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Del Toro developing DreamWorks animation Trollhunters and moving ahead with At the Mountains of Madness

Another big update on heavily in-demand director Guillermo del Toro has landed on THR. According to the report, del Toro is setting up an animated feature titled Trollhunters at DreamWorks Animation, which he will write and direct. Trollhunters will be based on a young-adult book del Toro submitted to publisher Hyperion two weeks ago. After ….

Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood and sci-fi show Falling Skies cast to invade New York Comic-Con 2010

Just found some additional New York Comic-Con 2010 news. MediumAtLarge revealed that Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood and writer Mark Verheiden, from TNT’s upcoming sci-fi series Falling Skies, will be at New York Comic-Con on Saturday from 4-5 PM, signing autographs at the Dark Horse Booth. In Falling Skies, which premieres in 2011, Wyle plays Tom ….

Terminator and Superman directors to produce pair of digital sci-fi and action series for Warner Premiere

Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) and McG (Terminator Salvation) have been tapped by Warner Premiere to produce a series of multi-platform digital sci-fi and action titles, according to HeatVision. If successful, the pair of digital series could lead to spin-off television and film adaptations, however, the installments are most certainly expected to be collected into a ….

Warner Bros. action script deal a dream come true for film school grads

HeatVision reports that Warner Bros. has optioned an action script project titled Family Getaway from newcomers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who met in the MFA directing program at the American Film Institute and began writing together shortly after graduating in 2008. The story is described as a Jason Bourne film crossed with Little Miss ….

Dragon Tattoo actor to play villain in Mission: Impossible IV

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) has been tapped to play the villain for Paramount’s fourth Mission: Impossible film, according to Variety. The Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)-directed espionage thriller is set to begin shooting this fall in ….

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 ….

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 ….

AMC releases final poster for The Walking Dead adaptation

Today AMC released the key art for its upcoming original drama The Walking Dead, which premieres on Halloween night, October 31st, at 10pm. Executive produced and written by Academy Award nominee Frank Darabont, The Walking Dead tells the story of the months and years following a zombie apocalypse. The series, based on the comic by ….

Win one of three copies of David Lynch and Werner Herzog’s psychological thriller My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done on DVD

This week saw the release of the psychological thriller My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done, featuring the first-ever collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch and Werner Herzog, and a top-notch cast, including Academy Award Nominees Michael Shannon, Chloë Sevigny and Willem Dafoe. In celebration of the release, FilmFetish is giving away three copies ….

Six Million Dollar Man TV series coming to DVD for first time in U.S.

Just days after Wizard World confirmed that Lee Majors will make his first convention appearance in over 30 years during Wizard World’s Big Apple Comic Con in two weeks, Time Life has released details on the upcoming bionic collector’s release of the cult classic Six Million Dollar Man television series, which will be released on ….