Elton John and David Furnish's Rocket Pictures has enlisted Technicolor’s Mikros Image (Asterix: The Land Of The Gods) to lead the digital animation work for Paramount Animation and MGM's Sherlock Gnomes. This is the follow-up to Rocket's Gnomeo And Juliet which grossed $194M worldwide in 2011. Mikros Paris and new…

Captain Fantastic, meet Joseph. Elton John‘s Rocket Pictures has pocketed film rights to Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the first produced musical penned by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Rocket plans to team with the Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group to produce an animated feature from the show…

EXCLUSIVE: Elton John's Rocket Pictures has set up the 3D animated Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes, a sequel to the 2011 Disney hit that grossed $194 million worldwide. Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil, who wrote the original, are writing the sequel script. Elton John is currently composing new songs for the film. Rocket…

EXCLUSIVE: Elton John's Rocket Pictures has acquired film rights to Michael Buckley's bestselling series Nerds, and will develop them as an animated family feature that Buckley will script. Rocket Pictures principals Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish will produce. John is exec producer. The Nerds series follows a…