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Dan Aykroyd: Not Your Average Bear

Dan Aykroyd: Not Your Average Bear

Following the trend of classic books and cartoons finding their way to the big screen, everyone’s favorite pic-a-nic basket stealing bear is making his way from the animated forest of Jellystone to a theater near you.
Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear, and will be turning the cartoon into a feature film [...]

Morgan Freeman to Star in, Produce ‘Dirty Old Men’

Morgan Freeman to Star in, Produce ‘Dirty Old Men’

Morgan Freeman has signed on to star in the Warner Bros. comedy Dirty Old Men (working title).
In the film, Freeman will be playing the best friend and wingman of an aging playboy who finally meets the love of his life. After spending 40 years by his friend’s side, Freeman’s character isn’t too willing to give [...]

Steve Carell Taking to the Links

Steve Carell Taking to the Links

Warner Bros. studios recently picked up the rights to Missing Links, a comedy based on a novel by ESPN magazine columnist Rick Reilly.
The novel tells the story of a group of golfers who get tired of playing the shabby municipal course in their working-class neighborhood, and try to scheme their way to moving up to [...]

Adam Shankman to Direct “Rock of Ages”

Adam Shankman to Direct “Rock of Ages”

Adam Shankman is a busy, busy man. Since directing 2005’s The Pacifier and Cheaper By the Dozen, Shankman has barely had a break, taking on numerous projects directing, producing, and choreographing films, as well as being a judge on the hit show So You Think You Can Dance. Now Shankman is adding another project to [...]

Will Fetters to Take on ‘Storm’y Project

Will Fetters to Take on ‘Storm’y Project

Warner Bros. writer Will Fetters has signed on to write the screenplay for the studio’s adventure film Crazy for the Storm.
The movie is based Norman Ollestad’s memoir of the same name, which Warner Bros. obtained the rights to in the spring. The memoir has already spent over a month on the Los Angeles Times best-seller [...]

‘Lantern’ Goes Out in Australia

‘Lantern’ Goes Out in Australia

Unless you’ve been living under a rock during 2009, you know the economic situation in the world is not the best. The film industry is now feeling the effects of the global economic crisis, particularly as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value against other currencies.
This situation has forced Warner Bros. Pictures to pull out [...]

Warner Bros. Apprehends Prisoners

Warner Bros. Apprehends Prisoners

Warner Bros. has set Prisoners, a film that Antoine Fuqua is in talks to direct, on a fast track. The film is now in preproduction and scheduled for release on October 22, 2010. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson of Alcon Entertainment will produce the film, which is only sparsely detailed.
What we do know is that [...]

King of all Wild Soundtracks

King of all Wild Soundtracks

For those of you who are interested in the upcoming movie from Warner Bros, Where The Wild Things Are, should be happy to know that today the soundtrack for the film was released. Here is the soundtrack music from Karen O And The Kids, and if you want to grab onto the full soundtrack on Amazon [...]

Childen of Men Writers Adapting Akira

Childen of Men Writers Adapting Akira

I know nothing of the animated Akira, other than it involves a post-apocalyptic setting, a huge gun, and a pretty freakin’ sweet motorcycle. Which is also just about all I need to know in order to be excited about anything.
It helps even more in the process of getting excited for the live-action adaptation that the [...]

Harry Potter Gets a Double Dip

Harry Potter Gets a Double Dip

Having never read a single Harry Potter adventure, I enjoyed the most recent film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Although meandering and entirely an interim between Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows, its visual aesthetic was enough to keep me invested and interested in the final episode(s) of the saga.
With that in mind, I can tell [...]

Warner Bros. LEGO Film Looming on the Horizon?

Warner Bros. LEGO Film Looming on the Horizon?

Undoubtedly due to the success of Michael Bay’s little art house Transformers pictures and Stephen Sommers’ surprisingly entertaining G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (not to mention a whole slew of popular LEGO-themed video games), we might be in for a Warner Bros. LEGO film.

Variety is currently reporting that writers Dan and Kevin Hageman are crafting a family-oriented [...]

Warner Bros. Reveals a Bit More of the Wild Things

Warner Bros. Reveals a Bit More of the Wild Things

The first trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, was a thing of transcendent beauty. Scored to Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” and only sparsely peppered with dialogue, the trailer hinted at a film of kinetic, childish wonder.

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