The poster for Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” is out. Jim Carrey stars as Scrooge. The movie is directed by Robert Zemeckis, who did the “Polar Express” back in 2004, and uses the same technology – Motion Capture Animation. Carrey, on the poster, looks a lot like he did on the “Lemony Snickets” (2004) poster. I […]

The latest animated film in the works that’s based on a children’s book series is “Flanimals.” The movie will star Ricky Gervias, who’s one of my favorite comedians. He also wrote the books. The story of “Fanimals” takes place on a planet populated by very strange creatures. Gervias will voice the lead character. Illumination Entertainment […]

Disney has announced that it will be planting 2.7 million trees in Brazil’s endangered Atlantic Rain Forest thanks to everyone who went to see “Earth” during it’s first week in theaters. That’s one tree for every person who bought a ticket. The movie made $16.1 million week 1 and is still doing o.k. at the […]

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 […]