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variety.com - 10/19/2009

Mitchell faces 'Monster' task at WB

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'Shrek' director signs on for 'Squad' Warner Bros. has tapped "Shrek Forever After" director Mike Mitchell to helm its long-gestating comedy-fantasy project "Monster Squad" with Warner-based Donald De Line producing. McG had been attached to direct in 2007 from a Michael Arndt script about a ...

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hollywoodreporter.com - 10/19/2009

Mike Mitchell to helm 'Monster Squad'

— hollywoodreporter.com — Mike Mitchell will direct "Monster Squad," formerly known as "Nightcrawlers," Warner Bros.' long-gestating supernatural action comedy. The... studio picked up "Nightcrawlers" as a spec by Brian Lynch in 2000. The project went through numerous writers, ... (more) Mike Mitchell to helm 'Monster Squad'

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hollywoodreporter.com - 10/19/2009

Mike Mitchell to helm 'Monster Squad'

— hollywoodreporter.com — Mike Mitchell will direct "Monster Squad," formerly known as "Nightcrawlers," Warner Bros.' long-gestating supernatural action comedy. The... studio picked up "Nightcrawlers" as a spec by Brian Lynch in 2000. The project went through numerous writers, ... (more) Mike Mitchell to helm 'Monster Squad'

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variety.com - 10/22/2009

'Shrek the Musical' to close Jan. 3

— variety.com — B.O. fluctuation shuts down DreamWorks project "Shrek the Musical," the first legit outing from DreamWorks Theatricals, will... shutter Jan. 3 after a little more than a year on the boards. With the production long prone to significantly fluctuating ... (more) 'Shrek the Musical' to close Jan. 3

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SFX — [image] Monster Squad Finds New Director Warners has announced that Shrek Forever After director Mike Mitchell will helm the long-gestating Monster Squad movie, according to Variety . The film, about the adventures of an international coalition of kids whose job it is to combat a variety of monsters found under beds, has been in development at Warner Bros since 200, and was originally titled Nightcrawlers. Terminator Salvation’s McG was once attached to direct. Joss Whedon - Supervillain? ...

Don't Panic When You Hear About 'Monster Squad'
Cinematical — You will see this headline pass through your Google readers and your Twitter feeds today: "Mike Mitchell to Helm Monster Squad." Your heart will race, your skin will flush with fury, and you'll set off to your favorite site (hopefully it's Cinematical) to pound out your anger via your keyboard. Not another remake! Not The Monster Squad! But here's where I can reassure you. Calm down. It's not Fred Dekker and Shane Black's Monster Squad. Let's let your heart rate settle back to normal. Is it? All right then. According to The Hollywood Reporter and its misleading headline, Mike ...

Shrek 4 Director Goes For Monster Squad
Cinema Blend News — ... fact a sequel to Monsters vs. Aliens , one of my most unexpectedly beloved movies of 2009. Instead it's an entirely different live-action project over at Warner Bros., in which an adult finally has to face the monsters that tormented him in childhood. R Or at least, that's what it was in 2007, when McG was attached to direct it. Now it might going in an entirely different direction with Mike Mitchell, the Sherk Forever After director who has been picked up to direct this version. Variety writes that they want to put it into production as early as next summer, meaning that, ...

Laura Dern Meets the 'Fockers''' Monster Squad Progressing
:: The Playlist :: — - David Lynch muse and dinosaur stalkee Laura Dern has joined the cast of "Meet the Fockers" follow-up "Little Fockers" (a title which the Hollywood Reporter states might end up changing - are the studio nervous about advertising, like with Kevin Smith's "A Couple of Dicks?"). The actress, last seen in HBO's excellent "Recount," will play the headmistress of the school that Ben Stiller and Teri Polo's kids go to. Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson are all returning to the ...