Posted January 22, 200916 yr Thanks To Chris for providing the link: Tom and Jerry are to return to the big screen in a live-action remake, according to industry reports. The animated cat and mouse, who debuted on the small screen in the 1940s, will follow in the footsteps of fellow Hanna-Barbera character Scooby-Doo. The 2002 film version of Scooby-Doo and 2004 sequel, Monsters Unleashed, made £330m ($457m) at the global box office. Trade paper Variety says the new film will concentrate on how Tom and Jerry met and their subsequent rivalry. Box office success Spurred on by the success of live action hit Alvin and the Chipmunks, Warner Bros is also developing big screen versions of Hanna-Barbera cartoons The Jetsons and Yogi-Bear. Sales of complimentary merchandise, DVDs and computer games are also considered strong income generators. Alvin and the Chipmunks proved an unexpected hit for Fox studio in 2007, earning £260m ($360) worldwide. A sequel is expected to follow next year. Tom and Jerry began as a series of 114 animated shorts, produced between 1940 and 1960. The much-loved cartoons won seven Academy Awards. An animated feature-length version, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, was released in 1992. SOURCE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7844507.stm
January 23, 200916 yr A live action Tom and Jerry film is blatantly just not going to work IMO, the whole thing with T & J is that they do things within the logic of animation in the cartoons which real cats and mice cannot do, particularly the physical things... The unreality is where the humour comes from, and this cant possibly work in any other form than animation... I'd like to see a Pixar type of thing certainly, but live action just isn't going to work for this one IMO
January 23, 200916 yr ^Agreed. And also has anyone seen the new episodes of T&J?! They are appauling. Hopefully this movie wont follow. Edited January 23, 200916 yr by Joao Filipe
January 24, 200916 yr ^Agreed. And also has anyone seen the new episodes of T&J?! . You mean the ones when they're supposed to be 'nice' to each other....????? :rolleyes: And dont they TALK as well...... That's just wrong.... T & J is at its best when they try to kill each other and it's all 100% slapstick humour (ie, NO TALKING......) I think I'll stick to the classics from the 40s and 50s (you know, the ones that will still have me p"ssing myself laughing no matter how old I am)..... Absolute timeless classics which will NEVER be equalled..... Why-oh-why does Hollywood just seem so bound and determined to destroy its own cinema heritage with these crummy remakes and "updates" which do nothing at all to further the reputations of the originals...... Quite the opposite in fact, they rather taint the originals.....
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