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Recent rumors tell that Warner Brothers are about to hit history again with another big project on the line: “The Justice League Of America to the big screen”. Warner Brothers, who own DC, “have long made rumblings about a film of the little colorful books, which bring together the characters of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern and more”, but you can imagine how prohibitive the budget for something like that would be.

These days, Paramount Pictures released their second trailer of the upcoming movie, Shrek the Third which is is the latest film in the Shrek trilogy. The anticipated animated-comedy hits theaters on May 18, 2007. The movie is voiced by the celebrities like Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas and Eddie Murphy who will reprise their roles for the new animated film, while the Justin Timberlake enters as King Arthur.

King Harold’s sudden death leaves The Kingdom of Far Far away without a king. It seems that the only option for the free throne would be Shrek, but that is the last thing he had in mind when he married Fiona. Unless Shrek (along with his friends Donkey an The Puss in Boots) find a suitable king, the ogre could be caught in this job. The most promising candidate seems Fiona’s cousin Artie, a Medieval high school scrimshanker who proves to be more of a challenge than they expected.

According to Twentieth Century Fox Animation the two comedy celebrities Jim Carrey and Steve Carell joined “Horton Hears a Who”, a new CG animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of the “Ice Age” films, based on Ted Geisel’s (aka Dr. Seuss) 1954 book. Jim Carrey will voice the role of the immortal Horton, the elephant and Seteve Carell will voice the Mayor of Who-ville, a figure of a very small size.

The film marks the first time Carrey has lent his voice and talent to bring a CGI animated character to life. Carrey will next be seen this February in the psychological thriller The Number 23, directed by Joel Schumacher, and is set to star with Cameron Diaz in A Little Game Without Consequence, to be directed by Gabriele Muccino.

Twentieth Century Fox will release Horton Hears a Who on March 14, 2008. Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino will direct, while the script adaptation is written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. The executive producers are Audrey Geisel, Chris Wedge and Chris Meledandri, and the producer is Twentieth Century Fox Animation production executive Bob Gordon.