred. I m going to give all I can to this project. Greetings from Tim Buckley is slated to begin production in New York City this August. For more on the project, hit the jump for the full press release. Earlier this month, we listed the nominees for the first Critics Choice Television Awards from the Broadcast Television Journalists Association.