I’ve been catching up on my RSS feeds today so here are a few bits of film news I thought people might be interested in.

Dan Akyroyd has confirmed a Ghostbusters 3. CGI apparently!

Rumour has it Harrison Ford may yet quit Indy 4.

Another rumour has JJ Abrams, director of Mission Impossible 3 and creator of Alias and Lost, quitting the 11th Star Trek movie but it’s not to be believed.

Russel Crowe is to star in a revisionist version of Robin Hood.

Disney have sold 1.3 million movie downloads on Apple‘s iTunes. If only Hollywood had been quicker to embrace the internet? Ah well, it’ll never catch on…

One more that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Harvey Dent (alias Two-Face) will be appearing in The Dark Knight (sequel to Batman Begins). Casting rumours are rife but Edward Norton seems to be the favorite. Meanwhile in Bat-land Katie Holmes will not be reprising her role as Rachel Dawes, but the character will be back. Who will replace her? Rumours, rumours, rumours.

Check this out for more Dark Knight information.

The Irish film Once has won the World Cinema Audience Award in the dramatic category at Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival. From director John Carney, who brought us Bachelor’s Walk, Once is a modern day musical about a busker, played by Glen Hansard, who falls in love with a Czech singer/songwriter, played by Marketa Irglova.

John Carney was once a member of The Frames – for whom Glen Hansard is the lead singer – but left to pursue a film-making career after shooting some music videos for the band. Glen and Marketa worked together previously on The Swell Season and some of the songs from that album feature in this film.

Following on from The Wind That Shakes The Barley taking the Palme D’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival, it is another encouraging sign for the Irish Film Industry.

Once was made for €100,000 over a period of two weeks and shot on Digital Video. It now looks set to be picked up by one of the major distributors in Hollywood.

For more information check out this review, this interview with John Carney, this live performance from Sundance and this report from Sundance.