Del Toro Producing New "Changeling"

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Director Guillermo "Pan's Labyrinth" del Toro has joined the Rogue Pictures re-make of "The Changeling" as a producer.

The original, Canadian-shot 1979 feature starred actor George "Patton" C. Scott as a man being haunted in his new mansion home.

Screenplay for the re-make is by Dave "The Invasion" Kajganich.

In European folklore a 'changeling' is believed to be the offspring of a fairy, troll, elf or other legendary creature that has been secretly left in the place of a human child.

"Punisher 2" Shooting In Montreal

An October, Montreal start-date is now being planned for the Lionsgate production "Punisher 2".

Director is Lexi Alexander, starring actor Ray "Rome" Stevenson as 'Frank Castle'.

Going for an R-Rating, the new screenplay is by Nick Santora, Kurt Sutter, Matt Holloway and Art Marcum.

Producers are Gale Anne "Hulk" Hurd, Kevin Feige, and Avi Arad.

MHF Zweite Academy Film is financing.

Stevenson is the third actor to play the Marvel Comics character, after Dolph Lundgren in 1989 and Thomas Jane in 2004.

The new film will be set in New York, where Castle will run up against the mobster known as 'Jigsaw'.

Romero Possessed By "Season Of The Witch"

Director George A. "Night Of The Living Dead" Romero wants to remake his 1971 film "Hungry Wives" aka "Season of the Witch".

Also known as "Jack's Wife", the feature was Romero's third film, released in 1973.

Filmed in Pittsburgh, premise of the original film follows a suburban housewife who turns to tarot cards for a reading, then becomes drawn into a world of witchcraft.

"I've always felt that it's not really a complete work," Romero said about "Witch" at the recent Los Angles Comic-Con.

"We sort of managed to get a rope around it and finish it in a halfway decent way, but it's the only one that I'd like to redo."

"Painkiller" Aiming For The Big Screen

Production company Guy Walks Into a Bar has acquired feature film rights to the videogame "Painkiller."

Jon Berg, Todd Komarnicki and Matthew Weinber will produce the feature, following 'Daniel Garner', a character stranded between purgatory and hell.

"Painkiller" debuted in 2004, published by DreamCatcher Interactive and developed by game studio People Can Fly, with 24 levels of designs including medieval castles, factories and lunatic asylums.

In 2006 the game was released on Xbox as "Painkiller: Hell Wars".

"Tripping The Rift" Scores For Teletoon

"Tripping the Rift" is a CG animated, science fiction comedy series, based on two short animations by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. The show debuted on Canadian speciality channel "SPACE: The Imagination Station" in 2004 and is currently airing on Canada's cartoon network Teletoon, since August 2006.

LucasArts Whips Into "Indy" LEGO

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LucasArts and TT Games have announced that "LEGO Indiana Jones: The Videogame" will whip onto game consoles, summer 2008.

Developed by the same team at Traveller's Tales that created "LEGO Star Wars", "LEGO Indiana Jones" presents a comical take on the first three Spielberg-directed 'Indy' movies, "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".

"It has been a real joy to work with LucasArts," said Tom Stone, director at TT Games.

"The boulder scene of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in LEGO is hilarious!"