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Last Updated: Monday, December 01, 2008, 12:24 AM EST

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Gough and Millar to Pen 'Robotech'

tags: adaptation alfred gough anime miles millar robotech warner bros. 

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Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who both penned Spider-Man 2 and The Mummy: Tomb of Dragon Emperor, have been drafted to write Robotech, Warner Bros. Pictures' adaptation of the anime classic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Akiva Goldsman and Chuck Roven are producing with Tobey Maguire and Drew Crevello. read more...

Last Updated: 11-17-08, 5:19 PM EST  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Pegg and Frost Meet 'Paul'

tags: comedy greg mottola nick frost simon pegg universal pictures working title 

Superbad helmer Greg Mottola will direct the extraterrestrial comedy Paul for Working Title and Universal Pictures, which will star Shaun of the Dead actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Daily Variety reported. Mottola, who recently wrapped the upcoming comedy Adventureland, will begin shooting Paul in mid-April in New Mexico. read more...

Last Updated: 11-12-08, 9:14 AM EST  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Black Embarks on 'Gulliver's Travels'

tags: judd apatow jack black classic adaptation 20th century fox 2009 remake 

Jack Black, who starred in the summer hits Kung Fu Panda (now on DVD!) and Tropic Thunder, will toplone a new version of Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Fox. The latest take on the Jonathan Swift classic will be directed by Rob Letterman from a script adapted by Joe Stillman, with a rewrite by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). read more...

Last Updated: 11-11-08, 10:42 AM EST  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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'Iron Man 2' Trio to Team Again for 'Aveng...

tags: 2011 action adventure don cheadle iron man marvel studios robert downey the avengers 

The cast and crew for Marvel Studios' 2011 film The Avengers is coming together quite nicely. Iron Man himself Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle, whose deal to replace Terrence Howard in the Iron Man movies has been finalized, have signed for the actioner, according to The Hollywood Reporter. read more...

Last Updated: 10-28-08, 10:41 PM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Trio Find 'Love and Other Impossible Pursu...

tags: natalie portman marc platt don roos charlie tahan adaptation scott cohen 

Natalie Portman, who was last seen in The Other Boleyn Girl, is set to star in and executive produce Don Roos' adaptation of Ayelet Waldman's novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Daily Variety says the plot follows a young woman who discovers the key to recovering her marriage in her relationship with her precocious stepson. read more...

Last Updated: 10-28-08, 11:03 AM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Duo Drink 'Kool-Aid' at Fox Searchlight

tags: fox searchlight dustin lance black drama adaptation gus van sant 

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Fox Searchlight Pictures has picked up The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, a project (with a very cool title!), which reunites the Milk team of director Gus Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kool-Aid, based on a 1968 Tom Wolfe book, was first put together last year after Gladstein, who had the rights, enlisted Van Sant and Black. read more...

Last Updated: 10-28-08, 10:29 AM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Brody Takes Lead in 'Courier'

tags: 2009 action adrien brody adventure arclight films derek haas michael brandt russell mulcahy thriller 

Adrien Brody, who last starred in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, will play the lead role in Russell Mulcahy's upcoming action thriller The Courier for Arclight Films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project follows an adventurous courier who's trying to deliver a briefcase to a crime boss who can't be located. read more...

Last Updated: 10-28-08, 10:21 AM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Jonas Brothers Meet 'Farting Dog'

tags: family disney comedy bobby farrelly animals adaptation 20th century fox jonas brothers peter farrelly 

The Jonas Brothers, whom will be seen on the big screen with The Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Movie in February, are about to shed their squeaky clean Disney image for something a little more stinky. The brothers are set star in 20th Century Fox's family comedy Walter the Farting Dog, Daily Variety reports. read more...

