Brian Grazer

Trailer revealed for Industrial Light & Magic sci-fi documentary series

Disney is set to release a deep-dive documentary series on Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects company that George Lucas originally founded to create the special effects for the Star Wars trilogy. Since then, the company has provided stunning visual effects from the Death Star trench run to the Terminator T-1000 morphing to the ….

Bastard Executioner bringing the Middle Ages to FX Network

FX has announced that the network has ordered a 10-episode first season of Kurt Sutter’s Late Middle Ages action series The Bastard Executioner. FX Network CEO John Landgraf made the announced. Sutter and the cast recently completed production of the pilot episode in Wales, where production will resume this summer before airing on FX this ….

Cowboys & Aliens to be released in select IMAX theatres

IMAX, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures International today announced an agreement to offer the sci-fi western thriller Cowboys & Aliens in select international digital IMAX theatres day-and-date with each territory’s release date, starting in August. The release marks the continuation of the relationship between IMAX, Paramount Pictures International and director Jon Favreau, whose most recent ….

Star Trek scribes’ Cowboys and Aliens script finished – still unknown if Robert Downey Jr. will star

Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the team who wrote the latest Star Trek film) have completed a new script for the long-in-development Cowboys and Aliens adaptation, and recently discussed the project with reporters, including Sci-Fi Wire. “We literally handed it in yesterday,” Kurtzman told reporters on August 6, adding that they’re hoping for feedback ….

Hasbro lining up top talent for film adaptations including Brian Grazer producing Stretch Armstrong, Gore Verbinski directing Clue, Michal Bay helming Ouija and Ridley Scott directing Monopoly

Universal and Hasbro jointly announced that the first feature film to be released under Universal and Hasbro’s six-year partnership, Stretch Armstrong, has been dated for theatrical release on April 15, 2011. They also announced Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) will team with Hasbro to bring the iconic action figure ….

Oscar winners Sean Penn and Javier Bardem go after drug Cartel

Oscar winner Sean Penn is in negotiations to star in a drama for Universal Pictures and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment called Cartel, which Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cité Soleil) is attached to direct, according to Variety. Latino Review also reported last week that Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) is also in ….

Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe to star in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood epic

Cate Blanchett is attached to play Maid Marian opposite Russell Crowe as Robin Hood in a Ridley Scott-directed epic retelling of Robin Hood, according to Variety. The project was titled Nottingham, but underwent a name change ahead of it April production start. Angels & Demons producer Brian Grazer will steer the film, along with the ….