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FAMILY GUY Creator Seth MacFarlane to Direct, Co-Star and Voice a $65 Million R-Rated Comedy for Universal Called TED

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: April 12th, 2010 at 4:48 pm

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane will finally direct a feature film and it’s a R-rated comedy about a man and his teddy bear.  Titled Ted, the $65 million dollar movie will be financed by Universal Pictures and MRC and Deadline says “it will mix live action and CG. MacFarlane will also co-star and provide the voice for the CG-generated title character. MacFarlane wrote the script with Family Guy cohorts Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.”

The goal is to get the film into production this year, but with MacFarlane having to juggle his responsibilities on Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad!, who knows if that will happen.  More on the film after the jump:

MRC Will Produce Director Neill Blomkamp’s Next Movie…and It Isn’t a Sequel to DISTRICT 9

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 22nd, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Both critically and commercially, “District 9″ is one of the biggest hits of 2009.  Co-writer and director Neill Blomkamp made one of the best sci-fi films of the last decade and so naturally everyone is clamoring for a sequel.  But Blomkamp is proving that D-9 wasn’t just a stepping stone to something easier and more commercial because he’s doing another, original sci-fi movie.  With the news today that MRC will produce, Blomkamp hopes his new film will be commercial but says that “it is very much a singular film, (one) that comes directly from me.”  Speaking with Steve this past August, Blomkamp mentioned he had a sci-fi film he wanted to make before he went on to do “District 10″ (unofficial title) and I guess this is it.

Details about his new film are scare, but Variety reports that it will have a modest budget compared to other sci-fi films and that, according to Blomkamp, MRC is letting him make the film he wants to make.  That would be a wise decision because the creativity he displayed in “District 9″ with a budget of less than $30 million should be a sign that this man knows what he’s doing.  While I would love to see Blomkamp return to the world of “District 9″, I think he’s doing something even better by showing that his highest priority remains originality.  With such bold direction in both his artistic ability and career choices, I can’t help but wonder of some alternate universe where he directed the “Halo” movie that could never make the fanboys happy.

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