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New Moon, the second film in The Twilight Saga, has smashed the box office with an estimated domestic intake of over $255 million dollars in just three weeks of release.  Come June 30, 2010, you will be able to see the vampires and werewolves of Twilight bigger than ever before.  This is because the third [...]

Peter Jackson is hard at work on several projects, one including a possible miniseries adaptation of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire book series.  In the books, the Napoleonic wars wage in the midst of dragons.
Jackson said, “I can’t see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films. To [...]

New Line Cinema is set to produce a new version of the classic Christmas tale, The Nutcracker. The film is based on the book, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, by ETA Hoffman.
Darren Lemke will write the screenplay about a twelve-year-old girl who goes on an adventure with her Nutcracker doll, a seven-headed mouse king, [...]

With Summit Entertainment’s New Moon reigning in the money at the box office, it seems the studio may be looking to make an additional two films in the Twilight saga after David Slade’s Eclipse is released next summer.  Rumors are circulating that Summit will split the fourth vampire book, Breaking Dawn, into two separate features.
Word [...]

MovieReporter.net talked recently with Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and producer/writer of the upcoming film, The Hobbit.  Jackson told the site that the script’s second draft should be completed by December or January.  The filmmakers hope to begin shooting the picture next summer.
Guillermo Del Toro is set to direct The [...]

With the principal photography for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader being completed today in Australia, a few new photos for the film are up online.  The pics feature Ben Barnes as King Caspian, Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie, and Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie on the ship called the “Dawn [...]

At an interview for his new film Brothers, producer Ryan Kavanaugh gave an update on the development of The Crow reboot, which he is producing.
Kavanaugh says that the reboot, written by Stephen Norrington, is “not a remake it’s literally a relaunch of the franchise.”
The producer speaks of the make-up as being “totally different… [...]

The film adaptation of Eric Powell’s comic The Goon, which is to be helmed by David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), is underway as Powell has finished the screenplay.
“I just finished writing the script a few months back, and Blur is working on a lot of test stuff,” says Powell. “Fincher is working [...]

Eddie Murphy is attached to produce The Misadventures of Fluffy, a new R-rated comedy being developed at Paramount Pictures.  Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly are currently writing the script for the film, which is said to be a buddy comedy with talking animals.
At the moment, Murphy has several other films at different stages of development [...]

As promised, the Facebook fan page for Alice In Wonderland has put up two additional posters for the Tim Burton film, which hits theaters on March 5, 2010.  The posters feature Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as Alice.  The White Rabbit, voiced by Michael Sheen, and the Caterpillar, voiced by Alan [...]