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Fox has ordered two new animated series, one being an animated TV adaptation of the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite and another entitled Allen Gregory, which will be co-written and co-executive-produced by Jonah Hill. Deadline TV has the news, which indicates that the Napoleon Dynamite series was given a six-episode order while Allen Gregory was given a seven-episode order. The main players behind Napoleon Dynamite will return, with Jon Heder and the rest of the original cast returning to voice their characters....

One of the great Hollywood myths is that they are actually making a film based on the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Its gone through some bumps in preproduction, with acclaimed director David O. Russell bowing out alongside actors Mark Wahlberg, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci. Now, replacement helmer Neil Burger (Limitless), has bailed as well, leaving the director’s seat empty. Keeping the dream alive, Sony Pictures, Atlas entertainment, and Arad Production have hired a new set of writers in duo Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley, best know for their work on the National Treasure franchise and the Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle sequel....

The streaming release of The Sandman has been a success for Netflix, and that’s good news for original author Neil Gaiman. As someone who was very involved with the series, part of the reason that The Sandman has taken so long to get a proper live-action adaptation is that Gaiman wanted to be sure that everything about it was just right. That’s why one pitch that came to Gaiman in the 1990s did not materialize, even with the potential involvement of one of the world’s most popular celebrities....

After yesterday’s big news that Marc Webb was hired to direct the new Spider-Man reboot, some new information about the film was revealed. Risky Business Blog is reporting that the film will be budgeted at $80 million and confirmed that Webb has the option of returning for two more sequels. Here’s an excerpt from the article. CLICK HERE for the full article. Webb, who has options on two sequels, will now tackle a James Vanderbilt script that sees a Spider-Man movie that will look and feel very different from the big movies that went before it....

Welcome to the CIA, Nicole Kidman. MTV Movies Blog recently interviewed Jumper director Doug Liman, and he said that Nicole Kidman is set to play Valerie Plame, the spy whose cover was controversially blown by the government in 2003. “Nicole Kidman,” director Doug Liman revealed. “She’s perfect if you’ve ever met Valerie. Nicole was supposed to play Jane Smith in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. We owe a movie together! That’s an unrequited thing between me and an actor where I fell in love with them for a role and never get to consummate it....

The upcoming 10-episode adaptation of author Joe Hill’s novel NOS4A2 meant to be read as Nosferatu is all set to drive straight into our nightmares later this year on AMC, and today we have the show’s new teaser to prove it. This new teaser is basically a bunch of seemingly random bits and pieces and flashing strange images, but hell, it works. And all of these quick images eventually add up to let us know that, as you might imagine, someone bad is, in fact, coming....

Orlando Bloom will star in the indie drama The Good Doctor, starring opposite Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons, who are all in negotiations to co-star. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lance Daly will direct the film, which will also be produced by Bloom. The script from John Enbom is described as a Hitchcockian thriller, and centers on a frustrated doctor looking to impress his superiors and colleagues....

The homeowner whose house was destroyed in the fiery car crash that killed Anne Heche is speaking out following news that the actress has died after being taken off of life support. Lynne Mishele was in the backyard of her home in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles when Heche lost control of her car and slammed into the residence on August 5. The actress suffered an anoxic brain injury and was declared brain-dead a week later....

The popular actor discusses Brett Ratner, making the third X-Men movie and working with the young actors in the cast Few actors can command the screen today like Patrick Stewart. With an enormous fan base behind him, this accomplished actor really caught fire as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation. An accomplished actor both on the stage and on screen, Patrick Stewart has also been widely acclaimed for his role as Professor Charles Xavier in the popular X-Men movies....

Access Niagra has posted an article about the crew of Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End filming at Niagra Falls: While local and national news cameras have focused on Buffalo-area storm damage this week, a Hollywood film crew has its lenses trained on the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}Walt Disney Studios is shooting falls-related scenes for use in Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, the third installment in the wildly successful series of swashbuckling films, scheduled for release in May....

