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Ryan Reynolds is set to team up again with Anna Faris, who played his singing girlfriend star in the hit Just Friends. The new comedy from Universal is called TMI, in which Reynolds and Faris are eyeing starring roles.
Variety tells us that the script was written by Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Marc Klein, and centers [...]

Peter Berg and Hasbro are developing a live-action film based upon the classic Battleship board game. Since Berg’s attachment we really haven’t heard much on how this movie would play out, toying with the famous catch phrase of the game it seems now that Aliens have sunk the Battleship or at least will be. The [...]

This is one of those stories that just pops up every once in awhile because the prospect of continuing the Jurassic Park franchise is just that damn intriguing. We even posted about it a few months ago when Hasbro announced the revival of the toyline.
Now AICN is reporting that Jurassic Park III director Joe Johnston, [...]

So Universal’s horror remake The Wolfman has been the subject of scrutiny due to hits multiple release date changes. I still think the film looks descent but the concern is how good is it based on the theatrical release shuffle. i love the cast though with Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily [...]

The Shawn Levy directed Dreamworks film, Real Steel, now has its star and that is Hugh Jackman. The robot boxing film based of a short story from Richard Matheson, revolves around a world where human boxing is outlawed because of excessive violence, and replaced by robot boxing with 2,000-pound robots duking it out. Jackman would play [...]

Universal is not just set to make Hasbro board games and properties into films they will give Mattel a chance and with that, they are set up to make Barbie into a film. The studio has made a deal with Mattel to build a live action film around its signature toy line. Studios are placing a [...]

What seems to have been ongoing over the past few months Peter Berg is now officially signed on to direct the feature film adaptation for Battleship, one of six board games from the Hasbro collection being set up by the studio. The studio is planning a July 1, 2011 release date.
According to Variety, the deal is [...]

Variety reports that Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of 28 Weeks Later is going to be directing the film adaptation of the acclaimed video game, Bioshock for Universal Pictures. Originally Gore Verbinski was set to direct the film until his schedule changed after the studio put the project on hold to reacess the budget of the film [...]

Universal Studios has unleashed eleven brand new photos from Joe Johnson’s highly anticipated update of the monster movie classic The Wolfman. A Redux of the classic monster film this is one that has been shuffled around multiple times on the release date list. The story revolves around a man and upon his return to his ancestral [...]

Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog is claiming that three studios are now circling Matthew Vaughn’s film adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic series Kick-Ass! Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are in the running for the pic, which Vaughn has financed independently after some studios found the project’s violence too graphic and some of its dialogue too profain and decided [...]