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Blue Thunder: Smurfs Aim for Big Screen
Published 6/10/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
They’re small, they’re blue and they want you to buy their stuff and see their movie. Variety reports that ’80s cartoon sensations the Smurfs are set to make their feature film debut. We have Alvin and the Chipmunks to thank for this, I suppose. A Smurf 3D CGI film had been in development at Paramount/Nickelodeon, but now Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation are taking over the rights. They plan on a combination live action/animated movie. Shrek II and III writers David Stem and David Weiss are in talks to write the script. The Smurfs were created in the 1950s by ...

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Published 6/10/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
Lljamesmcavoy_2 Today: James McAvoy is in Berlin promoting new film Wanted . Co-star Angelina Jolie is nowhere in sight. ... The "richest little girl in the world" Athina Onassis is selling some of her mother's jewelry tomorrow; preview is today at Christie's in London. ... Garth Brooks stops by Ellen . ... Hulk Hogan talks to Larry King tonight. ... Rachel Hunter tackles a tightrope on new NBC show Celebrity Circus. ... Stephen Colbert and will.i.am are among honorees at tonight's Webby Awards Gala at Cipriani on Wall Street. ... Meanwhile: Michael Madsen was hospitalized after a screaming ...

Spielberg and Smurfs. Trade Roughage 06/10/08
Published 6/10/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
Dreamworks is coming back, baby! All Steven Spielberg needs is a new distribution partner…and one billion dollars in outside financing…and an early exit from his Paramount contract…and an assurance that Jeffrey Katzenberg will take his side if there’s a battle over the Dreamworks name… Sony Animation is producing an Alvin and the Chipmunks-inspired live action/CGI Smurfs feature. Insert tasteless joke about random partying starlet turning blue as research for a role …. here. Madonna has canceled a screening of her Malawi doc I Am Because We Are at the ...

Hugh Grant and Zhang Ziyi Speak the Language of Love
Published 6/10/2008 at Vulture
... comes from misunderstandings! Also, lucky numbers are 11, 23, 14, 34. [Variety] Sony Smurfs the Smurf Smurfily: Columbia and Sony Pictures Animation are bringing a live-action/animated Smurfs to a theater near you. Shrek 2 and 3's David Stem and David Weiss are in negotiations to write the script, which better discuss whether Gargamel wanted to turn Smurfs into gold, or just eat them. [Variety] Irons and Allen do Impressions: Tony winners ...

The Smurfs Are Headed for the Big Screen
Published 6/10/2008 by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
Filed under: Animation, Classics, Deals, Sony, Family Films, NewsstandThe retro revivals just keep coming. Variety reports that Columbia Pictures and Sony Animation are bringing The Smurfs to the big screen. David Stem and David Weiss, the authors behind the last two installments of Shrek, are in talks to pen the screenplay. No word yet on director, release date, or plot outline. A Smurfs movie has actually been in the works since 2002 at Paramount/Nickelodeon (we first reported on it back in 2005), but producer Jordan Kerner has brought the rights ...

Part Live-Action, Part Animation, All SMURFy!! Talkbackers: Let The Casting Begin!!
Published 6/10/2008 by Merrick at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Merrick here... Columbia Pictures & Sony Animation are gonna bring us a SMURF movie (insert disparaging comments here). Best known in the United States for the long-running Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Smurfs were created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, known throughout the world as Peyo. The Smurfs, originally called "Les Schtroumpfs" in French, were created for a Belgian series of comic books, first as minor characters. The villagers, known for their blue skin and small statures, spawned a line of statuettes, games, toys, theme parks and a hit TV series, which ran as part of NBC's Saturday-morning lineup from 1981-90. ...says ...

Smurfs Movie to Be CGI and Live-Action, Like Chipmunks
Published 6/10/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
We've seen the very early basic designs for the CGI (and possibly 3-D) Smurfs movie, and today there's news that Sony has snatched up the film rights, and they plan to make it just like last year's Alvin and the Chipmunks movie — with live-action actors alongside the animated blue guys (and gal). Variety continues: [Producer Jordan] Kerner said the genesis of the current project began during a holiday conversation with Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman-CEO Michael Lynton, who grew up with Les Schtroumpfs in the Netherlands. "He relished them as I do and suggested that it ...

