Movie News: Hey, hey, hey it’s Yogi Bear – CSI the movie?

Departing CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star and co-producer William Petersen has hinted he’ll return for a big screen version of the hit TV drama. The actor, who will give up his role as forensics expert Gil Grissom on the show during the forthcoming season, admits there have been talks about turning the series into a blockbuster movie for years – and it still might come off.
Petersen, who will stay on as a producer of the show after his departure this autumn (08), says, “I’d love to see us make a CSI film… That’s the reason Grissom isn’t going to die of a brain tumor. It would be good if we did it (film) right. The whole world is interested in the show… (but) you have to make sure it’s not just an extended episode.”

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Warner Bros. is taking us back to Jellystone Park, as it develops a new feature version of “Yogi Bear,” the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

The project, culled from Warners’ vast library, is planned as a live-action/animated hybrid along the lines of Fox’s 2007 hit “Alvin & the Chipmunks.” Much of the movie will be live-action, but Yogi Bear and sidekick Boo Boo will be done in CG.

Yogi Bear first appeared as a supporting character in 1958 in another classic cartoon, “The Huckleberry Hound Show.” In 1961, he got his own show, which has aired in reruns frequently during the past half-century.

Yogi’s exploits take place in Jellystone Park, where he and Boo Boo get into good-natured mischief and must elude their nemesis, Ranger Smith.

“Surf’s Up” co-helmer/co-writer Ash Brannon will direct and Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia, who exec produced “That ’70s Show” and are writing the feature “Tooth Fairy” for Fox, are penning the screenplay.

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