News is starting to slow down in anticipation of the holiday season and we here at The Bad And Ugly have been slamming egg nogs, like, 6 nights in a row. What’s more fun than egg nog, you ask? Actual film news.

James Cameron has cycled back around to the Forbidden Planet remake. He was originally attached to the film post-Titanic, but has been toiling away for years on the 3D Avatar, which is supposed to blow our tiny little minds when it hits about this time next year. [IESB]

We might have already relegated The Spirit to bad buzz land, but that’s not stopping the Frank Miller, director hype. Now it looks like the comic-book writer/artist has turned full-on into a writer/director. We just wish we would get something more Miller than Buck Rogers. Not that Buck Rogers isn’t awesome, but it’s not right up Miller’s alley…yet. Look for a story shift that will make Rogers more Miller. Though that’s not a good idea. [CS]

The teaser trailer for Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian is being hosted exclusively at HappyMeal.com. Which should give you an idea of what audience Ben Stiller’s flick is shooting for. Abe Lincoln calling out Stiller for secretly liking Amy Adams’ Amelia Earhart was a particularly forehead-slapping moment [happymeal.com]

Paramount plans to resurrect the Jack Ryan franchise with - gasp! - an origin story! Last time Ryan appeared on-screen, he was Ben Affleck in 2002’s Sum Of All Fears, which was also a re-boot with a younger Jack Ryan. This new movie, though, will NOT be adapted from Tom Clancy’s work, where as Sum Of All Fears was loosly the same. [THR]

And it’s not news, but we thought we’d leave you with this quote from AICN’s Dustin Hoffman interview, since Dustin Hoffman is wise:

But certainly I know what doesn’t exist now in the culture which did exist then - and it’s not just my profession, it’s everything. It’s that the money did not dominate. It was not the definition as it is now. To do good work: that was the emphasis. We didn’t have the top five movies and what they grossed. The public didn’t know, or, when they did, they didn’t care. The studios weren’t trying to make home runs every time because they didn’t have to. They were willing to get their money back or maybe make a few dollars, but they mostly just wanted to make that movie.