TFC Morning Report – Tuesday, March 17, 2009 – Transformers 3 release date set

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Top Story: Transformers 2 doesn’t come out until June, but DreamWorks and Paramount have already set the date for Transformers 3.  The threequel will hit theaters on July 1, 2011. (Variety)

In Other News: Director Catherine Hardwicke, who was fired from the Twilight saga because she couldn’t adapt a terrible book, is in talks to take on another young-adult series. Columbia Pictures is courting the director for an adaptation of the YA fantasy Maximum Ride. (THR)

In Zac Efron news, Dwayne Johnson suggests that Zac will take the lead in a Johnny Quest movie. (MTV)

J.J. Abrams will produce, and possibly direct, an adaptation of the Wired magazine article “The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist” for Paramount. (THR)

The Weinstein Co. nabbed the US distribution right to the UK’s Nowhere Boy, the Sam Taylor-Wood-directed film about young John Lennon. (Variety)

Fin.