Andrew Adamson Movie Updates

Andrew Adamson is going from ogres and lions to monkeys.

Reel FX and Andrew Adamson’s Strange Weather have acquired screen rights to Monument 14, the first installment of a young adult novel trilogy by Emmy Laybourne that Brad Peyton will adapt to direct.

Strange Weather Films is developing Chris McCoy's travel comedy-drama Year Abroad, with the banner's Andrew Adamson and Aron Warner producing.

New distributor Twentieth Century Fox today unveiled DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: DWA) feature film release slate for 2013 to 2016, which includes twelve CG animated films in four years — a major industry first.

Andrew Adamson’s Strange Weather Films has acquired Blackpine, a pitch that will be written by Cory Goodman.

Dark Horse comic Beasts of Burden is heading to the big-screen with Shrek and Chronicles of Narnia director Andrew Adamson leading the charge. Adamson is producing what is intended to be a CG-animated feature adaptation with his Strange Weather Films partner Aron Warner along with Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Entertainment.

Andrew Adamson is attached to direct House star Hugh Laurie in Mister Pip, an adaptation of the Lloyd Jones novel that Adamson has adapted for the screen.

Cirque du Soleil, James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar), and Andrew Adamson (Shrek, Chronicles of Narnia), in association with Reel FX Entertainment, announce today a partnership designed to develop and produce immersive theatrical 3D projects inspired by the unique creative universe of Cirque du Soleil.

Aron Warner, producer of the "Shrek" movies, has optioned Paul Melko's "The Walls of the Universe" for Strange Weather, his production company with fellow DreamWorker Andrew Adamson, co-helmer of "Shrek" and "Shrek 2."

The next big film directing job in Hollywood will be decided late next week,. That's when Lionsgate chooses a filmmaker for The Hunger Games, the first installment of a trilogy based on the Suzanne Collins novel series that many feel could be the next Twilight. I'm told that Lionsgate has gotten Billy Ray's rewrite, and will mee ...