Spielberg and Smurfs. Trade Roughage 06/10/08

By Karina Longworth posted 3 months ago

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 Glastonbury music festival, because she’s afraid that not enough people are going to show up.
Hugh Grant and Ziyi Zhang are in talks to star in Lost For Words, a romantic comedy directed by Suzanne Bier. The plot will cleverly circumvent the problem of Ziyi being unable to speak English.

Nick Plowman said 3 months ago
“The plot will cleverly circumvent the problem of Ziyi being unable to speak English.”

I really am laughing so hard right now. It is not pretty.
Karina Longworth said 3 months ago
It’s not even a joke! Check the synopsis on the Variety story––they fall in love through a translator!!!
15 Cartoons Calling for CGI/Live-Action Treatment (Flix99.com) said 3 months ago
[...] an all-CGI 3-D Smurfs movie, as Paramount had planned, or a CGI/live-action mix, as Sony Animation is now planning for our beloved blue communists friends. I guess if we only think back to Alvin and the Chipmunks [...]