Sorry, anybody hoping for a belated franchise revival, but Bill Murray is not doing Ghostbusters 3.  Not now and not ever.  There's no Ghostbusters 3 without him, so no Ghostbusters 3.  Let us instead put our attention squarely on what the planet's preeminent smartass is actually up to.  Specifically, take a look at seven new officials from Hyde Park on the Hudson, in which he stars as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of these United States.

We're now in 2012, and the last several weeks have, as always, included a plethora of movie-related lists summing up the year.  There are, of course, many a critical list, such as IAR's Top Ten of 2011, and there is also the year-end roundup of the top-ten movies at the domestic box office.  But what of the online black market?  Aren't we curious to see which films amassed the most illegal downloads over the course of the year we just left behind?  This is not be misconstrued as an endorsement of illegal movie torrenting, as it is instead a point of curiosity, a brief look at the most popular titles in this  ubiquitous practice.

Before he popped adamantium claws from his fists as the mysterious Logan in Bryan Singer's 2000 X-Men, Australian actor Hugh Jackman was more or less completely unknown to American audiences.  Based on his wildly charismatic performance as Marvel's single most popular mutant, however, Jackman became a star almost immediately.  While he's gone to roles in diverse films such as The Prestige, Van Helsing, and The Fountain, Jackman is still most associated with his signature role as the mutton-chopped shitkicker.

Though it was mauled by critics, the spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine was commercially successful, leaving 20th Century Fox eager to get Jackman back in his signature tank-top for another round.  Getting The Wolverine off the ground has not been easy, but there is now a new director in the form of James Mangold, with whom Jackman worked on Kate & Leopold before the director went on to helm Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, and Knight and Day.  While promoting his new robo-boxing crowd-pleaser Real Steel, Jackman promised that The Wolverine is on the way, and also discussed the film's long development, including the recent hiring of Mark Bomback to provide rewrites.

If current estimates prove accurate, then Hop, the family film starring Russell Brand as the voice of the Easter Bunny, has earned not only the number one spot at the box office, but also the title of the biggest debut in 2011 so far.  Hop's projected haul of $38.1 million since Friday is about a million dollars above than previous 2011 title-holder Rango, which fell to eighth place in its fifth week of release, but is still the highest grossing film of 2011 so far with $113.8 million.

Bill Murray doesn't play by your feeble rules, and if he decides to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then he will play FDR and you will like it.  Vulture (via Collider) reports that Murray has signed on to play the 32nd President of the United States in Hyde Park on the Hudson, a live action adaptation of the British radio play. 

How do you follow up winning a Best Director and Best Picture Oscar for a classy period drama?  For The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, the answer is likely to be an adaptation of a venerated Broadway musical.  Variety first dropped the news that Hooper's next project will most likely be Les Miserables, the Tony award winning play based on the novel by Victor Hugo.

Are you familiar with the expression, "Picking fly shit out of pepper?"  If not, then the MPAA and the Weinstein Company have provided a perfect example with their PG-13 version of Best Picture winner The King's Speech.  In order to obtain a potentially more profitable, family friendly rating for the film, which has earned $359 million worldwide, the Weinsteins have altered the original R rated theatrical cut, eliminating the use of the word "fuck" in a crucial scene of speech therapy between Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush's characters.  A source tells Deadline that the new cut is exactly the same, except that the word "shit" is swapped for the expletive denoting copulation.  An April 1st release date has just been announced for the new cut of The King's Speech.

Are you Bradley Cooper?  If so, then congratulations, your first time out as a full-on leading man, you exceeded all expectations with an unqualified success.  Relativity Media's Limitless, starring Cooper and Robert DeNiro, surpassed projections, earning an estimated $19 million dollars over the weekend and claiming the number one spot.  Of the other new releases, The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughy, brought in $13.4 million for fourth place, while Paul, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and the voice of Seth Rogan, nipped at its heels with an estimated $13.2 million.  There's more to this weekend's story, however, and particularly where The Lincoln Lawyer is concerned.

The lesson of this weekend: don't bet against apocalyptic alien invasion movies where lots of recognizable landmarks are vaporized.  Battle: Los Angeles opened on par with expectations, earning an estimated $36 million for the number one spot.  The weekend's other alien-centric new release, the animated adventure Mars Needs Moms did not fare quite so well, with a feeble $6.8 million estimated debut in fifth place.  The only new release without any extraterrestrials, Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, opened in third place, with an estimated $14.1 million. 

Hollywood loves to adapt existing properties with which audiences are already familiar.  In theory, it's far easier to sell Batman Begins than Inception, since pretty much everyone knows who Batman is, whereas building interest in an original project takes laying a whole lot of conceptual groundwork.  Increasingly, the adult film industry is taking a similar approach, fetishizing current popular films, like The King's Speech, and nostalgic pop-cultural standbys, like Ghostbusters, Superman,  and Batman.  Now, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man will get his own adult-oriented romp with Spider-Man XXX.  Geekscape has posted an entirely safe-for-work first look at the characters of the latest super-powered porn parody, and you can peep some pictures right here.