Day: September 22, 2010

Magnet grabs U.S. rights to Takashi Miike’s samurai action film 13 Assassins and releases two bloody photos to prove it

Mark Cuban’s Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Takashi Miike’s epic samurai masterpiece, 13 Assassins. The historical action epic, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, recently had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, has just been named as the Closing Night film at this ….

Orson Scott Card’s epic sci-fi tale Ender’s Game back in development for the big screen

According to The L.A. times, the sci-fi film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s seminal epic tale Ender’s Game is now back in active development, as independent production company Odd Lot Entertainment moves forward on a movie project of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel. According to sources, Tsotsi and X Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin ….

James Cameron’s True Lies becoming TV series?

Avatar director James Cameron’s 1994 blockbuster espionage action film True Lies, is headed to ABC television as a weekly series, according to THR Livefeed. ABC has made a script deal for the project, with Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment, Fox TV producing and Rene Echevarria as writer/showrunner and co-executive producer. If greenlit, the project will mark the ….

All-Star Superman voice cast lines up

James Denton (Desperate Housewives), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Anthony LaPaglia will lend their voices to Warner Bros. Animation’s All-Star Superman, the animated film adaptation of the acclaimed comic, according to HeatVision. All-Star Superman – which has won three Eisner Awards, two Harvey Awards and three Eagle Awards – is the 10th DC Comics story ….