Legendary Entertainment announced today it will develop Syd Hoff’s book series “Danny and the Dinosaur” into a live-action feature film.
Caroline Fraser of HarperCollins Productions, the publisher’s in-house publishing company will produce.
The story follows the adventures of young Danny and a dinosaur he meets at a museum. The books were first published by HarperCollins in 1958 and have since sold over 11 million copies in 12 languages.
The rights to “Danny and the Dinosaur” are held by the Authors Guild Foundation, with the Anti-Defamation League Foundation, Ort America, Inc., and the United Negro College Fund, Inc. HarperCollins Productions optioned the media rights to Danny and the Dinosaur from the Author’s Guild Foundation.
According to Variety, Branded Pictures Entertainment previously optioned all the non-publishing rights to the book series. Producers J. Todd Harris and Marc Marcum were set to develop a different “Danny and the Dinosaur” film with a script adapted by David Bowers,...
Caroline Fraser of HarperCollins Productions, the publisher’s in-house publishing company will produce.
The story follows the adventures of young Danny and a dinosaur he meets at a museum. The books were first published by HarperCollins in 1958 and have since sold over 11 million copies in 12 languages.
The rights to “Danny and the Dinosaur” are held by the Authors Guild Foundation, with the Anti-Defamation League Foundation, Ort America, Inc., and the United Negro College Fund, Inc. HarperCollins Productions optioned the media rights to Danny and the Dinosaur from the Author’s Guild Foundation.
According to Variety, Branded Pictures Entertainment previously optioned all the non-publishing rights to the book series. Producers J. Todd Harris and Marc Marcum were set to develop a different “Danny and the Dinosaur” film with a script adapted by David Bowers,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
The Netflix Original Christmas movie is now a genre unto itself, its ranks expanding every year by the flimsy, tinselly dozen. What its identifying aesthetic features are — and how you might distinguish it, say, from a Hallmark or Lifetime variation — is a tough question: You’d have to remember any single one of them a season later to say for sure. Some have Christmas princes, some have Kurt Russell, but almost all of Netflix’s yuletide offerings blend seamlessly into a cheer-by-numbers mass, as sweetly bland and textureless as non-alcoholic eggnog. There’s nothing especially wrong with that, or with “Operation Christmas Drop,” an anodyne, friction-free romantic comedy that faintly distinguishes itself from its snow-sprayed genre brethren with enticingly balmy South Pacific scenery. If nothing else, it gives viewers something to daydream about while they keep half an eye on its story.
“Have you heard of a partridge in a pear tree?...
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- 11/5/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Bridget Jones' Baby
The first set photos are out of Colin Firth reprising his role as Mark Darcy for Sharon Maguire's upcoming "Bridget Jones' Baby" at Working Title. This third film in the series sees Renee Zellweger reprising the title role alongside Firth and Patrick Dempsey. [Source: The Irish Examiner]
Hellboy 3
Happy Sad Confused recently conducted a one hour conversation with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro in which they asked him about the possibility of a third "Hellboy". He says that though he and actor Ron Perlman would love to do it, there's no studio interest - "No one is knocking."
Boomtown
Focus Features has picked up former journo Matt King's oil-themed thriller spec script "Boomtown" with Marc Platt set to produce.
The story follows a slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret who discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country. [Source: Deadline]
The Family Fang
Starz has scored U.
The first set photos are out of Colin Firth reprising his role as Mark Darcy for Sharon Maguire's upcoming "Bridget Jones' Baby" at Working Title. This third film in the series sees Renee Zellweger reprising the title role alongside Firth and Patrick Dempsey. [Source: The Irish Examiner]
Hellboy 3
Happy Sad Confused recently conducted a one hour conversation with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro in which they asked him about the possibility of a third "Hellboy". He says that though he and actor Ron Perlman would love to do it, there's no studio interest - "No one is knocking."
Boomtown
Focus Features has picked up former journo Matt King's oil-themed thriller spec script "Boomtown" with Marc Platt set to produce.
The story follows a slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret who discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country. [Source: Deadline]
The Family Fang
Starz has scored U.
- 10/9/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Just imagine the theme-park ride. Envision Media Arts has entered an exclusive agreement with Pez Candy Inc. to develop an animated feature based on the spring-loaded lozenge dispensers with the flip-up heads. Cameron Fay (The Three Stooges Movie, Brother In Law) has popped up to script it. Lee Nelson and David Buelow will produce for Ema. Gregg Rossen, Brian Sawyer and Jonathan Hung brought the project to Ema and will executive produce along with Ema's David…...
- 8/3/2015
- Deadline
Hollywood is preparing to dispense an animated movie based on Pez candy. The company that has been around for 88 years announced on Monday that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Envision Media Arts (Ema) to develop a film based on the iconic candy dispensers. Cameron Fay, who wrote 2015 comedy “Brother in Laws,” is writing the feature film being produced by Ema CEO and founder Lee Nelson, along with David Buelow, the company’s president of TV and film. Gregg Rossen, Brian Sawyer and Jonathan Hung brought the project to Ema and will executive produce along with Ema’s David Tish.
- 8/3/2015
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Hamada, Hung, Fenton put out H2F Ent. shingle
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- 3/4/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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