In the works: "Flanders," time-travel, 80s remakes.

Trailer: There's a trailer for Bruno Dumont's "Flanders" here. Cannes darling Dumont is the director behind such rousing crowd-pleasers as "Twentynine Palms" and "Humanité." "Flanders," which juxtaposes the experiences of farm boys sent off to fight in an unnamed war with the girl they left behind, won the Grand Prix at the festival last year but currently has no US distribution and will be getting a limited theatrical release, opening in New York on May 18th.

Acquired: We thought this has been announced before, but apparently not — IFC First Take has picked up Shane Meadows' "This Is England" for a July 27th release. [indieWIRE]

Roschdy Zem's Parisian comedy about the travails of a North African Muslim and an Ashkenaze Jew who inform their parents that they're dating, "Bad Faith," has been picked up 7th Art Releasing and will reach theaters later this year. [indieWIRE]

In the works: Harry Knowles is proclaiming Michael Apted the director of the next Narnia movie, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." Apted, best known (well, maybe) for his beloved "Up" doc series, has directed narratives large and small — the largest in scope to date being lukewarm Bond installment "The World Is Not Enough." [AICN]

Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams have been cast as the leads in the adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's temporally challenged romance "The Time Traveler's Wife" — startlingly good casting, actually, on both parts. Robert Schwentke, of "Flightplan," is set to direct. [Hollywood Reporter]

Remake heaven: MGM is looking into a remake of 80s musical "Fame" (FAME!). No word on a writer or director yet, but MGM COO Rick Sands says "We'll update it, (but) we'll still keep some of the songs." [Hollywood Reporter] Meanwhile, Gideon Raff (of "The Killing Floor") will write and direct a remake of classic (?) 1980s horror film "Terror Train," which, you may remember, featured David Copperfield as Ken the Magician. [Hollywood Reporter]

Luc Besson is making a movie for the environment. We're not quite clear on what "Boomerang," which Besson will produce with photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand directing, is, though it seems to be of the "Baraka" ilk. Besson plans to make the film available for distribution free of charge once his backers have gotten back their investment plus 10%. [Variety]

"Little Miss Sunshine"'s directorial duo, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, will next be helming "The Abstinence Teacher," an adaptation of the upcoming novel by Tom Perrotta. Perrotta wrote the novels from which "Election" and "Little Children" were adapted, so this project already has more than a whiff of that piny award smell. Warner Independent will distribute the film, which is about "a sex ed teacher who is forced by religious conservatives to teach abstinence." [Variety]

And music video director Floria Sigismondi will write and direct "Neon Angels," the story of 70s teenage band The Runaways, whose members included Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and the late Sandy West. [Variety]

+ Trailer: Flanders (InternationalFilmCircuit.com)
+ Meadows' "England" Set for First Take Slate and Red Envelope (indieWIRE)
+ 7th Art Gets "Bad Faith" (indieWIRE)
+ AICN Breaking NARNIA Exclusive: Mrs Beaver feels the director of THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER is very Apted! (AICN)
+ Bana, McAdams travel with NL's 'Wife' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ MGM gets another shot at 'Fame' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Nu Image to remake 'Terror Train' (Hollywood Reporter)
+ Besson creates free 'Boomerang' (Variety)
+ 'Sunshine' pair pacts with WIP (Variety)
+ Runaways head to the bigscreen (Variety)