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Apr 16 2008 6:19 AM
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adnana
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If there's one thing Steven Spielberg loves, it’s Japanese crime fighting manga. At least, that’s what he’s saying after leading the charge to help DreamWorks obtain the rights to adapt Ghost in the Shell. As any self-respecting manga fan knows, Ghost in the Shell was created by Masamune Shirow and tells the story of a female member of the covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission.
According to Variety, Spielberg worked hard to make sure DreamWorks beat out Sony and Universal for the rights. ”Ghost in the Shell is one of my favorite stories. It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks." Although Spielberg is excited about the project, he’s not excited enough to produce, write, or direct. Jamie Moss, who wrote Street Kings, will adapt the manga into a script. Marvel Comics guru Avi Arad and Steven Paul will produce and a director hasn’t been found, yet.
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Posted on
Apr 16 2008 6:13 AM
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adnana
DreamWorks has acquired rights to the Japanese postcyberpunk manga Ghost in the Shell after Steven Spielberg took personal interest in the popular anime property. Variety reports that the studio plans to develop Shell into a 3D live-action feature-length film. Created by Masamune Shirow (Appleseed), Ghost in the Shell was first published in 1989 in Young Magazine. Over the years the manga has been adapted into three anime films, two anime television series, and three PlayStation video games.
According to Wikipedia, the futuristic police thriller follows the exploits of Motoko Kusanagi, a member of the covert operations section of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission, Section 9, which specializes in fighting technology-related crime. Kusanagi is capable of superhuman feats, and bionically specialized for her job — her body is almost completely mechanized; only her brain and a segment of her spinal cord are organic. I have never seen Ghost in the Shell, but the concept sounds like it could make a really cool live-action film.
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Apr 01 2008 3:57 AM
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adnana
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Jaime Pressly has corralled a lead role in "I Love You, Man," the DreamWorks comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel.
Written and being directed by John Hamburg ("Along Came Polly"), "I Love You" centers on a guy (Rudd) about to be married whose fiancee (Rashida Jones) is calling all her friends to be in the wedding. Realizing he has no friends, he starts to go on man-dates to find a best man; he finds one in Segel.
Pressly plays the best friend of the fiancee.
Donald De Line is producing.
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Dec 15 2007 11:19 AM
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adnana
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Peter Jackson is set to reteam with his performance-capture star Andy Serkis for DreamWorks' Tintin trilogy, based on Georges Remi's Belgian comic-strip. Steven Spielberg and Jackson will each helm at least one of the three films, though the specific lineup is unknown...
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Nov 20 2007 5:25 AM
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adnana
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Unlike their competitors over at Pixar, the guys at DreamWorks Animation have no problem cranking out sequel after sequel after sequel. Their most recent movies in Bee Movie and Shrek the Third may have taken a critical beating, but it sounds like they made enough money that DreamWorks isn’t done squeezing them for dollars...
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DreamWorks Animation has acquired Alan Schoolcraft & Brent Simons' superhero sendup spec Master Mind, with Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld producing through their Red Hour Films. DreamWorks Animation veterans Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson are attached to make their feature film directorial debut with Master Mind, a satirical take on the superhero genre centering on a supervillain who loses his joie de vivre after accidentally killing his archrival, Uberman, in the opening scene of the movie. "They have put the film on the fast track, which in animation terms means it will be coming out in the next 15-20 years," Stiller joked. Read the rest of this entry »
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DreamWorks Animation has hired Lilo & Stitch director Chris Sanders, a longtime Disney veteran, to helm its cavemen comedy Crood Awakenings. DreamWorks had been developing "Crood" with Aardman, but took it inhouse after its partnership with the British claymation house recently ended. After a nearly 20-year stint, Sanders left Disney early this year due to creative differences with studio leadership, including John Lasseter, over his movie American Dog. Read the rest of this entry »
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Mike Myers and Paramount Pictures are bringing Marco Schnabel aboard to direct Myers in his return to the big screen as the advice-dispensing Indian Guru Pitka in The Love Guru.
Mike De Luca (Ghost Rider) also has boarded to produce through his Mike De Luca Productions.
Myers wrote the script with Graham Gordy. The story takes up as the eccentric guru is called in to solve a couple's romantic troubles.
Schnabel is no stranger to Myers, having been a protege of Austin Powers director Jay Roach. He was the second unit director on Austin Powers in Goldmember
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DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. have also set a December 21 release for the movie, which puts it directly up against Nicolas Cage sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
In the adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller, Depp plays a man unjustly sent to prison, who vows revenge not only for that cruel punishment but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, he becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentleman who never thereafter were heard from again."
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Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear are teaming to star in DreamWorks' romantic comedy Ghost Town.
Steven Spielberg's go-to screenwriter David Koepp (War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones 4) will direct from a script he wrote with John Kamps.
The story centers on a dentist who dies briefly during routine dental surgery and gains the ability to see dead people who ask him for help in contacting the living.
The studio is eyeing an October start date.
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We have for you a first look at the new poster for DreamWorks Animation's Shrek the Third, opening in theaters on May 18. The second sequel is voiced by Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Justin Timberlake, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amy Sedaris, John Krasinski and Ian McShane.
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DreamWorks Pictures has handed over four new photos from the anticipated Transformers, opening in theaters on July 4. Directed by Michael Bay, the sci-fi action-adventure stars Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Rachael Taylor, Megan Fox, John Turturro and Jon Voight. Read the rest of this entry »
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DreamWorks Animation plans to release all its films in 3-D starting in 2009. The new digital 3-D exhibition process, enabled largely by technology company Real D, has been gaining significant interest in Hollywood recently. Fox will release the James Cameron-directed Avatar in 3-D in 2009, and Disney will put Meet the Robinsons on about 600 digital 3-D screens this month. DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said the studio considered adding 3-D effects to some of its 2007 and 2008 releases but wanted to produce films with the new exhibition process in mind from the outset. Read the rest of this entry »
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Haylie Duff (Napoleon Dynamite) and Kristen Kerr (Inland Empire) have joined the cast of indie horror film The I Scream Man.
J.T. Mollner directs, with Nicholas Terry, Mikos Zavros and Ami Werges producing. The cast includes Spencer Garrett and Theresa Tilly.
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Stand-up comedian Katt Williams will write and star in DreamWorks
Pictures' comedy Marshals. Eddie Murphy will produce and is set to
co-star.
The story revolves around the first black marshals of the Old West.
Murphy and Williams recently teamed on DreamWorks' boxoffice hit Norbit, in which Williams played Lord Have Mercy.
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