The Ugly Cow - Now 99% Hollywood Free!

Sam Raimi launches "Spooky Pictures".

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:58:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:53:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:16:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:55:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:42:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:43:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:15:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:41:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:39:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:11:00 +0000

Hang on this is going to get bumpy. We are currently is the process is uploading the new site onto our new server.

WB loses rights to Supermans origin.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:58:00 +0000

In the Siegel Family’s ongoing legal battle over the rights to Superman, judge Stephen Larson ruled that the rights to the first two weeks of the daily Superman newspaper comic-strips and portions of early Action Comics and Superman comic-books belong to the Siegel Family. This was made based on the court's finding that these were not "works-made-for-hire" under the Copyright Act. Essentially this mean the Siegels now control depictions of Superman's origins, from Jor-El and Lara, to Krypton and Superman as an infant getting launched into and landing on Earth. This means that Superman’s origins could either be flat out ignored or possibly re-imagined in any future movies.

New look coming soon

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:32:00 +0000

Lucky and myself are working on a brand new look for the site. We are going to totally revamp the website. Look forward to it in the upcoming months sometime.

Also if there is a lack of news updates is because we are working hard on making this the best layout for The Ugly Cow yet!

Spielberg seeing rabbits

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:17:00 +0000

Steven Spielberg will soon be seeing imaginary rabbits. The filmmaker will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase s play Harvey, about a man and his friendship with an invisible, six-foot tall rabbit. 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks will co produce the project.

4th Bourne, maybe

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:14:00 +0000

There are talks for a fourth Bourne flick. No word if Matt Damon will star in it.

"NIMH" remake.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:51:00 +0000

Director Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") will be adapting "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH", the 1971 children's novel by Robert C O‘Brian about a field mouse who teams up with lab rats to save her home. Though many are probably familiar with this story because of the 1982 Don Bluth animated version “The Secret of NIMH.”

Isn't teeange love cute?

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:13:00 +0000

This is pointless news, but we thought it was cute: Dakota Fanning and Freddie Highmore (Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Finding Neverland) are supposedly dating.

Slow motion bullets rock

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:10:00 +0000

Timur Bekmambetov (director for Wanted) says Wanted 2 is in "the works".

Empire exclusive

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:06:00 +0000

Empire has some new pictures for the up and coming Jake Jake Gyllenhaal film Prince Of Persia.

Sounds like a headache

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:03:00 +0000

James Cameron (director of Titanic) announced at Comic Con plans on making Titanic in 3D.

New stuff on TUC

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:06:00 +0000

New monthly poll up as well as a new Monthly Top Ten.

Hampsters kicked your ass

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:05:00 +0000

This weekend we had an upset at the box office. G-Force , that Disney movie with the funny animals, took down Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince . The animals won Friday and Saturday and that was enough to win the whole weekend.

DiCaprio plans trip to the "Twilight Zone"

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way are moving ahead on the movie adaptation of the iconic 1960’s sci-fi series the "Twilight Zone". Ravich (Director of “The Astronaut's Wife” and creator of the NBC series “Life”) was hired to write the script. Unlike the Steven Spielberg produced 1983 “Twilight Zone: The Movie” which featured new versions of three episodes from the original series and one original story, this movie will have one continuous story based on one or more episodes from the series.

"Voltron" movie back on track.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:31:00 +0000

Another 80’s cartoon series is making it’s way to the big screen. A live-action movie based on "Voltron" is in the works at Atlas Entertainment. For those who don’t know, “Voltron” was about a group of five pilots, who piloted robotic lions that could combined to form a giant robot, and were charged with defending the planet Arus from villain King Zarkon.

New MJ film

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:27:00 +0000

Sony Pictures is in talks to make a feature film using the 80 hours of Michael Jackson's rehearsal footage prepping for his performance in London.

The studio is expected to pay upwards of $50 million for global rights to AEG Entertainment, the owners of the footage.

The film will feature at least three videos that were to be used as vignettes during the London shows, including a 3-D version of Thriller.

High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, who also shot the rehearsal footage and was helming the concert, is expected to direct the feature in hopes of releasing it before the end of the year.

R U ready?

noreply@blogger.com (Mike) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:10:00 +0000

Nicolas Cage is ready to take Ghost Rider international in a second Marvel installment.