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The Witches

SCI FI Wire reports that Guillermo del Toro told them that he wants to make a more faithful film version of Roald Dahl's "The Witches," which was filmed before, in 1990, by Nicholas Roeg. He told them: "I liked a lot of the Roeg film, but I really, really disliked that the ending was changed, because I think the essence of the Dahl story is that the kid remains a mouse. Having said that, how the hell do I know that they won't change it on me again? They probably did that to Nicholas Roeg. So it may happen again. But I want to try. Growing up, it was my favorite Dahl book. It was my favorite, because the witches represent adulthood. They represent the world. They represent all things that f - - k up a kid. And I always thought it was great that the grandmother and the boy were essentially the same age and, therefore, were susceptible to witches that were in the guise of respectable old ladies. I thought Dahl has that subversive streak in him. It was there in his Unexpected tales, but it was also in his children's books. And much like H.H. Munro, Dahl has a very definitely sophisticated point of view on what the children's world is. That script is written. It's budgeted and awaiting a green light."

The Complete Harveytoons Collection On November 7th, Classic Media is set to release The Complete Harveytoons Collection, with all 312 digital restorated animated shorts from Harveytoons. Including Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, and Little Audrey the set is much anticipated (Heck, I know plenty of people who would spent the SRP of $25 for a complete set of Caspers). More info here.

Terminator 4

Michael Ferris told Entertainment Weekly: "'Terminator 3' kind of closed the book on Schwarzenegger, as did his gubernatorial career. You will learn about Skynet and what that postapocalyptic future is like."

Popcorn Bag Ads

Advertisements will now be appearing on bags of popcorn at the movies this weekend. DenTek Oral Care Company is distributing 570,000 popcorn bags to theaters including samples of DenTek Floss Picks attached to them, with the words: "Don't you just hate it when popcorn gets stuck in your teeth?" The bags also feature $1-off "zip coupons." David Fox, DenTek President said: "We want to give consumers a great opportunity to try our product, and then give them an incentive to buy some."

Bucky O'Hare Neal Adams has founded Buzzworthy, a production company that will focus on Adams' feature film projects. The first of those will be the CGI-animated feature "Bucky O'Hare," which Adams is directing and producing. Larry Hama scripted, based on Adams' 1980s comic book series. The story centers on an anthropomorphic hare who, with a crew of other mammals including one boy, battles toads in an intergalactic war. "Bucky" was a 1991 cartoon series. Adams said: "We're starting to get into features in as strong way. The computer animation has made us double our income and given us a whole different outlook to what we do." Here is the official site (complete with a Bucky cartoon).

R.L. Stine D.T.V. Universal Studios is producing new line of original direct-to-video movies based on the novels of R.L. Stine. The first "R.L. Stine Presents" release is "Don't Think About It," which starts principal photography Wednesday and is targeted for Halloween 2007. Glenn Ross, executive vp and general manager at Universal Studios Home Entertainment Family Prods., calls Stine "a master of 'safe-scare' storytelling, which has been a phenomenon in children's publishing but remains one of the most underserved categories in filmed entertainment."

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