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VeggieTales: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Movie

LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2006 -- Hoist the mainstay! Trim the sails! Paint the poop deck!?! - it's BIG time for Bob and Larry! Universal Pictures brings everyone's favorite talking vegetables back to the big screen worldwide in early 2008 with the release of The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything -- A VeggieTales Movie. The CG-animated family film is based on Big Idea's enormously successful VeggieTales franchise and features the creative team behind the series, Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki. The announcement was made today by Universal marketing heads, Adam Fogelson and Eddie Egan, and Big Idea COO, Terry Pefanis.

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything -- A VeggieTales Movie will be directed by Mike Nawrocki and is based on a script written by Phil Vischer, who will also serve as executive producer through his production company, Jellyfish Labs. Big Idea's David Pitts will produce. The film will feature an original soundtrack by Kurt Heinecke.

Cast with a boatload of VeggieTales stars, The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything is a comedic adventure filled with family-friendly lessons on the importance of doing what is right, even when it's difficult and discovering that real heroes don't have to be tall, strong, handsome ... or even human.

VeggieTales' second feature film follows the highly successful 2002 release of Jonah?A VeggieTales Movie, that grossed over $25 million theatrically. Since 1993 VeggieTales has helped teach kids values like honesty, kindness, and forgiveness with its unique blend of humor, award-winning animation, and infectious "Silly Songs." With nearly 50 million videos sold, VeggieTales is one of the most popular kids' series in America and continues to be an innovator in values-based family entertainment.

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything -- A VeggieTales Movie opens in modern day suburbia at the local pirate themed restaurant, where derring-do and turkey legs go hand-in-hand five nights a week. But not for Sedgewick, Elliot and George (Mr. Lunt, Larry the Cucumber and Pa Grape). While they love all things piratical and dream of taking the stage in the big show, Elliot's timidity, Sedgewick's laziness and George's lack of self-confidence relegate them to busing tables and refilling drinks.

When they finally do get up the courage to audition, the three would-be swashbucklers manage only to destroy half the stage set. Out of luck and out of work, they stand dejectedly outside the restaurant as a strange, ancient-looking metal ball lands at their feet. It is a "Helpseeker," sent from another time and place in search of heroes. After scanning the three moping misfits, it sets in motion events that will send them back to the 17th century to face real pirates in a real pirate adventure, and in the process challenge everything they believe about themselves.

Visit the official movie website here.

Ted Dekker talks about House on CBN

Watch a video of Ted Dekker on CBN talking about House the movie, why he writes "dark" fiction and more. And if you haven't already, read our interview with Ted here where he addresses some of these issues further.

Karen Kingsbury's Like Dandelion Dust to be movie

Downes Brothers Entertainment has this up about the movie version of Like Dandelion Dust:

Title: LIKE DANDELION DUST – an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Karen Kingsbury - Publisher: Center Street (Warner Faith).

Author: Karen Kingsbury is a USA Today and New York Times best-selling inspirational author with more than 5 million copies in print, more than two million of which were sold in the past year. Kingsbury is in the top 5 best selling authors in the U.S. faith-based book market with more than 35 novels written, nine of which have hit #1 on national lists. One of her earlier books, Deadly Pretender, was made into a CBS Movie-of-the-Week titled, “Every Woman’s Dream,” starring Kim Cattrall.

Screenwriter: Stephen J. Rivele (ALI, NIXON) Awards: Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter

Genre: Domestic drama set around the theme of adoption depicting a family in crisis. Target demographic is females, aged 35 to 54.

Target Rating: PG

U.S. Theatrical release date: Easter 2008 - Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: Jack and Molly Campbell have everything in their small hometown outside West Palm Beach, Florida: Great house in a fancy neighborhood, high-paying job, and a beautiful little 4-year-old adopted boy, Joey. Until it's discovered that Joey's birth mother forged the signature of Joey's birth father, so the adoption was a fraud and Joeys biological father has been released from prison and is ready to start life over with his son.

When a judge rules that Joey must be returned to his father, Joey is suddenly thrust into a volatile household of people he's never met and, a father who doesn't know how to show love without violence. The Campbells, in a silent haze of grief and utter disbelief, watch their son pick a dandelion and blow the feathery seeds into the wind.

Struggling with the dilemma of following the law, their hearts, and what they know to be morally right, the Campbells find that desperation leads to dangerous thoughts. What if they devise a plan? Take Joey and simply disappear.... LIKE DANDELION DUST.

Website: http://www.likedandeliondust.com IMDB: Like Dandelion Dust

New Prince Caspian artwork

Some new artwork on the Walden Media website for Prince Caspian. Click the above picture for a larger version. We're getting stoked ...

The List by Robert Whitlow to be major movie

Robert Whitlow's novel The List is soon to be a major motion picture starring Malcolm McDowell, Chuck Carrington, Hilarie Blurton and Will Patton. Currently in post production, according to the official movie website, Robert Whitlow co-wrote the screenplay.

Robert Whitlow is the best-selling author of legal thrillers set in the South and winner of the prestigious Christy Award for Contemporary Fiction. A Furman University graduate, Whitlow received his J.D. with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law where he served on the staff of the Georgia Law Review. A practicing attorney, Whitlow and his wife, Kathy, have four children. They make their home in North Carolina.

Visit the author's website here to learn more about his southern legal thrillers.

Redemption of Sarah Cain movie stills

Michael Landon, Jr. & Brian Bird's Believe Pictures have some fun movie photos of the upcoming Redemption of Sarah Cain movie. See them here. Based on the novel by Beverly Lewis, the film should release this fall with Lisa Pepper in the lead role.

Plot summary:
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.

Read our interview with Michael Landon, Jr. about his previous film The Last Sin Eater here.

The Wager movie coming later this year

Synopsis:

Nominated for an Academy Award, Michael T. Steele (Randy Travis) has reached a pinnacle that no other Christian has. Unaware, he has now been cast as the lead in a supernatural drama, as the center focus of a wager between God and Satan. Like the Old Testament accounting of Job, it is up to Michael Steele to determine the winner.

His Joan of Arc sister, Annie (Nancy Stafford) is the only bastion of security in the now tumbling world of Michael Steele. A conniving agent (Jude Cicollola) and his long time chauffer (David Morin) try their best to control his chaotic Hollywood lifestyle while his co-star Cassandra (Candice Cameron) has other ideas. The Wager is a powerful parable examining the Sermon on the Mount and how to live it in today’s world.

Claiming that the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible standard, Satan has chosen Steele to prove his point in this wager with the Almighty. Agreeing to the choice, the true test is if Michael can live out the truths of Matthew 5, 6, and 7 in the final days before the awards. THE WAGER follows Steel as he copes with his career, his crumbling marriage, and struggles with his faith - not to mention a few diabolical tricks and temptations by Satan.

…the fiery darts of temptation fly. Will Michael fall?

Based on the book by Bill Myers.

Adapting Prince Caspian

A fascinating glimpse into what we can expect in the next installment of the Chronicles of Narnia movie franchise. Over at the Narnia blog the screenwriter's talk about some of the difficulties in adapting the book into a movie. There are some spoilers for those who aren't familiar with the story, but for those who are, it'll whet your whistle even more for the sure to be blockbuster hit coming in 2008. Click here to read the piece.

Cloud Ten Pictures -- Films in development

Some interesting films being listed as "In Development" over at the Cloud Ten Pictures website.

One of which, Dirk and the Devil, has a poster to view.

Also listed in development are:

Left Behind IV
Apocalypse V (Helen Hannah anyone?)
Apocalypse TV series


We'll see if these become anything anytime soon...

View more at the In Development page.