Photo: Getty Images Her-cuh-lees! Her-cuh-lees! Her-cuh-lees!: As though someone other than Will Smith can take credit for a Fourth of July blockbuster, Hancock's Peter Berg is parlaying his buzz into a deal with Universal to produce and direct a take on Hercules — fully and obtusely titled Hercules: The Thracian Wars. The script will be based on Steve Moore's five-issue comic from Radical Publishing and promises to prominently feature two opposing armies rushing at each other in the trailer. [Variety] Three Head to the City: Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, and Alan Arkin have joined Andy Garcia in City Island, the story of a Bronx prison official who realizes that an inmate is his secret love child. "His efforts to become his guardian lead to comic complications." What, the logline already belittles the concept? Our work...
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