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12 March 2013 10:42 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

It’s a tale as old as time: A revisionist fairy tale blows up at the box office (this time, it’s Oz the Great and Powerful, which made over $80 million this past weekend), and suddenly all the studios want in on creating the next big live-action “fairy tale.” (In this case, “fairy tale” means any popular children’s story).

Disney is looking to develop Beauty and the Beast into a live-action film, possibly to be written by Joe Ahearne (Trance), according to a Deadline report. The studio’s 1991 animated movie is a beloved classic, and was the first animated »

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20 February 2013 12:00 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Reel FX, a fully integrated movie studio that develops and produces both animated and live action films, announced today that Academy Award nominee Shane Acker (9) will direct the studio's upcoming untitled CG-animated feature based on the Dark Horse Comics series Beasts of Burden, written by Evan Dorkin and illustrated by Jill Thompson.

The film is being written by Darren Lemke (Turbo, Shrek Forever After). Aron Warner, Reel FX's President of Animation, is producing the film alongside Mike Richardson from Dark Horse Entertainment and Andrew Adamson from Strange Weather.

Acker is the latest filmmaker Reel FX has attracted to its growing animation slate, which already includes the Day Of The Dead-themed project, The Book of Lfe (Guillermo del Toro producing/Jorge R. Gutierrez directing), which will be released in theaters by Fox Animation on October 10, 2014; and Turkeys (Jimmy Hayward directing, starring Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson), which will be released »

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