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Darren Lynn Bousman’s Repo: The Genetic Opera will have its world premiere at Fantasia Film Festival on July 18.

Lindsay Macgowan about Stan Winston Studios’ future: “So the studio is going to continue. We are not stopping, because as we said in an announcement that went out yesterday, that before Stan passed away, we had been talking for quite a long time, a number of years actually, about becoming partners with him. Now of course, the plan has slightly changed, but we are continuing the studio with his blessing. It’s now going to be called The Winston Effects Group that will be a partnership between Shane [Mahan], John Rosengrant, Alan Scott, and myself. “

Relativity Media is developing and Tarsem Singh will direct War of Gods. Written by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, it “is set in war-torn ancient Greece, as the young warrior prince Theseus leads his men in a battle against evil that will see the gods fighting with soldiers against demons and titans.” 300-esque green screen will probably be used.

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have a script for Sony and Neal Moritz’s All Creatures Great and Small. It’s set in North America in a world where animals control the planet and people live in forts.

Anita Briem, Wes Bentley, and Katharine McPhee will be in the Robert A. Masciantonio written and directed The Storyteller. Says Briem: "Wes is the writer to my illustrator, and we create children's books together. My character suffers from an extreme case of agoraphobia, so the friends and family of Wes Bentley's character start to believe that I am a figment of his imagination." Shooting starts later this summer, with a possible 2009 release.