20th Century Fox has finalized a deal to distribute all DreamWorks Animation movies beginning next year. DWA is ending its distribution deal with Paramount (which had been going since 2006) at the end of the year with “Rise of the Guardians”. DreamWorks’s upcoming movies include “The Croods” (opening in March – the first to now […]

Universal has decided to skip plans for a sequel to “Snow White & The Huntsman” and instead make a film that mainly focuses on the Huntsman. This means that Chris Hemsworth is now the star of not one, not two, but THREE major movie franchises. He’ll be reprising his role as Thor in “Thor 2” […]

Warner Bros.’ recent decision to move “The Great Gatsby” from Christmas Day 2012 to Summer 2013 was a surprise for movie fans, especially considering that there was plenty of buzz for the film as a possible Best Picture Oscar contender. So now that “Gatsby” is out of the picture who are the new Oscar favorites? […]

In between all of the new releases this hot Summer I’ve had the chance to squeeze-in some of Hollywood’s greatest films. Here are my thoughts on three of the of the all-time classic: “The Birds” – Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller about birds gone wild is an incredible film. The suspense level builds perfectly and the balance […]

August is normally a bare month for quality movies. This is traditionally when studios decide to release all the movies they’re not confident in or don’t think have a home at the other times of the year. But, for some reason, this year is different. For the first time in a long time, August ’12 […]

“Despicable Me” is one of the funniest and most original animated movies of the past decade thanks, in large part, to the Minions. In case you don’t know, they’re the little yellow creatures who assist scientist Gru (Steve Carell) in his lab and help him to try to stealing the moon. They pull a lot […]

Pixar sequels have been pretty successful at the box office and so far they’ve been very good films that stand on their own: “Toy Story 2”, “Toy Story 3” and “Cars 2”. This streak will be tested next year with the prequel – “Monsters University”. And now comes the news is that Pixar is planning […]

It’s a small, independent documentary about inter-city playground basketball. And it was shot in Albany, NY, not far from where I live. But “Ballin’ at the Graveyard” is much more than simply a sports film. It’s an honest look at the men who spend every weekend a local park to play, most of them for […]

UPDATE: Along with a new theme park for DreamWorks Animation, the studio has also announced at Comic Con 2012 that a “Penguins of Madagascar” movie is confirmed for 2015 and that they’re going ahead with “Kung Fu Panda 3”. DreamWorks Animation has been longing to bring their popular animated characters to a theme park for […]

DreamWorks Animation has been longing to bring their popular animated characters to a theme park for a long time. After deals with China, Abu Dhabi and Dubai all failed, they’ve decided that the United States would be the perfect home for Shrek, the Madagascar clan and even Po the Panda. The studio has announced plan […]