Variety is reporting that Sony Picutres has bought the rights to The Grays, an as yet unpublished science fiction novel by Whitley Strieber. Not only that but they’re paying a whopping $3 million for a 75 page treatment (not even a full script) by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down).
The Grays is about an alien race who are the “United States of the cosmos” and run things on many worlds including…
MovieWeb have got their hands on four high resolution pictures from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures. The pictures are pretty much spoiler free but are also truely stunning images.
Based on the C.S. Lewis novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the movie will follow Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they travel through a wardrobe in World War…
Fox and Universal have now closed their deal to make a movie based on the videogame Halo which has been a huge hit for Microsoft on their Xbox console. The studios will pay Microsoft about $5 million against 10% of the gross.
Universal will oversee production on the movie and will be handling.domestic distribution while Fox will handle foreign distribution. The studios will split the revenues from the movie 50/50.
The Halo…
MovieWeb have got some pictures from the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The images show Orlando Bloom, playing Will Turner again and Keir Knightley who also retursn as Elizabeth Swann. No spoilers in the pictures but they look nice enough. It seems that Will Turner has come up in the world, but clearly there’s trouble ahead for the pair.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead…
Batman On Film offers up some fresh Batman Begins sequel rumors. Its from an anonymous source so the usual warnings apply, though BOF say its a reliable source. The source claims that the possibility of two sequel films is being floated. In fact its being considered seriously enough that David Goyer is working on something.
However so the rumor goes, Nolan is not officially attached to the project yet as he…
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