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The Game of Sunken Places

Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies will join to co-produce "The Game of Sunken Places," pitched by screenwriter Matt Nix and inspired by the Scholastic Press book by M.T. Anderson. The story would follow a pair of boys who discover that the housing development they live in is a gigantic game and that the mysterious developer is a representative of a supernatural race that is testing humanity.

DVD News

Fangoria has published their scoop that Criterion is, in January, releasing three genre movies from producer Richard Gordon and one by his brother Alex in a pair of double-features or a four-disc set. Two are starring Boris Karloff, 1958's The Haunted Strangler and 1962's Corridors of Blood; the other pair are 1959's First Man Into Space and The Atomic Submarine. All the discs are restored transfers, and the supplements are as follows (from the Fangoria article)":
** Audio commentary on Strangler by Richard and Alex Gordon and horror historian/Fango scribe Tom Weaver
** Audio commentary on Corridors by Richard, actress Yvonne Romain and Weaver
** Audio commentary on First Man by Richard and Weaver
** Audio commentary on Atomic by Alex and Weaver
** Making-of featurettes on all four films
** Featurette on Corridors' censored footage
** Liner notes/Fango article by John Croydon with Strangler and Corridors
** Trailers, radio spots, etc."

The Ancient Book of Myth and War Amid Amidi reports that five Pixar artists are working on a new hardcover art book for an August 2007 release. "The Ancient Book of Myth and War," will include work by Scott Morse, Don Shank, Ricky Nierva, Lou Romano and Nate Wragg; and several of the artists are beginning to post art on their respective weblogs.

Watchmen

Zack Snyder, according to Empire Online, is in line to finally deliver the film version of Alan Moore's "Watchmen." Here's some of what he said: "We're getting ready to turn a script that we like into this studio. They're pretty excited about it . . . I think the script that Alex (Tse) has done for us is the closest to the graphic novel it's been [since development started], for better or for worse. I feel like Alex has done an awesome job. It's keeping all the things that are cool about the comic." For the full article go here.

Hands on a Hard Body Robert Altman is developing a script inspired by the events depicted in S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary "Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary." That film recounted a Texas endurance contest that offered a new Nissan Hardbody truck to the last person left standing with a hand on the truck. Altman has wanted to direct the project for years and compares it to Sydney Pollack's 1969 film "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

TV Pick-ups & Pilots NBC has announced that they have ordered a full season of episodes of "Heroes," while, starting on Oct. 21 its Intensive Care Rating "Kidnapped" moves to Saturday (Not a good sign, they haven't picked up more than the original 13 episodes). Today, while waiting for the return of their hit "Battlestar Galactica," Sci-Fi Channel has said they will renew "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?" because the show seems to fly. William Shatner is going to host "Show Me the Money," an ABC trivia game show. The network has already ordered seven one-hour episodes.
Alan Thicke will host "The Singing Office," a CBS reality pilot, based on a popular Dutch reality show where producers surprise employees at two companies who are asked to perform impromptu singing auditions. The best five singers from each office are then flown to Hollywood, where they will (after some professional coaching) sing and dance a number before an audience. Then the audience chooses the office that wins a cash prize. Jeffrey Donovan will star in the USA Network drama pilot "Burn Notice," where he plays a blacklisted Special Ops agent who uses his elite training to find the reason for the "burn notice" that ended his spy career, and to help people who can't go to the police for help. For the same network Shiri Appleby topline the comedy pilot "To Love and Die in L.A." where she plays a fun-loving young woman with abandonment issues who therefore decides to track down the father she never knew. She finds him, and discovers that he is an assassin. She comes to realize that she might have found her own calling.

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