Leonardo DiCaprio is an anime hoarder. Not only does his production company, Appian Way, have the classic Japanese animated film Akira set up at Warner Bros. as a two-movie live-action epic, Appian has now set another classic anime up at Warners: Ninja Scroll. The gory, over-the-top period film, which pits a vagabond ninja against the super-powered assassins known as the Eight Demons of Kimon, will be written by Watchmen screenwriter Alex Tse. Leonardo DiCaprio will not appear in it, thank God.

If Steve Carell is one of those actors who is desirous of playing many different kinds of roles and never pigeon-holing himself into a certain character archetype, he's not doing a very good job of it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has just been attached to Brigadier Gerard, a period comedy about a French solider during the Napoleonic wars who is deluded about his level of bravery and prowess on the battlefield. Based on a series of short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, the script was written by Kind of the Hill writers Altshuler and David Krinsky. The character Carell is set to play, Etienne Gerard, is described as "a soldier who considers himself a gallant swordsman but whose actual skills often pale in comparison to his own conception of them." Sound familiar at all?

Folks on the France set of John Travolta's One Night in Paris -- I mean, From Paris, With Love took a song from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and made it literal. Only this time, the lyrics were "Burn, baby, burn! Auto inferno!" According to the AP, a suspicious fire caused the filmmakers to suspend shooting in "in one of the Paris area's toughest housing projects." Ten automobiles were turned into car-b-ques by vandals, and the movie's producers sound surprised that such a thing could occur. What did they think they'd get in the roughest projects in Paris? A welcome wagon filled with wine and cheese?

Rodents are very resourceful. They can make a meal out of nearly anything when they have to. They can adapt to almost any environment. They have teeth that continually grow, allowing them to gnaw away at tough things without permanent damage to their biting power. It's fitting, then, that Disney's main mascot is a mouse. Sure, this one wears bright red shorts and dapper white gloves, but don't let the civilized exterior fool you. Mickey's seemingly shy demeanor belies a highly adaptable critter who's not afraid to strike out into new territory when he sees an opportunity. This time, the opportunity lies in the Middle East, with its 200-million-strong youth market, according to Variety.

As Odie Henderson pointed out recently, Spike Lee seems to have a thing for getting into fights. According to Variety, Lee's Miracle at St. Anna is being derided "as mispresentation of the facts" by Italian veteran organizations after a press screening yesterday in Rome. Lee didn't really start the latest skirmish, but he's not exactly being Mr. Diplomat about things, either. He responded by telling those critical of his film: "I am not apologizing for anything. I think these questions are evidence that there is still a lot about your history during the war that you [Italians] have got to come to grips with." Pretty much the best way to make sure people don't come to grips with something is by telling them to come to grips with something. It's like telling an angry person to calm down. Does that ever work?

Here at the Moviefile, we have a whole category just for remakes, reboots, and "reimaginings"--and it's stuffed pretty full. From Fame to Robocop and everything in between, there's a bountiful crop of reworked properties. As "old hat" as it can be to those of us with long enough memories (or long enough Netflix queues) to remember the originals, remaking the movies of yesteryear can make good financial sense for studios. A remake from a 20- or 30-year-old property can draw in brand-new young audiences, as well as the nostalgic viewers of the originals. For example, 24 years passed before Bedtime Story was remade as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and now that another 20 years have passed, they're remaking the remake. But now Hammer Films and Overture Films are bucking the trend by remaking a movie that hasn't even been officially released yet. Talk about the Hammer striking while the iron is hot.

Seth Rogen just got a few inches closer to donning the Green Hornet costume. No, I'm not talking about his dramatic weight loss, I'm talking about the fact that they've lined up a director for his millionaire-superhero movie and a guy to play his chauffeur/sidekick, Kato! And, in a twist that perhaps nobody saw coming, they're the same dude. Stephen Chow, director/star of Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle is going to step into the role made famous by Bruce Lee and direct his first English-language film, both at the same time. Speaking of kung-fu hustles...

TWoP writer Djb went to the Toronto International Film Festival this week and chose ten films to see out of the 300 that were playing, based on whether he thought he'd ever get the chance to see them again on the big screen. One of them was Canada's first stop-motion animation movie. One was a documentary about the world's biggest Chinese restaurant. One of them starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. And these were just the ones he liked! Check out his full report over in Mondo Extras!

French comedies are already fairly quirky and precious. So when you pass one through a Wes Anderson-shaped filter, what's the end result? Quirky, precious awesome. Anderson will be writing an adaptation of the French comedy Mon Meilleur Ami ("My Best Friend") for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, according to Variety. He's also considering directing it, which would make it the first remake he's ever done. And if he doesn't take the reigns as director, it stands to be the first script he's written that he didn't direct. Either way, quelle surprise!

These days, you can't fire up the Internet without hearing more casting news about Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Today is no exception, as we bring you not one, not two, but three new bastards and one bastardette who have joined the cast. German actors Christoph Waltz and Til Schweiger, American comedian Paul Rust and National Treasure star Diane Kruger are the latest additions, according to reports in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. I'm pretty sure roughly one-third of the globe's population are playing roles in this movie, or have at least been considered for a role. In fact, just a few weeks ago, Tarantino even tried to tap me for a part.