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Funny or Die website getting into the film production business

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy’s popular website Funny or Die, along with CAA and others, is teaming with producer Scott Steindorff and Scott Pictures to form a multiyear partnership to create of a slate of feature-length comedy films, according to THR. The goal is to produce two to three pictures a year. Funny ….

Day After Tomorrow and 2012 creators to destroy earth again with secret project + 2 Independence Day sequels

Deadline reports that David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has nabbed the rights to an untitled global disaster film spec script written by Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot, which Devlin will make his feature directing debut. Skydance’s Ellison and Dana Goldberg will produce the sure-to-be-big-budget-tentpole, with Devlin and his Electric Entertainment. The new project marks a return ….

Joseph Gordon-Levitt a go for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For but not Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to appear in Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, the Dimension Films prequel to the stylish noir drama that Rodriguez and Miller are co-directing, that’s based on Miller’s graphic novel. According to Deadline New York, Gordon-Levitt will play the role of Johnny, a role the ….

X-Men director Bryan Singer to reboot The Twilight Zone TV show

The Twilight Zone is set to return to primetime television and X-Men director Bryan Singer has been tapped to develop, executive produce and may direct the reboot of Rod Serling’s cult classic sci-fi series. CBS TV Studios, which owns the rights to the original series, is looking for a writer to pen the new Twilight ….

Bruce Willis action sequel A Good Day to Die Hard coming to IMAX

Representatives from IMAX today announced that A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth installment in Twentieth Century Fox’s enduring action-thriller series starring Bruce Willis, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format. The film will be released in IMAX theatres internationally beginning February 7th and domestically on February 14th. This marks the first ….