• The Rock Will Shoot Demons In 'SEAL Team 666'

    Horror films are big business, and we're entering into a phase where we'll probably see more action movies influenced by the real-world exploits of special forces such as the Navy SEALs. So why not combine the two tendencies? That's what SEAL Team 666 is going to do. Weston Ochse wrote a book in which military special…

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  • Universal Taps A New Screenwriter For 'Asteroids'

    Briefly: In 2009 Universal and Atari partnered to begin the process of developing a movie based on Asteroids, one of the very earliest classic arcade video games. (Or, more properly, Universal won an auction to the rights and Atari took the studio's money.) There is no story in the game at all -- players control…

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  • Robert Zemeckis And Universal Team For 'Charles Fort,' Called A 'Ghostbusters'-Like Period Piece

    Now that Robert Zemeckis has left behind the world of time-intensive performance-capture films, he is setting up projects left and right. As he prepares to film Flight with Denzel Washington, the producer/director has other projects simmering. One new possibility is Charles Fort, which has been called a period-set take on Ghostbusters. There's a lot more…

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  • Nick Frost Is The Final Dwarf In 'Snow White And The Huntsman'

    I like it! Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman has already cast a stellar group of British actors to play the seven dwarfs in the action film that will see the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) saving and mentoring Snow White (Kristen Stewart) rather than doing away with her as commanded by the evil queen (Charlize Theron).…

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  • 'Snow White And The Huntsman' Planned As First Of A Trilogy

    Snow White and the Huntman isn't just Universal's entry in the madcap race to produce a film that updates or otherwise reinterprets the classic story of Snow White. The movie, which stars Kristin Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and a whole host of wonderful actors as the dwarfs, is intended to kick off a series…

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  • Ray Winstone Is The Latest Dwarf In 'Snow White And The Huntsman'

    Briefly: It's time to stand up and start a slow golf clap for Universal, director Rupert Sanders, and the producers of Snow White and the Huntsman. In the past 36 hours they've locked up a collection of British actors to rival Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy for pure 'holy s***' entertainment value on the big screen.…

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  • McG's 'Ouija' Gets A New Writer

    Perhaps you were hoping that the Universal collaboration with Hasbro would somehow fail to produce the Ouija Board movie that we've been promised. (Or warned of, take your pic.) But the Platinum Dunes-produced, McG-directed film is very much alive. Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz were originally on the script, but they're now…

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  • Mark Millar Defends Wanted 2 Screenwriter

    Last week we reported that Evan Spiliotopoulos, co-writer of Pooh's Heffalump Movie and its DVD Halloween spin-off, had been hired to write Wanted 2. Like others, I was a little surprised that a screenwriter with a past filmography comprising of family animated films was hired to pen the sequel to a balls-to-the-wall action-filled comic book…

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  • Pooh's Heffalump Movie Scribe To Write Wanted 2?

    Universal has hired a new writer to pen a sequel to the popular comic book movie action film Wanted. Who did they hire? Evan Spiliotopoulos, co-writer of Pooh's Heffalump Movie and its DVD Halloween spin-off. It doesn't make sense, but it doesn't really have to make sense. The screenwriters of the first film wrote 2…

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  • Paramount To Adapt The Agnes Quill Graphic Novel

    Thor Freudenthal (Hotel For Dogs) will direct a big screen adaptation of Dave Roman's graphic novel Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery for Paramount. The 136-page, black-and white trade paperback collects all of the Agnes Quill stories, which is illustrated by Jason Ho, Jen Wang, Jeff Zornow, and Eisner-nominee Raina Telgemeier. The official plot synopsis…

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