Day: October 24, 2005

Spike TV to get the Sith

Variety has reported that Spike TV has engineered the biggest movie purchase in the net’s 22-year history, ponying up between $65 million and $70 million for a six-year exclusive deal covering all six of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars movies. NBC Universal’s USA Network and Sci Fi Channel and Turner Broadcasting’s TBS and TNT were in the ….

Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless to be adapted

Variey reported that Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have paid $1.5 million for film rights to the unpublished novel Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless, by first-time writer Ahmet Zappa. The story concerns a young brother and sister who learn their family is part of a long line of monster hunters. The pair ….