Remember kids, the truth is always far, far stranger than fiction. It was a little more than a year ago that we found out the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series "Yogi Bear" would be getting a big screen treatment. There was no casting announced or anything like that; just that the project was happening with "Surf's Up" director Ash Brannon at the helm and that it would feature a mix of live-action and CG animation.

Well today, the plot thickened. Variety reports that Anna Faris, Justin Timberlake and Dan Aykroyd are all in negotiations to join the cast of the movie, which will now be directed by "Journey to the Center of the Earth" helmer Eric Brevig from a script by Brad Copeland ("Wild Hogs"). Read more...

Hollywood has heard your pleas, film fans! Beloved Hanna-Barbera character Yogi Bear is getting his own big-screen movie, courtesy of Warner Bros. Ash Brannon ("Surf's Up") is set to direct, and Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia of "That 70's Show" are penning the screenplay.

You all remember Yogi, of course. He and his little friend Boo-Boo created all kinds of trouble for campers at Yellowstone National Park by stealing their picnic baskets and consuming their contents in a relentless orgy of greed. They were constantly chased by the relentless Ranger Smith (shades of "The Matrix") but never defeated. Read more...