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Warner Bros will re-release all eight Harry Potter movies on limited theatrical runs once they have been converted to 3D.

The studio’s domestic distribution president Dan Fellman confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that J.K. Rowling’s fantasy saga will be heading back to cinemas after the release of next July’s closing chapter, Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

“I don’t think a wide theatrical re-release could sustain the costs of a modern marketing campaign,” Fellman said of plans for the relaunch.

Earlier this year Potter producer David Heyman admitted that it was “just a matter of time” before the films get re-purposed for the 3D format.

Warners last month announced that the Potter franchise, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, was being targeted for release on 3D Blu-ray.

The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 currently sits at the top of the US box office after a $125 million opening weekend. Worldwide the series has pulled in $205 million on its first five days on release.

Joss Whedon has declared that he would love Angelina Jolie to play Wonder Woman.

Whedon, who will begin shooting The Avengers in early 2011, spoke to Entertainment Weekly about who he would like to see as the famous superheroine.

“For me, Wonder Woman was basically Angelina Jolie,” Whedon said. “She spends a lot of time flying around. She works in a lot of different countries. She’s very global. And she’s appalled by the way people treat each other.”

Whedon also revealed that he wrote a Wonder Woman script five years ago that was never produced, and that he modelled the character on Jolie, claiming that she was what he imagined a real Amazonian goddess would be like.

The Avengers is scheduled to be released on May 4, 2012.

The seventh Harry Potter film has topped the US box office charts and has claimed the most successful opening weekend of the film franchise so far.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 took $125.1 million this weekend, ahead of the previous series record of $106.2 million taken by Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire in 2005.

The film’s success also gives it sixth place on the all-time opening weekend list, behind the likes of The Dark Knight, Twilight: New Moon and Iron Man 2. Megamind falls to second place, followed by the new Tony Scott film Unstoppable.

Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis’s road trip comedy Due Date moves down to fourth place. Rounding out the top five is Russell Crowe’s latest release The Next Three Days, which has received mixed reviews from critics.

The US box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – $125,100,000
2. (1) Megamind – $16,175,000
3. (2) Unstoppable – $13,100,000
4. (3) Due Date – $9,150,000
5. (-) The Next Three Days – $6,750,000
6. (5) Morning Glory – $5,430,000
7. (4) Skyline – $3,430,000
8. (7) Red – $2,467,000
9. (6) For Colored Girls – $2,400,000
10. (-) Fair Game – $1,470,000

Darren Aronofsky and has signed a two-year contract to make movies at 20th Century Fox with his Protozoa Pictures production company.

The acclaimed filmmaker, whose upcoming ballet thriller Black Swan releases next month, will first direct Marvel Comics blockbuster The Wolverine under the agreement.

The superhero project, which reunites Aronofsky with his Fountain star Hugh Jackman, will begin production next April.

Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Black Swan were both released through Fox’s indie label Fox Searchlight.

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Disney Studios have reportedly picked up two new additions to their film development lineup.

According to Indiewire, the company have acquired the rights to Matthew Reilly’s science fiction serial Hover Car Racer.

The story was originally printed as a serial publication online before being published as a single volume, and is about a fictional sport which relies on the Earth’s magnetic field to propel incredibly fast hover cars.

The studio plans to create a 3D project from the property and to retitle it simply as Hovercar.

Disney have also acquired a script called Tiki, which will be set in Hawaii and take inspiration from the state’s unique collection of legends and mythology.

No timescale for the release of either project has been announced.

Claire Danes has signed on for a role in a new TV pilot from US network Showtime.

Yahoo News confirms that Dane will play the lead in Homeland, over 15 years since her last regular television role in My So-Called Life.

Earlier this week, it was reported that the actress was still in negotiations for the role of Carrie Anderson, a CIA officer who investigates a conspiracy involving a soldier who returns from captivity in Iraq.

Danes won an Emmy Award this year for her role in the HBO feature Temple Grandin.

No other casting details for Homeland have been revealed.

Malin Akerman has replaced Lindsay Lohan in porn biopic Inferno, reports Deadline.

The Watchmen actress will take on the role of Linda Lovelace after Lohan’s ongoing treatment at the Betty Ford Centre forced her to leave the project.

Writer-director Matthew Wilder earlier told E! of Lohan’s departure: “We have stuck by Lindsay very patiently for a long time with a lot of love and support. Ultimately, the impossibility of insuring her – and some other issues – have made it impossible for us to go forward.”

Inferno will be based on the novel Ordeal: An Autobiography by Lovelace and Mike McGrady

Lovelace shot to fame after starring in the porn film Deep Throat, which broke through into the mainstream and became a box office hit in 1972. She later campaigned against the industry and died from injuries sustained in a car crash in 2002.

Akerman’s credits also include Couples Retreat, 27 Dresses and The Heartbreak Kid.

Dolph Lundgren has seemingly confirmed rumours that he is to star in a sequel to the 2008 box office bomb In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.

According to Screen Junkies, Lundgren claims that he has been cast in the sequel as a war veteran who is pulled into a power struggle and seeks redemption.

“It’s a role I just wanted to play,” Lundgren explained. “It’s fun to exercise my acting chops once in a while.”

Work on a sequel to the film was confirmed earlier this month after a teaser image was unveiled at the American Film Market.

The original film was inspired by the Dungeon Siege video game series and starred English actor Jason Statham.

Directed by controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll, In The Name Of The King received overwhelmingly negative reviews upon its release and was listed in Time magazine’s top ten worst video game films.