Chris Wedge

Fox prepping a Spore movie for EA, plus Mass Effect, Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno films are in the works

Fox is teaming up with Electronic Arts to turn the Spore game, which has developed into a worldwide ecosystem – into an animated monster film, with Chris Wedge (Ice Age) attached to direct, according to Variety. Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who wrote Disney’s upcoming The Princess and the Frog, will write the screenplay for ….

Ice Age creator announces date for newest animated feature, to be set in Rio de Janeiro

Twentieth Century Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison recently announced that Rio, the latest animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios, will be released by Fox on April 8, 2011. Rio is a story of a nerdy macaw who leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro. He ….

Johnny Depp keeping busy with Dante’s Inferno-based adaptation, Dark Shadows update and much more

Variety reports that Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil has nabbed film rights to the 2002 novel In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches. Depp will potentially star in the new project. “Dante” revolves around Dante’s masterwork The Divine Comedy, and tells parallel storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy, as he tries to complete ….