The 3PM Dispatch Jetsons, Karate Kid 2, Vampires, Bridesmaids

Hollywood Is Making A Live Action 'Jetsons' Movie.
Variety have the scoop that Warner Bros. are moving ahead with a live-action movie remake of the retro-futuristic animated show The Jetsons. 

The Wedding Crashers Reuniting To Crash A Dotcom Startup...
Vulture are reporting that Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson will be reteaming for a new comedy titled Interns. The movie, written by Vaughan, is about two forty-ish guys who get laid off during the recession and decide to start their careers anew by becoming interns at a google-esque start-up company. Once there they find themselves in direct competition with their fresh-faced, younger, fellow interns. Cue the fast talking snark and devious hi-jinks as the oldies teach the young un's a thing or two about respect.

Arnie And Sly Teaming Up For New Non-'Expendable' Film. 
Cinemablend have word that Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be re-teaming after The Expendables 2 to star in action-thriller The Tomb. Sly will play a wrongly accused prison architect who has to escape from a jail he designed while Arnie will play a fellow named Church, "a complex inmate with multiple shades of grey". By that I guess they mean, dark grey, light grey, off grey, pale grey, grey grey, black grey, white grey, grey grey... oh, wait I already said that one. 

The Vampire Lestat Returning To Big Screen.
The Hollywood Reporter are, er, reporting that Anne Rice's famous fey vampire Lestat is to return to the cinema as Imagine Entertainment has just snapped up the rights to Rice's fourth book in her Vampire Chronicles series, The Tale Of The Body Thief. Lestat was originally played by Tom Cruise in 1994's Interview With The Vampire.

'Karate Kid' Remake Getting Sequel...
Sony Pictures have hired The Incredible Hulk screenwriter to do a rewrite on the script for The Karate Kid 2. They expect Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan to reprise their roles but no deals for the two stars are yet in place.

Bridesmaids Breaks Another Record.
Universal have just announced that raunchy chick-centric comedy Bridesmaids is now the number 1 most ordered VOD (video on demand) title of all time. Over the past four months the movie has been "rented" 4.8milllion times, grossing over US$24million to date. 

Today In Something Is Strong With This One: But what?  

Today In Trivia: Anne Rice was so happy with the movie adaptation of her book Interview With The Vampire that she took out a two-page ad in both Vanity Fair magazine and the New York Times newspaper declaring the film "a masterpiece".

Today's Bad Movie Tagline: The tagline for Jackie Chan's 1999 martial arts film Gorgeous: "She wanted adventure. In Hong Kong she found her match". She found her match? But she didn't want her match. She wanted adventure. What good is finding your match if that's not what you're looking for?

Happy Birthday!: To Goodfella Joe Pesci, he's one 69-year-old who is not funny and is most definitely not here to amuse us... 

TODAY'S POLL
Do You Rent Films From A Video Shop?
After a DVD movie marathon last weekend we got to wondering whether Flicksters still go to their local video stores to get movies. Let us know!

The poll results will be in Friday's edition of The 3PM Dispatch.

WEDNESDAY'S POLL RESULTS
Most Flicksters are dubious that The Wolverine will hit its scheduled cinema release date...

Do You Reckon 'The Wolverine' Will Hit Its New Release Date?
59.26% -  No - Lol
25.93% -   Dunno - I really just don't know
14.81% - Yes - Surely this time...

Help Bring Jay And Silent Bob To New Zealand!
Director Kevin Smith and regular collab partner Jason Mewes are touring their podcast show Jay And Silent Bob Get Old in Australia in April. We've started a campaign to try to convince them to come to NZ once they wrap over in Oz. If you'd like to join the campaign then please tweet @JayMewes @ThatKevinSmith @thisguyjeff @FlicksNZ with your message of touring encouragement and the hashtag #KevinandJayCometoNZplease
Nice one, thanks! Hopefully we'll see you at their NZ gigs...