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Death in Love is going to have many warm blooded women running to the movie theatres, as it's just been announced the film will feature a whole mess of Hollywood's young male heavy hitters. Best known for The O.C., but definitely memorable in Thank You For Smoking, Adam Brody will play a scam artist (according to the Hollywood Reporter) who trapezes into the life of Josh Lucas -- ahem, ladies?! -- in order to help instill meaning into his otherwise lackluster days. Lukas Haas -- who I've had a fondness for since before Mars Attacks! -- will be playing the brother of Lucas. The story revolves around the two brothers who are unhappy with their circumstances and somewhat lost in life. While one (Haas) works on his relationship with mom (Jacqueline Bisset ), the other (Lucas) befriends a scam artist (Brody). From there, we're not sure what happens -- as of now, that's all they're giving us.

Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans) wrote and will direct the film -- this coming from a guy who has quite the eclectic resume. I'm amazed sometimes at the vast differences between the stories he chooses to tell in his films (Uptown Girls versus From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money) and admit to watching -- gulp, and enjoying -- Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights while sick with the flu. The film is already set to shoot in New York and if I had my way, would be in theatres tomorrow.

Ok, you know those rumors about Arnold Schwarzenegger returning for the latest Conan the Barbarian sequel? And how it's going to be called King Conan: Crown of Iron, and might be directed by the Wachowski brothers? Well, the people at Warner Brothers are now talking on the record about the project, but the only mention of the above rumors in their release is a debunking of the Wachowski thing -- they're officially not involved (and neither, for that matter, is Robert Rodriguez, whose brief stint in the Conan-rumor spotlight we shamefully missed).

According to this morning's Variety, WB have hired long-time Conan fan Boaz Yakin (sure, he directed Remember the Titans, but he also wrote Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and that's what really matters) to write the screenplay for the apparently unnamed sequel, and the thought it is that he will direct, as well. The latest word on the movie is that it will actually mark a return to the way creator Robert E. Howard envisioned Conan in his 1930s stories, rather than a revival of the character Schwarzenegger made famous in the 1980s. Even though the plot is now apparently totally different than had been rumored, the release goal of late 2007 remains the same.

Since most of us know Conan entirely from the movies, it's be great to hear from any of you who are familiar with Howard's original character concept -- how different is he from Ahnold's musclebound beast?