Diablo Cody made her name with the hit teen dramedy Juno and after the bump in the road known as Jennifer’s Body, she pulled herself together and now she’s got several scripts on the go.

The latest addition to the slew of scripts she’s working on is called Young Adult which Diablo described to Vulture as

“…A movie about a woman who’s stalking her high-school sweetheart. It has elements of humor, but it’s pretty serious and f*cked up.”

THR gave this synopsis of the movie. ‘A thirtysomething, divorced, young-adult fiction writer in Minneapolis who returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend, who’s now married with a kid, that got away.’

On her thoughts on women in movies Diablo said,

“You don’t get to see women be anti-hero that often, where it’s like somebody like Mickey Rourke, who gets a comeback in The Wrestler.

It’s rarer that you’ll have a studio say, “Let’s have an actress come back and be ugly!”

Aside from having Young Adult on her slate, Diablo’s also adapting the Sweet Valley High book series and will be producing Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament.

She’s also still working on her hit US show United States of Tara starring Toni Collette which has just started its second season.

One of the biggest, baddest Disney villains ever is getting her own live-action movie.

Maleficent, the evil witch from Sleeping Beauty, will be appearing on the big screen with a script penned by Alice In Wonderland scribe Linda Woolverton, according to Heat Vision Blog.

I had been sceptical but hopeful about the project’s future and up until now it had mostly been a rumour with Tim Burton directing.

Burton is circling a number of projects at the moment, one of them being The Addams Family, but perhaps now Woolverton is on board for Maleficent, she can persuade Burton to join her.

There’s no doubt that the dark, edgy style that Disney are going for with this project would be right up Burton’s alley but he’s a busy little bee right now. His pet project Frankenweenie is deep into pre-production and ideas for Dark Shadows are still simmering away in that gothic brain of his.

Never ones to pass up the chance to squeeze a few extra bucks out of cinemagoers, movie studios are pushing directors to jump on the 3D conversion bandwagon.

But some of them aren’t too happy about the effect that the conversion has on the look of the 3D, including Transformers director Michael Bay. Apparently he’s under pressure to put Transformers 3 into 3D and he’s not best pleased about it.

In conversations with Deadline Hollywood, Bay explained why he’s against conversion.

“I shoot complicated stuff, I put real elements into action scenes and honestly, I am not sold right now on the conversion process. I am trying to be sold, and some companies are still working on the shots I gave them.

Right now, it looks like fake 3D, with layers that are very apparent. You go to the screening room, you are hoping to be thrilled, and you’re thinking, huh, this kind of sucks. People can say whatever they want about my movies, but they are technically precise, and if this isn’t going to be excellent, I don’t want to do it. And it is my choice.

I’m used to having the A-team working on my films, and I’m going to hand it over to the D-team, have it shipped to India and hope for the best? This conversion process is always going to be inferior to shooting in real 3D. Studios might be willing to sacrifice the look and use the gimmick to make $3 more a ticket, but I’m not. Avatar took four years. You can’t just shit out a 3D movie. I’m saying, the jury is still out.”

Wow, harsh words from ‘Bayhem’ but he makes a good point.

James Cameron’s not too happy about it either, which is funny considering he’s converting Titanic into 3D for a 2012 release.

“After Toy Story, there were 10 really bad CG movies because everybody thought the success of that film was CG and not great characters that were beautifully designed and heartwarming. Now, you’ve got people quickly converting movies from 2D to 3D, which is not what we did. They’re expecting the same result, when in fact they will probably work against the adoption of 3D because they’ll be putting out an inferior product.

Sony says, we’re doing Spider-Man in 3D.’ The director doesn’t say, `Hey, I want to make the movie in 3D.’ The studio says, `You want to direct this movie? You’re doing it in 3D, motherf**ker!’ That’s not how it should be.

I’ve tried for the last seven years to get filmmakers excited, and they all hung back while Pixar and DreamWorks did animation and me and a couple of others did live action. We prove the point, and now filmmakers are being told to make their movies in 3D.”

You tell ’em, Jim. To be honest, they’re just saying what most of us are thinking and that if we’re going to be paying top dollar for our cinema tickets, we don’t want a half-assed attempt at 3D, let’s just hope Hollywood will listen.

