• Michael Apted, who was recently hired to direct one of two upcoming Narnia films, has been elected to a third term as president of the Director’s Guild of America. If Apted should become unable to perform his duties, DGA VP Steven Soderbergh will have to step off the remake train and step up.
• Richard “Shaft” Roundtree will join Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch and Susan Sarandon (!) in the Wachowski Brothers’ Speed Racer adaptation.
• Via Brian Lowry’s review of License to Wed, we learn that Robin Williams is still annoying, Mandy Moore is still pretty enough to escape real criticism, and Variety readers still need to be reminded why John Krasinski looks so familiar: “Unleashing Robin Williams in the least flattering possible manner, License to Wed squanders the modest chemistry between its appealing central couple — Mandy Moore and The Office’s John Krasinski — uniting its elements in an astonishingly flat romantic comedy, filled with perplexing choices.”

More on these films on Spout:

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Speed Racer
License to Wed