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American Gangster came out blazing with an estimated $46.3 million weekend, while Bee Movie had less sting in second…

Dwayne Johnson, the actor formerly known as “The Rock,” confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he will play the villainous Black Adam in the upcoming Shazam! movie, and not the superhero Captain Marvel?a choice he made at the urging of fans at Comic-Con and elsewhere.

Dwayne Johnson, who stars in Disney’s upcoming Witch Mountain remake, told SCI FI Wire that he will play a decidedly non-Disney character: an ex-con Las Vegas taxi driver named Jack.

The ebullient Sarah Michelle Gellar told SCI FI Wire that she will play against type in the upcoming fantastical movie The Air I Breathe, playing a character called Sorrow.

The directors of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem screened 10 minutes of previously unseen footage in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 and told SCI FI Wire that they went for the R rating, unlike the previous installment’s PG-13.

Timothy Olyphant, who stars in the upcoming game-inspired Hitman movie, told SCI FI Wire that a stranger told him that he’d stolen the part from Vin Diesel even before he’d taken the job?and denied that he stole the part from anyone.

Anthony Hopkins, who will co-star with Benicio Del Toro in the upcoming remake of The Wolf Man, told SCI FI Wire that he wasn’t a big fan of the original 1941 movie, which starred Lon Chaney Jr.

>a href=”http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Strike-Fallout-Heroes/800026358″ target=”outside”>TV Guide.com reported that producers of NBC’s Heroes are shooting an alternate ending to the Dec. 3 episode that will wrap up the second season early in the event an expected writers’ strike prevents the show from continuing with new episodes.

Producers of The Dark Knight, the next Batman movie, scrapped a scene in a Hong Kong harbor that would have had star Christian Bale jump out of a plane into the polluted water, the Agence France-Presse news service reported.

NBC made a last-minute pilot order on Nov. 2, the day the Writers Guild of America set the stage for a strike, giving a green light to Kings, a contemporary soap drama loosely based on the biblical story of King David, which will feature some magical elements, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

New Line has acquired domestic rights to a pair of genre projects: the supernatural romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body and the ghost thriller The New Daughter, Variety reported.

Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson is running away with ROY honors after just eight games. And don’t forget Marshawn Lynch, who is helping Buffalo forget about Willis McGahee, Clark Judge says.