The CW has greenlit a new fashion-magazine reality series from Tyra Banks and Ken Mok, the creative team behind the network's No. 1 show "America's Next Top Model."
The new series received an eight-episode order and will begin production in April for a summer launch, eyed as a companion piece to "Top Model."
"It is a competition show about assistant editors at a fashion magazine," Mok said.
"At the same time they're trying to prove themselves as aspiring fashionistas, that they have a sense of style and savvyness, all the things to make it in the fashion world."
In each episode, contestants will compete in two challenges, individual competition and team competition, in which each squad will submit a page for "The Book," a mock edition of the magazine...
"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" is being developed by LucasArts, Dark Horse Comics, Lego, Hasbro, and Del Rey Books, as a video game, tie-in novel , action figures, comic book, reference book and role-playing game supplement.
All materials are scheduled for release, August 26, 2008.
The game takes place between "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" and "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope".
The player assumes the role of secret apprentice to 'Darth Vader', sent across the galaxy to destroy the 'Jedi'.
The game will be released on seventh-generation consoles PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, second generation N-Gage and the sixth generation console PlayStation 2.
Marvel Studios continue developing the Fox live-action "X-Men" movie spin-off "Emma Frost", based on the sexy telepath character, as drawn by cover artist Greg Horn.
The film will be directed by David O. "Three Kings" Russell, focusing on the female mutant who can transform her body into rock-hard diamonds. One of the wealthy 'mutant elites' who comprised the inner circle of the 'Hellfire Club', Emma Grace Frost', aka the 'White Queen' was an enemy of the "X-Men" before joining 'Professor X' to mentor 'Generation X' and become headmistress of ' Xavier Institute'.
DreamWorks continues developing graphic novel "Cowboys & Aliens" into a live action feature, with Imagine partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard producing.
Platinum Studios Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Ervin Rustemagic and Rich Marincic also produce.
Screenplay is by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, noted for "Children Of Men" and Marvel's upcoming "Iron Man".
"Cowboys & Aliens" mixes Western with Science Fiction movie genres, set in 1800's Arizona, when a skirmish between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of a space ship and an alien 'commander' enslaves everyone.
Rosenberg created the concept, publishing the Platinum graphic novel in 2006.
The deal was pulled together by DreamWorks production president Adam Goodman and Universal production president Donna Langley. The studios previously teamed on "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind."
Kurtzman and Orci produced the DreamWorks/Paramount live-action feature "Transformers."