Assassination of a High School PresidentContributed by Jeff Sneider

It looks like the Yari Film Group’s ill-timed bankruptcy has killed the chance of a theatrical release for Brett Simon’s 2008 Sundance hit, “Assassination of a High School President.”

The film, which earned high praise from the notoriously tough Sundance crowd, stars Reece Thompson (the underseen "Rocket Science") as a Woodward-and-Bernstein-loving high school journalism student out to expose a plot concerning stolen SATs. Mischa Barton co-stars as the requisite hot Catholic schoolgirl while Bruce Willis plays a Gulf War veteran who also happens to be the principal. Read More...

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Marvel's 'Runaways'There was the Scooby Gang, there was the Buffy gang (who often called themselves the Scoobies), and then there are the Runaways (who don't call themselves anything). One's a witch, one's a mutant, one's an alien -- but they didn't know these things until they discovered that their parents were actually evil super-villains bent on destroying the world. So what did these teens do? They ran away, stealing whatever magical tools they could grab, and in so doing, became a misfit group of super-heroes, pledging to fight their parents and any other big bads who got in their way.

"Runaways" is a popular Marvel comic-book series, written by Brian K. Vaughan, who handed it over to Joss Whedon, and it's about to become a movie as well, with Vaughan scripting. We're confident he's got that covered, but what about the casting? Here are a few suggestions to get the "Runaways" moving. Read More...

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