Twentieth Century Fox is again in news for setting in motion the popular screen adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”. You will get to see Jack Black playing the leading role in the soon to be produced fantasy movie.

The screen adaptation of “Gulliver’s Travels” will be directed by Rob Letterman, famous for directing “Shark Tale”. As soon as Jack Black signed up this movie, the studio started the film in motion. According to sources, it will begin filming in March 2009.

“Gulliver’s Travels” is about a free-spirited travel writer, who one day finds himself as a giant among small men at the hidden island of Lilliput. Watch out how he becomes their friend and saves them from the enemies and goes to another island in the movie “Gulliver’s Travels”.

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Gear up to end the year 2008 dramatically with the soon to be released Hollywood movie, “The Class”. Directed by Laurent Cantet, this upcoming drama and adaptation movie will be soon out in theaters on December 12th, 2008. The credit for distributing it all over so well goes to Sony Pictures Classics.

“The Class” is a movie based on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau. It features the life of a French schoolteacher who works at a high school in Paris. Watch out how teenage students inspire him in the most amusing ways in the movie “The Class”.

Co-produced by Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta and Barbara Letellier, “The Class” stars Francois Begaudeau in the leading role. It is a long movie with a duration of 2 hours and 9 minutes. Also known as “Entre les murs”, “The Class” has been produced in France.

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The World of animation and adventure will now have a fresh arrival with Ninja Scroll about to be written by Alex Tse, famous for Watchmen. Alex will be writing this adventurous story for a Warner Bros. adaptation of a very popular classic Japanese anime feature.

In 1993, the original movie was rated R when released in Japan. Expectations are great this time since, Alex is expected to generate some real players in this new adaptation of Ninja Scroll to be made in a Hollywood movie. In the original movie, there was a stone skin villain and a hunchback with a wasp nest.

Ninja Scroll is a tale of Jubei Kibagami, a samurai heo, who is looking out ways to survive but gets attracted between the conflict between men and monsters. The original movie had 13 episodes, we can expect a better version to be written by Alex

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Jorge Saralegui will be producing the adaptation of Barker’s Madonna and in an interview he revealed that he will be shooting Madonna before Pig Blood Blues in 2009. He also said, “We were looking for something to do between Dread and Pig Blood Blues,” he said. “Our other projects that we have in development were not quite ready.”

“The Madonna” is a story based on a creature that lives in an abandoned bathhouse where all men are getting turned into women slowly by the creature. Wait for this movie to be released next year and see how it focuses on a gangster who too starts turning into a woman.

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Apart from the recent joining of Anne and Carter, “Alice in Wonderland” stars Mia Wasikowska in the role of Alice and Johnny Depp in the role of Mad Hatter. Kids and adults will alike like this movie based on the famous children book “Alice in Wonderland”.

Anne will be seen playing the role of the White Queen who is banished by her sister, the Red Queen, which will be played by Carter in “Alice in Wonderland”. So, gear up for this soon to be released Hollywood movie later this year or in early 2009.

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All your Brad Pitt fans are now in for surprise, as another Brad Pitt movie is been initiated by Steve Zaillian. You will now be able to se Pitt in an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s non-fiction bestseller “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”.

“Moneyball” starring Brad Pitt in the lead role will be directed by David Frankel. It will portray a story of Billy Beane, Oakland A’s general manager, who assembled a baseball club on a limited budget to hiring a complicated computer-based analysis to draft players. Watch out how Brad Pitt plays this role in the soon to be directed movie “Moneyball”.

This famous book was first drafted by Stan Chervin and was first published in 2003 by W.W. Norton. So, if you are die-hard Brad Pitt fan, stay tuned to know about more details of this movie.

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