“Halle Berry used to hang with the New Kids” links
Published 6/10/2008 by JayBird at Cele|bitchy
- 10 NKOTB Pictures You Should Never Forget. Including several Halle Berry Shots. Yesssss [Best Week Ever] - Audrina and LC from “The Hills” got into a backyard fight over some stupid ass photo shoot [Dlisted] - Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong spotted in NYC having lunch with his kids [Lainey Gossip] - Three Simple Rules For Getting Lindsay Lohan To Work On Time [Fafarazzi] - Darius McCrary says he didn’t hit Superhead with ...

Prospect Of Dueling 'Smurfs' Projects Makes Us Want To Smurf Hollywood [Working Blue]
Published 6/10/2008 by STV at Defamer
... — that the talk we'd heard a while back about some feature-length updating was mere Euro-rumor. But the impossible blue dream of about 350 emotionally stunted children of the '80s inched closer to reality Monday when Sony Pictures Animation announced it had acquired the domestic rights to develop a Smurfs movie at last. ...

Casting the new 'Smurfs' movie
Published 6/10/2008 by Amy Wilkinson at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
I might be biased, but the '80s really had to be the best decade for cartoons. How can you beat My Little Pony, He-Man, the Care Bears or, best of all, the Smurfs? Execs at Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation must agree, because they're bringing our little blue friends to the big screen in a live ...

'Smurfs' is Getting More Like 'Alvin and the Chipmunks,' and Not Just in That Both are Awful
Published 6/10/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... While they're at it, the live-action people might as well be other popular but unrelated characters of the '80s: Balki from Perfect Strangers, Punky Brewster, the guy who played piano on It's a Living, maybe throw in some characters from the new Transformers and G.I. Joe adaptations. Let's just get it all over with; drink the '80s as a thick, brown blend, barely identifiable, all in one go. Please? Col, SPA send 'Smurfs' to bigscreen [Variety]

Another Change In Smurf Movie Plans
Published 6/10/2008 at Cinema Blend News
... . Three years is a long time with no solid product to show, however. It seems Kerner has actually been working on a Smurfs project longer than we thought. Variety reports that Kerner aquired the rights in 2002 and was working on the movie for Paramount, who no longer is backing the film. Instead Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to a Smurfs movie, through Kerner, with a plan to bring a live-action / animated movie to theaters. I can’t help but think we’re all being smurfed around a bit here, particularly those who are interested in seeing the little blue ...

Well, Smurf Me in the Smurf
Published 6/11/2008 by Rob Bricken at Topless Robot
Two sentences I had hoped never to hear or read, from this Variety article announcing a new Smurfs movie: " We're very excited to introduce a new generation to Papa Smurf, Smurfette and the other smurftastic Smurfs in all of their 'three-apple-tall' glory," [said] Columbia co-president Doug Belgrad. If you didn't throw up in your mouth at that sentence, congratulations, you're a robot. But here's the worse news: "Smurfs" marks SPA's first hybrid film -- a subgenre that proved popular given the success of 20th Century Fox's "Alvin and the Chipmunks." ...

This (mostly) Just In...
Published 6/17/2008 by Red (noreply@blogger.com) at Gingers is the Watchword
It's that time again, kids. What does Red think about the latest, breaking "news"? Observe: Tiger Woods, Amazing - He is just remarkable (and adorable). This commercial , which played many times during the US Open this weekend, got me a little teary...mainly because it's a very touching Father/Son thing, but also because I realized Tiger is married to a gorgeous Swedish model and my dreams of becoming Mrs. Tiger Woods will never be realized. *sigh* The Smurfs, Now the Color of Viagra - A live action/animated version of everyone's favorite Belgian cartoon is on the way to the big screen. As someone who was Smurfette on more than one All ...