Category: Films

After making the visually innovative thriller THE CELL in 2000, Tarsem Singh has not made a film for a major studio since. Now the director has signed on to make the sci-fi thriller, THE UNFORGETTABLE, for Warner Bros., according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Basil Iwanyk, David Goyer and Jason Hall are producing.

Based on the Warner Bros. Interactive Ent. videogame THE CONDEMNED: CRIMINAL ORIGINS, the script, which was first titled SPECIES X, follows a cop who discovers that he is an alien and that there is a war going on between two species of extraterrestrials on Earth.

Pathe and the BBC have teamed on a new live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic THE JUNGLE BOOK, reports VARIETY. BBC documentary filmmaker John Downer (PRIDE) will helm the $50 million production, which will be based on a screenplay by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle. 102 DALMATIANS producer Michelle Fox will produce for Downer's shingle.

FIDO helmer Andrew Currie has been hired to direct Fox Atomic's comedy SPACE INVADER, starring Will Arnett, who will produce with Peter Principato and Paul Young, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

Written by Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger, the story follows the son of a NASA legend, who must overcome his fear of flying and join the space program when his girlfriend is picked to fly to the International Space Station with the hottest male astronaut around.

Robbie Brenner and John Davis will exec produce.

Anton Yelchin (ALPHA DOG, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS) is in talks to play Russian navigator Pavel Checkov in the 11th STAR TREK feature, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. At Comic-Con producer/director J.J. Abrams officially announced that HEROES star Zachary Quinto, as well as Leonard Nimoy, will be playing Mr. Spock in the film.

The plot is on the QT, but it has been rumored that the story will follow a young Enterprise crew as they first leave the Starfleet Academy.

Warner Bros. Pictures is set to bring Hanna-Barbera's action cartoon JONNY QUEST to the silver screen as a live-action production, reports the trades. Dan Mazeau, who sold the spec script LAND OF LOST THINGS to Nickelodeon, has been tapped to pen a screenplay. Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter will produce.

New Regency has acquired the film rights to Virgin Comics series VIRULENTS, reports VARIETY. John Moore (THE OMEN remake) will direct and John Cox will write the film, which will be distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Set in modern war torn Afghanistan, American and Indian soldiers team up to locate a lost patrol when they happen upon a hive of vampire zombies.

Virgin Comics' Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan will produce alongside Seth Jaret and Moore.

The characters from the Academy Award winning CHUBBCHUBBS are arriving in theaters in a new short titled THE CHUBBCHUBBS SAVE XMAS, which will debut on August 8, 2007, before TriStar Pictures' DADDY DAY CAMP.

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM not only broke records for the franchise and spy thrillers, but also for the month of August, posting an estimated opening weekend cume of $69.2 million, beating out former record holder RUSH HOUR 2 by $2.8 million. Last weekend's #1 film, THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, fell 65%, bringing in an estimated $25.1 million, which raises its cume to $128. 6 million for the weekend period ended Aug. 5, 2007. UNDERDOG debuted in third with approximately $12 million in box office receipts.

Writer/director Frank Miller has cast Gabriel Macht (THE GOOD SHEPHERD, upcoming WHITEOUT) as the title character in WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT, reports VARIETY. Lionsgate and Odd Lot Ent. are co-funding the film, which starts shooting in October, eyeing a 2009 release. Odd Lot heads Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete are the producers along with Batfilm Prods.' Michael Uslan.