Sure Shots: Machine Gun Preacher; Werewolf; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D

* Gerard Butler has made an art of picking bad roles in questionable movies that would have you think the guy is a talentless oaf, but it's not true. He's actually quite good when pushed(he's not bad in The Game of Their Lives), but an Oscar winner? Eh. Relativity seems to think so, as they've set his long awaited biopic, Machine Gun Preacher, for release on September 23rd with plans to give it a big awards push. The film is based on the life of Sam Childers, the ex-Hell's Angel who devoted his life to God, and then set up a school in the Sudan, defending the students there from becoming child soldiers. Marc Forster(World War Z) directed. [Deadline]

* It was just last month we learned that Universal was going to act fast to wash the stink of last year's The Wolfman out of your nostrils by fast tracking another werewolf flick, to be more closely associated with the 1941 film. The movie is called simply Werewolf, and a script by Michael Tabb has already been completed, and now it may have a director. Louis Morneau, director of some truly heinous junk like Bats(only good for Dina Meyer!!) and Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, is said to be the guy.  Doesn't sound like they have a lot of faith in this, and I wouldnt' be totally surprised to see it go straight to DVD. We'll see how the casting turns out first. [Moviehole]

*To show easily I skip over any story with the words "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in them, I didn't even know that John Luessenhop(Takers) was going to be directing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D. I forgot it even existed since we learned that Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan were writing the script. Now it leaps back into my mental file in a big way, not because I'm excited to see the film at all, but because someone I genuinely like will be starring. Alexandra Daddario, who is probably best known as the daughter of Athena in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, has joined the cast. Here's hoping they doll her up in the same tight gear Jessica Biel was sporting in Marcus Nispel's crappy remake.