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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

On The Slate

Here's some Cinema Stew with some January industry bits...


-IMAX Corporation, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and Warner Bros. Pictures have announced that two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep will narrate "To the Arctic 3D" which will be released exclusively to select IMAX theatres starting April 20th 2012.

-Platinum Studios and producer Mark Canton ("300," "Immortals") are teaming to resurrect their planned live-action film adaptation of the five-issue graphic novel mini-series "Atlantis Rising" reports MSN.

-Is a film version of the ITV1 costume drama Downtown Abbey in the works?

-Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" has surpassed "Mission: Impossible 2" to become the highest grossing film in the franchise says THR

-Albert Torres has been hired to write a script for a film based on the Cartoon Network series "Ben 10"; Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko have been hired to pen a feature adaptation of the graphic novel "Too Cool to Be Forgotten" reports Variety.

-Sony is hosting sneak peeks of never-before-seen footage from "The Amazing Spider-Man" in a global event slated for February 6th. Tickets can be reserved at www.TheUntoldStoryBegins.com for the screenings in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Mexico City, Moscow, Rio, Rome, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.

-Say what? Some film goers in the UK did not know that Michel Hazanavicius’s award season favorite "The Artist" is a silent movie according to The Daily Telegraph.

-Vinessa Shaw, Ebon Moss and Daniel Gimenez Cacho have joined the cast of "Child's Play", a Spanish language remake of the 1976 thriller "Who Could Kill a Child?" says Screen Daily. Shaw plays a pregnant woman whose remote island getaway is terrorized by possessed children.

-Disney Pictures has picked up an untitled space adventure pitch from "Chronicle" scribe Max Landis says Variety. The story revolves around the emotional journey of a brother and sister as they undertake an epic adventure.

-Scott Marshall is set to direct the sports comedy "The Million Dollar Man" says Variety Alexander Schrader penned the story of an underdog story of a man who finds a magical opportunity to turn his life around when he is chosen to perform at the Super Bowl.

-DC Comics writer Geoff Johns was recently asked via Newsrama if the long in development Captain Marvel movie was dead. He says "There's always a possibility for Shazam!. There's always talk about Shazam!. And I can't get into the specifics on that, but yeah, there's hope for Shazam"

-Director Joe Wright and Keira Knightley's third film based on a period literature adaptation, Leo Tolstoy's classic "Anna Karenina", is gonna be quite unique according to Empire Magazine (via The Playlist)

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