Lionsgate announced today that “Saw II” and “Saw III” director Darren Lynn Bousman will be back to direct “Saw IV”, which is due for release on October 26, 2007. Twisted Picture’s are Mark Burg and Oren Koulles will again produce, and executive producers Daniel Jason Heffner, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, and Stacey Testro are also returning. Executive producing for Lionsgate are Block and Constantine. The popular horror film franchise “Saw IV” is set to begin shooting April 16 for six weeks. If you are curious about it, check out the trailer.

Revolution Studios released a trailer for their undergoing movie “Next”, a science fiction/action thriller based on the Philip K Dick story, “The Golden Man”. According to the film’s official site, Gary Goldman adapted Dick’s story for the big screen. The movie gathers actors like Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel and Nicholas Cage. Paramount Pictures’ sci-fi thriller Next is directed by Lee Tamahori (who also directed Along Came a Spider, Die Another Day and xXx: State of the Union) where Nicolas Cage plays a man who can see into his own future. Pursued by the FBI, for his abilities in order to prevent a global terrorist threat, Nicolas finds himself in a situation where he has to choose between saving the world or the woman he loves. Until April 27, 2007 when the movie will be released, check out the trailer. Stay tuned for more informations.

The R&B Celebrity Alicia Keys is set to take to the big movie step with the release of the film Smokin’ Aces where she plays a lesbian hit woman. The upcoming film Smokin’ Aces follows a magician named Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel (Jeremy Piven), and protecting him from well known member of the mafia Primo Sparazza. In this story Alicia Keys plays a lesbian assassin woman Georgia Sykes with her partner Sharice Watters (Taraji Henson).
Smokin’ Aces cast include Adam Garcia, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Affleck and the movie can be seen in the United States on 26 January. In other Celebrity news Alicia Keys said she will never give up singing over acting.