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Back to the Future and Contact director Robert Zemeckis looks to be returning to the science fiction genre with Warner Bros and the astronaut thriller called Ares, studio sources confirm. The Oscar-winning director of Forrest Gump is in advanced negotiations to helm the sci-fi project that was set up in recent months…

History will turn the page on Project Blue Book in two months. The cable net has set Season 2 of the UFO drama from executive producer Robert Zemeckis for 10 p.m. Tuesday, January 21. Watch the new trailer above. David O'Leary created the series and serves as writer and executive producer alongside writer-showrunner…

HBO Max’s kids and family programming will include new Warner Bros Animation-produced cartoons Looney Tunes based on the iconic animated shorts and Jellystone featuring characters from the world of Hanna-Barbera, a live-action/animated hybrid series Tooned Out from Robert Zemeckis and two new series from Cartoon…

In the wake of a string of bombs, i.e. last Christmas’ Welcome to Marwen ($13M) and the Brad Pitt-Marion Cotillard WWII spy romance Allied ($120M off an $85M production cost), Forrest Gump Oscar winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is in early talks to direct a live-action version of Pinocchio for Disney. It’s the same…

History has ordered a 10-episode second season of its hit UFO drama series Project Blue Book, from A+E Studios and executive producer Robert Zemeckis. The renewal comes amid strong ratings for the series, which is averaging 3.4 million viewers in L+3, making it the No. 1 new series on cable among total viewers this…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter and author Jonathan Stokes has been tapped to rewrite Universal's Untitled Genghis Khan Project. The idea for the project was presented by ImageMovers, Seven Bucks Productions and Evan Spiliotopoulos, who wrote an earlier draft of the film. Pic is a contemporary action-adventure story and…

Anne Hathaway is set to play the grand high witch in Robert Zemeckis’ feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1973 novel The Witches.  We’ve been hearing about her circling the project since November, and sources say the Oscar-winning Les Miserables best supporting actress is now attached. We also hear Viola Davis is…

Robert Zemeckis’ UFO-themed Project Blue Book drew 3.5 million total viewers in its series premiere in Live+3, making it the most-watched scripted cable series premiere of the 2018/19 TV season-to-date.  The January 8 premiere episode also topped the list in the key adults 25-54 demo, with 1.2 million in L+3 for Histor…

Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has long been fascinated by the fusion of historical fact with inventive fiction — I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1941, Back to the Future and, of course, Forrest Gump are a few of his past projects that memorably embroidered fictional characters over historical events (or, conversely…

For the third time since his 2012 Oscar-nominated film Flight, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis tanked at the box office last weekend, with Universal/DreamWorks’ Welcome to Marwen bottoming out with $2.3M at 1,911 theaters. This feature adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol was an attempt by the director to deliver a…

Whenever a studio’s marketing department resorts to commercials calling a film “the year’s most original movie,” you know they don’t quite know how to sell it. Such is the case with Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen, an odd duck of a movie about a unique human being named Mark Hogancamp. While…

EXCLUSIVE: Now this has a familiar ring to it: Robert Zemeckis is revisiting the 1950s to rewrite history with one new project and then he’s going back to the future to prove the power of love with a second project. No, Zemeckis isn’t revving up the DeLorean for more Marty McFly sequels — however, the director of the B…