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Tom Hanks is building his own totalitarian dystopia in Electric City

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:20:00 PST

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Tom Hanks is building, starring, writing, and lending his voice to a new animated scifi series for Yahoo titled Electric City, which is the first ever scripted series for Yahoo. Here's a plot synopsis, via Yahoo Vice-President Erin McPherson: More »

Tom Hanks producing 6 seasons of Neil Gaiman's American Gods for HBO

Cyriaque Lamar — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:30:00 PDT

Here's some good news for those readers upset that the television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman stalled out. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions will produce a whopping six seasons of Neil Gaiman's earthbound-deities novel American Gods. More »

Natalie Portman, Halle Berry and Tom Hanks may join the Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:12:32 PST

Halle Berry just confirmed the Wachowski's next big project is Cloud Atlas, based on David Mitchell's acclaimed novel that tells a series of stories from the 19th century to the post-apocalypse. Also possibly attached: Tom Hanks and Natalie Portman. [NataliePortman.com] More »

Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:00:00 PDT

We caught up with Wild Things producer Tom Hanks on the carpet last night for the big premiere, to chat about wild rumpusing — and learned that there's more than one new plaything appearing in the third Toy Story movie. More »

Tom Hanks Explains His Antimatter Issues With Star Trek

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:20:12 PDT

Our lovable everyman, Tom Hanks, stopped by the Daily Show to talk Angels and Demons and the big antimatter problem, which incidentally isn't a problem at all. So what's the deal with Trek then? More »

Tom Hanks Wants To Be Your Space Doll

Graeme McMillan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:30:00 PDT

The craze for turning toys into movies may have reached some strange new peak, with the news that Universal plans to turn Major Matt Mason into a movie starring Tom Hanks. More »

Tom Hanks Welcomes You To The City Of Ember

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PDT

Producer of The City of Ember Tom Hanks gives us all an inside peek into the underground city that was filmed where the Titanic (not James Cameron's movie, the actual ship) was built. Almost the entire underground world was constructed on this gigantic set, including Ember's shops, salons and mysterious tunnels. More »

Fahrenheit 451 Is "The Most Relevant Piece Of Literature Ever Written"

Kevin Kelly — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:59:03 PST

Director Frank Darabont has made a career out of adapting kooky and off-beat novel and short stories, most of them from the hand of Stephen King. He impressively turned the very thin story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into a film that holds his own, and now he's attempting to do the same with Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451. More »