For the first time in company history, Mattel will roll out a new intellectual property, Monster High, across a number of diverse consumer products categories simultaneously at launch.

VARIETY posted a list of ten animators that are on the brink of stardom.

HEAT VISION reports that Jeremy Renner is in closing talks to play Hawkeye in Joss Whedon's THE AVENGERS for Marvel Studios.

Neal McDonough (TV's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) is in negotiations to join the cast of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, reports Deadline.com.

Relativity Media has paid low six-figures for Melisa Wallack's script THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE, reports Deadline.com.

Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) announced today a landmark year ahead for DC Comics and master toy licensee Mattel, led by programs in support of summer 2011's Green Lantern from Warner Bros. Pictures.

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, BATTLE ROYALE will be converted into 3-D and re-released in Japanese theaters in November, reports VARIETY.

Cinesite, one of the leading film visual effects houses, has completed more than 280 shots on the new Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films movie, /Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time/

It's another stellar Blu-ray week with the release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.), Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (Paramount Home Ent.) and Joe Johnston's re-imagined The Wolfman (Universal Studios Home Ent.).

Stephen Graham (PUBLIC ENEMIES) has been hired to play Capt. Jack Sparrow's sidekick in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, reports VARIETY.