It’s being reported that director Paul Greengrass has decided not to direct Bourne 4, the next movie in the series that has featured The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum. The Playlist was the first to break the news to us and the information was later confirmed by the trades complete with a full statement from Greengrass.

Details of the departure aren’t completely clear yet, but it looks as though many different reasons came into play. First of which was Universal’s decision to bring in a new screenwriter to pen a “parallel” script when the original screenwriter became busy with another project without discussing it with Greengrass first. The other reason that the director has given is that he’s just not feeling it anymore and that he’s ready for something new. Whether this is true or if he is just extinguishing flame is anyone’s guess.

Continue reading to check out Greengrass’s full statement.

Fight Club
10th Anniversary Edition – Blu-ray
Directed by David Fincher
Starring Edward Norton, Brad Pit, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf
Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date: November 17, 2009

The tail end of the 90s was branded with a profound exclamation point, dealing with existentialism, fractured identities, and mindsets that were convoluted and shifty. People asked questions such as who are we? What good are we? Are we constructed socially or does man possess the capability of reasoning? Weeding out all impurities that blockade us; insulating us from conceptualizing what and who we truly are, and trying to summon back the primitive man by exhibiting symptoms of commercialism (IKEA) and materialism (khakis), Fight Club is sending crushing blows to the entire consumerist establishment that claims they know what is best for humanity. By anesthetizing society? Or by genetically breeding humans to behave like wild consumers who negate their true passions to conform to what society wants them to be? As audacious as this all sounds Fight Club is direct and impactful in its way of conveying this message. Uncompromising in its ability to take us to uncharted territories, a raw and unforgettable experience is dished out.

This vicious, yet revolutionary, assault is not presented in a soft and snug manner. The spokesperson for this radical movement, revolutionist Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), acknowledges consumerism with arms outspread. Once within his grasp he turns it into a burden, making a materialistic individual, our narrator (Edward Norton), realize that materialism has the tendency to make the human soul rot, decay and then wither away. Not fulfilling or sustaining it as the ads claim to do.

UPDATE: SnitchSeeker has discovered that Daniel Radcliffe will actually appear nude twice in the film.

Yates said, “There is another scene in Kings Cross station, where Harry almost dies and sees Dumbledore. In that scene he will also be naked.”

As with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, an additional scene not found in the book will be added to the film adaptation of Deathly Hallows. “It’s a scene where Hermione and Harry dance together and is not in the book – it’s something we created for the film and is actually very tender, very nice and respectful, and they also reveal some secrets about each other while dancing,” said Yates.

[End of Update]

Director David Yates has confirmed that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will appear nude in a scene in one of the installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The 20-year-old actor, who’s played the title role of the young wizard for six movies so far, will be in the nude for a scene with longtime co-star Emma Watson, who plays Hermione Granger.

No word whether the 19-year-old actress will be nude in the scene as well.

Yates gave Video Business a brief description of the scene.

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD
Composer: Randy Newman
Walt Disney Records
Release Date: November 23, 2009

Disney’s The Princess and The Frog is coming out in just a few days”¦could I be more excited? Not likely, as a new Disney Princess is more exciting here in my house than the impending coming of the world’s most famous jolly old elf. And what better way to await the arrival of Princess Tiana? Listen to the soundtrack of course! It’s filled with music from Disney’s newest animated feature, and is a great way to get to know Princess Tiana and her friends before meeting them in the movie.

A nice feature of this CD is that it not only includes the vocal tracks from the movie, but also the instrumental score. With everything from strings to brass, the score seems to carry you along with Princess Tiana and her friends on their New Orleans adventures. Not having seen the movie yet, I can’t wait to place the tracks with the scenes and see if I’m close in my imagination as to the goings on!

The opening track, “Never Knew I Needed” by Ne-Yo, is sweet and catchy and sure to be a radio hit. While its musical flavor is much more pop/R&B than the rest of the more New Orleans/gospel/blues tracks, it’s still a nice addition to the entire collection. And it follows in the Disney tradition to include a theme song by a current popular artist.

In an effort to spur sales, Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced it will being offering movies in both Blu-ray and DVD formats on a single disc starting in January 2010. The company stated that these dual-format discs, which they’re calling “Flipper” Discs, will allow consumers to upgrade their media collection at their own pace.

At first I really didn’t understand this decision. I mean, if studios plan on offering both formats of the same media as one package why would they start by releasing a movie based on a 60’s television show about a charismatic porpoise that’s essentially a poor man’s Lassie set in the ocean. I wasn’t ever crazy about the classic series and the feature film must have been absolutely horrid because I don’t even remember it.

Then I read paragraph No. 2 of the press release and realized “Flipper” was just the wildly creative marketing team’s name for the new media disc format.

The first films to get the “Flipper” Disc treatment are actually The Bourne Trilogy* (Matt Damon). Each individually packaged film in the series will have a Blu-ray format on one side and a DVD format on the other. Both sides will still contain bonus features and extras like you’d expect to find in single-format discs.