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Mission Impossible 4 now has writers to go along with producers

Paramount and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have chosen Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the script for the newly revived Mission Impossible 4 project, according to Variety. Applebaum and Nemec spent four seasons with Abrams as co-exec producers of the spy show Alias, and will pen M:I 4 based on a story ….

The full trailer for Where the Wild Things Are is online

The theatrical trailer for the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, is now online. The Spike Jonze film, which stars Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, will be in theaters on October 16, 2009.

The Orphanage remake has original producer Guillermo del Toro onboard and indie horror-meister at the helm

Actor/producer/director Larry Fessenden sure has a lot to live up to (to say the least), having signed on to direct a New Line remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish horror The Orphanage. THR originally reported the story. The Orphanage is such a brilliant film, but I guess del Toro wants to share the story ….

Cult classic Barbarella getting the remake treatment

Joe Gazzam, who wrote a script for the pending 21 Jump Street feature film, is now set to write the screenplay for a new version of the 1968 cult classic Barbarella, according to THR. Robert Luketic (21, The Ugly Truth) is attached to direct the updated sci-fi action-adventure, with original producer Dino De Laurentiis back ….