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It's shaping up to be a fantastic year for the contents of my bookshelf, as another of my favorite tomes is getting the big screen treatment. I got giddy back in June over the Rachel McAdams-Eric Bana romance "The Time Traveler's Wife" (due out a week from Friday) and now the trailer for "The Lovely Bones," based on Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, has hit the interwebs.

The third film based off the novels of C.S. Lewis starts principal photography.

Paramount is developing a feature version of the children's tale "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" -- the second theatrical go-round for the book.

Can District 9 bring the Halo movie back to life?

Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment have announced that Sam Raimi, director of Spiderman trilogy, will be taking the reigns of the upcoming Warcraft movie.

Charles Roven, who previously worked on The Dark Knight, is set to produce the film alongside Raimi.

After years of lounging in development, a live-action feature based on the classic 80's cartoon series "Voltron" is in the works at Atlas Entertainment says The Risky Biz Blog.

The series featured a band of five robot-lions who combined to form one super lion. A group of five pilots control the lions, which are charged with defending the planet Arus from villain King Zarkon, who dispatches evil creatures called Robobeats to fight the Voltron robots.

WB pic casts spell over box office -- Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” grossed a magical $58.4 million from 4,275 theaters as it opened Wednesday at the domestic B.O., including a potent $22.2 million in midnight shows.

I think it's safe to say that everyone here at the MTV Movies Blog is pretty darn excited about Disney's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars." The book is a sci-fi classic and the adaptation has Pixar's Andrew Stanton at the helm. It's an epic romance, and it's starring up-and-comers Taylor ...

Pic may score best midnight gross of all time -- In a massive start, Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” easily scored the biggest midnight gross of all-time in earning $22.2 million as it unspooled in 3,003 runs at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

First he was going to direct and co-star as Kato in Columbia Pictures' Green Hornet , then he was only set to play Kato, and now Stephen Chow has exited the film completely due to scheduling conflicts.