A bunch of directing news, a couple of first looks and a couple of movies getting turned into TV shows are included in this week’s News Shotgun.

Three new movies this weekend to close out September, including the awesome looking Looper.

Jason Bateman must track down Melissa McCarthy after she steals his identity and goes on a shopping spree in the upcoming comedy from Seth Gordon, Identity Thief.

Colin Firth recruits wacky cowgirl Cameron Diaz to help him pull an art con on his abusive boss, Alan Rickman, in the upcoming, Coen Brother written, comedy, Gambit.

Bruce Davison usually shows up in TV and movies as a high ranking general or senator, like Senator Kelly from the X-Men movies. He’s also, coincidentally, in three different shows with hospital in the title.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe discuss the bad assery of Dredd, the easily defeated supercomputer of Echelon Conspiracy, the Emmys, write the Fast & Furious/Spy Hunter crossover, the ambitiousness of The Dark Knight Returns animated movie and much more.

Although reluctant at first, Bruce Banner eventually joins The Avengers and has the unique role of being both their brains and their brawn when “the other guy” gets unleashed.

There’s tons of stuff coming out this week including every Bond movie on Blu Ray, part 1 of The Dark Knight Returns and our Pick of the Week, The Avengers.

After a close battle, End of Watch managed to top House at the End of the Street but the box office is still super slow.

Karl Urban puts on the iconic helmet of Judge Dredd for the latest attempt to adapt the classic comic series and the result is a bad ass, bloody action movie that perfectly captures the tone of the character and the comics.