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Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The Spiderwick Chronicles is headed to IMAX.

IMAX corp. have announced that the fantasy adventure will open in their large format theaters on February 15th 2008,  to coincide with the wider general release on conventional screens.

The upcoming movie draws plot details from several stories by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black featuring the Grace children (Freddie Highmore as the twins Jared and Simon and Sarah Bolger as Mallory), who embark on a great adventure involving sprites, boggarts, goblins and an ogre named Mulgarath (Nick Nolte) after discovering a book called ‘Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You’. 

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Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to adapt noirish graphic novel The Killer with the intention of developing it as a directing vehicle for David Fincher (Fight Club).

Allesandro Camon will pen the script, about a top assassin suddenly plagued by his conscience and being pursued by a highly competent cop.

The hardboiled story was created by Matz (real name is Alexis Nolent) who works for Ubisoft, one of France’s biggest videogame companies with illustrations by Luc Jacamon. The Killer was originally published in France in 1988 by Casterman and debuted in the U.S. as a 10-issue series published by Archaia Studio Press.

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Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) has been talking to SCI FI Wire about his movie The Box,  a feature based on a short story by SF author Richard Matheson.

Kelly told the site that the movie will be a period piece, set in 1976, around the time the original story was written.

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The Latino Review has learned from a trusted source that a teaser trailer for J.J.Abrams’ Star Trek is in the works.

Apparently the appetizer is codenamed Central Headquarters and depicts the USS Enterprise under construction.

The as yet not 100%-confirmed crew of the NCC-1701 is currently looking like:  Chris Pine (Kirk), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), John Cho (Sulu) and Zoe Saldana (Uhuru). Eric Bana will play Romulan bad guy Nero.  Star Trek, the eleventh entry in the long-running film series, based on the franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, is scheduled for release on Christmas Day next year.

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With Halo delayed and looking for a studio,  Peter Jackson and first-time South African director Neill Blomkamp are going forward this spring on live action sci-fi pic District 9.

Jackson will produce through his WingNut Films production banner.  Blomkamp wrote the script with partner Terri Tatchell.  The project grew out of a kinship that developed between Jackson and Blomkamp in New Zealand as they prepped a movie adaptation of the aforementioned Microsoft game.   Even though that process halted when co-financiers Universal and Fox balked at going forward, Blomkamp never left.  Rather, he and Jackson continued to bat around ideas until they agreed on District 9.

Blomkamp is best known for directing commercials and short films, and Microsoft recently engaged him to shoot three commercials for the product launch of Halo 3.  District 9 will shoot in South Africa.

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Lakeshore Entertainment, the company that is producing sci-fi thriller Game, have requested that we remove recently published promotional images from the X-Realms.  Lakeshore explains that the materials for AFM are not refelective of the film campaign which has not started shooting yet,  adding that as soon as marketing material is available, it will be heading this way. 

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