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Fandom 5: 'Walking Dead' Feud; 'Ghost Rider' Spat; Michael Chabon Writes

Fandom 5: 'Walking Dead' Feud; 'Ghost Rider' Spat; Michael Chabon Writes

It was a contentious week in the world of fanboy entertainment. Here are the top five stories...

5) Spidey Swings Again

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Columbia Pictures Drops Comic Book Adaptation 'The Boys' (Exclusive)

Columbia Pictures Drops Comic Book Adaptation 'The Boys' (Exclusive)

Columbia is no longer part of The Boys club.

The studio was developing the adaptation of the violent and edgy comic book from writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson but has put the project into turnaround.

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Anchor Bay Preemptively Picks Up 'Aggression Scale' (Exclusive)

Anchor Bay Preemptively Picks Up 'Aggression Scale' (Exclusive)

Anchor Bay has preemptively picked up the rights to The Aggression Scale, an action movie that will have its world premiere at next month’s SXSW Film Festival.

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Saoirse Ronan in Negotiations to Star in Disney's 'Order of the Seven'

Saoirse Ronan in Negotiations to Star in Disney's 'Order of the Seven'

Saoirse Ronan is in early negotiations to star in Disney’s Order of the Seven, an action-adventure movie set in China.

Commercials director and visual effects wizard Michael Gracey is directing the epic, which has a long development history — it was originally conceived as a revisionist East-meets-West Snow White tale.

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Summit's 'Warm Bodies' Moved to Feb. 1, 2013

Summit's 'Warm Bodies' Moved to Feb. 1, 2013

Summit Entertainment has moved back its late-summer release Warm Bodies to Feb. 1, 2013. It was originally scheduled for an Aug. 10 opening.

Jonathan Levine is directing the project, which stars Nicholas Hoult and Theresa Palmer in the story of a zombie who rescues a girl from an attack and inadvertantly sparks a cross-dead romance. Levine also adapted the screenplay from the novel written by Isaac Marion.

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Paramount, Namco Bandai Partner for 'Star Trek' Video Game

Paramount, Namco Bandai Partner for 'Star Trek' Video Game

Paramount and video game maker Namco Bandai announced a deal on Friday to co-publish and distribute a Star Trek game in early 2013, ahead of the sequel to J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot of the space franchise.

The combat game is centered on the adventures of Kirk and Spock, portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the Abrams incarnation, as they pair up to defeat a shared -- and so-called "legendary" -- enemy, the companies said.

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Emma Thompson Joins 'Beautiful Creatures'

Emma Thompson Joins 'Beautiful Creatures'

Emma Thompson is the latest to join the cast of Beautiful Creatures, Alcon’s adaptation of a young adult novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

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5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'

5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'

With yet another re-invigoration of the massive Star Wars franchise —hello, 3-Delirum! — the Star Wars creator confronts the controversy of content changes (again), shares his views on SOPA and gives an update on Indiana Jones 5.

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Legendary Pulls Plug on Bradley Cooper's 'Paradise Lost'

Legendary Pulls Plug on Bradley Cooper's 'Paradise Lost'

Paradise Lost, Legendary Pictures' big-budget, special effects-laden take on the John Milton classic poem, has been shut down.

The movie was to have been directed by Alex Proyas and to have starred Bradley Cooper as Lucifer. The rest of the cast included Djimon Hounsou, Casey Affleck, Benjamin Walker, Camilla Belle and Rufus Sewell.

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'Smallville' Gets 11th Season -- In Comic Form

'Smallville' Gets 11th Season -- In Comic Form

Joining the likes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CW's recently departed Smallville will live on -- in comic book form.

DC Comics announced that the origin story of how Clark Kent became Superman will continue on with an 11th season set to premiere online April 13 with new digital chapters released weekly. The online chapters -- complete with an episode guide to the TV series, will be collected in print issues, with the first due May 16.

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VES Honoree and Effects Guru Douglas Trumbull on How Technology, Spectacle Can Rescue Hollywood

VES Honoree and Effects Guru Douglas Trumbull on How Technology, Spectacle Can Rescue Hollywood

Within three years of starting his Hollywood career, Douglas Trumbull changed the moviemaking process irrevocably; working with Stanley Kubrick on 1968’s 2011: A Space Odyssey, when he was barely 25, he not only created a landmark cinematic experience, but pioneered special-effects techniques which filmmakers continue to use even today. Since then he’s done Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, and most recently, Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life.

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'The Hobbit' Rounds Out Cast with Billy Connolly in Key Role

'The Hobbit' Rounds Out Cast with Billy Connolly in Key Role

Scottish actor Billy Connolly is joining the cast of Peter Jackson’s two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

In the films, Connolly will play Dain Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior and cousin of Thorin Oakenshield.

PHOTOS: Top 10 Grossing Films

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'Animal Kingdom' Actor to Star in '300' Follow-Up

'Animal Kingdom' Actor to Star in '300' Follow-Up

Sullivan Stapleton, who appeared in the 2010 Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom, will star in the untitled 300 follow-up in development at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.

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McG's Wonderland Sound & Vision to Produce Syfy Films' Found-Footage Thriller 'Day 38'

McG's Wonderland Sound & Vision to Produce Syfy Films' Found-Footage Thriller 'Day 38'

McG is returning to the world of science fiction and the supernatural, with his banner Wonderland Sound & Vision in early negotiations to produce Day 38, a found-footage thriller that Syfy Films picked up last week.

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