Kicking off today's eclectic round-up of bits and pieces, it appears that Woody Woodpecker is tapping furiously on the doors of Hollywood.
The crimson-coiffed cartoon character with the distinctive laugh is heading to the big screen in a feature film planned by Universal's animation studio Illumination Entertainment.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, scribes John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky are in talks to develop a story featuring the boisterous bird, who first appeared on our screens in 1940.
The duo wrote and produced animated shows The Goode Family and King of The Hill along with an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head. In addition, they co-wrote the 2007 ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory starring Will Ferrell.
Another possible animated adaptation has resurfaced with Immortals director Tarsem Singh saying he wants to make a live-action version of Samurai Jack.
Singh, who declared he has little interest in comic book movies, told The Hollywood Reporter: "I love Samurai Jack.
The crimson-coiffed cartoon character with the distinctive laugh is heading to the big screen in a feature film planned by Universal's animation studio Illumination Entertainment.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, scribes John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky are in talks to develop a story featuring the boisterous bird, who first appeared on our screens in 1940.
The duo wrote and produced animated shows The Goode Family and King of The Hill along with an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head. In addition, they co-wrote the 2007 ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory starring Will Ferrell.
Another possible animated adaptation has resurfaced with Immortals director Tarsem Singh saying he wants to make a live-action version of Samurai Jack.
Singh, who declared he has little interest in comic book movies, told The Hollywood Reporter: "I love Samurai Jack.
- 11/22/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Fanciful Indian filmmaker Tarsem Singh had not directed a feature for five years before this month’s epic Immortals. Six years ticked away between 2000’s The Cell and 2006’s The Fall, both equally full of ambitious and imaginative visuals.
Now he is suddenly becoming prolific with big-budget features. He was in post-production on his 3D Greek mythology movie at Relativity Media while in pre-production on his Snow White family film Mirror Mirror, which he shot from June 2011 to mid-September (though the trailer is risible).
Tarsem told ComingSoon it was the “easiest thing in the world” shooting them back-to-back, and he hopes to make “one movie a year” now. So last week the director sat down, read, and decided between “one or two projects that [he's] interested in.”
According to Deadline, Tarsem’s next film is Killing on Carnival Row, a fantasy spec script written by Travis Beacham and purchased six years...
Now he is suddenly becoming prolific with big-budget features. He was in post-production on his 3D Greek mythology movie at Relativity Media while in pre-production on his Snow White family film Mirror Mirror, which he shot from June 2011 to mid-September (though the trailer is risible).
Tarsem told ComingSoon it was the “easiest thing in the world” shooting them back-to-back, and he hopes to make “one movie a year” now. So last week the director sat down, read, and decided between “one or two projects that [he's] interested in.”
According to Deadline, Tarsem’s next film is Killing on Carnival Row, a fantasy spec script written by Travis Beacham and purchased six years...
- 11/20/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Yea, you read that right. Hidden in an article on the Frederator Films blog (via Screen Rant) was an update about a Samurai Jack movie in development. But it might not be exactly what you're thinking. Years ago, New Line Cinema picked up the rights to Jack to make both an animated movie and a live-action movie, but that all fell apart. Now apparently the rights have ended up in the hands of none other than J.J. Abrams who is developing a feature animated movie that will combine traditional 2D animation with stereoscopic 3D. Sorry, it's not live-action. It's not in production yet, but it does sound like this one will actually happen. The news comes hidden in a post written by Fred Seibert, former head of Hanna-Barbera and current head of Frederator Films, where he reports that Frederator had been granted the rights to an animated movie "as long...
- 11/24/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Frederator Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures Animation to develop animated feature films, according to Cynopsis.
Founder Fred Seibert, formerly President of Hanna-Barbera Productions, launched the Frederator animation studio in 1998 and has developed animated properties including The Fairly OddParents, Dexter's Laboratory, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Powerpuff Girls and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Frederator is currently in production on Fanboy & Chum Chum, the CG animated series launches this fall on Nickelodeon, and Adventure Time at Cartoon Network set for May 2010. Additionally, Frederator is developing a feature film based on the animated series Samurai Jack at Paramount Pictures with Bad Robot Productions. Seibert was also the original creative director of MTV: Music Television and later toiled for Nickelodeon and helped create Nick-at-Nite.
Sony Pictures Animation's newest movie, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, opens nationwide this Friday.
Founder Fred Seibert, formerly President of Hanna-Barbera Productions, launched the Frederator animation studio in 1998 and has developed animated properties including The Fairly OddParents, Dexter's Laboratory, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Powerpuff Girls and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Frederator is currently in production on Fanboy & Chum Chum, the CG animated series launches this fall on Nickelodeon, and Adventure Time at Cartoon Network set for May 2010. Additionally, Frederator is developing a feature film based on the animated series Samurai Jack at Paramount Pictures with Bad Robot Productions. Seibert was also the original creative director of MTV: Music Television and later toiled for Nickelodeon and helped create Nick-at-Nite.
Sony Pictures Animation's newest movie, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, opens nationwide this Friday.
- 9/14/2009
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Fred Seibert and his Frederator Studios inks a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures Animation to develop animated feature films. Seibert, formerly President of Hanna-Barbera Productions, launched the Frederator animation studio in 1998 and has developed animated properties including The Fairly OddParents, Dexter's Laboratory, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Powerpuff Girls and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Frederator is currently in production on Fanboy & Chum Chum, the CG animated series launches this fall on Nickelodeon, and Adventure Time at Cartoon Network set for May 2010. Additionally, Frederator is developing a feature film based on the animated series Samurai Jack at Paramount Picture with Bad Robot Productions. Seibert also launched Next New Networks and served as the original creative director of MTV: Music Television and later toiled for Nickelodeon and helped create Nick-at-Nite. Sony Pictures Animation's, which recently inked a development first look deal with The Gotham Group, newest kid/family aimed movie, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs,...
- 9/14/2009
- by gwen@cynopsis.com
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