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Lotsa stuff to get to this morning and rather than try to do each of these by giving them the space to breath, we’re gonna smash them into one extended post and hope we hit everything. Today’s my birthday and per tradition that started in college I take the day off to celebrate me, which usually ends up in me getting drunk at noon and watching bloody disgusting movies that no one else will watch with me. I’m thinking about doing a Hostel Part 2 and 28 Weeks Later movie marathon.

So I’ll be shutting things down after leaving you with some good stuff today. We’ve got two movies reviews from the NW Film Fest to get up and a music premiere that I think you won’t enjoy, but you should find endearing.

I’d also like to give a warm happy birthday greeting to Dwight Gooden and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

On with the news:

- Kevin Smith is getting his inner Judd Apatow on. He’s cast Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks as the leads in his upcoming flick Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It’ll be nice to see some fresh faces from one comedy universe transplanted to another one.

- Tim Burton returns to Disney to direct a motion-captured version of Alice in Wonderland! Really would you want any other director doing this. He’s also going to direct a feature length version of Frankenweenie. All I can say is Johnny Depp for the Mad Hatter…

- MTV has footage from the upcoming DVD of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.

- Speaking of Harry Potter, Worst Previews has a behind the scenes video of the now-filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They’re just cranking these badboys out aren’t they?

- Hulk get angry and smash pretty girls! Just kidding, but the first trailer for the Eric Bana, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson starring The Other Boleyn Girls has arrived.

- Guud, director McG has been locked into to direct the fourth Terminator flick: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.? Which was going to be called “Straight To Video” in its original draft.

- Speaking of cool trailers, did you like that transition?? How does this sound: Jackie Chan and Jet Li kick some ass in a martial arts picture titled The Forbidden Kingdom. ?

- The latest Cloverfield trailer has been pirated by a camera cellphone.? It’s not difficult to find on YouTube, but we seriously recommend you waiting for the non-pirated version when it hits either today or Monday.

- Jeff Bridges hints there may be a sequel in the works to everyone’s favorite movie growing up: Tron. ?

- Persepolis is an animated movie from France about the Iranian revolution and it’s in subtitles and it looks like American animation from 1935 but if you can get past all of that it also looks frakking awesome.

A stuntman, on a Chinese-language blog, claims he’s performed as a stuntman for famed Asian icon Jackie Chan. Oh really? So Jackie Chan doesn’t do all 100% of his stunts anymore? Color me surprised. Which, if you’ve got the Crayola box of 164, is somewhere between “big deal” and “no shit.”

The dude’s body is probably so broke for doing stunts early in his career, there’s no reason given his success in Hollywood, that he should even want to do his own stunts anymore. From the AP (via CNN):

Stuntman Bruce Law said in his Chinese-language blog that he’s doubled for stars including Chan, Chow Yun-fat, former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh and veteran Hong Kong actor Andy Lau.

A spokesman for Chan, Solon So, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Chan uses a stunt double in Hollywood because of insurance restrictions but rarely does so when shooting in Hong Kong.

“Hollywood movies don’t let you perform moves that are too dangerous. They have insurance coverage. There are safety consultants,” So said.

Law agreed with So’s observations in his blog.

“Sometimes it’s not a matter of whether an actor can perform a stunt but rather the movie company isn’t willing to take the risk. Once an actor is hurt, the movie has to stop shooting and the financial loss is great,” Law said.

Well, well. Seems that those awesome stunts he did in Tuxedo maybe weren’t so awesome were they Mr. Chan? Huh! Huh! Actually, the better question would be, if Jackie Chan was in a movie that no one went to go see is Jackie Chan still in the movie? . . . Maybe it’s Bruce Law.

Enjoy some classic Chan.? Before Chris Tucker got his mitts on him.

If you look close enough you can see Bruce Law in aisle three.? He’s the one buying cans of tuna fish.