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IM Global Television and UK games developer Rebellion are teaming to bring Judge Dredd: Mega City One to TV. The series adaptation will be based on the famous character from the legendary British comic book 2000 AD, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The character also inspired the 2012 feature…

Back in the ’90s, Alex Garland was in his mid-20s and collecting unemployment when he penned his massive bestseller The Beach, which then became an even bigger Leonardo DiCaprio film. Shocked by his success – as he says, "suddenly you're pretending to be a novelist" – Garland then went on to write other books (most…

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-con. The good news for Lionsgate is that Comic-Con fans of the pen-and-ink Judge Dredd accept this new Dredd as the real deal, unlike the Stallone version. Karl Urban, standing with costar Olivia Thirlby, introduced the screening by asking, "I hope you…

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Com, which runs July 12-15 in San Diego. We previously mentioned Lionsgate‘s Comic-Con dilemma with promoting Dredd — how to present footage when the star of your panel is The Expendables 2‘s Sylvester Stallone, who starred in the oft-derided previous…

Here’s a trailer for Lionsgate’s Dredd. Directed by Peter Travis and written by Alex Garland and based on the Judge Dredd comic books, it stars Karl Urban as the title character (played by Sylvester Stallone in the 1995 version) plus Olivia Thrilby and Lena Headey. Slated to open September…

In the past few days, buyers at the Cannes Film Festival have had a first look at some high-profile pics they've already bought. Focus Features International screened Cloud Atlas on Tuesday for its distributors, and IM Global gave theirs a full showing of Dredd this afternoon. FilmNation also held screenings of three…