BOUND FOR TV AND THE BIG SCREEN

The Dr. Seuss environmental cautionary tale The Lorax is being made into a 3D animated film to be released in 2012, according to Variety. ... Frank Miller’s Ronin graphic novel is being developed for the big screen under the watchful eye of director Sylvain White, who, Steve “Frosty” Weintraub tells us at collider.com, likes Miller’s “production design and the character design and the colors that are used,” which he thinks he can frame with “much more depth and beauty on film than you can in a graphic [novel]." ...  Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove are slated to play themselves in a future episode of “Family Guy” saith Leigh Holmwood at guardian.co.uk. “Brian, the liberal dog of the cartoon's central family, the Griffins, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House, so he becomes a Republican and starts listening to Limbaugh.” So the show is going to the dogs? ... Posy Simmonds’ exquisite graphic novel, Tamara Drewe, is slated to be transformed into a motion picture by Stephen Frears. ...