Release dates dominate this morning’s batch of movie news, as Disney has slated Saving Mr. Banks for a December 20, 2013 release, while the Matt Damon starrer Elysium has landed an August 9, 2013 release, and the RoboCop remake has been pushed back to summer 2014. That and much more follows after the jump!

  • Disney has scheduled the making-of Mary Poppins film Saving Mr. Banks for a December 20, 2013 release date. Written by Kelly Marcel, who was just hired to write the Fifty Shades of Grey screenplay, the film stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, with Emma Thompson and Colin Farrell co-starring.
  • Sony Pictures has moved two of its prominent upcoming blockbusters according to Deadline, as the Neill Blomkamp sci-fi thriller Elysium has been moved to August 9, 2013 for a prime summer release. The RoboCop remake, meanwhile, as been pushed back to summer 2014 after the long-rumored production issues have seemingly been confirmed just weeks after filming on the project began.
  • Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis are attempting to bring the long talked about space feature Major Matt Mason to the big screen, reports The Wrap. Hanks said he has co-written the screenplay with Graham Yost (Speed), and he would star with Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) helming.
  • Jim Carrey appears to have lined up his next role, as Variety reports the comic is in talks to star in the bank heist comedy Loomis Fargo from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. The film is based on the true story of “four dim-witted Southerners who pulled off one of the biggest heists in American history, robbing $17 million from a Loomis Fargo armored truck.” Relativity Media is in talks to acquire the project.
  • Christoph Waltz is set to play former Russian premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, a Ronald Reagan film starring Michael Douglas, writes The Hollywood Reporter. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell is helming the project, which tells the story of “a meeting under the imposing threat of nuclear war between the two world leaders which, at the time, was seen as a last chance opportunity to avoid conflict.” The film is set for a spring 2013 start date on location in Reykjavik.

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