It's Saturday again, and here's a brief entry with short descriptions and links to film news we either missed or quite honestly didn't have time to add. Here's what you need to know on October 10, 2009:

• Filmmaker Lars von Trier will next write and direct a disaster film titled "Planet Melancholia." Plot details are kept under wraps, but I'm sure we're in for a visually stunning film. Trier last helmed "Antichrist." "Planet Melancholia" should be ready by the time Cannes rolls around in 2011. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Roland Emmerich recently talked to Coming Soon about some upcoming projects, and he said he will do a film about "how it came to be that William Shakespeare was not the author of his plays." He's also planning a movie titled "Foundation," based on Isaac Asimov's series. More here.

• MGM decied to push back Joss Whedon's horror flick "The Cabin in the Woods" to Jan. 14, 2011. The film was set to open Feb. 5, 2010. The reason: the filmmakers will spend six months converting the film to the 3D format. Right now, it's the only film scheduled for the January date. (via ShockTillYouDrop)

• Sam Raimi recently spoke to MTV, saying that as long as everything goes according to plan, "Spider-Man 4" will start shooting in March 2010. "I've got a production designer who is starting to design the sets and the environments that the picture will take place in," Raimi told MTV.

• Parker Posey has joined Andrew Meieran's "Highland Park," about a teacher who wins the lottery and uses the money to help a struggling community. Danny Glover co-stars, and the film is shooting. Christopher Keyser co-wrote the script with Meieran. (THR)

• Melissa Leo, AnnaSophia Robb, Brad William Henke and Anthony Keyvan have joined the cast of Travis Fine's "The Space Between," an indie drama about a flight attendant grounded in Texas with an Arab-American boy on Sept. 11, 2001. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Andrew Douglas will direct "The Perfect Assassin" from a script by Paul Webb based on Tariq Goddard's novel "Homage to a Firing Squad." The film is set in Spain's 1936-39 civil war and focuses on two squads trying to kill a politician. (Variety)