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3 September 2008 8:45 AM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Tarzan is returning to the Big Screen but not as an animated musical sequel from Disney but a played-for-straight adventure from Warner Bros, and director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy). Variety reports this morning that Sommers and Stuart Beattie will be co-writing the screenplay. The duo last worked together on 2009’s G.I. Joe film for Paramount, which recently completed lensing.

Producer Jerry Weintraub has been trying to mount a new live-action version of Tarzan since 2003, working from a screenplay by John August (Shazam!) and at one point Guillermo del Toro was in talks to direct the film.

Ever since Edgar Rice Burroughs first wrote about his man raised by the apes in 1912, it has been repeatedly interpreted for serials, movies, radio, television and comic books. Burroughs penned some 23 books featuring his character in addition to creating other fantastic realms and characters including John carter, Warlord of Mars and Pellucidar.  While

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17 August 2008 6:25 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Chariots Of Fire has topped an apt new list of Olympics-related films.

The celebrated 1981 Hugh Hudson movie, starring Nigel Havers and Ben Cross, beat ice hockey sports film Miracle and Cool Runnings to top the new Access Hollywood movie poll.

The top 10 is:

1. Chariots of Fire

2. Miracle

3. Cool Runnings

4. The Cutting Edge

5.Munich

6. Prefontaine

7. Olympia

8. One Day in September

9. American Anthem

10. Blades of Glory

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2 articles from 2008