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Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.

Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan has been officially hired by Sony to write the treatment for the Pooch Cafe movie that optioned back in January. A movie treatment is the basic story for the movie outlined in paragraph form. I pitched my treatment/vision of the Pooch Caf’e movie to Sony along with a number (not […]

Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers, wrote the original story for the upcoming movie “Alpha and Omega.” The CG movie, which has not yet started production will feature Hayden Panetierre (“Heroes”), Justin Long (Mac in the “I’m a mac, I’m a PC” commercials) have the title roles, with Christina Ricci, Danny Glover and Dennis […]

From Paul Gilligan’s blog comes news that his feature, Pooch Cafe has been optioned by Sony Animation to be made into a CG feature film. He notes that Sony’s two previous forays into computer-animated movies include Open Season (which Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers was an executive producer and co-creator) and last year’s […]

Mark Tatulli’s Lio has been optioned by movie producer David Kirshchner (“American Tail” movies, “Curious George” and the Chucky horror features) who plans to make it a live-action feature. No date has been set for production. Bridget McMeel and John Glynnof Amuse, the film and television division of Universal Press, will be executive producers. “I’ve […]

Jim Davis has written and ‘executively produced’ a Garfield movie entitled Garfield Gets Real which will be released on DVD on November 20th. The movie is CGI and the plot is described as: Tired with his routine as a comic strip star, Garfield escapes the page and heads into the â??real world.â? While living the […]

Garfield Gets Real is the new direct-to-video Garfield movie set for release this fall. The movie will be all CGI.

Fox has kept The Simpsons Movie away from critics – usually a sign of a stinker, but movie reviews that are now being posted appear to be mostly in the positive. Over at Rotten-Tomatoes it is currently scoring a 79% (29 reviews total, 23 positive, 6 negative).A bad review: “The movie isn’t a disaster, just […]

While visiting Springfield Vermont (Springfield was the Springfield that beat out all other 13 Springfields vying to be THE Springfield in the Simpsons’ Movie), Matt Groening has said that he’d like to return and visit the Center for Cartoon Studies. The man behind Bart and Homer says he is impressed that Vermont is home to […]

Matt Groening is interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show about his upcoming movie – The Simpson’s Movie

Matt Groening is getting a lot of press as The Simpson’s movie debut nears (this Friday). The Independent has a great write up on Matt’s career from waiting tables, creating the alternative comic Life in Hell to creating The Simpson’s franchise (worth $2 billion/annually).

A movie based on the Mandrake the Magician comic is heading into production to be a movie. Criss Angel, an illustionist/magician who has a television show called “Mind Freak”, is cast as the main character and will provide some of the special effects. Chuck Russell, who directed The Mask and The Scorpion King has signed […]

Salon, the online political and cultural publication, has picked up Berkeley Breathed’s Sunday-only Opus beginning yesterday. They reintroduced the feature to their readers with an e-mail interview with Berkeley who revealed such things as the Opus movie – 5 years in the making is no longer in production, how the children’s literature P.C.police reacted to […]

Last August, I told you about a rumor that an Opus movie is in the works for a late 2008 screen opening. According to Jim Hill, a blogger that covers the entertainment industry (specifically all things Walt Disney), who spoke with Berkeley Breathed during a recent book tour stop, Berkeley is also working with two […]

According to E&p, Rubes cartoonist, Leigh Rubin has created an opening-sequence animation for an independent film entitled “Moola” that opens this Friday at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California