Selick to Helm 'Coraline' for Vinton
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Animation powerhouse Vinton Studios has acquired the film rights to Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award-winning, best-selling children's book "Coraline."
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BUOYED by the success of the animated film Shark Tale, executives for DreamWorks Animation will meet with investors to sell shares to the public.
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Reality-challenged communications hub in works? That tiny speck of sovereign delusion known as Sealand will finally reclaim its former glory as a platform for pirate radio, the fantastical micronation hinted this week on its website, and Mike Newell, of Donnie Brasco fame, has agreed to direct a movie based on those very same pirate radio origins.â¦
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Madonna will head the voice cast of the big-budget animated film "Arthur," directed by Luc Besson, sources close to the movie told the Hollywood Reporter.
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Talent agent turned producer Brad Grey is in advanced talks to become chairman and chief executive of Paramount Pictures, succeeding Sherry Lansing, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
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Entertainment giant NBC Universal,  a unit of General Electric Co. , will announce this week  it is bringing in a new, younger chief executive to better  compete in the digital age, the Los Angeles Times newspaper  reported on Sunday.
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Michael Apted is set to  direct the third film in the &quot;Chronicles of Narnia&quot; series.
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Tom Cruise's film company is close to an agreement with the striking Writers Guild of America, reports say.
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Newcomer Justin Chatwin is in negotiations for a coveted role opposite Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," an adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel for Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks.
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LOS ANGELES  - Six months after she was ousted as head of Disney's motion pictures group, Nina Jacobson has landed a production deal at DreamWorks.
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To hear some punsters tell it, it's  time for Hollywood to "kick asp."
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The director plans to adapt H G Wells' classic The War Of The Worlds onscreen.
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LOS ANGELES  - Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM.
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The Walt Disney Co. is hoping a fractured fairy tale that swaps Manhattan for a magic kingdom, a divorce lawyer for a prince, and roaches and pigeons for wholesome forest creatures will turn into its newest film franchise.
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Finding Neverland film-maker Marc Forster will direct the latest James Bond adventure, due out in 2008.
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Director Frank Coraci is  set to follow up his &quot;Click&quot; success with the adventure-comedy  &quot;Part-Time Pirates.&quot;
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Director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer are set to reunite with back-to-back Oscar winning thespian, Tom Hanks, their top choice to play the lead role of Harvard Professor, Robert Langdon.