I Am Number Four

Sci-fi thrillers I Am Number Four and Real Steel coming to IMAX

Disney, DreamWorks and IMAX announced today that two of DreamWorks’ 2011 sci-fi films – I Am Number Four and Real Steel – will open day-and-date in digital IMAX theatres around the world. Both films are produced by DreamWorks and will be released under Disney’s Touchstone banner as part of the distribution agreement between the two ….

More aliens heading towards Hollywood

Paramount Pictures has nabbed a sci-fi pitch from first-time writer Bobby Glickert titled Confidential Alien Project, to be produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, according to HeatVision. The story is getting the Area 51 treatment, and apparently involves alien abduction. The film will be based on Glickert’s treatment ….

District 9 star circling D.J. Caruso’s sci-fi fantasy I Am Number Four

Sharlto Copley, who starred in District 9 and plays ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock in the upcoming big screen version of The A-Team, is in negotiations to take the lead in I Am Number Four, which is based on the upcoming young-adult science fiction book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes, according to HeatVisionBlog. British actor Alex ….

Spider-Man 2 writers and Michael Bay adapting comic Existence 2.0

HeatVisionBlog reports that Paramount has nabbed rights to the Image comic Existence 2.0, with Smallville and Spider-Man 2 writers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough attached to adapt. Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes will produce the eventual film with Circle of Confusion’s David Alpert. The action comic Existence 2.0 was written by Nick Spencer featuring with art ….

Smallville creators set to adapt sci-fi novel for the the big screen

DreamWorks has set Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, whose writing credits include Spider-Man 2 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, to adapt the James Frey and Jobie Hughes novel I Am Number Four to the big screen, according to Variety. Transformers director Michael Bay will produce and possibly direct the eventual ….