Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Sam Raimi has chosen his first post-Spider-man project. Raimi will develop and direct Dennis Lehane’s upcoming novel The Given Day. Set in 1919, it deals with WWI soldiers returning to a tumultuous Boston carrying Spanish Influenza, while at the same time, police try to unionize amidst a strike.

Kevin Spacey will shrink your head in the indie ensemble drama Shrink. Spacey joins Robin Williams, Saffron Burrows, Gore Vidal and others as a psychiatrist to the stars who suffers a personal tragedy and lets himself go.

Those Toy Story fans going on a vacation this summer to Orlando or L.A. might want to stop by Disney World/Land. The parks are boasting a 4-D Toy Story attraction. I don’t understand where the fourth dimension comes in, so just read about it here .

Yesterday, I wrote about Louis Leterrier’s Hulk follow-up, Strays. The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the film said that it was an eco thriller about a team of scientists attempting to escape a Russian city. Aint It Cool News is reporting that Leterrier is only writing and developing, but not directing the movie, and that this may not be the plot of the movie, but that it’s about this:

The Russians have been having problems in and around Moscowwith hyper-intelligent feral dogs that the police believe are responsible for missing homeless people.
These dogs are intelligent enough to catch rides on trolleys and subway trains to go to specific destinations.
More would be known about them, but they are aware that they are being studied and they go out of their way to conceal their activities.

Aint It Cool admits their source is untested and the synopsis sounds similar to another flick called Wolfen, but I figured I’d cover my bases just in case.

Since a little Brad Pitt never did anyone harm, Cinematical scored a fun poster for the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading, which reminds me a bit of the poster for Otto Preminger’s The Man with A Golden Arm.

And, after about a month of a Spanish-language trailer and a crappy YouTube version of the English trailer, the beautiful trailer for The Curios Case of Benjamin Button is finally available on Apple. You can download it here .

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