Seven years after making his film debut in the quasi-autobiographical '8 Mile,' Eminem is set to star in and produce 'Shady Talez,' a 3D horror film directed by veteran actor/director Robert Townsend ('The Five Heartbeats,' 'The Parent 'Hood'), according to Screen Daily.
Billed as a cross between 'Creepshow' and 'The Twilight Zone,' 'Talez' will be written by 'Underworld' creator Kevin Grevioux and writer/producer Dallas Jackson. Along with Em (ne Marshall Mathers), child star Bobb'e J Thompson ('Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs') has been pegged to star in the film.


Having spent much of 2009 turning its searchlight toward the ocean of filmdom and seeing little more than inky blackness, Fox Searchlight is suddenly going all in, advancing '
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Hey, Boo-Boo! Warner Bros.' 3-D live-action/CGI animated version of the much-loved Hanna-Barbera cartoon
Since Charles Dickens' first public reading of 'A Christmas Carol' in 1853, his novella about the redemption of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge has been dramatized on stage, records, radio, television, film and even opera. In movies, where a silent version first hit the screen in 1901, it has been told in nearly every format, from live-action to Muppetry to computer-animation, and its lamentable hero has been played by everyone from Lionel Barrymore to Bill Murray and Yosemite Sam.
You just can't keep a good man down.