Claiming he’s been influenced by the music industry tactics of people like Radiohead and Neil Young, filmmaker Michael Moore will put his newest film, “Slacker Uprising” online for free. The doc follows the director’s 62-city tour during the 2004 election that tried to rally younger voters out of their political apathy and general laziness. The film will be available for free beginning September 23. To be fair Michael, Radiohead did give you the option to pay nothing, but also charged like $80 for the deluxe version (and In Rainbows was barely worth $8 bucks!) and all Neil did was stream the unlistenable Living With War before its proper release, but ok, fine. “I thought it’d be a nice way to celebrate my 20th year of doing this,” Moore said. “And also help get out the vote for November. I’ve been thinking about what I want to do to help with the election this year.” [AP]
Husband and wife acting duo Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly will star in a film based on the life of “On The Origin Of The Species” author Charles Darwin. Bettany will play Charles D and Connelly will play his wife (how convenient! She was also his cousin, eww). [THR]
Mark Millar wants to do three Superman films now that Bryan Singer is seemingly out of the frame. Even Collider, normally sympathetic to geek hero causes says “give us a reason to care.” We couldn’t agree more. [Collider]
Nic Cage says the setting for a sequel to “Ghost Rider,” if it ever happens, could be Europe. We don’t recall the Rider burning up the pavement in Champs-Élysées or Las Ramblas for that matter, but maybe Cage and the filmmakers are trying to get the overseas funding. [SplashPage]