Shawn Levy News

Posted on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta Disney's Touchtone Pictures have officially set a release date for DreamWorks' first independent movie, Shawn Levy 's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel .

Thanks to the shaky economic climate, the past year has been a very bumpy ride in Hollywood.

You might remember back in September that w e reported Hugh Jackman as being in talks to star in Shawn Levy 's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel .

This also stars an excessive amount of other big name actors including : Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Wiig, Ray Liotta, Common, and Taraji P. Henson.

Loading ... Yes, you read that right. Children's classic "The Berenstain Bears" is now being adapted for the silver screen.

Though Stephen Colbert has warned us of the unrivaled threat bears pose to civilization, those of us who grew up with a certain bear family know that they are actually wholesome, loving and full of great lessons to teach children.

It's a bear market for one group of moviemakers. Shawn Levy , director of the Night at the Museum movies, has signed on to produce a feature film based on The Berenstain Bears books, a comedy he says will be a mix of live-action and computer animation.

It's not mentioned in this Variety story, but the story that Richard Matheson wrote than a screenwriter and comic directo r Shawn Levy want to turn into the movie Real Steal , to possibly star Hugh Jackman , was filmed as an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1963.

Levy has quite a list of films under his belt: Big Fat Liar , The Pink Panther , and Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian .

Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Shawn Levy 's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel .

You might remember reading yesterday that Peter Berg officially signed on for Battleship as part of a two-picture deal at Universal Pictures.

As we've been told more than a few times this week, Steven Spielberg has great passion for a lot of things.

Sometimes you think that you have Hollywood figured out and then they do something so random that it just confuses you.A First of all, I have never heard of this futuristic robot boxing movie named "Real Steel".A I also didn't know that it was one of the projects that Peter Berg has been attached to with hopes of directing.A Well, now we have news ...

Comedy Paul Giamatti, Shawn Levy, Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Sandra Oh Who's afraid of the big bad Wolf? Not Jason Shepherd.