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On the heels of the announcement of Michael Bay most likely directing the upcoming live-action Transformers movie and Weinstein Co. pacting with Warner Bros. to do a CGI Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pic, I see these gems today on Dark Horizons:

E.T.
Drew Barrymore and director Steven Spielberg are in talks to make a sequel to the 1982 Hollywood classic "ET: The Extraterrestrial" reports WENN.

Barrymore is apparently anxious to resume her role as Gertie Elliot, but only if Spielberg, who directed the first film, agrees to oversee the project. According to reports the sequel will see ET return to a now grown-up Gertie, desperate for help saving his family from extinction.

"Drew has spoken to Steven about it," a Hollywood insider said. "Although he thought she was joking at first, he's actually giving it serious thought. Drew thinks the world needs another feelgood movie like ET right now and she's prepared to work with Steven to make it happen."


The Smurfs
Paramount has acquired film rights to vintage cartoon characters "The Smurfs" and is setting up development of a 3-D CGI feature with Nickelodeon Movies reports Variety.

Producers have conceived the project as a trilogy and are aiming to release the first film in 2008 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Smurfs. The blue skinned critters originated in 1958 as a Belgian comic strip but hit international fame in the form of a 1981 animated series that ran for a whopping 256 episodes.

The studio has selected Herb Ratner ("Mr. Lucky," "Clean Break") to script, whilst the storyline is being kept under wraps.

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Normally this is where I'd do a "What's next? The Smurfs?!" comment. But now I know the answer is yes.