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Producers Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, chairman of Platinum Studios, and Gale Anne Hurd, founder of Valhalla Motion Pictures and producer of THE TERMINATOR and this years upcoming AEON FLUX, announced that they are developing Top Cows spiritually themed comicbook MAGDALENA as a feature film. Kevin Taft, who recently signed a writing deal for New Line Cinemas ALONE, has been tapped to pen the script.

In celebration of Halloween, a new Flash movie CLIMATE MASH (www.climatemash.org/) has hit the Net, exposing the zombies and vampires of global warming denial. This take on the song "Monster Mash" was recorded by original "Monster Mash" artist Bobby "Boris" Pickett. Clear the Air, the sponsors of the CLIMATE MASH, said a much higher than expected 99,704 unique visitors viewed the Flash movie 117,866 times since it first went online on Oct. 18.

Daniel H. Wilson, a 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate in robotics at Carnegie Mellon, has optioned the film rights to his first book HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING to Michael DeLuca Prods., reports SCI-FI WIRE. A film treatment based on the book, which hits stores Nov. 7, 2005, has already been written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (Comedy Central's RENO 911).

ADVA Academy Awards for ExcellenceWorld Wide WebDecember 15, 2005Deadline: November 25, 2005

TOM AND JERRY SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION VOL. 2 (Warner Home Video., $26.99, Oct. 25, 2005) contains another 38 classic MGM TOM AND JERRY shorts from the 40s and 50s in this two-disc set, including their Academy Award-nominated debut, PUSS GETS THE BOOT, in which they were called Jasper and Jinx. The set offers two other Oscar nominees, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. MOUSE, plus several rare CinemaScope gems, including TOM AND CHERIE, MUSCLE BEACH TOM, DOWN BEAT BEAR, MUCHO MOUSE and TOT WATCHERS. As with the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION VOL.