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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…

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…

It came out of the sky, and now it has a premiere date. History has set Tuesday, January 8, for the debut of Project Blue Book, its period UFO drama from EP Robert Zemeckis. Check out the new trailer below. Starring Aidan Gillen and Michael Malarkey, the 10-episode series is based on the true, top-secret…

Netflix has set Medal of Honor, an eight-episode original docuseries honoring eight recipients of the military’s highest award for valor, from James Moll (The Last Days) and his Allentown Productions and Robert Zemeckis’ Compari Entertainment, a division of Zemeckis’ ImageMovers. The series launches globally November…

EXCLUSIVE: In the last sizzling film package of the summer, Warner Bros and New Line have won an auction for The King, an epic-sized film that will star Dwayne Johnson as Hawaiian king Kamehameha. Robert Zemeckis is set to direct a film that could be compared to Braveheart, and only partly because King is based on a…

In her first major TV role, Oscar winner Renée Zellweger has been tapped to star in What/If, a social thriller anthology drama series for Netflix from Revenge and Swingtown creator Mike Kelley and producer Robert Zemeckis. Written by Kelley, directed by Phillip Noyce and produced by Page Fright, Atlas Entertainment…