Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

With all its recent success, you’d think Marvel would be able to generate a little more good press. First, Edward Norton was allegedly so peeved at Marvel, or at Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier, or both, he refused to do publicity for the film. Looks like things are better or that was entirely false, because here he is doing just that here.

The buzz this weekend around Terrence Howard’s “announcement” to Military.com that Iron Man 2 is scheduled for release April 2010 has raised a bit of controversy. Jon Favreau posted on his MySpace blog today that he’s not exactly too keen on that and now IESB.net is reporting that Marvel is considering not bring him back because of a disagreement over pay for the next film. Please, Marvel, dish out for Favreau. The last thing Iron Man fans want is to get stuck with Brett Ratner.

In happier news, The Swayze is back. Doctors have cleared Patrick Swayze to work on the A&E series The Beast. Hopefully this also means he can reprise his classic role as Bodie in Point Break Indo.

PBS, which already offers some of its programs on Google Video, will add shows to Hulu, the popular streaming site. NOVA, Weird Science, Carrier and Scientific American Frontiers are among the shows jumping to the net.

Last month, we heard Ouija was getting a big-screen treatment, then we learned Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a biopic about the creator of Atari and now the Smurfs are headed to Hollywood thanks to Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation. In completely unrelated news, and I’m not entirely sure why I just thought of this, but I heard this weekend that the man who invented the vacuum-sealed Pringles can wanted his ashes stored in a Pringles can and on the way to his funeral, his sons actually bought a Pringles can at a convenience store and put part of him in there. How awesome is that?

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