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Steven Spielberg hands Tintin effects work over to Peter Jackson

Steven Spielberg wrapped 32 days of performance-capture work on Tintin late last week, according to Variety. The legendary director has officially handed the project over to producer Peter Jackson, who will develop special effects over the next 18 months, according to the report. Spielberg nabbed feature rights to the project in 1983 after movie critic ….

Guillermo del Toro takes on Charles Dickens and gets genre directing gigs for years to come

According to Variety, Guillermo del Toro is booked with New Line and Universal Studios film projects through 2017, and possibly longer. Del Toro’s first priority, which has been talked about for months, is the New Line and MGM epic project The Hobbit, which he has committed the next five years to developing, with Peter Jackson, ….

Sony nabs Peter Jackson’s super-secret sci-fi project District 9

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights as well as distribution rights in a significant number of foreign territories, including all English speaking territories, to the Peter Jackson produced sci-fi motion picture District 9 from QED International. The announcement was jointly made today by Peter Schlessel, President of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group, ….

George Lucas receives AFI’s 33rd Life Achievement Award

Thousands of guests filled the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California, last night for the 33rd American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award honoring George Lucas. The two-hour special event, executive produced and written by Bob Gazzale and directed and co-produced by Louis J. Horvitz, was taped for telecast on USA Network on Monday, June ….

Halo 3 Trailer

With the Halo film coming out in 2008 and the convergence of gaming and film becoming more and more inevitable, it follows that the trailer for the next Halo game incarnation would be more cinematic than ever. In Halo 3, Master Chief returns to earth, now devastated by the Covenant, to finish the fight started in Haloand Halo 2. Check out the trailer ….

Halo game trailer

With the Halo film coming out in 2008 and the convergence of gaming and film becoming more and more inevitable, it follows that the trailer for the next Halo game incarnation would be more cinematic than ever. In Halo 3, Master Chief returns to earth, now devastated by the Covenant, to finish the fight started in Haloand Halo 2. Check out the trailer ….

Fall Film Synopses for 2005

Here are some of what we have to look forward to this Fall film season. The long-awaited adaptation of the best seller “Memoirs of a Geisha,” director Rob Marshall’s follow-up to “Chicago,” stars Ziyi Zhang as a poor Japanese girl who becomes a geisha goddess. Other big films include Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” a thriller about ….