Latest news on Joseph movie

STXfilms announced today that they are joining Rocket Pictures’ collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in  a newly adapted animated family feature of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which is currently touring the UK with X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the title role.

Elton John’s Rocket Pictures (which is currently producing the animated feature Sherlock Gnomes - the follow up to Gnomeo and Juliet - for Paramount starring Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt and James McAvoy) is producing the film in association with Really Useful Group, which will feature new songs written by Lloyd Webber and Rice.