MGM has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its ROBOCOP franchise. Aronofsky, the director of THE FOUNTAIN, and Self, the writer of ROAD TO PERDITION, will get ROBOCOP into theaters in 2010.
Phoenix Pictures’ Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and David Thwaites will produce ROBOCOP. Cale Boyter, Exec VP Production at MGM will oversee the project for the studio.
Aronofsky’s credits include PI, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and THE FOUNTAIN. He is completing the feature, THE WRESTLER with Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Self’s credits include 13 DAYS and GOD OF WAR for Universal, to which Brett Ratner is attached to direct, and was a writer on Universal’s WOLFMAN currently in production.
The new iPhone 2.1 Beta Firmware that was released to some iPhone developers yesterday has been found to have hints at an upcoming Copy and Paste feature. According to MacNN
One notes that in exploring the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj in the current iPhone WebKit framework, there are entries for several commands the firmware does not currently support, including cutting, copying and pasting.
Apple’s Greg Joswiak recently said that a copy/paste feature has simply not been high enough on the priority list so far, but suggested that there it could be coming in the future. Previously one engineer had revealed that Apple had been working on iPhone copy/paste but that the exact implementation had not been decided.