Auds won’t have to wait for “Justice League” to see Warner Bros.’ two marquee superheroes share the bigscreen, as both Batman and Superman will be characters in the studio’s upcoming “Lego” movie. The “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are directing “Lego: The Piece of Resistance,” which is…
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Warner Bros’ adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel It has a director and writer. Cary Fukunaga, the hot-shot filmmaker behind last year’s adaptation of Jane Eyre, is boarding the project as director and will co-write the script with Chase Palmer, who previously adapted Frank Herbert’s Dune for Paramount. Roy Lee and Dan Lin are…
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Warner Bros. has acquired feature rights to “The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia” and set it up with Warner-based producer Dan Lin. Studio has tapped Bill Dubuque to adapt the book based on the investigation of former New York City cops. After a turncoat underworld boss fingered officers…
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LEGO is set to burst out of the big screen in 3D on February 28, 2014, Warner Bros announced today. Directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, who also wrote the screenplay, the computer-animated adventure will be feature some classic and some new characters from the world of the construction toys. Lord and Miller worked…
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Steven Spielberg is near to etching in stone with Warner Bros on that biopic portraying the Jewish leader as the warrior to beat all warriors. With a working title of Gods And Kings, what’s envisioned is “a movie like a Braveheart-ish version of the Moses story,” an insider tells us. “Him coming down the river,…
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Warner Bros. is heading to “Otherland,” acquiring feature rights to Tad Williams’ sci-fi book series and setting it up with Dan Lin to produce. Studio has tapped John Scott III to script the film, based on the four books published by DAW-Penguin USA between 1996 and 2001 as “City of Golden Shadow,” “River of Blue…
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Patrick Sean Smith, who created the ABC Family show Greek, is jumping into features. Smith has been tapped to write Bone, Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the cult-favorite Jeff Smith comic book that now has P.J. Hogan attached to direct. Dan Lin of Lin Pictures and Animal Logic are producing the adaptation of the fantasy series,…
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Warner Bros.-based Lin Pictures has promoted Jon Silk to senior VP of production and Seanne Winslow Wehrenfennig to director of development. Both are responsible for finding and acquiring material and developing the shingle’s feature slate and will continue to report directly to Dan Lin, the head of Lin Pictures. Silk has been VP of production…
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The next new “Sherlock Holmes” movie is out, and if you loved the first film, it’s more of what you loved — more slam-bang Victorian action, more whimsically anachronistic dialogue, more sly homoerotic innuendo and of course, more Robert Downey Jr. doing what he does best, which is to say, upend every convention of the…
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