Leave it up to those Weinsteins to find a slick way to kick-start a new revenue stream. Folks in the U.S. (and other English-speaking countries) need not worry: The Tarantino / Rodriguez collaboration Grindhouse will definitely still be playing as one feature film. (Fans who just got visions of "The Kill Bill Split" can put their swords down now.) Those who live in nations unfamiliar with "grindhouse" movie theaters, however, will be receiving Planet Terror and Death Proof as two separate movies. Oh, and there might be "additional footage" spliced into the overseas versions, material we Region Oners probably won't get to see until DVD time.

Variety reports that many markets will simply take Planet and Proof as regular ol' Weinstein exports, not unlike, say, Scream 3 or Cursed. But since the grindhouse gimmickry will be lost on anyone unfamiliar with the distinctly American sub-genre, it gives Harvey and Bob a good chance to make a few extra nickels on foreign shores. And hey, both movies are being advertised as "feature length" so it's not like anyone's being cheated. As far as I'm concerned, together/separate doesn't matter. I just wanna see the damn movie(s) already. (Oh, and those fake trailers, too. Don't forget those.)

I've never been much of a Guy Ritchie fan. When people lament the poisonous affect wife Madonna has supposedly had on his career, I tell them to go back and watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and dare them not to cringe. After all – if there's anything worse than a Tarantino impression, it's a Tarantino impression done in a British accent. Still, the blokes got his share of fans, and surely at least one or two of them will be happy to hear the following rumor: the tabloids are buzzing that Guy, despondant over the alleged affect that Maddie has had on his film career, wants to break up. According to Perez Hilton, the split is likely to be announced by summer, but those dying for a glimpse into exactly what Ritchie's blaming the missus for would be advised to seek out Ritchie's latest, Revolver. The allegedly awful, Kabbalah-infused (and thus, evidently Madonna-influenced) caper flick, which bombed with European critics but scraped together so-so UK returns, opens in the US later this month.

In a new interview with IGN Film Force, Robert Rodriguez talks about a lot of things – his post-Sin City preference for green screen over real sets; the "double feature" he's making with Quentin Tarantino called Grind House; the possibility that he'll direct an episode of The George Lopez Show. But his most out-of-left-field intimation? That the "franchise" begun with his first film, El Mariachi, and extended with the Johnny Depp starrer Once Upon a Time in Mexico, may continue not with another film, but as a video game. "I thought about doing a PSP game that would follow [Johnny Depp's character]," Rodriguez says. "That would be cool, a Once Upon a Time in Mexico video game for the PSP - The Man With No Eyes. He would be a blind gunfighter." Is this the first time a feature shot for less than $10,000 could find new life over ten years later as a video game? If you can come up with another example, I'd like to hear it. [via GreenCine Daily]