* CSI star Wallace Langham will play legendary graphic designer Saul Bass in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the film by director Sacha Gervasi which already boasts Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, James D'Arcy, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Toni Collette, Michael Wincott, and Danny Huston. Wow. Bass was known for his inventive title and credit sequences(The Man with the Golden Arm is the best in my opinion), and he did the same for Psycho along with serving as storyboard artist. He would work alongside Hitchcock many times, but as proved to be the case with others involved with the film, the director's personality would cause this to be the final time. The film is based on the novel by Stephen Rebello. [Variety]
* Does Tim Burton have a new running buddy not named Tim Burton? It appears so. The director will pair up with Dark Shadows scribe Seth Grahame-Smith(he also wrote Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter which Burton produced) for a stop-motion animated film which Burton will direct. Titled Night of the Living, details are under wraps at this point but it sounds like some sort of zombie movie. Grahame-Smith will also provide the script for Burton's Beetlejuice sequel, and will next adapt his own upcoming novel, Unholy Night.