Don’t expect Jeffrey Katzenberg to shut up about the 3D revolution anytime soon, as Monsters vs. Aliens captured the top box office spot with $58.2 million, the best opening of the year so far. Second place went to that true story The Haunting in Connecticut, which took in $23 million. Knowing, I Love You, Man and Duplicity rounded out the top five, which Watchmen finally scratched across the $100 million mark.

Prickly auteur David O. Russell apparently hasn’t alienated everyone in the movie biz. Per Variety, Russell is “attached to direct The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel for the Weinstein Co.” Based on the debut novel by Matthew Quick, the story “centers on a down-on-his-luck former high school teacher who has just been released from a mental institution and placed in the care of his mother.” No victims…er, cast members have been announced.

As we all suspected, Tony Scott is Unstoppable. Scott will direct the action movie of that title, which “follows a rail company that tries frantically to stop an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying enough combustible liquids and poisonous gas to wipe out a nearby city,” per The Hollywood Reporter.

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