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    'Warcraft' Cast Revealed

    By Peter Sciretta December 5th, 2013

    Legendary and Universal Pictures have announced the cast of the big screen adaptation of Warcraft. Find out the details after the jump. Universal Pictures has revealed they have closed deals with Ben Foster, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Rob Kazinsky and are in final stages of negotiation with Dominic Cooper to star in…

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    Thomas Tull On The Challenges Of Making A Good Movie Out Of 'World Of Warcraft'

    By Peter Sciretta July 1st, 2013

    Over the weekend I was in San Francisco doing interviews at the junket for Pacific Rim. At the roundtable interviews we were graced with the presence of Legendary Pictures head Thomas Tull, and he was asked if the World of Warcraft movie was going to begin production in early 2014 as producer Charles Roven told us…

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    /Film Interview: 'Man Of Steel' Producer Charles Roven Discusses Morality, Visual Effects And Christopher Nolan

    By Germain Lussier June 18th, 2013

    Christopher Nolan and David Goyer aren't the only people involved with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel. Producer Charles Roven has been along for the long superhero ride, too. Roven, who produced all those films along with Three Kings, Twelve Monkeys and others, is one of the unheralded architects…

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    Legendary Plans First Quarter 2014 Shoot For 'Warcraft'

    By Russ Fischer May 31st, 2013

    Briefly: Late in January of this year, Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) was announced as director of the long-in-development film based on Blizzard's game world seen in titles like World of Warcraft. Unsurprisingly, news on further developments has been slow in coming as Jones and the films producers craft a plan for the film. At the…

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  • Atlas Entertainment Acquires Graphic Novel 'Langley High' From Benderspink

    By Angie Han September 23rd, 2011

    Atlas Entertainment co-founder Charles Roven put his weight behind such comic book adaptations as Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, and it seems he's not done with the graphic novel format yet. Roven and Atlas Entertainment colleague Alex Gartner have just acquired the movie rights to Langley High, an upcoming book conceived by…

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  • Producer Says Kathryn Bigelow's 'Triple Frontier' Scheduled For Spring Shoot

    By Russ Fischer January 6th, 2011

    Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's political action thriller Triple Frontier, which has Tom Hanks set to star, is one of the more promising films that might roll film this year. It takes place in the so-called 'triple frontier' where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil intersect, which is reportedly a gangland haven and source…

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  • Warner Bros.' Batman And Superman Films Will Not Cross Over

    By Russ Fischer January 5th, 2011

    Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises is edging toward production, and just after that Zack Snyder's new Superman will be going before cameras. There are a great many lingering questions about both films, and it will be some time before we have definitive answers to most of them. But Charles Roven, a producer on both…

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    Warner Bros Developing Gilligan's Island Movie

    By Peter Sciretta March 3rd, 2010

    In late-2008, we told you that Sherwood Schwartz and his son Lloyd Schwartz had signed a deal to bring Gilligan's Island to the big screen.But we haven't really heard anything about the big screen adaptation for over a year, until now. Variety reports that Warner Bros is developing the feature film with Atlas Entertainment. Charles…

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    Dark Knight/300 Producers Developing Futuristic Robin Hood Movie

    By Peter Sciretta August 7th, 2009

    Ridley Scott isn't the only man in Hollywood making a Robin Hood movie. Warner Bros is also developing a film based on the classic tale, but with a sci-fi twist. Danish commercial director Nicolai Fuglsig pitched the project, and has signed on to direct. Newcomer Jason Dean Hall, who wrote the Ashton Kutcher Sundance comedy…

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    Sam Raimi To Direct World Of Warcraft Movie

    By Peter Sciretta July 22nd, 2009

    Sam Raimi, director of Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, the Spider-Man films, has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment's massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The scoop was first reported by AICN and later confirmed by Variety, who also reports that The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven…

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  • Voltron

    Producers Of The Dark Knight And The International Reform Voltron

    By Peter Sciretta July 20th, 2009

    Atlas Entertainment is developing a live-action Voltron movie. Producers Charles Roven (The Dark Knight), Richard Suckle (The International) and Steve Alexander have acquired the rights to make a film based on the Japanese anime property after several years in development at various production companies. The live-action project has been in development since 2004, and interest…

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  • Screenwriting Tidbits: Batman 3, Puss In Boots And The Flash

    By Peter Sciretta January 30th, 2009

    IESB claims that Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer are already working on the screenplay for a third Batman film, but when they talked to producer Charles Roven, they were unable to get a confirmation. I have a feeling that the process is in the earliest of stages (ideas, possible treatment), and that the…

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