Jason Bourne(Matt Damon) in the BOURNE ULTIMATUM(2007).
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BOURNE 4 Plans, Mummy Spin-offs & More!

With the WGA strike finally over, studios have been a bit more talkative about their future plans and in some cases, making extensive changes to their 2009 line up. In a latest feature piece over at Variety, the trade broke down plans for Universal Pictures and some possible issues for them now that director Guillermo del Toro may have two Hobbit productions to contend with for New Line & MGM.

The studio gave him a first-look deal, picked up a sequel to "Hellboy" with a budget of more than $80 million, and even bought the rights to his dream project, the H.P. Lovecraft epic, "At the Mountains of Madness." But U brass was stunned to suddenly see Del Toro emerge as the likely director of the next two "Hobbit" movies for New Line and MGM. That would lock him down for four straight years in New Zealand.

Langley acknowledges, "We're in discussions with how to rectify that with Guillermo."

There was also yet more hints that a Bourne 4 film was hitting theaters sometime in the near future and more points about Universal's Mummy franchise splitting it off into a new spin-off franchise. You can check out the full article by clicking here.