It was recently announced Lucifer’s Joe Henderson will be creating a live-action Pokémon show for Netflix. Since the show is only in early development, it is not clear what it is going to entail. The Pokémon franchise is a worldwide phenomenon that dates back to its first step into the public space as a video game in 1996. Since then, the Pokémon franchise has expanded to a successful animated show with almost 2000 episodes, 23 animated films, and one live-action film (Detective Pikachu) in 2019....

On Saturday, May 6, the Tribeca Film Festival will host the world premiere of Poseidon. The Warner Bros. Pictures action-adventure stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Mia Maestro, Jimmy Bennett and Andre Braugher, many of whom will attend the star-studded gala. “We are truly honored and delighted to be a part of the Tribeca Film Festival and to offer New York audiences advance passage on Poseidon,” says Academy Award nominated director Wolfgang Petersen....

PrimEdge, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Orangebox Entertainment has finished post production for the upcoming theatrical release, Return to the House on Haunted Hill, from Dark Castle Entertainment. The film is due to be released in September 2007 and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Dark Castle Entertainment was formed in 1999 by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis as a division of Silver Pictures, a production house affiliated with Warner Bros. Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis are two of the most successful producers and preeminent filmmakers in the motion picture industry today....

While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s exit from their duties with the royal family became headline-making news, the couple’s new Netflix series, Harry & Meghan, has been rehashing plenty of the royal family drama since the first three episodes of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s show dropped last week. Today, Part 2 of the couple’s show was officially released on Netflix, and plenty of shocking new claims from Prince Harry and Markle have come along with the latest episodes....

Filming has begun on Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ comedy Get Smart,starring Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin) and Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada). The announcement was made by Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner Bros. Pictures. Inspired by characters from the classic television series Get Smart, the film stars Carell as secret agent Maxwell Smart; Hathaway as his partner, Agent 99; Dwayne The Rock Johnson (Gridiron Gang) as Agent 23; Terence Stamp (The Limey) as Siegfried, a key KAOS operative; and Academy Award winner Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) as the Chief of CONTROL....

An all-star cast will provide voices for the main characters in Academy Award nominee Shane Acker’s animated epic 9, which is currently in production for Focus Features. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement. Elijah Wood (of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Focus’ Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) will voice the title role of 9. Joining him are Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (of Focus’ upcoming Reservation Road), actor/filmmaker Crispin Glover (whose films as actor include River’s Edge), Academy Award winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood), two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Plummer (who returns to Broadway this spring, starring in Inherit the Wind), and John C....

Inspired by a true story, Nikki Blonsky (of Hairspray fame) stars as Maggie, an overweight high school senior who is constantly bullied and made fun of by her peers. When some of the popular - and skinny - girls put her name on the ballot for homecoming queen, hoping to embarrass her even more, Maggie decides to take their challenge. She doesn’t drop out of the race. Instead she forges on....

All right, classic splatter fans–sit down, shut up, and brace yourself as Bava and Argento bring us more eighties survival splatter in Demons 2. If you’re already looking askance at this piece and muttering at your monitor: “Hey…wait a second. Wasn’t the end of Demons basically an ’end of the world’ scenario with people bugging out to the countryside because the cities were jam-packed with cannibalistic, fanged, demonic subhumans hell-bent on murder, mayhem and lunching up the populace?...

Put out the fires with Denis Leary on DVD this June. Rescue Me: The Complete Fourth Season is coming to DVD on June 3. This four-disc set will contain all 13 episodes of the season and the set will be priced at $49.95 SRP. The series stars Denis Leary, Tatum O’Neal, Charles Durning and features guest star performances from Susan Sarandon, Gina Gershon and Jennifer Esposito. Rescue Me centers on the inner workings of a New York City firehouse and the personal and emotional battles of its members in a post-9/11 world....

MTV caught up with actor Robert Englund, who spoke about the future of him portraying Freddy Krueger and the possibility of a A Nightmare on Elm Street prequel: CLICK HERE to read the rest of the interview where Englund reveals his thoughts on doing another “Nightmare/Freddy” movie and the prospect of the films being remade with a younger cast. The 59-year-old actor revealed that there really isn’t much demand to resurrect his most popular character....