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Wolfgang Petersen developing live-action version of the anime Paprika

Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) developing a live-action feature film version of the book and anime film Paprika, according to Moviehole. According to the report, the director is hard at work to bring the acclaimed novel to the big screen. The original 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, tells the story of ….

Major film studios bidding for the right to Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass is close to securing a distributor, according to THR’s Risky Business blog. Three studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal, are currently eyeing the brutal comic-book adaptation. According to the report, the winner will have to pony up a high seven-figure sum, plus back-end residuals. Heavy interest was apparently sparked after the film’s ….

Hugh Jackman heading to Japan for next Wolverine, which will be based on Frank Miller origin tale

Hugh Jackman revealed to MTV at the Teen Choice Awards over the weekend that development on the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was critically blasted but financially successful, is now well underway. The actor/producer also confirmed previously rumored intentions to have the next film set largely in Japan, and that the story-line will be ….

Star Trek scribes’ Cowboys and Aliens script finished – still unknown if Robert Downey Jr. will star

Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the team who wrote the latest Star Trek film) have completed a new script for the long-in-development Cowboys and Aliens adaptation, and recently discussed the project with reporters, including Sci-Fi Wire. “We literally handed it in yesterday,” Kurtzman told reporters on August 6, adding that they’re hoping for feedback ….

Dragonball Evolution: Z Edition Blu-ray review

Dragonball Evolution, based on the wildly popular manga, and later anime, series by Akira Toriyama, stars Justin Chatwin as a high school outcast named Goku, who lives with his grandfather, martial arts instructor Gohan (Randall Duk Kim), who spends his days fantasizing about fellow high schooler Chi Chi (Jamie Chung). The film’s story-line is soon ….

Tim Roth’s Abomination character to return for more films?

Tim Roth, who played Emil Blonsky/The Abomination in The Incredible Hulk, confirmed that Marvel has discussed reprising the role with him in future films, possibly including the impending Avengers live-action film, according to Sci-Fi Wire. “They have, but in a very different way,” Roth said in a group interview at the Television Critics Association summer ….

Alibi comic headed to big screen via Surrogate producers

Mandeville Films and Top Cow Productions are developing a film adaptation version of Top Cow’s comic Alibi, according to Variety. The 2008 comic centers on a well-known socialite whose public appearances establish a perfect alibi for the espionage activity of his twin brother, who is a government assassin. Alibi was created by Top Cow president ….

Fear Agent adaptation could be a huge, $100 million film, according to creator

MTV SplashPage got an update on the progress of Universal’s impending film adaptation of Rick Remender’s Fear Agent, from the writer himself – who’s currently penning the Punisher comic. “Well [Fear Agent] still moving forward,” Remender told MTV News, “The press release that went out was a leak, it wasn’t official and it was missing ….

New photos from Kate Beckinsale’s sub-zero thriller Whiteout released

Yahoo has posted new stills from the long-delayed Kate Beckinsale film Whiteout, the film based on Greg Rucka’s graphic novel. Dominic Sena directs Whiteout from a script by Jon & Erich Hoeber and Chad & Carey Hayes, about a U.S. Marshal (Beckinsale) who’s tracking a killer in the sub-zero temperatures of Antarctica, as the sun ….

Director Jon Favreau looking to bring Iron Man 2 to IMAX and Iron Man 3 or Avengers to 3-D

On the heels of the first 3D-imbued Comic-Con panels this year, MYV Movies reports that director Jon Favreau confirmed that there’s a good chance that Iron Man 2 will be released on IMAX screens, and that he wants to shoot either Iron Man 3 or the 2012 Avengers movie in 3-D.