They probably won’t given that there are several movies in line for 3D including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Gulliver’s Travels and The Hobbit.

Zack Snyder recently caught up with Coming Soon and spilled the beans on the sequel to 300.

The director has been ridiculously busy since the success of 300, jumping from one heavy-duty project to another. His latest movie is a 3D CGI owl movie called The Legend of The Guardians as well as the action packed Sucker Punch, also in 3D.

Snyder seems to fit in well with the current trend of putting everything in an extra dimension and apparently he was very pleased when Warner Bros. showed him 3D converted footage of 300:

“I saw maybe like a ten-minute section that they’d just done. I haven’t seen the whole movie but they’re talking about doing the whole movie.”

Getting 3D spears shoved in our faces? Can’t wait.

But what about the sequel? Well technically it’s going to be a prequel that will focus on the God King Xerxes. Snyder will adapt a new unfinished graphic novel by Frank Miller that will be set 10 years before the events of 300.

“I’m waiting on Frank (Miller) for the sequel to ‘300′ and there’s a really good chance that will be the thing we do. He’s been working hard, so he’s supposed to show me something really soon; actually in the next few months, he’s going to show me something.

There was a big discussion about what we would do for the sequel to ‘300′ and I said, “I didn’t tell Frank what to write the first time, and I’m not telling him what to write this time. I’ll take it and I’ll adapt it and make it into a movie and I’ll write a screenplay, but I want him to do whatever he thinks.

You remember the rules. You know the game. You know the players. No it’s not Monopoly the movie, it’s the Scream series, and the game begins again this year when Scream 4 starts shooting in April.

There was some discussion over who would direct the fourth instalment but Wes Craven has confirmed that he’s returning to the series, as is Neve Campbell, David Arquette and wife Courtney Cox.

Cox previously dished on what could be in store for the characters but other than that there is very little known about the script. Many fans of the franchise are confused at to where the new film will take the characters as all the storylines were so nicely wrapped up in the third movie.

Dimension Films’ big boss man Bob Weinstein released a statement saying,

“Scream has been such an integral part of Dimension’s history, and I look forward to continuing the franchise.”

He’s back folks, the man with bigger forearms than a 14-year-old schoolboy, it’s Popeye!

Variety reports today that Spider-Man producer Avi Arad is getting the project together with Sony, the fellas behind the upcoming 3D semi-CGI Smurfs movie.

Relative newcomer Mike Jones is in talks to pen the script and has confessed that,

“I’m an unabashed, lifelong Popeye fan. Introducing this squinty-eyed sailor to a new generation also means reintroducing him to those who, like me, grew up with him.”

The decision to see Popeye, Bluto, Olive Oyl and the gang in 3D hardly comes as a surprise and love it or hate it, it’ll soon become the standard, especially for animation. To use CGI instead of live action isn’t a shock either – it’s just a lesson learned from the 1980 live action version with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall.

If you’re looking forward to a Popeye movie or you need to refresh your memory, check out this video – it’s my favourite reason to love the cartoon.

Maybe I was just blinded by R-Pattz’s glittery vampire skin in Twilight but I never really noticed how cute Kellan Lutz is.

He could easily give any Hollywood hottie a run for their money but today I’m more interested in his CV. According to Heat Vision Blog, he’s just signed on for Tarsem Singh’s War Of The Gods.

The film follows the hero Theseus (Henry Cavill) as he battles to stop the ancient Titans from destroying the Greek Gods. Mickey Rourke will be leading the Titans as Hyperion while Lutz will help out Theseus as Poseidon, God of the sea.

If you’re looking for the movie’s details on IMDB you’ll find them under the old title of Dawn of War as this project’s been in development for a while now. It’s been through its fair share of writers but Jason Keller is the latest scribe to put pen to paper for the movie.

War of the Gods was intended to be a challenger to Clash of The Titans but repeated delays and re-writes have meant that shooting will just begin in Montreal next month. It’s also pushed the release date back to 2011, taking it out of the running for ‘best sweaty Greek warriors in skirts’ competition.

Lutz has been steadily been branching out from the Twilight series, even appearing in the upcoming Nightmare On Elm Street revamp.