In my review for SHREK THE THIRD, I said, "[it] doesn’t walk the edge like the other films, but there are still enough flares of that same good ol’ SHREK that you remember why you were friends in the first place." Three years later those flares have completely burned out. This "what if Shrek were never born" fantasy is the kind of desperate plot that tired sitcoms resort to.

SHARK TALE director Eric "Bibo" Bergeron is working on a live-action fantasy romance, reports VARIETY.

Universal and Working Title have snatched up the rights to commercial director Gary Shore's THE CUP OF TEARS Internet short/trailer, reports HEAT VISION.

HEAT VISION reports that FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS star Jemaine Clement is in final talks to join MEN IN BLACK III as one of the bad guys.

IMAX Corporation today announced that the epic action-adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, from hit-making producer Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Mike Newell and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Sir Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina will open in 53 IMAX theatres internationally, with 20 of those IMAX locations opening this week starting on May 19.

VARIETY reports that PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES will be shot in Disney Digital 3D.

Lucas Foster's Warp Films has acquired the rights to Christopher Farnsworth's BLOOD OATH, reports HEAT VISION.

Italian production company Colorado Film is working on an adaptation of Licia Troisi's CHRONICLES OF THE OVERWORLD series, reports VARIETY.

Florida-based Full Sail University, thanks to a core program revolving around Autodesk software, offers a real world education in computer animation and gaming.

DECODE Enterprises, the distribution subsidiary of DHX Media, has signed a deal for its hit preschool series Animal Mechanicals (55x11’) with new Hasbro/Discovery Communications network ‘The Hub’.