Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures report that actress Amy Adams ("Catch Me If You Can") will star as 'Lois Lane' in director Zack Snyder's upcoming Vancouver-lensed "Superman: Man Of Steel" feature film.
"Second only to 'Superman' himself, the question of who will play 'Lois Lane' is arguably what fans have been most curious about, " said Snyder. "So we are excited to announce the casting of Amy Adams, one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today. Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful."
Adams recently received her third Oscar nomination in five years, for her performance in "The Fighter".
Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder are the producers of "Superman: Man Of Steel". Screenplay is by David S. Goyer based on a story by Goyer and Christopher Nolan. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.
"Superman: Man Of Steel" is currently scheduled for release December 2012.
According to reports, MGM is rebooting their "Child's Play" movie franchise, with a screenplay by Don Mancini, the original writer of all the previous "Child's Play" features.
"Child's Play" will start production after MGM reboots "Robocop" and "Poltergeist", with actor Brad Dourif ("Deadwood") returning to voice the demonically-possessed doll 'Chucky'.
The original "Child's Play", released in 1988, was directed by Tom Holland, starring Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon.
"...In Chicago, Illinois, while being chased by 'Detective Mike Norris' (Sarandon), 'Charles Lee Ray', a killer aka 'The Lakeshore Strangler' (Dourif), is shot and mortally wounded. Before dying, Ray takes cover inside a toy store, finding boxes of talking 'Good Guy' dolls,. Using a voodoo ritual, Ray transfers his soul into one of the dolls..."
"Kent" is the title of the April 14, 2011 episode of the CW's Vancouver-lensed 'Superman' TV series "Smallville", written by Genevieve Sparling, Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson, directed by Jeannot Szwarc :
"'Clark' (Tom Welling) is shocked to find a mirror box in the barn. 'Luthor' surprises him and sends Clark back to the alternate reality where Clark runs into a very angry 'Jonathan Kent' (John Schneider). Meanwhile, back in our reality, Luthor visits 'Tess' (Cassidy Freeman) and tells him if she doesn't side with him he'll kill her, while 'Lois' (Erica Durance) asks 'Emil' (Allesandro Juliani) to help her bring Clark back."
Actress Lily Collins ("The Blind Side"), (the daughter of singer Phil Collins), has now been cast as the character 'Stormy Llewellyn' in director Stephen Sommers' upcoming thriller "Odd Thomas", based on the New York Times bestseller by author Dean Koontz.
Koontz' "Odd Thomas", published in 2003, derives its title from the protagonist, a twenty-year-old short-order cook named 'Odd Thomas'.
"...'Odd', a short order cook in a California desert town, in a fateful 24-hour period, meets a suspicious-looking man in the diner, who is being followed by shadowy, 'bodach' spirit creatures who appear only during times of disaster.
"To gather more information about the man, Odd empowers his gift of 'supernatural intuition'.
"His soulmate 'Bronwen Stormy Llewellyn', manager of an ice cream shop and the only person that knows everything about Odd's abilities to "see the dead", helps him track the man down..."
After 21 years of inactivity, following his 1990 starring and directing turn adapting creator Chester Gould's newspaper comic strip detective character "Dick Tracy", actor/producer Warren Beatty has won his lawsuit against a unit of Tribune Co, to prevent Tribune from taking back film/TV rights to creator Chester Gould's newspaper comic strip detective character.
Budgeted at $47 million, Beatty's "Dick Tracy" earned $103,738,726 domestic and $59,000,000 foreign for a worldwide box office of $162,738,726.
According to court documents, rights to the character would have reverted back to Tribune if "a certain period of time" lapsed without Beatty having produced another "Dick Tracy" movie, TV series or TV special.
Tribune sent Beatty a letter November 17, 2006, giving him two years to begin production on new "Dick Tracy" programing.
"Tribune asserted it still wanted to terminate Beatty's 'Dick Tracy" rights and effect a reversion, and purported to do so," the lawsuit said, with Beatty seeking a declaration that his work on a developing "Dick Tracy" documentary TV special precludes Tribune from taking back rights to the property.
Gould's "Dick Tracy" debuted October 4, 1931, reflecting the violence of gangster Al Capone's 1930's Chicago, while staying current with crime fighting techniques, forensic science and advanced gadgetry.
The "Dick Tracy" rogues gallery of villains included 'Flattop', 'Bigboy', 'Pruneface', 'Itchy' and 'The Mole'.
January 1946, Gould introduced Tracy's '2-Way Wrist Radio', upgraded to a '2-Way Wrist TV' in 1964.
The character had a long run on radio, 1934 to 1948, with the special "Dick Tracy In B Flat" in 1945, starring Bing Crosby as Tracy, singer Dinah Shore as girlfriend 'Tess Trueheart' and Bob Hope as 'Flattop'.
Tracy made his live-action debut in "Dick Tracy" (1937), a Republic Pictures serial starring actor Ralph Byrd.
A second serial, "Dick Tracy Returns", was released in 1938, "Dick Tracy's G-Men" in 1939 and "Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc." in 1941, featuring Tracy as an FBI agent, based in California.
RKO Radio Pictures followed with the features "Dick Tracy, Detective" (1945) and "Dick Tracy vs. Cueball" (1946) starring Morgan Conway.
Villains in the RKO film series included Mike Mazurki as 'Splitface', Dick Wessel as 'Cueball', Esther Howard as 'Filthy Flora' and Jack Lambert as 'The Claw'.
A TV series starring Byrd again, aired on ABC from 1950 to 1951.
The first animated Tracy TV series "The Dick Tracy Show" was produced from 1960 to 1961 by UPA, starring Everett Sloane as Tracy and Mel Blanc as 'Go-Go Gomez', 'Joe Jitsu', 'Hemlock Holmes' and 'Heap O'Calorie'.
A second Filmation cartoon series was produced in 1971, with short episodes inserted into the show "Archie's TV Funnies".
In 1967, producer William Dozier ("Batman"), developed a live-action TV pilot starring actor Ray MacDonnell.
In 1990, Beatty starred in and directed the Disney feature "Dick Tracy", with Al Pacino as 'Big Boy', Dustin Hoffman as 'Mumbles' and Madonna as 'Breathless Mahoney'.
The film won an Academy Award for Best Song, with Madonna's soundtrack album "I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by Dick Tracy" spawning top-ten hits, "Vogue" and "Hanky Panky".
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures report that actress Amy Adams ("Catch Me If You Can") will star as 'Lois Lane' in director Zack Snyder's upcoming Vancouver-lensed "Superman: Man Of Steel" feature film.
"Second only to 'Superman' himself, the question of who will play 'Lois Lane' is arguably what fans have been most curious about, " said Snyder. "So we are excited to announce the casting of Amy Adams, one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today. Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois: smart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful."
Adams recently received her third Oscar nomination in five years, for her performance in "The Fighter".
Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder are the producers of "Superman: Man Of Steel". Screenplay is by David S. Goyer based on a story by Goyer and Christopher Nolan. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.
"Superman: Man Of Steel" is currently scheduled for release December 2012.
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