"Superman"
Superman-V reports that Mark Mansbridge (Art Director) and Duncan
Henderson (Producer) have left the project and Owen Paterson (Production Designer) may have as well. Kym Barrett is still attached as costume designer and McG still director. The departures are due to the project being shut down as it undergoes MAJOR script re-writes. The record highs of the Aussie dollar against the US is also making Warners heavily question the value of shooting in Australia.
"Frank Miller's 300"
A script review is up at IGN FilmForce which describes it thus - "300 is a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. where Leonidas, King of Sparta, and his 300 warriors confronted the overwhelming forces of Persian ruler Xerxes....What made Gordon's draft of 300 a better account of the Battle of Thermopylae than David Self's adaptation of Gates of Fire was that it succeeded in developing its characters...300 was a grand tale of heroism and valor during wartime. Its timely (and clearly allegorical) overtones gave it an additional resonance but even if one didn't pick up on them, 300 still packed an emotional punch. This glorious war epic deserves to be realized onscreen but the question remains whether it can now escape the gates of fire, er, development hell".