Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis may have found his Beatles for Yellow Submarine remake

Actors Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in talks to portray members of The Beatles in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming remake of Yellow Submarine, according to THR’s HeatVisionBlog. Disney is the studio behind the project. The original 1968 animated film was based on the Beatles music and featured a storyline wherein ….

Pirates of the Caribbean producing team board DevaShard comic adaptation

Eric McLeod and David Venghaus, who worked together on Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, have joined the ranks of DevaShard, the fantasy adaptation recently picked up by Vanquish Motion Pictures, that’s based on eastern mythology. Vanquish’s Jay Douglas and Nav Gupta are writing the script and will produce the film with McLeod. Heather Kenealy is ….

Hugh Jackman eyeing adaptation of Richard Matheson’s sci-fi tale Real Steel

Variety reports that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in the Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) film adaptation of I Am Legend writer Richard Matheson’s short story Real Steel, for DreamWorks. Real Steel is described as a Rocky-type story of a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxing becomes obsolete, replaced ….

Toy Story 1 and 2 returning to theaters in 3D, plus updates on a boatload of new 3D projects

Low-cost quality hosting and domain names: byhandmedia.net On October 2nd, Disney/Pixar has scheduled a short-run release of the Toy Story films as a double feature, according to Screenrant. For two weeks the films will play in theaters. This of course, is meant to lead up to the Lee Unkrich-directed Toy Story 3, slated for release ….

Tron, Alice in Wonderland and more footage to be in 3-D at Comic-Con ’09, plus Miyazaki and Lasseter to attend

Disney has released its Comic-Con 3-D heavy lineup, and the studio confirmed that it will showcase 3-D footage of the new Tron film, along with 3-D clips from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. Directors Robert Zemeckis and Tim Burton will join Tron producers Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger on ….

Here’s the first image of Jim Carrey as a miserly animated Ebenezer Scrooge

Disney has released the first image of Jim Carrey in the upcoming Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Carrey stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming film, a multi-sensory film re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Capturing the essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event, Disney’s A Christmas ….

Zemeckis, Burton and Bruckheimer projects may go 3D and IMAX

Disney’s A Christmas Carol, the 3D 2009 holiday release from director Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey, will be the first film from The Walt Disney Studios slated for IMAX theaters under a new five-picture agreement the studio has reached with big screen movie exhibition company, it was announced yesterday by president of Walt Disney ….

Depp returning to the high seas and Cage to continue treasure hunting

Variety has reported that Johnny Depp will reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and is preparing to play Tonto in a new adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Both films will be produced by genre-auteur Jerry Bruckheimer, who also announced that and Nicolas Cage are working on ….

IMAX 3D version of Beowulf to be released simultaneously with film’s premiere

IMAX Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Beowulf, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis, the filmmaker behind such box office successes as Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, the Back To The Future series and What Lies Beneath, will be released domestically in IMAX 3D simultaneously ….

Beowulf film synopsis

In a time of heroes, the mighty warrior Beowulf slays the demon Grendel and incurs the wrath of its monstrous yet seductive mother, in a conflict that transforms a king into a legend. Groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis offers a vision of the Beowulf saga that has never been told before. Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures and ….

Angelina Jolie to be in Atlas Shrugged

According to Variety, Angelina Jolie is going to star in a film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged for Lionsgate films. The novel is a three part story, with the two sections following Dagny Taggart (to be played by Jolie), a no-nonsense railroad executive, and her attempt to keep her company alive despite repeated encroachment by a society falling toward collectivism, ….