How many times have you read one of those Heathcliff comic strips—that’s the funny-pages staple about the other wisecracking orange cat—and thought: Bloody hell, when will someone make this into a movie? Fret no longer: Variety reports today that Magic Lantern Entertainment and FitzRoy Media are intent on turning cartoonist George Gately’s tabby into a big-screen star. We’re guessing that a matchup with the live-action Garfield is all but inevitable; personally, we’re hoping for a Heathcliff vs. Freddy vs. Jason vs. Predator cine-smackdown.

The trade paper is also reporting that British actor Lucy Punch (above) will be replacing everyone’s favorite antipodean sweetheart, Nicole Kidman, in the upcoming Woody Allen movie. If you just said “Lucy Who?,” we don’t blame you; Punch’s best-known roles prior to this were a bit role on the CBS show The Class and a small part in Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz. Congratulations, Lucy, and cross your fingers that this new Woody joint doesn’t turn out to be Melinda and Melinda Redux.

Hey, Holmes! Sherlock Holmes, that is. As the publicity machine starts to crank into gear for Guy Ritchie’s upcoming blockbuster on the Victorian detective—not due in theaters until Christmas Day, but hey, why not start spreading the word now?—The Los Angeles Times explores the continued fascination with Arthur Conan Doyle’s old pipe-smoking sleuth. Ritchie’s movie apparently portrays Holmes as an international man of mystery, while a second in-the-works Sherlock flick (starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen) will apparently turn him into a bumbling yahoo. Both approaches seem, frankly, less than elementary.