IndieWire reports that Ang Lee is prepping a big screen adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker prize-winning LIFE OF PI.

Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens has been cast as Jokey Smurf in THE SMURFS, reports Deadline.com.

The Previsualization Society today announced "Previs 2010," the organization's inaugural event in Los Angeles scheduled for May 8. The one-day gathering will bring together a wide spectrum of professionals who use and interact with previs for an exploration of current previs approaches, workflows and new work.

VARIETY reports that San Diego's Tourism Marketing District board is offering Comic-Con hotel tax revenue as an incentive to stay in the city.

IMAX Corporation (Nasdaq:IMAX) (TSX:IMX) and Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), announced today that they have completed an agreement to release up to 20 Warner Bros. films in IMAX's format over the course of the next three and a half years (from 2010 through 2013).

Summit Entertainment has confirmed that Academy Award® winner Bill Condon will direct THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, based on the fourth novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.

Previs 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Sofitel Los Angeles
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
 
$40 for Previsualization Society members
$100 for non-members
Reserve tickets in advance on www.previssociety.com.

Hosted by the Previsualization Society, Previs 2010 brings together a wide spectrum of professionals who use and interact with previs for an exploration of current previs approaches, workflows and new work.  The program will highlight recent motion picture previs, as well as interdisciplinary round tables that encourage input from all vantage points of pre-production, production and post production with an emphasis on previs in relationship to the creative process.  Event begins at 2:00 pm, with a dinner-and-drinks reception to follow from 7:00-9:00 pm.  Full details on www.previssociety.com.

Jeffrey Katzenberg told THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER that DreamWorks Animation plans to have a HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON sequel in theaters by the second half of 2013.

EuropaCorp and France-based Zagtoon are partnering on a TV series version of ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES, reports VARIETY.

HIT Entertainment, a leading provider of quality children’s entertainment, announces that Topsville, Inc., a manufacturer of children’s apparel, has been selected as the US master apparel licensee for Angelina Ballerina.