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Despite Halloween 2′s rather disappointing weekend at the box office (coming in third behind The Final Destination and Inglourious Basterds, which saw its second week of release), a sequel has already been greenlit. The Weinstein Company is moving along with a third Halloween film, which comes after Rob Zombie’s two films. The film will be in 3D and is promptly titled Halloween 3D. Bob Weinstein mentioned that Zombie won’t be returning for a third film, but is in talks with a new director. Refusing to do any namedropping, Weinstein also added that this will be another, “different take,” on the franchise and that the director is familiar with the horror genre.

Rob Zombie claims that he’s finished with the franchise. “No. I could not see that in any shape, way or form. Never!” But if I recall correctly, Zombie said something similar before Inside directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo dropped out of H2. Will he pick up the reigns a third time if negotiations fall through with other directors again? What are everyone’s thoughts on Halloween 2? Should they bother continuing the franchise or just stop before they make it even worse?

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Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.

Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.

A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set much of his work there, Hughes rose from ad writer to comedy writer to silver screen champ with his affectionate and idealized portraits of teens, whether the romantic and sexual insecurity of “Sixteen Candles,” or the J.D. Salinger-esque rebellion against conformity in “The Breakfast Club.”

Hughes’ ensemble comedies helped make stars out of Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and many other young performers. He also scripted the phenomenally popular “Home Alone,” which made little-known Macaulay Culkin a sensation as the 8-year-old accidentally abandoned by his vacationing family, and wrote or directed such hits as “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” and “Uncle Buck.”

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Smallville is jumping on the zombie bandwagon.

Yesterday, we told you about the upcoming Medium-Night of The Living Dead mash-up. Now comes word that Clark Kent will be dealing with the undead in a season nine episode of Smallville.

The ep, called “Rabid,” will see a virus infecting the city of Metropolis that turns people into zombies. Click through to find out which two Smallville regulars will get infected.

The series most appealing ladies (sorry Chloe!) Tess Mercer and Lois Lane will reportedly be infected by the zombie plague. Actor Cameron Bancroft (24) will play Dr. Coats, a virologists working to either strengthen or stop the plague – we’re really not sure yet.

After Marvel Zombies, the Zombieland hype and the upcoming Star Wars zombie novel, I might be sick of the walking dead once this ep makes it to air. I’ll still watch it, of course. I wouldn’t want to miss watching Clark possibly use his heat vision to decapitate a walking corpse.