It looks like the most successful movie of all-time will be joining forces with the most successful entertainment group of all-time. Disney has announced that it’s struck a deal with Fox to bring the world of “Avatar” to its theme parks. Construction is expected to begin in 2013 for the first attraction at Disney World […]

Roger Ebert’s long-awaiting memoir – “Life Itself” is finally out. After years of writing reviews, essays, books and tweets about movies, the world’s most famous and popular film critic finally writes about himself. In “Life Itself” Ebert covers it all – his childhood, his start as a movie critic, his relationship (on and off the […]

You would think that “Winnie the Pooh” would be released on DVD for the holidays and not for Halloween. But that’s exactly what’s going to happen. The animated adventure will hit stores on October 25th, one week before Disney’s other animated hit from the Summer “Cars 2” comes out. I thought Disney would save “Pooh” […]

Regis Philbin has announced that his last day as co-host of “Live! with Regis and Kelly” will be Friday November 18th. At first he joked that he decided to push it back another five years, but then made the official announcement on the show nearly eight months after his initial statement in January. One week […]

Back in May, I interviewed Jennifer Yuh Nelson – the director of “Kung Fu Panda 2”. She wasn’t the first female director for a DreamWorks animated movie (Vicky Jensen co-directed “Shrek” and helmed “Shark Tale”), but she’s now in a class by herself. “KFP2” has become the top grossing film of all-time directed by a […]

The summer started out rather weak, was picked-up a bit in the middle, and finished pretty strong. Here are the nominees and the winners of the 2001 Lights-Camera-Jackson Summer Movie Awards. The winners are in bold. Best Animated Feature Cars 2 Kung Fu Panda 2 Winnie the Pooh Best Action Captain America: The First Avenger […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Universal decided not to finance and distribute the film adaptation of the board game “Clue” – which has been part of a seven movie deal they made with Hasbro in 2008. Well, here we go again! Universal has now decided to drop the “Ouija” movie, which already […]

“Monsters University” is the prequel to Disney/Pixar’s 2001 Oscar-nominated hit “Monsters Inc.” The film is about how Mike Wazowski and Sulley met in college and plan to work at Monsters, Inc. “MU” doesn’t open until June 21, 2013, but according to star Billy Crystal (who voices the one-eyed, green, likeable monster Mike), he’s already done […]

Eddie Murphy has had a successful career thanks partially to his voice work. Murphy is the voice of Mushu in Disney’s Mulan, Thurgood Orenthal Stubbs on the animated TV Series “The PJ’s”, and most notably  the voice of Donkey in all four “Shrek” movies. Soon you can add “Hong Kong Phooey” to the resume. Murphy […]

A trailer for Sony’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” came-out about a month ago and the film doesn’t open until July 3rd, 2012. But now Sony has announced the release date for “The Amazing Spider-Man #2”. The sequel will kick off the 2014 summer movie season on May 2nd. This is ridiculous! The studio doesn’t even know […]