Momentum Pictures will release Death Proof in U.K. theaters on Sept. 21. A release date for Planet Terror, which will also go out via Momentum, has not yet been set.

Tarantino takes a longer version of "Death Proof" than appeared in U.S. cinemas as part of Grindhouse to the Cannes Film Festival next month, where it will screen in competition.

After the first three X-Men films grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, Fox and Marvel hatched the spinoff program. Magneto will be the second such movie to go into production. First up is Wolverine, a PublishDavid Benioff-scripted film that will star Hugh Jackman as the steel-clawed mutant; Fox and Marvel will set a director shortly on that pic.

Goyer will develop a Magneto script that was written by Sheldon Turner.

McKellen's participation in Magneto will likely be limited since the film is an origin story. In a storyline hinted at by the original X-Men films, Magneto comes to grips with his mutant ability to manipulate metal objects as he and his parents try to survive in Auschwitz. Magneto meets Professor Xavier (played as the wheelchair-bound mutant leader by Patrick Stewart) when the latter is a soldier liberating the concentration camp.

Magneto hones his powers by hunting down and killing Nazi war criminals who tortured him, and his lust for vengeance turns Xavier and Magneto into enemies. Both characters will be played by actors in their 20s.

Clark and his son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were both killed in a head-on collision with a driver under the influence of alcohol, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman.

In A Christmas Story, all 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range model air rifle.

His mother, his teacher and Santa Claus all warn: “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”

A bully named Scut Farkus, a leg lamp, a freezing-flagpole mishap and some four-letter defiance helpPublished the movie become a seasonal fixture with TBS running a marathon that starts on Christmas Eve: in 24 hours the film is shown a dozen times in a row.

Clark specialized in horror movies and thrillers early in his career, directing such 1970s flicks as Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, and Black Christmas. His breakout success came with the 1982 sex farce Porky’s.

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The project is being developed by Walden Media, the firm behind the "Narnia" franchise, Fox 2000 and the Jim Henson Co. Brad Peyton ("Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl") will direct from a script written by Matthew Huffman.

Gorey, who died in 2000 at age 75, was an artist and writer known for his macabre bent, with works that had an ominous and somewhat Victorian air. While none of his works has ever reached the silver screen, the opening titles of the PBS series "Mystery!" done in animation style are based on his art. He also was a successful set and costume designer, earning a Tony for his Broadway production of "Edward Gorey's Dracula."

Originally published in 1957, the whimsical story revolves around a quirky family whose life is turned upside down when a mysterious, mischievous creature arrives unannounced and unwelcome, bringing trouble with him and wreaking havoc.

"It's hard to come up with a creature that you've never seen before in any medium, and he's a unique little creation who is very appealing without being cute or cloying," Jim Henson Co. co-CEO Lisa Henson said. "He's sophisticated yet simple at the same time, but it's not overly juvenile. Adults can find him cute, too."

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