The late John Wyndham’s Chocky has been optioned by DreamWorks for director Steven Speilberg who has named it his next directorial project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is about “a boy who has a mysterious imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy’s father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that…
Given the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, other pirate films were expected to come roaring onto screens but surprisingly few have gotten out of development. The first to actually make it to the cameras may be the DreamWorks production of Blackbeard, a biopic of Edward Teach. Mania is reporting that Bourne Supremacy director Paul…
The saga of Tintin continues to unfold as it now appears that Paramount Pictures will cover the $130 budget for the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson Tintin movie. As reported at Deadline Hollywood, the deal calls for Paramount to produce the movie entirely on its own as long as the principals remain on budget. Filming remains on…
Danny Boyle may switch from zombies to fantasy as his next project may well be an animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Truckers. He will collaborate on the screenplay with Millions scribe Frank Cottrell Boyce. Boyle told Coming Soon that Truckers, the first volume of the Bromeliad trilogy, will be done in association with DreamWorks, which…
DreamWorks has decided to produce their own animated take on super-heroes with Master Mind. Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that Robert Downey, Jr. may lend his voice as the lead character, opposite Tina Fey. According to IMDB, the film is a “satirical take on super-hero movies, in which a notorious villain loses his oomph after…
Fans of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive might be surprised to learn the actor who played Adam Kesher will be writing the next Iron Man movie. Writer/actor Justin Theroux has been signed on by Marvel to script the sequel, according to Variety. He’s had quite a varied Hollywood career already. Theroux, a thesp-scribe best known for…
Over at AICN, Moriarty has posted a very long analysis of Y: The Last Man creator Brian K. Vaughan’s script for a feature film currently titled Roundtable, which Dreamworks recently won after a long bidding war. Apparently, the man behind Runaways and Ex Machina (and now a writer for the comic-posing-as-a-television-series Lost) has turned in…
Oni Press just landed a new movie deal, with Dreamworks picking up the rights to the series The Damned. The comic, created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, is set in Los Angeles during Prohibition and follows a detective who stumbles onto some supernatural weirdness while investigating a case. The past couple months have been…
Reuters just reported that Ben Stiller’s production company, Red Hour, will partner with Dreamworks to produce a movie adaptation of the graphic novel The Return of King Doug. I’m guessing many of you are thinking, "Wait, I’ve never heard of that book." And you probably haven’t, since it hasn’t been released. Once again, more evidence…
DreamWorks Animation has announced plans to produce all of its new films in full 3-D. they plan to produce their movies employing stereoscopic 3-D technology from the start of the movie production process, and has already begun production on its first movie to be made in this format, Monsters vs. Aliens (working title), slated for…
TNT has a few new series in development that could be of interest to us all: The Talisman – a six-hour limited series scheduled for summer 2008; a new project from DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg, based on the Stephen King and Peter Straub novel of the same title. The Saint – a…
Tintin, one of the most popular comic book creations on the international scene, is headed to the movie theaters coutesy of Dreamworks and producer Steven Spielberg. The movie has a projected budget near $100 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. George Hermi, better known as Herge, created 23 Tintin graphic novels before he died in…
