It took $19.2m in its opening weekend, making it the 3rd highest at the Us box office, was the most popular in the UK, and it seems things can only get better for The Time Traveler’s Wife which is now set to become a TV series too. The story follows Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana), a librarian born with a genetic disorder which causes him to travel through time at random intervals and Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams), his long suffering wife. Filled with romance and complications, it’s heart wrenching to watch and we’re sure this new ABC and Warner Bros. version will have us reaching for the tissues once again.
Writing and executive producing the series will be Marta Kaufman, the co-creator of TV’s Friends and Veronica’s Closet. In case you were going to accuse them of jumping on the band wagon, it seems ABC has »

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When you hear the story about a big, fat panda who is supposed to become a big, fat kung fu fighter, and All That in animation, you would probably think the idea is silly, but Kung Fu Panda is a surprisingly funny and even emotional movie. It tells the story of a panda, named Po who wasn’t believed in, but who tried as hard as possible to succeed and to never disappoint. Po (Jack Black) lives in the Valley of Peace with his father with whom he works in a noodle shop. He’s a huge fan of kung fu and despite trying really hard to master kung fu, he never quite succeeded. Po always looked up to the Furious Five, Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu) and Crane (David Cross), who were the most skilled kung fu fighters in the Valley and »

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DreamWorks Animation said Tuesday that its second-quarter profits totaled $25.6 million, down 7 percent from the $27.5 million that it took in during the same quarter a year ago. Total revenue dropped a similar amount , to $132 million. Of that amount, sales to cable of Kung Fu Panda amounting to $32.7 million proved to be the studio's biggest revenue source, followed by DVD sales of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which generated $26.1 million. Theatrical ticket sales of Monsters vs. Aliens, amounting to $10.3 million, was third on the list.

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DreamWorks Animation said Tuesday that its second-quarter profits totaled $25.6 million, down 7 percent from the $27.5 million that it took in during the same quarter a year ago. Total revenue dropped a similar amount , to $132 million. Of that amount, sales to cable of Kung Fu Panda amounting to $32.7 million proved to be the studio's biggest revenue source, followed by DVD sales of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which generated $26.1 million. Theatrical ticket sales of Monsters vs. Aliens, amounting to $10.3 million, was third on the list.
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DreamWorks Animation is up in the air about a sequel for Monsters Vs. Aliens, according to CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, who told The Hollywood Reporter that domestic audiences took to the animated feature more so than international audiences.
"This is the first movie we've had that's right on the bubble," Katzenberg said.
Katzenberg said executives will make discussions of a possible Monsters Vs. Aliens sequel part of their annual worldwide marketing tour.
"We want to talk to people that are on the ground," he said. "To get in sort of casual headline conversation can be misleading, so we're taking the opportunity to be face to face with people and have in-depth conversations."
Monsters Vs. Aliens has grossed $377 million worldwide at the boxoffice, with $198 million coming domestically. Some territories performed well, while others were "very big misses," Katzenberg said.
"Domestically it has performed at a level that would surely qualify it as a sequel,

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DreamWorks Animation really raised the bar for themselves last year with Kung Fu Panda, and now that we know what they.re capable of those horrible Shrek sequels just aren.t going to cut it. They should be going toe to toe with Pixar and maybe with their big, 2010 animated movie they will. It.s called How to Train Your Dragon, the story of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, a scrawny teenage Viking who lives on the island of Berk on the North Sea who must capture and subdue a wild dragon from Dragon Island. DreamWorks has released a piece of really beautiful concept art for the film, which you can see below, and launched the movie.s official site, to give you a taste of what they.re going for. Take a look:

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Dreamworks Animation has released a new concept image from Chris Sander's How to Train Your Dragon. The concept art was created by art director Pierre-Olivier Vincent. You can get lithographs this Sat. & Sun. at booth number 4921 on the Comic-Con show floor. From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How To Train Your Dragon” -- an adventure comedy set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell.  The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life.  Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father.  But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down. How to Train Your Dragon hits theaters in March 2010.
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Earlier today we told you here about plans to show Where the Wild Things Are in glorious IMAX format. But during the same special IMAX presentation by the top brass, President of Filmed Entertainment Greg Foster told us what they hope to be showing off big in the coming year. Mind you, this is not a list of done deals, but when IMAX guys say they're hoping for something, they'll probably get it. Foster rattled off a list of some of the most anticipated upcoming films, including Tron 2, Spider-Man 4, Shrek Goes Fourth, Dreamworks Animation's Oobermind, Zack Snyder's Guardians of Ga'hool, and Guillermo del Toro's The Hobbit, which probably got the biggest gasp from the crowd. There were also some obvious choices: the final two Harry Potter movies will almost definitely be on there, and if Kung Fu Panda and Happy Feet did IMAX, you can bet their sequels will.

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I had been preparing questions for Dreamworks and Paramount Home Entertainment pertaining to their plan for handling 3D on the upcoming Monsters vs Aliens Blu-ray Disc and DVD that stars the voices of Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, and Kiefer Sutherland. This morning all the questions were addressed with the same blanket answer: we're not ready. In a surprising move, Dreamworks will be releasing Monsters vs Aliens on Blu-ray Disc and DVD without 3D despite approximately 58% of box office ticket sales coming from 3D screenings. The reasons are purely technical. It cannot be done... yet. Speaking to Home Media Magazine, DreamWorks Animation chief Ann Daly explained the reasoning as follows: "The movie itself was developed with the notion of doing the RealD-Dolby experience in theaters, and those specs are not ideal for the anaglyph presentation for home viewing, which still relies on glasses with colored rather than polarized lenses," Daly said.

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You can bring one popular 3-D animated adventure home on DVD and Blu-ray this September. Monsters Vs. Aliens will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 29. The film will be released in a single-disc edition, a Two-Disc Ginormous Edition, which comes with the bonus animated film, B.O.B.'s Big Break, and the Blu-ray edition. Each edition will also come with four pairs of 3-D glasses, although we don't have pricing details on each edition as of yet. The film stars the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen and Will Arnett.
When Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is unexpectedly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall and is instantly labeled a "Monster" named Ginormica. The military jumps into action, and she is captured by General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) and held in a secret government

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