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Two long thought dead and past it properties are looking to be revived - on the small screen.

Sonar Entertainment (a rebranded Rhi Entertainment) has announced it is developing weekly dramas based on both Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" films and H. Rider Haggard's pulp adventure hero Allan Quatermain.

Panacea Entertainment is co-producing the new take on "Hellraiser" which will see the return of Pinhead and the Cenobites, however there's no word on what form the show will take.

In regards to "Quatermain", Sonar and Ecosse Films are developing ten hour-long episodes with a combined budget of $30 million says The Hollywood Reporter.

Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle ("Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal") will pen the series with this season serving as an adaptation of the most famous story featuring the character - "King Solomon's Mines". The scripts are expected to be completed by mid-year and shooting will take place in Africa.

Sonar Entertainment and Ecosse Films have teamed up for a $30 million, 10-part action-adventure series based on H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain books, says The Hollywood Reporter . The project is a joint venture between Sonar Entertainment and Ecosse Films ("Camelot," "Monarch of the Glen"). Writers Richard Kurti and Bez Doyle ("Going Postal") are on board to pen the script. "It.s an incredible character from a range of best selling books," Stewart Till, CEO of Sonar Entertainment said. "I read all the books as a child and it is something that many Brits have grown up with. It's also the kind of high-concept adventure that broadcasters are looking for." The show is expected to shoot in Africa.

Sonar Entertainment and Ecosse Films ("Camelot") will team up for a $30 million, 10-part action-adventure TV series based on author H. Rider Haggard's 'Allan Quatermain' novels.

The adaptations will be scripted by Richard Kurti and Bez Doyle.

Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel "King Solomon's Mines" and its various prequels and sequels, characterized as an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the 'Dark Continent', though he also favours native Africans' having a say in their affairs.

Quatermain is an imperial outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable. He prefers to spend most of his life in Africa, where he grew up under the care of his widower father, a Christian missionary. Native Africans refer to Quatermain as 'Macumazahn' ("Watcher-by-Night") a reference to his nocturnal habits and 'keen instincts'.

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Sonar Entertainment has teamed up with Ecosse Films to bring Allan Quartermain to the small screen. The show would be a 10-episode project that is budgeted at $30 million. Writers Richard Kurti and Bez Doyle have already inked a deal to write the show.

The show would follow the swashbuckling character from the 1880s who inspired the Indiana Jones franchise. Here's what Stewart Till, CEO of Sonar Entertainment said about the series.

"It's an incredible character from a range of best selling books. I read all the books as a child and it is something that many Brits have grown up with. It's also the kind of high-concept adventure that broadcasters are looking for."

This project is still in early development.

I must be really out of the loop because I had no idea the Sean Bean post-apocalyptic survival monster movie The Lost Future premieres on Syfy this weekend. Looking at these two clips from this South African production, it looks to potentially be a considerable step up from the usual schlock Syfy typically unspools on their Saturday evenings.

Sean Bean might wish he was back in the Lord of the Rings shire when he finds himself amongst the few humans trying to survive in a primitive wasteland populated by behemoths and mutant manimals in this Syfy original from Mikael Salomon, director of the 2004 remake of Salem's Lot and 2008 remake of The Andromeda Strain.

A group of post-apocalyptic survivors struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish...

The Company developing a remake of Blake's 7 says it is confident of finding a new partner after Sky1 cancelled its plans to revive the show.

The cult sci-fi series, which was the brainchild of Doctor Who's Daleks creator Terry Nation, originally ran on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981 and followed a gang of rebels fighting a totalitarian Terran Federation which ruled the galaxy.

Sky bought the rights from the BBC and in 2008 announced plans to bring the show back to the small screen.

It was described as being "modern and bold" and test footage was reportedly filmed.

But a Sky1 spokesman now says: "Following the development process we have decided not to produce Blake's 7. However, Sky continues to invest heavily in original drama and it remains at the heart of our plans."

B7 productions, the company developing the remake, said: "Sky deciding to not proceed with the planned TV revival of...

LONDON -- French-owned Pathe and the BBC are coming together to back a $50 million budgeted live-action movie based on Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" stories.

The deal will see BBC natural history moviemaker John Downer, who filmed the Emmy-nominated drama "Pride", take the camera to the updated "Jungle Book" tale.

Working from a script by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle, Downer says he plans to use CGI techniques to make the animals in the story appear to talk.

The film, scheduled to begin shooting in September, will shoot live sequences in India and mix in film of trained animals on jungle sets in the U.K. via blue screen.

Michelle Fox ("102 Dalmatians") will produce for Downer's company, Pathe and the BBC said. The picture is expected to take two years to film because of the complicated techniques involved.

Kipling's "Jungle" stories tell the story of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, who is then kidnapped by monkeys, before being rescued by his animal friends, including Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.