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Dark Horse's Hyde Becomes Big Screen Anti-Hero

David Ellison's Skydance Prods., Dark Horse Ent. and producer Mark Gordon are working on a big screen adaptation of the forthcoming Dark Horse comic THE STRANGE CASE OF HYDE, reports HEAT VISION.

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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies Author to Pen Dark Shadows

Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, has been hired to adapt Warner Bros. feature version of the supernatural soap DARK SHADOWS, reports VARIETY.

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Warner Bros. Picks Up 3 Story Graphic Novel

Warner Bros. Pictures has announced today that the Academy Award–winning writer Dustin Lance Black will both write and direct the movie adaptation of Matt Kindt’s groundbreaking graphic novel, 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man.

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E1 Ent., Hayter’s Dark Hero Partner on Push TV Series

Leading independent studio E1 Entertainment has inked a two year television production deal with top screenwriter David Hayter and his producing partner Benedict Carver.

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Dark Void Pushed to 2010

Joystiq.com reports that Capcom has pushed the DARK VOID release to 2010. The move is to avoid a full fall season of game releases. Airtight Games developed the jet pack flying game. DARK VOID was set to hit stores in September, which is the same month that HALO 3 ODST is set to drop. However, the first quarter of 2010 is looking even more packed than the fall with such titles as SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION, BIOSHOCK 2 and RED STEEL 2 already set for release.

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Dark Horse Comic Fear Agent in Development at Universal

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER's Steven Zeitchik reports that Dark Horse's comic FEAR AGENT is in early development at Universal Studios.

The project is now in an open-writing assignment. The rights are controlled by producer Jonathan Shestack.

The story follows a colorful, borderline alcoholic astronaut called Heath Huston, a Texasn who works as a fear agent whose mission is to destroy threats to planet Earth.

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Transformers 2 Has Biggest Wednesday Opening Ever

Despite savage reviews, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN seems bullet proof at the box office. Michael Bay's actioner had the biggest Wednesday opening ever in U.S. history, earning $60.6 million in 24 hours. HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX held the previous record of $44.2 million. On the all-time opening day list it only trails THE DARK KNIGHT ($67.2 million). The film is on pace to beat SPIDER-MAN 2's five-day total of $152.4 million, but it will have to pick up some ground over the weekend if it wants to surpass THE DARK KNIGHT's 5-day record of $203.8 million.

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Nu Images Travels with Thomas Jane's Dark Country

VARIETY reports that Nu Image has secured foreign rights to Thomas Jane's 3-D thriller DARK COUNTRY. Jane also stars with Ron Perlman and Lauren German. The story follows newlyweds stuck on the Nevada highway and the hell they experience there. Hyde Park's Patrick Aiello and Ashok Amritraj produced. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has the U.S. rights.

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Dark Castle Saw What You Did

VARIETY reports that Dark Castle will remake William Castle's 1965 chiller I SAW WHAT YOU DID AND I KNOW WHO YOU ARE! MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D team of Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier will pen the redux, with Lussier directing.

In the original, which was based on Ursula Curtis's novel OUT OF THE DARK, the story centered on two girls who prank phone call the wrong person.

New pic will be produced by Silver, Andrew Rona and Steve Richards. Warner Bros. will distribute.

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Dark Castle Has an Apparition

Joel Silver's Dark Castle is developing the haunted house flick THE APPARITION, VARIETY reports. The project was developed by music video director Todd Lincoln, Dark Castle exec Alex Heineman and producer Daniel Alter. The plot is hush-hush, but is based on true events. Lincoln and Alter also have THE NYE INCIDENTS, based on Whitley and Craig Spector's graphic novel, set up at Dark Castle. Silver, Heineman, and Dark Castle co-president Andrew Rona will produce.

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Katie Holmes Isn't Afraid of the Dark

Katie Holmes has signed on to star in the remake of the 1973 TV movie DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, which has been scripted by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins, according to VARIETY. Del Toro and Mark Johnson will produce with comic artist Troy Nixey in the director's chair.

The original ABC production followed a young girl, her father and his girlfriend as they are haunted by devilish creatures in their home.

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Dark Horse Goes Mobile

Press Release from Dark Horse Comics

MAY 4, MILWAUKIE, OR -- Dark Horse Comics, the third-largest American comics publisher, makes the leap into the digital world of mobile content today with the launch of a new app for the iPhone. With the release of the upcoming TERMINATOR SALVATION film in mind, Dark Horse has chosen a classic THE TERMINATOR story from its vast publishing archives to launch this program.

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Dark Horse Announces Participation in Diamond FOC Program

APRIL 13, MILWAUKIE, OR -- Dark Horse officially announces participation in the Diamond "Final Order Cutoff" program, or "FOC" for short. Dark Horse first announced the intent to participate in this program at last fall's Diamond Retailers summit in Las Vegas, Navada to a roar of applause heard throughout the casino.

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Universal, Dark Horse to Adapt Umbrella Academy

Universal Pictures, starting up their three-year deal with Dark Horse Comics, will make UMBRELLA ACADEMY into a feature film, per VARIETY.

UMBRELLA was created by Gerard Way, the lead singer of rock band My Chemical Romance, and will have a script by RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN's Mark Bomback.

First published in 2007 and spinning of a second series, the property is about a disbanded group of superheroes who reunite after the death of their adoptive father, who was an alien. They carry out his plan to save the world.

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