I spent a few hours this weekend chasing a Hollywood star! A few scenes of the upcoming movie “Salt” are being shot in a city not far from my home and so I went to the set to try to get a look at the film’s star – Angelina Jolie. And even though there was […]

This year “Earth”, next year “Oceans”! Before the new Disneynature documentary “Earth, the studio unveiled it’s 2010 release: “Oceans.” It will come out next Earth Day. The trailer shows some vintage footage of Walt Disney and explains that he was the first person who realized that animals could be great subjects for movies. And we […]

Disney/Pixar’s “Up” finally has been given a rating – and it’s a surprising PG. “Up” becomes only the 2nd of the 10 Pixar films to get a PG rating (the other 8 are G). The other is “The Incredibles”, which was slapped with a PG when it came out back in 2004 for “Action Violence”. […]

Even though it’s still April, and Easter was only a week or so ago, Summer is almost here! The Summer Movie Season, that is. Crazy, right? Well, Hollywood doesn’t care what the calendar says. “Iron Man” kicked-off the ’08 Summer season on May 2th and it ended-up making $318.4 M, the second highest total of […]

Here’s some good news for you “Harry Potter” fans: the 6th installment of the series – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” will be in theaters two days earlier than expected. Warner Bros. has announced that the movie will now come out on Wednesday, July 15, instead of Friday the 17th. The studio wants to […]

If you go see Disney’s new documentary, “Earth”, you can also make the Earth a better place. If you buy a ticket ticket to “Earth”, the first week it’s in theaters, the studio will plant a tree in your name. That’s pretty cool. The movie opens on Earth Day – April 22nd. And, “Iron Man […]

Disney/Pixar fans – mark you calendars now. Starting October 2nd, the studio will be releasing the classics “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2” in a 3-D DOUBLE FEATURE! And the movies will only be out for 2-weeks. Before the double feature we’ll all get to see the first preview of “Toy Story 3 3-D”, which […]

The 2009 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards were held on Saturday. “Witch Mountain’s” Dwayne Johnson hosted, and he did an O.K. job. There were some problems with the show (technical, stunts) and what did Shia LeBeouf say before he presented that got him edited?  Favorite Movie Actor went to Will Smith for “Hancock”, while Favorite Movie […]

It appears that there will NOT be a Fall release from Dreamworks Animation this year. The studio’s next scheduled film, “How To Train Your Dragon”, has been pushed back to March 26, 2010. “Sherk Goes Fourth” will follow on May 21, 2010 with “MasterMind” set to be released on Novermber 5, 2010. I don’t understand […]

Disney/Pixar’s “Up” has been chosen to open the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13th. It’ll be the first time that an animated film or a 3-D film has been the first movie shown at Cannes. The rest of this year’s film will be announced in April. Meantime, on St. Patrick’s Day, I saw the […]