In brief: Vin Diesel wants return of Riddick

Flogging dead franchises seems to be the order of the day in Hollywood right now, with Sylvester Stallone set to return as Rambo in the forthcoming John Rambo, not to mention a planned series of Death Wish films. Now Vin Diesel is reportedly keen to reprise his role as the the fancy contact lens-wearing Riddick from sci-fi movies Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. "We're talking about it," David Twohy, who directed both films, told Entertainment Weekly. "The DVD numbers [for Chronicles] were really good - we know that, and some potential financiers know that. But if another movie surfaces, it probably won't be a Universal movie and probably will be an independent movie." That could be good news, as Pitch Black, made for just $22m, was widely held to be far superior to its sequel, the much-maligned, big budget Chronicles.

Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan and Bill Nighy will voice tiny animals charged with keeping an evil billionaire from taking over the world in the utterly ridiculous sounding G-force. The Disney CGI-live action hybrid centres on the travails of Speckles the mole (Cage), Bucky the hamster (Buscemi) and Blaster the guinea pig (Morgan). Nighy is taking the role of an industrialist.

Sopranos creator David Chase has poured cold water on suggestions that a movie version of the gangster TV series is being planned. However, he refused to rule out a big screen outing for the New Jersey mobsters at some point in the future. Chase told GQ magazine: "There is no thought about making a movie now and I would say chances are we probably will not do it. But, at the same time, I'm a writer, and this is how my mind works: I could wake up some morning or (Sopranos star) James Gandolfini could wake up some morning and say, How 'bout it?'"