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Atticus Ross has created the score The Book of Eli. Ross worked with Nine Inch Nails on four albums and also founded the band 12 Rounds. "He's done an absolutely fabulous job!" raved Book of Eli producer David Valdes.

Bear witness to the newly released trailer for The Book of Eli:

This exclusive Book of Eli illustrated poster was made by comic book artist Tommy Lee Edwards and will only be given away at the Warner Bros. panel taking place Friday, July 24 at 10:00 AM at the San Diego Comic Convention. The teaser trailer for the film will be shown there and the Hughes brothers will be in attendance to answer questions from the fans.

USA Today has a photo article featuring five new photos from the film including everyone's first look at Gary Oldman's character, Carnegie. In addition to the photos there are also quotes from Denzel Washington and Oldman about their experiences so far making the film. Washington shed his extra 60 pounds of weight that he packed on to play his transit supervisor character in the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 so he could play the thin and ropy Eli. We also learn that it was Washington's son that convinced him to take the part.

"I live in Carrizozo NM where they are filming some of the movie. I have pictures of the set. They have turned 12th street into a movie set. It really feels like you are in the future."

And that's what a scooper told us nearly two weeks ago. Shortly after receiving their email we replied back and asked if we could see their photos of the set of The Book of Eli. Unfortunately, they never replied back but at least we know the location where the production is filming at.

According to The Playlist, Tom Waits has a small role in the film as a character dubbed "The Engineer".

Entertainment Weekly has brought to us the very first photo from The Book of Eli. Naturally, it features the film's leading man, Denzel Washington and answers that vexing question: So, what kind of shades they are they wearing after the apocalypse?

Michael Gambon has now joined the cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gambon's character is "one half of a strangle couple that holds onto old traditions in the futuristic tale," which we take means that his Eli character will be nothing like his Albus Dumbledore from the last three Harry Potter movies.

Flashdance and The L Word star Jennifer Beals has joined the cast of The Book of Eli. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Beals' character is the mother of the character that Mila Kunis is playing as well as the so-called "sexual prize" of Gary Oldman's character. The woman is also blind and will do anything to protect her daughter,

Actress Mila Kunis will play the part of Solara in The Book of Eli. The 25-year-old actress most recently starred in Max Payne as a killer for hire but she's still best remembered in the role of Jackie on seven seasons of That 70s Show.

In their coverage of the casting The Hollywood Reporter notes that Solara intends to betray Eli in his mission to protect a book that contains information to help America recover from the apocalypse. However, for reasons not made clear just yet, Solara will ultimately come to become a supporter of Eli's mission and stand alongside him.

Gary Oldman (Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight, Sirius Black in the Harry Potter film franchise) joins the cast of Book of Eli. Oldman will play the nemesis of Denzel Washington's hero character, the leader of a town who is out to take the book from Washington's traveller. Filming starts in February 2009 in New Mexico and Warner Bros. will release the picture on January 15, 2010.

The Book of Eli has found its owner and it's Denzel Washington. The Oscar-winning actor will play the hero in the post-apocalyptic picture, the protector of a sacred book that could restore hope to the world's survivors.

In the Variety article about the casting news we find out that Anthony Peckham (screenwriter of 2001's Don't Say a Word and the upcoming Guy Ritchie version of Sherlock Holmes) did a rewrite to Gary Whitta's original spec script. Joel Silver and Susan Downey remain as producers on the project but joining them are Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, co-founders of Alcon Entertainment. Alcon will pick up the check for making the film while Warner Bros. will distribute the movie. Filming is now scheduled to begin in January 2009.

On his blog Book of Eli screenwriter Gary Whitta just mentioned last month's news about the Hughes brothers coming aboard the project to direct it. While Gaz remains pretty tight-lipped about the other stuff he's working on, he does describe that he considers the storyline of Eli "kind of a post-apocalyptic western."

From Hell brothery directors Allen and Albert Hughes have attached themselves to The Book of Eli, a post-apocalyptic action film being produced by Joel Silver (The Matrix trilogy.) Along with Silver, also producing the movie Erik Olsen and Susan Downey for Warner Bros. The screenplay was written by Gary Whitta, the former editor-in-chief of PC Games and Total Movie magazines. The story follows a guardian of a book who has to fight his way across a blasted America. The book may contain the secret for how humanity is to survive the current disaster.

According to Variety the production team is now looking for its leading man, and if he's found shortly, they could be filming before the end of the year.

The Hughes brothers are also attached to a movie version of the classic TV series Kung Fu as well as a thriller called The Ice Man about a serial killer who works as a contract killer for the Mafia.