Another Tom & Jerry Movie On The Way

VARIETY: Tom and Jerry head to the bigscreen
Warner Bros. playing cat and mouse game
By MARC GRASER - Posted: Wed., Jan. 21, 2009, 9:00pm PT

Warner Bros. is turning to Tom and Jerry to create its own "Alvin and the Chipmunks"-like family franchise.

Plans are to bring the constantly warring cat and mouse to life as CG characters that run around in live-action settings.

Studio-based Dan Lin, currently producing the upcoming "Sherlock Holmes" and exec producer on "Terminator: Salvation," will adapt the classic Hanna-Barbera property as an origin story that reveals how Tom and Jerry first meet and form their rivalry before getting lost in Chicago and reluctantly working together during an arduous journey home.

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Yogi Bear Returns to The Big Screen

YAHOO! NEWS: Yogi, Boo-Boo ready for their close-ups
By Steven Zeitchik - Thu Oct 2, 8:46 AM ET

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Warner Bros. is taking a trip to Jellystone Park.

The studio is developing a feature version of "Yogi Bear," the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon. "Surf's Up" co-helmer/co-writer Ash Brannon will direct the film.

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VARIETY: WB sends 'Jonny Quest' to bigscreen
Mazeau to adapt Hanna-Barbera series
By MARC GRASER - Posted: Tue., Aug. 7, 2007, 7:30pm PT

Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter, who have the vidgame-based "Hitman" bowing in October from Fox, will produce the live-action adaptation of the popular 1960s animated TV series from Hanna-Barbera, with Dan Mazeau penning the script.

Series revolved around a young boy who travels the world with his scientist father, adopted brother from India, Bandit the bulldog, and a government agent assigned to protect them as they go on their adventures investigating scientific mysteries.

The show, which is owned by Warner Bros. Animation, aired during primetime on ABC in 1964, lasting only one season. It was updated in the late '80s and '90s as "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest" on the Cartoon Network. Property's also been spun off as a comic book from DC.

Askarieh, a longtime fan of the series, is hoping to turn the property into a family-friendly adventure franchise -- something the studio is clearly looking for now that "Harry Potter" is winding down.

Mazeau recently sold his fantasy adventure spec "Land of Lost Things" to Paramount Pictures' Nickelodeon Films, with Arnold and Anne Kopelson producing.

Warner Bros. execs Dan Lin and Matt Reilly will oversee "Jonny Quest" at the studio, which is lensing another film version of an iconic '60s TV series, "Speed Racer."

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Oh, who am I kidding? Even though I've been waiting for this forever, there's no way such an anachronistic show could be updated without losing the horribly inappropriate flavor that I ashamedly love.

I think they should just expand the "Turu the Terrible" episode to feature length. It has everything - an ex-nazi in a wheelchair excavating a secret jungle diamond mine with his pet pterodactyl! Plus jet packs and bazookas! I mean, C'MON!!

Oh Dear Lord No

This is not what you want to see on your computer early in the morning. Shudder. My apologies.

Kevin Smith is gonna rag on Jason Lee about this forever.

The 'Real' Mach 5

I couldn't care less about the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer movie, but this is one nifty car! Is it just me, or does this car look like a CG still?

Brain Fart: It's too bad someone didn't cast Tom Cruise in this project years ago! I always thought he would've been perfect.