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We're still a few months away from Dexter's season six premiere, so the time seems appropriate to take a look back at the show's motion comic spin-off, Dexter: Early Cuts. This installment looks at the six-part web series "Dark Echo."
EdGross - 6/27/2011

Luc Besson's Transporter is becoming a 12-episode television series for Cinemax, and today it was announced that the show has found its male and female leads in the form of, respectively, Chris Vance and Andrea Osvart.
EdGross - 5/20/2011

Stephen Sommerws has been making Hollywood blockbusters for years -- the most recent being the first G.I. Joe film -- but now he's trying something of a smaller scale by adapting Dean Koontz' novel Odd Thomas, which will reportedly be spawning additional novels. The film, too, is expected to become a franchise.
EdGross - 5/20/2011

Michelle Williams has just signed on to be a part of the star-studded Disney prequel to the Wizard of Oz.
EdGross - 5/20/2011

Warner Brothers is fast-tracking a reboot of Fletch, the '80s Chevy Chase franchise that is being seen as a complete reimagination as much more of an action comedy than the farcical approach taken on the original.
EdGross - 5/20/2011

Stephen King's Carrie, which has already appeared in several incarnations (though most famously in Brian DePalma's 1976 film) is going to be remade by MGM and Screen Gems.
EdGross - 5/19/2011

Fairy tales can come true -- and they do this fall on ABC in the form of Once Upon a Time, the trailer for which has been released by the network.
EdGross - 5/18/2011

This fall, coming from Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar as well as executive producer Drew Barrymore, is the new version of Charlie's Angels and we've got the trailer.
EdGross - 5/18/2011

J.J. Abrams, who has apparently decided to give up sleep as a waste of time, will be represented on Fox this fall with the new TV series Alcatraz, which, as revealed in this trailer, looks extremely intriguing.
EdGross - 5/18/2011

Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year is the original Willard, starring Bruce Davison as the young man who develops an unhealthy -- and ultimately deadly - relationship with an army of rats! What follows is the original trailer for that film, which is attached to its follow-up, Ben.
EdGross - 5/16/2011

Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller Straw Dogs gets the remake treatment, reuniting Superman Returns co-stars Kate Bosworth and James Marsden. We've got the trailer for the new version as well as the original.
EdGross - 5/16/2011

Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz look like the Prince and Princess of Cannes as they join their fellow cast and producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Director Rob Marshall on the Red Carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.
EdGross - 5/15/2011

With the death of Osama Bin Laden still impacting the news, interest in the Navy elite team Seal Team Six has never been higher, and Fox will be launching a series featuring them, Exit Strategy, in midseason.
EdGross - 5/15/2011

It looks like FilmDistrict, based on news from Cannes, has snagged distribution rights to the Bruce Willis/Joseph Bordon-Levitt scifi film Looper, which also stars Emily Blunt. The film was written and directed by Rian Johnson.
EdGross - 5/15/2011

Jumping on the "lost tapes" bandwagon is the collaboration between the Weinstein Company and MGM on The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes, to be directed by Daniel Ferrands from the script he wrote with Casey La Scala.
EdGross - 5/15/2011

If you're looking for pirate adventures beyond those of Captain Jack Sparrow, then this news is for you: British writer/producer Lynda La Plante is adapting Marcus Rediker's book about 17th and 18th Century pirates, Villains of All Nations, into television series for Lionsgate.
EdGross - 5/11/2011

According to The Hollywood Reporter, hip-hop artist turned actor Mos Def will be appearing in a recurring role during the sixth season of Dexter.
EdGross - 5/11/2011

Directed by Chen Kaige, Sacrifice is a revenge saga produced in China that has just been picked up for U.S. distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
EdGross - 5/11/2011

Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Omnilab Media’s film Killer Elite, an action thriller starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert DeNiro and directed by Gary McKendry.
EdGross - 5/11/2011

Although Rachel Weisz is supposedly all but signed to Oz, the Great and Powerful, now comes word from Deadline that she's also being seriously eyed for the female lead in the Jeremy Renner starrer, The Bourne Legacy.
EdGross - 5/10/2011