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“And now comes an act of Enormous Enormance! No former performers performed this performance!” –Dr. Seuss’ “If I Ran the Circus” Illumination Entertainment and Infinitum Nihil are developing a live-action movie on the author and illustrator Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. Actor Johnny Depp will be one of the producers on the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Depp is a strong potential candidate to play Dr. Seuss. Geisel wrote several best-selling books using imaginative characters and rhyme. Some of his books included “Green Eggs and Ham,” “The Cat in the Hat,” “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,” “Horton Hatches the Egg,” “Horton Hears a Who!” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” The author’s career also involved as an illustrator for advertising campaigns and a political cartoonist for a New York newspaper. During World War II, he worked in the animation department for the U.S. Army. He...

Johnny Depp is developing a Dr. Seuss biopic through his production banner Infinitum Nihil in collaboration with Illumination Entertainment.  Risky Business says Depp is producing "with the potential to star as Seuss."  I am not sure where this falls on the spectrum of attachment, so please keep your expectations---be they positive or negative---in check. Illumination is currently animating the finishing touches on an adaptation of one of Seuss's books, The Lorax, for a March 2, 2012 release.  The biopic, however, will be live-action.  Mostly, at least.  The studio did not rule out incorporating some animation into Keith Bunin's screenplay.  Universal---another studio with Seuss experience bringing How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat to the big screen---will distribute the movie.  Depp's Infinitum partner Christi Dembrowski as well as Illumination's Christopher Meledandri and David Kennedy are also on board as producers.  More, including background on the life of  Theodor Seuss Geisel,...

Johnny Depp has been officially cast to play the famous Dr. Seuss for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Why wouldn't Depp play Dr. Seuss? The guy is being cast in anything and everything he can possibly fit into his schedule, he's also putting some focus on doing more family films for his kids. Dr. Seuss is definitely a role that is calling his name. Depp's not only starring in the movie, but he's producing it as well.

The movie will be a live action film about the life of the famous author and illustrator Dr. Seuss a.k.a. Theodor Geisel. The studio is also considering adding in CGI elements to give it a stylistic feel, but it isn't set in stone. It would make sense because of the wacky world that the good Dr. created in his books.  

Geisel was born in 1904 and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. He...

Jessica Alba is expecting her second child later this year, and she’s feeling “good” — albeit not sexy.

“I just don’t associate being pregnant with being sexy,” the actress, 29, told People Wednesday at the National Education Association’s Read Across America Day kickoff in Washington, D.C., where she brought along 2½-year-old daughter Honor Marie.

“I think being pregnant is grounding and you feel like part of the earth and connected with women. It’s not a sex thing to me. It’s a grounding, maternal thing.”

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Daughter Honor will be “a very attentive big sister,...

François Ozon has carved a place for himself in French mainstream cinema as a gay film-maker who appeals to well-heeled, middle-class heterosexual audiences. In Time to Leave, his last picture to cross the Channel, a handsome gay photographer (Melvil Poupaud) comes to terms with his imminent death from a rapidly metastasising cancer and ends on a summer beach on the Atlantic coast. In The Refuge, Poupard plays Louis, a middle-class dropout who ODs in the opening reel from tainted heroin in the family's smart Parisian apartment, alongside his pregnant girlfriend, Mousse. He dies, she survives. Awaiting the birth of their child, the listless, affectless Mousse spends the summer at a house on the Atlantic coast, lent to her by a dodgy old former lover. There, she's joined by Louis's gay brother, Paul, who, like everyone else in the neighbourhood (including the girl herself and the lens of Ozon's camera), is...

In this incarnation of our Videolog column (which began in 1982 with VHS & Betamax and later laserdisc), Starlog posts information weekly regarding selected genre titles now being released (or re-released) on DVD and Blu-ray. Prices listed are Msrp, though any clickable links lead to Amazon where the savings can be significant.

This week’s DVD releases...

A Charlie Brown Christmas (Warner, $29.99 Blu-ray): The classic Peanuts Christmas cartoon is a holiday perennial favorite, and now it’s available on Blu-ray.

Contact (Warner, $28.99 Blu-ray): Robert Zemeckis directed this adaptation of Carl Sagan’s bestseller about a radio astronomer who may or may not have discovered an extraterrestrial radio transmission. Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey star. Look for our Foster interview on the film (from issue #241) to be posted online soon.

Get Smart: Season Four (Warner, $24.98): Maxwell Smart is back...and loving it! And so are Agent 99, the Chief, Fang...