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| Highlander is set to become an animated feature for release in Spring 2006. Davis-Panzer Productions and Imagi International are developing the project, which will be animated through Madhouse, a Japanese animation studio. David Abramowitz, who was head writer on the Highlander TV series, will write the screenplay. The original Highlander, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery and directed by Russell Mulcahy, follows the adventures of an immortal 16th-century Scottish warrior locked in battle with others like him. The latest live-action feature, Highlander: The Source, is scheduled for production through Dimension Films later this year, for release in 2005. The shocking revelation here is that people are still watching Highlander-related releases. Seriously, people. |
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Eddie Murphy is starring in and will likely produce a currently untitled comedy for DreamWorks by writers Josh Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia The project is described as a Western comedy like Blazing Saddles. The Mel Brooks comedy was about a corrupt political boss who hires a black sheriff in order to ruin a Western town, only to watch the sheriff promptly become his worst adversary. Except in Murphy’s version, the sheriff will likely run around making an ass of himself while picking up dog poo. Yes, that is the state of comedy these days. |
| Organizers of the Toronto Film Festival have rejected demands by local animal-rights activists that they cancel the screening of a 90-minute documentary about three men who killed a stray cat. In an interview with the Toronto Star, festival programmer Sean Farnel called the film, Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat, "an intelligent, responsible film about a difficult subject." Suzanne Laise of the group Freedom for Animals, commented: "Anybody who allows this video to go around is just as cruel as the killers," and she insisted that the film promoted "sickness and cruelty." Right, we’re sure the point of the film is that people aren’t killing enough cats and they really need to start toeing the line when it comes to this particular issue. Yeesh. |
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