Jamie Foxx is set to lend his voice to a new animated movie from 20th Century Fox called “Welcome to the Jungle.” He’s also one of the people who pitched the story idea to the studio and will be one of the film’s producers. This will be Foxx’s first animated movie, which is surprising, since […]

The other night I had the chance to see an independent film called, “The Flyboys”, and it’s pretty good. The story is about two boys named Jason and Kyle, who accidently get stuck on an airplane that gunmen are trying to blow up. The two boys stop that from happening, the bad guys find out […]

Logan Lerman is now being considered the front runner for the new “Spider-Man” movie. I didn’t even think of him. But there’s one problem with choosing him. If he does more “Percy Jackson” movies, how is he going to have enough time to do one or possibly more new “Spider-Man” films? But since “The Lightning […]

Drive-In movie theaters have been around since 1933 and now that spring has sprung Drive-Ins are opening up all around the country for another season, showing all the big films. When was the last time you went to a Drive-In? It’s sad that there were thousands of Drive-In theaters in the U.S. during their heyday, […]

Happy Easter, everybody. From LCJ and his minions

Variety is reporting that Kanbar Entertainment is suing The Weinstein Company for not setting a new release date for “Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil”. Kanbar, which made the sequel, is claiming that TWC didn’t consult them about changes in the release date (it was originally scheduled to open on January 15th). Also, the two sides […]

We finally have some photos from the highly anticipated “Yogi Bear”. This picture of Yogi is very interesting. The look like CGI, but at the same time, like fur costumes. Hopefully this will be a great movie when it comes out in December. Dan Aykroyd is voicing Yogi and Justin Timberlake is Boo-Boo. “Yogi Bear” […]

As usual, some of the winners at Saturday night’s “Kids Choice Awards” were puzzling (Miley Cyrus Favorite Movie Actress, Jim Carrey Favorite Animated Movie Voice). Overall it was a pretty good show, and the TV audience was huge – 7.6 million, the second largest ever for a KCA (though there wasn’t as much slime as […]

More of my exclusive interview with Head of Character Animation for DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon” – Simon Otto. LCJ: I know you had an internship out of college at the Disney Animation studio in Paris. That must have been a great way to start your career. Simon: It was. Back then, of course, […]

This week I had the chance to talk with Simon Otto, the Head of Character Animation on “How to Train Your Dragon.” He’s been an artist at DreamWorks for nearly 13 years and spent the past 3 1/2 years working on “Dragons”. LCJ: What were your duties as Head of Character Animation on “How to […]