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Adult Swim Picks Up Season 2 of Eagleheart
BlizzCon 2011 Tickets on Sale May 21 and May 25
Nintendo Unveils Heroes, Mystery and Motion in New Video Game Lineup
Warner Bros. and TT Games Launch Lego Battles: Ninjago
Josh Pence Cast in 'Dark Knight Rises'
Tim Miller to Direct 'Deadpool'
Marvel and Disney Launch Disney*Muppets Presents Giant-Size Comic
Michael Shannon Stars as General Zod in "Superman: Man of Steel"
"Hop" Takes Top Spot For Second Week
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MediaConnection Wrap Up - Week ending April 15, 2011
'24' Movie Targeted for 2012 Release'
A month after Kiefer Sutherland said the long-in-development 24 movie
will be released next year, producer Brian Grazer confirmed that the
movie is targeted for a 2012 release.
'The Martian Chronicles' Coming To The Big Screen
Paramount is heading to Mars. The studio has picked up movie rights to
The Martian Chronicles, the classic short story collection by Ray
Bradbury, one of the foremost names in 20th century science-fiction
literature. John Davis will produce the adaptation of the book of short
stories that Bradbury wrote in the late 1940s about humans trying
colonize Mars.
Bradley Cooper Eyeing Starring Role in 'Crow' Remake
Bradley Cooper is in early negotiations to star in Relativity's remake
of The Crow, being directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. In the
adaptation of the gritty black-and-white indie comic by artist James
O'Barr, Cooper will play a rock musician who is murdered while trying to
save his fiancée from thugs. He is resurrected by supernatural forces
and seeks revenge. The role was originally played by Brandon Lee, who
was killed by a freak accident during production in 1993.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo To Remake "The Crow"
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, best known as the director of 28 Weeks Later,
has been tapped to direct Relativity's remake of The Crow. The Crow is
based on a gritty black-and-white indie comic by artist James O'Barr.
Miramax made the film adaptation, which gained cult status partially due
to star Brandon Lee's on-set accidental death.
New Setback for Warner Bros. in 'Superman' Litigation
A judge has rejected Warner Bros.' attempts to pry open secret documents
that purportedly show an agreement between the estates of Superman
co-creators Joel Shuster and Jerry Siegel not to make further copyright
deals with the studio. The documents are said to also contain a formula
for how the two estates will share proceeds on Superman once they
successfully terminate Warner's rights to the lucrative franchise. The
two estates have been fighting with Warner Bros. for more than a decade
over Superman rights and profits, sending notices in the mail in 1999
that purported to exercise termination rights under the 1976 Copyright
Act. The heirs filed suit in 2004 that sought a declaration that they
had successfully terminated rights to the first Superman comic book
published by Detective Comics in 1938, which contains much of the famous
mythology of the Man of Steel. In 2008, on summary judgment, a judge
granted that wish.
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