Movie News Quick Hits: A Big-Screen 'Sopranos' Reunion; Netflix Battles HBO

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  • 	Since today is all about the Oscars, here are the [first promo pics](http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/01/24/james-franco-anne-hathway-oscar-promo-pics/) of dual hosts **Anne Hathaway** and **James Franco**.
    
  • 	**James Gandolfini** and 'The Sopranos' creator **David Chase** will be r[e-teaming](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030784) on the latter's feature film debut, a 1960s- coming-of-age story called **'The Twylight Zones'** that was first announced back in 2008.
    
  • 	**Paddy Considine** will follow-up his recently premiered 'Tyrannosaur' with **'The Leaning,'** a ghost story [he'll write and direct](http://www.totalfilm.com/news/paddy-considine-talks-exclusively-to-tf-about-his-new-film) that tells the story of a woman whose adult life is adversely affected by an unidentified childhood trauma.
    
  • 	**Jane Curtin** and **Greg Kinnear** have joined **Pierce Brosnan** and **Sarah Jessica Parker** in **'I Don't Know How She Does It,'**](http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73436) an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name about a working class mother's hectic life.
    
  • 	Offered as proof that **Netflix** intends to be an aggressive and integral player in the home video market, the company has announced it plans to [go head-to-head with **HBO**](http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/netflix-aims-to-outbid-hbo-for-warner-bros-films/) for bidding rights to **Warner Bros.** films once the network's contract with the studio ends in 2014.
    

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