Voltron Finally Coming Together After A Relative Turnaround

Twentieth Century Fox has dropped its robot action movie Voltron: Defender Of The Universe, reports Variety but that doesn’t necessarily mean the project is dead.

Ryan Kavanaugh’s financing and production venture Relativity Media is in negotiations to back the property, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing the type of cost-effective technology like Zack Snyder used in 300.

Mark Gordon (The Day After Tomorrow) and Jordan Wynn are still producers for the adaptation of the 1980’s Japanese anime while Bryan Zuriff is still executive producing. A director is likely to be announced shortly to lead the film, based on Justin Marks’ screenplay. Read the rest of this entry

Jackie Chan Signs for “The Spy Next Door”

Jackie Chan has signed to star in the action comedy “The Spy Next Door” which will be directed by Brian Levant and financed by Relativity Media.

Robert Simonds (”The Pink Panther” and “Big Daddy”) is tapped to produce the film with Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh. Solon So and Tucker Tooley are executive producing.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Bernstein and Jim Greer are writing the screenplay for “The Spy Next Door”, which centers on a man (Jackie Chan) who is called to baby-sit his neighbor’s children and winds up having to fight off secret agents after one of the kids inadvertently downloads a secret code. No production date has been set.

Chan’s most recent movie, “The Forbidden Kingdom“, took $51 million at the US box office earlier this year.