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Yesterday's news that Jennifer Garner is headlining a revival of "Miss Marple" in an updated take on the classic Agatha Christie character was met with no small amount of backlash, but if you're worried about the Garner reboot deviating too far from the source material, well, hold your horses — it's not a done deal quite yet.

Following up on their original report, Deadline reveals that Chorion, the company which owns the rights to Agatha Christie, has informed the BBC that Disney's plan to reboot "Miss Marple" is not a done deal.

MTV reached out to Chorion for clarification, but the company's representatives have issued a no comment on the story. Stay tuned — we'll bring you any further updates as we get them.

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Jennifer Garner is ready to start solving mysteries again, this time Agatha Christie style.

The former "Alias" star has been tapped by Disney to star as Miss Marple in their planned reboot of the mystery series, Deadline reports. Disney's plan for the reboot was to change the character of Miss Marple from being an elderly English spinster who solves mysteries as a hobby to an updated version where she is in her 30s or 40s.

After the jump, we break down just who Miss Marple is, how she's been portrayed before and why Garner is an interesting choice.

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Finally, after many exciting teaser images and much fanfare over the course of the past year, it's nice to get a good look at what "Arthur" has in store for us.

And, as expected, the trailer far exceeds our expectations. As leading man Russell Brand promised, there are many homages to Dudley Moore and the original film, but it's clear that this latest version is coming into its own as well. Everything that was great about the original -- the lovable rich drunk, his dour old sidekick, his easy-going fiance and spitfire love interest -- have been included and amplified for the trailer and that couldn't make us happier. And there are "Star Wars" and "Batman" references, so how can this go wrong?

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What we've seen so far of Russell Brand's upcoming flick "Arthur" is intriguing to say the least. Batman and Robin onscreen costumes, nipples included? Check. Helen Mirren as his newly female sidekick? Check. Planning on winning his first Academy Award just by copying Dudley Moore's Oscar winning performance from two decades ago? Oh, that's a check.

"I am hoping that I too will get an Oscar nomination," he told MTV News when we visited the "Arthur" set. "What I did is, I've pretended to be Dudley Moore for a lot of this film, because I was thinking perhaps they just might think, 'He's almost the exact same as him. Let's nominate him for an Oscar.'"

That might not be enough to convince the Academy to give him an Oscar, but judging by the way his costars respond to him it, he might be able to get it on his own merit.

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You can learn some pretty neat things by way of movie news. For instance, I knew nothing about butter sculptures until reading about a new film titled "Butter," which is set in this world of dairy art, an American tradition going back at least to the 19th century. According to Variety, Jennifer Garner, who is also producing the comedy, will co-star as an ambitious butter sculptress from the Midwest who goes up against a 12-year-old newbie carver in a local contest.

The young African-American challenger has not yet been cast, but Vulture has learned both Jim Carrey and Kate Hudson are in talks to join the film. Carrey would reportedly play Garner's character's husband, described as a "philandering, Bill Clinton-esque repeat sculpting champion." Oh yeah, and that Presidential comparison fits because apparently "Butter" is really about the 2008 primary race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hudson's role would be that of a kind of Monica Lewinsky "paramour." Read more...

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MTV Movies editor Josh Horowitz is out of the country right now, gallivanting around the Toronto International Film Festival while the rest of us madly prepare for Sunday's 2009 Video Music Awards here in New York City. Josh got there yesterday, and he hit the ground running. There's plenty more to come from TIFF, but for now please enjoy these impressions of "The Invention of Lying," starring and directed by Ricky Gervais.

Is there such a thing as a genial black comedy? If so, “The Invention of Lying” might be it. This marks two Toronto fests in a row when a Ricky Gervais-starrer has screened (and junketed). I’ll be talking to Gervais, his leading lady, Jennifer Garner (don’t worry Ricky mocks this unlikely genetic coupling more than you possibly fathom), and Rob Lowe (in a typically nefarious turn—see “Wayne’s World 2” for reference.). Read more...

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Ricky Gervais called during the 11 a.m. opening day screening of "Grindhouse." Said he loved the script, wanted to make the movie, asked how soon could we meet to get everything started?

Pacing around the movie theater lobby on his cell phone while "Grindhouse" blared away inside, Matthew Robinson thought for sure he was being punked. Yeah, he knew his script for a high-concept comedy about a world in which lying does not exist had gotten into Gervais' hands, but this just didn't happen in Hollywood. Sounded like a "Twilight Zone" episode, which was how he came up with the script idea anyway. Yet two weeks later he was sitting with his comedy hero rewriting the script and on September 25th, two and a half years after that first phone call, "The Invention of Lying" will arrive in theaters. Read more...

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There are some people who are the Next Big Thing, and then there are others that should be. Somewhere in the middle lies Emma Stone, the adorable 19-year-old who won our hearts in "Superbad," and is looking good in the trailers for this summer's "The Rocker" and "The House Bunny."

And if those films don't break Emma out into a leading role, maybe it will be the romantic comedy she's been filming opposite the Next Big Thing of 1996.

"I am [one of] 'The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past," she laughed recently, describing her supernatural character in the film of the same name. "It's a take off on 'A Christmas Carol'. Matthew McConaughey plays Connor, this guy who's been sleeping around with a bunch of women, and has a heart of stone, and some ghosts come back to haunt him and bring him lessons about his past relationships and future relationships." Read more...

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