Month: <span>November 2009</span>

Disney Studios has started production on a Chinese version of “High School Musical” for release in theaters next Summer.

“Disney High School Musical: China” is the story of a new student who meets a gifted young man with whom she shares a secret passi…

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Producers Joel Kastelberg and Etchie Stroh are set to reboot the “Howling” franchise with “The Howling: Reborn” reports Variety.

“Gremlins” helmer Joe Dante directed the first film which hit in 1981 and spawned six sequels. Dee Wallace-Stone starred …

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Fantasy.fr reports that a new film adaptation of Robert Ervin Howard’s “Kull” is in the works at Paradox Entertainment.

Howard created the adventure hero in 1929 and would use the character as inspiration for his more famous follow-up creation “Conan …

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It’s less than month before James Cameron’s sci-fi epic “Avatar” hits the global stage and a little over two weeks before its world premiere in London on December 10th, but the final tweaks are still being laid down on the big-budget spectacular.

Prod…

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The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson tells Reuters that he recut his film adaptation of the Alice Sebold bestseller after a test screening.

Why he recut it though is a reason you rarely here – the audience “wanted far more violence”. The director told the …

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Doctor Who
While “The Waters of Mars” has seen a more than a month long delay before its US airing, BBC America is moving ahead with the Christmas specials very quickly. The network has just announced an air date of Saturday December 26th at 9pm in th…

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the animated short films short list, whittled down from 37 films, that will advance in the voting process for the upcoming 82nd Academy Awards.

The Academy branch members will select fiv…

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Update 11/22: “New Moon” has pulled in an estimated $140.7 million opening weekend, the third biggest of all time behind “The Dark Knight” and “Spider-Man 3”. The film fell 40.8% on Saturday, almost exactly the same drop-off as the first film, which …

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Stephen King’s new supernatural thriller novel “Under the Dome” is becoming a limited TV series reports Variety.

DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as a cable event series. Writers are currently meeting with the studio ab…

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Dustin Hoffman is looking unlikely to return in “Little Fockers”, the third installment of the “Meet the Parents” popular comedy franchise reports Entertainment Weekly.

Hoffman was said to have a brief cameo as Bernie Focker, father of Ben Stiller’s …

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