Paramount (World Trade Center, Nacho Libre, Hustle & Flow, Mission Impossible III, Titanic) has purchased Dreamworks SKG (Transformers, War of the Worlds, Gladiator, Shrek, The Ring, Catch Me if You Can).

Hmmm... Dreakworks Animation SKG is working on a CG film called "Kung Fu Panda" slated for 2008. I assume comedy.

Fall 2006 will have a lineup of weighty movies:

• THINKflim --> Half Nelsion (Aug 11) - drama - teacher in urban school (S: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie)

• THINKflim --> 10th and Wolf (Aug 18) - drama, organized crime (S: James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro)

• Yari Film Group --> The Illusionist (Aug 18) - period, drama- magic (S: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel)

• Sony Pictures Classic --> Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Sept 1) - foreign film, family drama, China, Japan (D: Zhang Yimou)

• Focus Feature --> Hollywoodland (Sept 8)--> period crime/mystery drama (S: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins)

• Universal Pictures --> The Black Dahlia (Sept 15) - period crime, mystery (S: Scarlet Johannson , Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett)

• Dreamworks Pictures --> The Last Kiss (Sept 15) - drama - coming of age (S: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson)
  

• Miramax --> Renaissance (Sept 22) - animation, sci-fi - crime, future Paris

• Rogue Pictures --> Jet Li's Fearless (Sept 22) - period, martial arts fighting

• Fox --> The Last King of Scotland (Sept 27) - drama - Ugandan President Idi Amin and his physician (S: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy)

• Universal Pictures --> Children of Men (Sept 29) - sci-fi, drama - hope in an infertile near-future (S: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore)

• Warner Brothers --> The Departed (Oct 6) - drama - cops & crooks (D: Martin Scorsese | S: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg)

• Warner Brothers --> The Fountain (Oct 13) - sci-fi - The Fountain of Youth, across time (S: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz)

• Touchstone/Hollywood Pictures --> The Prestige (Oct 20) - thriller, magic (S: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale)

• Paramount --> Babel (Oct 27) - drama - security in cross culture (D: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | S: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Koji Yakusho)
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• Sony Pictures --> Casino Royale (Nov 16) - action - 007 film (S: Daniel Craig - the new James Bond, Eva Green, Madds Mikkelsen, Catarena Mureno)