Daily news dose: 'Transformers 2' opens early; Goode joins Adams in comedy

Here's your dose of film news for Feb. 16:

• Paramount Pictures has decided to move up Michael Bay's upcoming sequel "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to June 24, 2008 (Wednesday). Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Rainn Wilson, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro star.

• Matthew Goode is set to star alongside Amy Adams in Anand Tucker's upcoming romantic comedy "Leap Year," about a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29. Goode will play an Irish innkeeper who joins her when bad weather threatens to ruin her plan. (Variety)

• Curtis Hanson is in talks to direct "Gemini Man," an action flick written by David Benioff. In the film, according to Variety, "an NSA agent tries to retire and is targeted for death. He discovers that his assassin is a younger cloned version of himself." Hanson also directed "In Her Shoes."

• David Ayer is set to write "Deep Sea Cowboys," a thriller based on an article in Wired magazine. Variety says the story "chronicles a salvage crew that tries to save a capsized Japanese cargo ship transporting cars into the U.S." Ayer also wrote "Training Day."