With Sam Raimi no longer directing the next Spider-Man movie, Sony pictures had to cast a new leading actor for the web slinger. Yesterday it was announced that British up-and-comer Andrew Garfield would take over the reigns from Tobey Maquire. From Hollywood Insider: Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly sought-after […]
Empire online is reporting that Walt Disney will be releasing Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King will be released in 3D in the future. First, Hahn revealed that Beauty And The Beast isn?t the only Disney classic about to go 3D. A certain cartoon starring a warthog and a meerkat will be returning […]
Slashfilm is reporting that John Lasseter has been brought in to bring Cars 2 back from a near crash. Summary of events below. Less then a week later Blue Sky reported a rumor the John Lasseter, director of Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug?s Life, Cars, and now the chief creative officer at Pixar […]
July 9 cannot come soon enough.
Disney’s Tangled (previously entitled Rapunzel) is set to release in November 24th. Here is the latest teaser.
Rumors of a Jason Segel written, James Bobin directed Muppets full feature movie appears to be true. Disney says that the new film has officially been given a December 25, 2011 release date. The film, which will also star Segel alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal and the rest, will now go up against the […]
Comic Riffs’ Michael Cavna has posted an open letter or invitation asking Ken Burns to consider making a new documentary of the American cartoon. Michael argues that such a movie should be made sooner rather than later for two reasons: First, the state of the American cartoon is in such tremendous flux: Staff political cartoonists […]
In the last couple of weeks there have been a lot of “which comic strips should be made into movies” lists due to the Marmaduke movie and we’ve discussed the topic here and here. Before I get accused of milking the question to death (I have) – may I point to you ONE more list […]
Insipred by the Marmaduke’s jump to the big screen, last week we entertained which comic strips we would like to see make the jump. The Vancouver Sun went one step further and assigned Hollywood actors they see best playing in a Calvin and Hobbes, Hagar The Horrible, Dilbert, The Far Side, Andy Capp, or Archie. […]
Another exercise in wishful thinking. With the live action Marmaduke movie coming out, which comic strps would make great movies? TelevisionWithoutPity.com came up with own list:Calvin and Hobbes Get Fuzzy Spy vs. Spy Bloom County/Outland Liberty Meadows FoxTrot Little Nemo in Slumberland Zippy the Pinhead Prince ValiantWhich strips are missing on this list?
There’s a report from Pajiba.com that claims that a live-action Dilbert movie is in the works. In 2007, Moviehole reported that Chris Columbus (Stepmom, Mrs. Doubtfire, the two weakest Harry Potter films) had snatched up the about-to-lapse film rights to Scott Adams’ Dilbert, possibly with an eye toward directing. That was the last that the […]
Iron Man 2 took in a weekend total of $133.6 million to become the fifth most top grossing film sequel. The other top sequels include The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, Twilight Saga: New Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Interestingly, it was $5 million less than the the studio’s estimates.An open thread […]
Reviews are hitting the web. What’s your take?
Comingsoon.net has three photos of Hank Azaria in character as Gargamel. Apparently they’re shooting part of The Smurfs movie in New York City.
Dreamworks is the process of converting the first three Shrek movies into 3D. The fourth film in the series, “Shrek Forever After” is already in 3D. For animated films like “Shrek,” the 3D process involves going back to files and rendering out another eye. The makers of the “Shrek” films are working in close collaboration […]