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Sam Raimi launches "Spooky Pictures".

Sam Raimi's “Ghost House Pictures” is launching a new division called
“Spooky Pictures” to produce scary movies for family audiences.
The companies first film will be “The Substitute”, a remake of the Danish thriller about sixth-grade class as the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being. Scott Derrickson (“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”) will write the script along with cowriter Paul Harris Boardman.

EA's Spore is going to theatres.

20th Century Fox has teamed up with Electronic Arts to turn the publisher's popular game "Spore" into an animated film. The game allows players to develop a species from a microscopic organism all the way to its evolution into a complex animal. The job of turning the very plot light game into a movie falls to script writers, Greg Erb and Jason Oremland (“The Princess and the Frog”).
"I'm always looking for unique worlds to go to in animation," Said director Chris Wedge (“Ice Age”) "From every perspective -- visually, thematically and comedically -- the world of 'Spore' provides the potential to put something truly original on the screen."

Ron Howard's Lovecraft movie.

Director Ron Howard (“Da Vinci Code” “Angels and Demons” and “Frost/Nixon”) is going to make a movie adaptation of “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft” based on the Image Comics title. Howard had commented on the project saying,
"It very cleverly uses H.P. Lovecraft in a fictional way, but there's some loose biographical elements. But it certainly has the flavor and the tone of Lovecraft,"
and "Look, it's challenging, but if we get it right, it could be really original and psychologically interesting and scary in a great way. And it's a graphic novel, this is new territory for me."

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze

Actor Patrick Swayze died at the age of 57 due to pancreatic cancer. According to a statement from his publicist he "passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months."
The Broadway dancer turned Hollywood star is best known for staring in movies such as, “The Outsiders” “Road House” “Red Dawn” “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost.”

R.I.P. Larry Gelbart

Emmy and Tony award winning writer Larry Gelbart died at the age of 81 in his Beverly Hills home on September 11, 2009. He was most popular for the hit television series “M*A*S*H”, movies “Tootsie” and “Oh, God!”. and Broadway musical hit, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."

Guillermo del Toro and Disney join forces.

More news from the D23 Expo in Los Angeles, Guillermo del Toro announced that he's joining forces with Disney to form a new production label, Disney Double Dare You, where he will create new animated films for moviegoers of all ages. Their first film “Trollhunters” will be based on an original story developed by del Toro.

Fourth Pirates movies announced.

At Disney's D23 Expo, Johnny Depp appeared on stage in full Jack Sparrow costume to announce summer 2011 as the release date for “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” the fourth installment of the franchise.

"The Blob" Now with no blobby thing.

Rob Zombie (“Halloween”, “The Devil’s Rejects”)wants to remake the 1950’s cult classic sci-fi horror movie “The Blob.” So far the only details known is that:
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change. That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."
I understand that he means to make the blob scarier for modern audiences, but this makes me wonder what would a non-blob shaped blob look like?

"Yellow Submarine" Remake by Disney

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Disney and Zemeckis plan to remake The Beatle’s 1968 animated movie “Yellow Submarine” using the 3-D performance-capture format Zemeckis used in the upcoming "A Christmas Carol.” They hope to have the film ready to hit theaters by 2012.