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A lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes, director John Stevenson had a set of specific conditions for taking on the Paramount animated sequel, Sherlock Gnomes. Coming off Kelly Asbury’s 2011 feature Gnomeo & Juliet, the follow-up would retain key elements—namely, a band of charming garden sculptures, who get into a series…

Little more than four months before Johnny Depp is scheduled to go to trial against his former business managers in a more than $25 million fraud battle, the Pirates of the Caribbean star has lost his major law firm. Managing partner Mona Hanna of Irvine, CA-based Michelman & Robinson has taken over for Manatt…

4th Update, Sunday AM: Sci-fi/fantasy movies with heavy VFX  (no, we’re not talking superhero titles, Star Wars, Hobbit or Harry Potter) which no longer work stateside continue to be pumped out by studios as they seek to capitalize on such fare’s appeal in burgeoning overseas markets. Legendary has delivered many of…

Executive producer Elton John’s imprint is all over Sherlock Gnomes, the sequel to his 2011 animated effort, Gnomeo & Juliet, a cutesy toon take on Shakespeare that inevitably has sparked another literary-inspired sequel riffing on the legend on Britain’s most famous investigator, Sherlock Holmes. You can almost see…

It’s been nearly seven years since we were introduced to Gnomeo and Juliet, and now the garden-variety couple resides in London. They were supposed to live happily ever after, but then the gnome-nappings began. And there’s only one man — er, gnome — who can crack the case. Here is the trailer for Sherlock Gnomes, the…

Paramount Pictures is moving Sherlock Gnomes from its scheduled January 12 wide release date to March 23. The pic is a follow-up to 2011 animated hit Gnomeo and Juliet. Johnny Depp is voicing the title character, with other stars including James McAvoy and Emily Blunt. Sherlock now goes up against Paramount's Action Po…

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…

Four years after the $245.7M hit Rango, Johnny Depp is heading back to Paramount Animation for Sherlock Gnomes, a sequel to the Elton John-run Rocket Pictures feature toon hit Gnomeo And Juliet ($194M global B.O.). MGM is co-producing and Depp will star as the title character. Returning stars James McAvoy as Gnomeo…

BREAKING… The Kung Fu Panda director has come aboard Sherlock Gnomes, the 3D animated sequel to last year’s Disney-released Gnomeo & Juliet. Elton John‘s Rocket Pictures is producing again with the first movie’s co-writers Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil also back for the follow-up, which centers on the characters from the…