Johnny 5 will once again be alive, but this time he'll befriend a teenage girl set against the back drop of modern robotics in war. So says director Tim Hill (Hop) who has been tasked with co-writing and eventually directing a remake of Short Circuit, based on the popular 1986 film that starred Steve Guttenberg, Fisher…
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Dimension Films have announced the hiring of screenwriter Matt Lieberman to pen a remake of the 1986 cult favorite Short Circuit. An Honors film grad from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Lieberman wrote a draft of the Doctor Dolittle sequel Doctor Dolittle: First Dog, and another couple projects that have never gone…
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In 2008 Dimension Films picked up the rights to remake the mid-'80s robot film Short Circuit, but as is often the case with projects like these, actually getting the picture to a position that is ready to shoot is taking some time. Now there's a new director: Tim Hill, who will also oversee the creation…
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Despite the headline proclaiming that Russell Brand voices the Easter Bunny in Hop -- and, indeed, he does -- there's nothing to that effect in this teaser. All you'll see of the film is some drumming bunny animation. And what of the story with James Marsden playing a guy who takes in the Easter Bunny…
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