Warner Bros. has acquired feature rights to “The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia” and set it up with Warner-based producer Dan Lin. Studio has tapped Bill Dubuque to adapt the book based on the investigation of former New York City cops. After a turncoat underworld boss fingered officers Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito as mob employees, William Oldham (a cop who worked alongside Caracappa and wrote the book with Guy Lawson) became a special investigator for the U.S. Attorney’s Brooklyn office after the NYPD decided not to investigate.

LEGO is set to burst out of the big screen in 3D on February 28, 2014, Warner Bros announced today. Directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, who also wrote the screenplay, the computer-animated adventure will be feature some classic and some new characters from the world of the construction toys. Lord and Miller worked together on this year’s…

Steven Spielberg is near to etching in stone with Warner Bros on that biopic portraying the Jewish leader as the warrior to beat all warriors. With a working title of Gods And Kings, what’s envisioned is “a movie like a Braveheart-ish version of the Moses story,” an insider tells us…

Warner Bros. is heading to “Otherland,” acquiring feature rights to Tad Williams’ sci-fi book series and setting it up with Dan Lin to produce. Studio has tapped John Scott III to script the film, based on the four books published by DAW-Penguin USA between 1996 and 2001 as “City of Golden Shadow,” “River of Blue Fire,” “Mountain of Black Glass” and “Sea of Silver Light.”…

Patrick Sean Smith, who created the ABC Family show Greek, is jumping into features. Smith has been tapped to write Bone, Warner Bros.’ adaptation of the cult-favorite Jeff Smith comic book that now has P.J. Hogan attached to direct.Dan Lin of Lin Pictures and Animal Logic are producing the adaptation of the fantasy series, the rights to which Warners picked up in 2008.

Warner Bros.-based Lin Pictures has promoted Jon Silk to senior VP of production and Seanne Winslow Wehrenfennig to director of development. Both are responsible for finding and acquiring material and developing the shingle’s feature slate and will continue to report directly to…

The next new “Sherlock Holmes” movie is out, and if you loved the first film, it’s more of what you loved — more slam-bang Victorian action, more whimsically anachronistic dialogue, more sly homoerotic innuendo and of course, more Robert Downey Jr. doing what he does best, which is to say, upend every convention of the action hero with Thorazine-smacked mania and tightrope-dancing wit. Also, Jude Law’s in it, doing his Jude Law thing, neither objectionable nor memorable…

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The Chinese World Journal spotlights Dan Lin and Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows.

Mickey Cohen’s raucous old nightclub, Slapsy Maxie’s, is long gone. But on a recent Friday night, I found myself roaming around a stylish replica of the legendary gangster’s old club where Warner Bros. is filming “The Gangster Squad,” which chronicles the real-life exploits of an elite group of 1940s LAPD officers who were given the rough ‘n tumble assignment of cleaning up the city, starting by running Cohen’s mob out of town. The film, which is in the middle of a 68-day shoot that ends in…

Warner Bros. is building up its “Lego” movie, greenlighting the animated-live action hybrid for a release in 2014.
Studio has tapped Oz vfx-toon house Animal Logic to do the animation, which is expected to comprise 80% of “Lego.” And the film has been approved for an incentive from the Australian...