Last Updated: 10-28-08, 10:11 AM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Columbus Gives 'Ripleys' Overhaul

tags: action adventure chris columbus comedy franchise jim carrey paramount ripleys 

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Director Chris Columbus (Rent, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) is in talks with Paramount Pictures about taking the reins of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The long-gestating project has Jim Carrey set to star as newspaper columnist-explorer Robert Ripley. The project is now getting a complete overhaul, according to Daily Variety, based on a concept that Columbus pitched himself. read more...

Last Updated: 10-26-08, 2:00 PM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Helmer Soderbergh Preps 3-D 'Cleopatra'

tags: 3-d catherine zeta-jones hugh jackman live-action musical steven soderbergh 

Steven Soderbergh is reportedly prepping a 3-D live-action rock 'n' roll musical about Cleopatra. The trades today say that the director is looking at Catherine Zeta-Jones to star as the Egyptian queen with Hugh Jackman as her lover Marc Antony. The $30 million Cleo — to be set in the 1920s — will be shopped for financing and distribution within the next two weeks. read more...

Last Updated: 10-26-08, 1:52 PM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Glover Hearts 'Alice in Wonderland'

tags: adventure alice in wonderland anne hathaway disney family helena bonham carter johnny depp kids live-action motion capture tim burton 

Seems like we can't go a few days without news from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Today, we hear Crispin Glover (Willard) has joined the cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Glover will play the Knave of Hearts in the Disney production, which will combine live action and performance-capture technology. read more...

Last Updated: 10-26-08, 1:44 PM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Oscar Winner Bardem is a 'Biutiful' Man

tags: drama alejandro gonzalez inarritu foreign javier bardem 

Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) has lined up a lead role in the drama Biutiful, according to Daily Variety. The trade paper says that the film is about "a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman." The trade doesn't specify which character Bardem will be playing. read more...

Last Updated: 10-26-08, 1:40 PM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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'HSM 3' Graduates at Top of Class

tags: lionsgate high school musical franchise disney based on tv movie adaptation 20th century fox saw zac efron 

The first big-screen adaptation of the popular TV movie franchise 'High School Musical' rocked movie theaters during the weekend read more...

Last Updated: 10-26-08, 1:32 PM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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'Enchanted' Star Takes Romantic 'Leap'

tags: spyglass entertainment romance deb kaplan comedy amy adams 

Enchanted star Amy Adams is in negotiations to star in Spyglass Entertainment's romantic comedy Leap Year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows the adventures of an uptight woman (Adams) who journeys to Dublin to propose marriage to her boyfriend on Leap Day, Feb. 29. She's bent on that particular date because Irish traditions says men must accept if a woman proposes on that day. Naturally, with such a specific deadline, the woman's trip gets sidetracked by the weather and other wacky incidents. read more...

Last Updated: 10-23-08, 7:03 AM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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Hathaway Has a New 'Fiance'

tags: warner bros. romance etan cohen comedy anne hathaway adam shankman 

Get Smart star Anne Hathaway is expected to star in the romantic comedy The Fiance for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to Daily Variety. In the comedy, Hathaway plays a woman who breaks off her engagement to what seems to be a perfect man only to see her parents work overtime to get them back together. read more...

Last Updated: 10-23-08, 12:42 AM EDT  Category: News  Comments  digg facebook

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1.

Twilight (--)

$69,637,740

Avg. Gross: $20,368 in 3,419 Theaters

Cumulative Total: $69,637,740

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2.

Quantum of Solace (PG-13)

$26,707,945

Avg. Gross: $31,461 in 3,458 Theaters

Cumulative Total: $108,790,786

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3.

Bolt (PG)

$26,223,128

Avg. Gross: $7,182 in 3,651 Theaters

Cumulative Total: $26,223,128

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4.

Madagascar: Escape 2... (PG)

$15,661,936

Avg. Gross: $34,217 in 4,007 Theaters

Cumulative Total: $137,109,390

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5.

Role Models (R)

$7,324,445

Avg. Gross: $17,612 in 2,733 Theaters

Cumulative Total: $48,133,020

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