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Relativity to bring cult classic Voltron to live-action big screen

Relativity Media’s Tucker Tooley announced that the studio has optioned the feature film rights for Voltron, and will adapt a live-action movie from the 1984 cult-classic animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe. The project was brought to Relativity through their deal with Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Richard Suckle, whose company will shepherd the ….

Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Contagion getting IMAX release

IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the global thriller Contagion, from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, will be released to digital IMAX theatres worldwide day-and-date with the film’s traditional release on September 9, 2011. The film brings together a stellar ensemble cast, including Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Inception); Academy ….

Lionsgate to release Joss Whedon’s horror film The Cabin in the Woods

Lionsgate has nabbed distribution rights to the horror film The Cabin in the Woods from MGM and has scheduled the film to be released on April 13, 2012. The Cabin in the Woods was co-written by Joss Whedon (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, FIREFLY, the upcoming Marvel film THE AVENGERS) and writer Drew Goddard (CLOVERFIELD, LOST, ….

True Legend distributor and Samuel L. Jackson team up for live-action Afro Samurai

The Indomina Group, the indie distributor that recently released Yuen Woo Ping’s True Legend, is teaming up with Samuel L. Jackson and Gonzo Studios to produce a live action film based on the Afro Samurai animated series. The announcement was made by Indomina’s Vice Chairman and CEO Jasbinder Singh Mann, who will serve as producer ….

Win one of two copies of the live-action Tekken film on Blu-ray

The live-action epic film Tekken is available today in a special Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo as well as a DVD edition. To celebrate the release, Anchor Bay Films has provided FilmFetish with 2 copies of the Blu-ray combo release exclusively for readers to enjoy. In order to be entered into the random drawing for your free ….

Sean Bean joins the cast of Tarsem Singh’s Untitled Snow White feature

Relativity Media has nabbed Sean Bean (HBO’s Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King) to play the King in its upcoming Untitled Snow White feature, directed by Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Cell). Bean joins the previously announced cast in which Oscar-winner Julia Roberts plays the Queen, Lily Collins (The Blind ….

Warner Bros. chooses directors for 300 sequel 300: Battle of Artemisia and live-action Akira films

Warner Bros. has tapped Noam Murro to direct its 300 spin-off, 300: Battle of Artemisia, which was formerly known as Xerses, according to THR. The Israeli director of the 2008 movie Smart People, was up for the project along with Jaum Collet-Serra, who directed the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown. But Collet-Serra isn’t quite out of ….