I know this is absolutely no news to you, but I like to repeat it every now and then: there is absolutely no hope left for Hollywood. The sloppy sequels and remakes are winning, and it gets worse every day.

As you may have heard, Sylvain White's "Stomp the Yard" is getting a sequel too, and the film now officially has a director: Rob Hardy, who helmed 2005's "The Gospel" and produced the first "Yard."

The follow-up to the mediocre drama is titled "Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming," and as The Hollywood Reporter points out, Columbus Short ("Armored") may return as a talented street dancer.

No need to explain what happened in the first film, because you can guess it already from these few words: street dancer, college, and zzzzzzzzz.... The first film bagged more then $74 million, by the way.

Here's your dose of film news for March 13, 2009:

• Dennis Iliadis, director of "The Last House on the Left," is set to helm "Cure," a thriller centering on a woman who undergoes a special treatment that cures her terminal illness but infects her with something horrific. Beau Michael Thorne wrote the script. (Variety)

• Joe Stillman is set to write "Alien Zoo," a family comedy Variety describes as a "Jurassic Park" with aliens. The film will mix live-action and CGI. Stillman's writing credits include "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," the first two "Shrek" flicks and the upcoming animated film "Planet 51."

• Blackfilm.com reports Columbus Short will join the cast of Sylvain White's big-screen adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book “The Losers." The story follows a team of black ops commandos trying to survive are after learning their own government has planned to kill them.

• Rhys Ifans, Brie Larson and Juno Temple have boarded Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg." Ben Stiller is also on board. Stiller plays a man who moves to Los Angeles, where he ends up having a relationship with his brother's assistant (Greta Gerwig). (Variety)

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