He’s battled the Joker, the Penguin, and The Riddler, but there’s lately been one elusive villain Bruce Wayne hasn’t been able to fight; piracy. Shortly afterThe Dark Knight, WB’s last installment of the Batman franchise, was released in 2008, the internet was swarming with hand-held cam versions of the movie. Now it looks like the long shadow [...]

While 20th Century Fox may have cleaned up as far as international sales went in 2009, it was Warner Bros. that swept the competition domestically. Despite starting the year off with several films that saw lukewarm success–Watchmen, Observe and Report, Terminator:Salvation–the summer’s big hits of The Hangover and the most recent Harry Potter both brought [...]

On the last day before closing for the holidays, WME and Industry Entertainment sealed one final deal for the year. Warner Bros. spent nearly $2 million to buy a script by Dan Fogelman, writer of animated pic Cars. The script is said to have a vibe similar to Love Actually, and follows a father trying [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]