A few months ago Paramount Pictures set a December 25th, 2013 release date for their new live action Ninja Turtles reboot. However that’s now been pushed back until at least May 16th, 2013, according to THR, in order to work out issues with the script. Only last week plans were moving ahead to shoot the film later this summer, so this is a bit of a last minute move.

The studio has laid off pre-production staff members, with the start of production postponed for at least 10 weeks. The screenplay by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum is said to be the primary reason for the production shut down. It isn’t known if Paramount is seeking new writers or if the guys responsible for the script will get a chance to iron out the problem.

Jonathan Liebesman is still attached to, with Michael Bay producing through his Platinum Dunes production company. This is the third major production that Paramount has delayed in the past few months. Last month G.I. Joe Retaliation was bumped nine months from June 29th, 2012 to March 29th, 2013 to be converted into 3D. World War Z has also been pushed from this December into the summer of 2013, to accommodate extensive reshoots.

Don’t be shocked if there are even more delays to Ninja Turtles, especially as initial reports said the movie had been put on indefinite hiatus rather than just being delayed by 10 weeks.

We may have already had the first trailers, but Django Unchained is still shooting, several months after production began. Late last year Jonah Hill signed onto a role in the film, but then backed out due to scheduling issues. However Deadline reports that Hill is back in the movie, although in a different role to the one he was initially going to play.

The actor had been in talks to play slave owner Scotty Harmony, who loses Django’s wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) to plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Now he’s back in another, smaller role, although it’s not known exactly what part he’ll play.

Jamie Foxx stars as Django, a freed slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to reunite with his wife. Quentin Tarantino is directing from his own original screenplay. It’s due in cinemas at Christmas.

Young actress Portia Doubleday, who’s appeared in the likes of Youth In Revolt and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son has signed on to star in the MGM Studios’ remake of Stephen King’s Carrie for director Kimberly Peirce, according to Deadline.

The actress will play bad girl Chris Hargensen, who torments the title character, played by Chloe Moretz. Carrie’s telekinetic abilities are harnessed after Hargensen pulls a cruel prom night prank. Hargensen was played by Nancy Allen in the original Carrie.

Last month Judy Greer entered talks to play gym teacher, Miss Desjardin, and the casting has now been confirmed. Julianne Moore, Ivana Baquero, Gabriella Wilde, and Alex Russell also star. Kimberly Peirce is directing from a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Shooting is epected to start soon, with a US release already set for March 15th, 2013.

While he may have been silent in The Artist – and won a Best Actor Oscar for it – Jean Dujardin is set to prove that he can talk, as Variety reports that he’s in talks to star in The Wolf of Wall Street for director Martin Scorsese.

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Jordan Belfort (the film is based on Belfort’s memoirs), who made millions as a fraudulent stockbroker. The story follows his meteoric rise and hard-partying lifestyle, before he was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 months in jail for securities fraud. Jean Dujardin will be a Swiss banker who laundered money for Belfort. Jonah Hill is also onboard as Belfort’s best friend, which Kyle Chandler is portraying the FBI agent who busts him.

Martin Scorsese is directing from a screenplay by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), adapted from Belfort’s autobiography. Filming will begin this August in New York City.

Ubisoft is in talks with Paramount to develop a big screen adaptation of the best selling video game series, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Paramount isn’t the first studio to eye the games for the big screen, as Warner Bros. briefly eyed the project, but lost interest.

The stealth action games follow covert operative Sam Fisher, who is part of a top-secret branch of the National Security Agency, called the Third Echelon. The series currently has six installments, with a seventh title in the works, called Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. It’s expected to debut in mid 2013.

Paramount is currently the front runner for the movie rights, according to Deadline, but a binding deal isn’t likely to be signed soon, due to the inherent complications that are involved with a project like this. Video game adaptations have not done very well in the past, and Ubisoft wants to keep a tight grip on how the film gets translated.

Novelist Clancy certainly has a bit of history at Paramount. The studio produced the Jack Ryan movies starring Alec Bladwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and are currently hoping to reboot the franchise with Chris Pine starring. They’re also working on adapting a Clancy novel called Without Remorse, which follows a mercenary named John Clark.