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Stalked: Voltron dead, Fame alive
Filmstalker — ... been put in turnaround as the studio drop the film... Fame is set to remake everything and the only original aspect will be the theme song... New Regency has dropped Voltron and it looks like Relativity Media will pick up the film and continue with it. What that means in simplistic terms is a much smaller budget for the film and the talk is to do much more CGI work on a par with 300 (Filmstalker review) , but still keeping a very small budget. The story comes from Variety through Coming Soon . Meanwhile the director of the Fame remake, ...

Monday Morning Link Love #2
Atomic Popcorn — Monday Morning Link Love #2 Well its Monday morning at the crack of dawn and we are upping the ante. Well not really, just give all of you guys a great way to catch up on the goings on of the weekend.“ Tropic Thunder ” now sits atop the Box Office, bring “ The Dark Knight “’s train to a halt. 2nd place isn’t to shabby with an almost 17 million dollar weekend. One of my favorite cartoons as a kid, “ Voltron ” is being given a reboot. The famed cartoon is coming to the big screen. Harry Potter may of moved into 2009, but the photos keep rolling in. Check out the newest Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince photos. ...

VOLTRON
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — Merrick here... The long-gestating VOLTRON film project is being re-shaped with the hopes of finally getting it on-track and into theaters. Ryan Kavanaugh's financing and production venture Relativity Media is in negotiations to back the property, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing the type of cost-effective technology employed in films including "300." ...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety. Remember late last year/earlier this year when a contingent of folks believed that CLOVERFILED, which was still mysterious at that point, was actually a cover for VOLTRON? I don't know much about VOLTRON, although the robo-thingies evidently have ...

Tropic Anticlimax. Trade Roughage 08/18/08
SpoutBlog — Tropic Thunder was not only the number one film of the weekend, but it dethroned The Dark Knight, which is now the second highest grossing film of all time. So why is Ben Stiller brooding? No, he’s not recycling his Bono impression––according to Variety, its $26 million 3-day weekend (it made $37 million from Wednesday through Sunday) is no cause for celebration. The film made about $4 million less than Pineapple Express in its opening run, but cost four times more than that film to produce. They spent $13 million on ...

Simon Pegg No Longer a ‘Bastard,’ But Will Go on a Road Trip
Vulture — ... into turnaround. Relativity Media is in negotiations to pick up the reigns on Justin Marks's script, with a more moderate budget using green-screen technology "a la 300," which of course means each lion will have ripped, chiseled abs. [Variety] ...

Live-Action Voltron to Get the "Frank Miller Treatment" [Voltron]
io9 — ... Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders. I love me some Voltron, but I'm starting to get a little tired of this whole post-apocalyptic New York thing. Can't we set it in New Mexico or something? That's where aliens always attack. Voltron Facing a Relativity Reboot [Variety] ...

Fox abandons ‘Voltron,’ but movie still possible
The Screening Log — Variety announced earlier today that Fox-based New Regency has officially dropped the big-screen adaptation of “Voltron.” But that doesn’t necessarily mean the project is dead. Relativity Media is currently in talks to develop the action flick, which is described as using the kind of technology we’ve already seen in “300.” This, however, would result in a significant budget cut. Based on the famous Japanese animated TV series that kicked off in the early 1980s, this adaptation is a post-apocalyptic adventure in which five survivors of an alien attack gather to pilot the five robot lions that combine and ...

'Voltron: Languishing In Turnaround' Just Doesn't Have The Kick Of 'Defender Of The Universe' [Trade Roundup]
Gawker: defamer — ... · Voltron: Defender of the Universe, a movie based on the greatest single achievement in Toy-Commercial- Loosely-Dressed -Up-As -Saturday-Morning -Cartoon History, has been put into the dreaded turnaround until a more affordable means of convincingly depicting giant fucking robot lions is devised. [Variety] ...

'Voltron' Movie is Being Made for Real
I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever — ... The worst part will be when I see the trailer in the theater and inevitably hear some kids talking about how it looks like a Power Rangers rip-off. "Hey, idiots, Voltron was around first! No, you're an old nerd!" 'Voltron' facing a Relativity reboot [Variety]