David I. Stern Movie Updates

Last week, in the wake of The Smurfs surprisingly robust $35 million opening weekend, the company set a date for the sequel — Aug. 2, 2013 — and said Jordan Kerner was returning as a producer.

MGM is jumping into the animation game with the children's book adaptation Punk Farm, the studio's first toon since All Dogs Go to Heaven in 1989 and only its second in-house project since emerging from bankruptcy.