The cast for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is rounding out with the addition of Anne Hathaway as the White Queen opposite Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film has already begun shooting with Mia Wasikowska scenes as Alice outside the looking glass having been completed in Australia. The White…
The Hollywood Reporter paused to take a look at the winners and losers of returning prime time series. While it’s interesting to see Supernatural’s strong start in its fourth season, the shows with weak returns do not bode well for our genre faves. Gainers 1. CW SUPERNATURAL 1.2 to 1.7 = 42% 2. CBS CRIMINAL…
In the old days, Disney was paralyzed by indecision as executives kept trying to imagine “what Walt would do.” Under recent management, the studio has been expanding in many different directions, including adding foreign points of view to their filmmaking. The studio is now proceeding with making live-action film under a new Walt Disney Pictures…
If you’re the owner of PC manufacturer Dell, and you’re looking for a way to compete with the Apple owned online retail giant iTunes, who you gonna call? Venkman and the gang ain’t gonna cut it this round. You gotta go with the big gun: mother-frakkin Iron Man. The Hollywood Reporter announced today that Dell…
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…
While this sounds like a hoax, the Hollywood Reporter insists that Fox is serious in adapting the premise of Snow White to a legal drama. Georgia and the Seven Associates will feature a lawyer exiled from the big firm headed by her mother so she opens up a storefront operation with seven oddball counselors. The…
Veteran actor and host Trey Farley (Bend it Like Beckham) will host Sci Fi Chanel’s latest reality show, Chase. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chase will be an hour-long show following contestants playing laser tag against one another for prizes. Each week will pit contestants against one another in landmarks around Los Angeles. The channel…
The Seven Samurai remains one of the classic storytelling devices invented for movies and has been the template for many films beginning with The Magnificent Seven. It has now also proven to be the inspiration for Doomsday Protocol, a science fiction thriller. The original script by Shane Salerno was purchased by 20th Century Fox for…
Katee Sackhoff will star in a new series created by Chris Levinson, Lost and Found for NBC according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Battlestar Galactica star had originally been contracted with Universal Studios and NBC to become a regular on The Bionic Woman should that series make it to a second season. Instead, it was…
Even if we are lucky enough to ever see another Serenity feature, there are far too many questions to be answered in one sitting. One of those is just who is Shepherd Book. Joss Whedon talks about why he chose character for a new Dark Horse mini-series, plus: Buffy gets an MMO, Firefly gets put…
Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay will adapt The Boys for the big screen according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Columbia Pictures’ project is based on the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson series which first launched at WildStorm and quickly moved to Dynamite Entertainment. According to THR, “The book follows the adventures of a CIA squad, known informally as…
When a graphic novel is billed as a cross between Men in Black and Jurassic Park, it’s no surprise to see a studio come running, dollar signs in their eyes. Such is Disney with Monster Attack Network, according to a story in the Hollywood Reporter. The book is published by AIT/Planet Lar and originally came…
