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Things to know about at this week: the first Clash of the Titans teaser, Steve Guttenberg still hanging onto his 80's glory, toy movies are still wanted, and the fantastic piece of news that is the death of the Oldboy remake. What's that? That's right. Read along.

THE GOOD

• A very good poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was posted on the Mad Hatter's official Facebook page. Two more are coming, presumably on the Red Queen and White Queen pages.

• A selection of props from Duncan Jones' Moon are up for auction on eBay, including GERTY himself! It's the actual full-size thing, measuring 83” x 33” x 27.5" and even signed by the director himself. As of writing it's still bidding at £1,000, so totally affordable if you're a collector.

• After being impressed by the new trailer for The Wolfman that was released a couple of weeks back, now I'm even more impressed by the posters. A little generic for horror posters, maybe, but a great use of the Wolfman's absence in the second one.

• Ring the victory bells. LatinoReview reports that both Steven Spielberg and Will Smith have pulled out of the long-in-development American version of Oldboy (which was supposedly not a direct remake since it was adapting the original Japanese comic instead of the Korean movie), so it looks like this project is dead once again.

• I'm still not sure what to make of the Clash of the Titans remake—gut instinct says ugh—but I generally like Louis Leterrier's action direction and this teaser actually looks pretty nice, even if it is rocking the crappy 300 vibe a little too hard.

THE BAD

• WENN spoke with none other than Steve Guttenberg, who reveals that he's reuniting with Tom Selleck and Ted Danson to do another Three Men movie. The baby has now grown into a woman and getting married, so the movie is called—yep—Three Men and a Bride. Guttenberg also says that it might be time for another Police Academy movie. This man is clearly a screen terrorist.

• Owen Wilson has signed on to be the voice of Marmaduke. So I guess this movie is really happening. Based on the comic strip, the movie was Fox's response to Alvin and the Chipmunks, and to really hammer it in, they've got an insane collection of voices for the CGI dogs. We know they have Emma Stone, George Lopez, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Fergie, Steve Coogan, Damon Wayans and Marlon Wayans to voice; and IMDB still lists Amanda Seyfried, Ron Perlman and Jeremy Piven. We know the live-action cast is made up of Lee Pace, Judy Greer and William H. Macy. We also know the plot, which involves Marmaduke breaking up a turf war between two rival gang of dogs. The only thing we don't know is how to stop this.

• Oh, Paranormal Activity is doing well? Here comes the Ouija board movie from LOST and Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. They're turning the "board game" into a supernatural action-adventure.

I'm a little confused by this. Ouija boards are common props in horror movies, are they not? So really, you can make any movie with any plot or any characters and just have an Ouija board as the catalyst? Lots of movies do this. So how are they going to set this one apart? Maybe if they make the movie about a kid named Ouija who has a triangle birthmark that keeps pointing to spirits. Wait, that's dumb. But so is this movie.

• This promo art ComingSoon.net snapped up is bad, but not as bad as the tagline "Survival is no game." Hahaha! I get it! Because it's based on a video game! Ho ho! No, screw you. I hope that's not really going to be the tagline they use when it comes time to market this thing.

• Transformers is all the rage these days. How do you combat a giant robot franchise? How about astronauts from a microscopic universe, or whatever the hell Micronauts are, which according to the Wall Street Journal, J.J. Abrams is in discussion to produce. In any case, it's another Hasbro toy flick. Yawn.

THE WTF

• A subway station in Rio de Jenairo by the ad company Espaço/Z is doing this crazy campaign that simulates a flood inside a tunnel. Because when you're enclosed underground, what's really awesome is having a movie ad threatening to kill you.

• Robert Pattinson wants Gus Van Sant to direct Breaking Dawn, the fourth film in the Twilight series. That's a great choice for a dream director, Pats, but the chances of Van Sant doing a Twilight movie is... Well, let me put it this way. Catherine Hardwicke, Chris Weitz, David Slade, Gus Van Sant. One of these is not like the others.

• Speaking of which, you may or may not have heard that Independence Day 2 is being made, but what made director Roland Emmerich wait so long before starting it up again? Is it really a good idea to do it now that you've done 2012? According to  an interview with Emmerich on CinemaBlend, the reason for the wait was President Bush:

"In Independence Day, it was about a king who leads his country into a fight against an outside invader. I didn't want to make that movie during the Bush years. It was not thought that George W. Bush would have made a great king. Now with Obama, it's another story."

Politics: getting in the way of cheeseball crap since 2000.

• Five USA is a relatively new television channel in the UK that focuses on broadcasting only American movies and shows. For this season's line-up of action movies, they've created this promo jingle called "Hard Men." It's kind of mindblowingly awesome.

• Governor-Elect Chris Christie may have won the election and will become the new Republican Governor of New Jersey beginning 2010, but he might not be in the clear just yet. During his campaign, Christie used footage from Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch featuring Michael Palin in an attack ad without permission. The Pythons are considering to sue Christie for copyright infringement, especially since they probably don't agree with his politics—as Michael Palin joked about when he said Christie wanted a different Palin and Terry Jones did when he used it to make a quip about Alberto Gonzales. The video was taken down from Christie's official YouTube page, but you can still watch it over at HuffPost.