Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Early tomorrow morning, I’ll be headed to New York City for a five-day vacation, so till Monday I’ll have truncated posts. So here’s a quick run down of today’s news.

Robert Downey, Jr., who will apparently star in every movie between now and 2010, has been cast in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes as the titular detective. There could end up being a pair of competing Holmes movies if the Ferrell-Cohen version gets production started soon enough.

The ’80s Commie-fest Red Dawn is getting a new day in cineplexes. It’s being remade with second-unit extraordinaire Dan Bradley at the helm and Carl Ellsworth at the pen (that particular phrase to describe when someone writes a script doesn’t exactly work). In the same article that covers the remake, it also mentions that a number of directors, including Darren Aronofsky, have been spoken with about a new RoboCop film.

I misspoke a bit yesterday when I said that Quentin Tarantino was stepping out of his comfort zone and letting someone other than the Weinstein Brothers produce his Inglorious Bastards. In reality, The Weinstein Company is co-financing, distributing and marketing the film , which means that when QT sent out his script to four studios yesterday, he was probably seeking more co-financing.

SAG has said they’ll address AMPTP’s offer to them tomorrow, but the producers made it harder for them to turn it down today. In short, the producers said the pay increases in their new offer will be retroactive to July 1 if the deal is ratified by August 15. You can read more about it here.

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