With the release of “Planes”, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at the recent animated films that Walt Disney Pictures has distributed but didn’t actually produce. In other words, these are all non-Walt Disney Animation Studios/non-Pixar films: DisneyToon Studios created a bunch of hand-drawn animated films in the late 90’s and […]

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic” is currently on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts through October 27th. This elaborate collection of artwork, including sketches and cels, videos, photographs, posters and much more is on loan from the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. You’ll learn […]

Last summer, Regal Entertainment Group showed an exclusive five-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Les Miserables” prior to the films shown in all their theaters nationwide. This new marketing strategy was a big hit. Since then, several studios have tried their hand at duplicating that success by making their own “extended previews” of upcoming […]

Thanks to one of my favorite websites: BoxOffice.com, I stumbled upon a new South Korea/China sports comedy called “Mr. Go”. It’s out in theaters in both of those countries right now and is quickly becoming a huge hit. In fact it’s grossed close to $10 million in its first four days in China. Why is […]

I was afraid of this. When four BIG movies open on the same weekend, you know only one or two will be successful at the box office and the others will flat out bomb. And the current glut of quality carryover films only make things more difficult for the newcomers. DreamWorks Animation is probably regretting […]

Here are five more of the Top 10 films you should be watching out for this Awards Season: 12 YEARS A SLAVE – Director Steve McQueen re-teams with “Shame” star Michael Fassbender for this historical drama set in the pre-Civil War. Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti and Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Salt”)are also part of the ensemble. October […]

“Despicable Me 2” set some positive box office records over the 4th of July holiday weekend. But the animated hit also set a new all-time record for the lowest percentage of 3D tickets sold. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that only 27% of ticket sales for “DM2” over the 5-Day Fourth of July weekend were for […]

Johnny Depp currently stars as Tonto in Disney’s “The Lone Ranger”, which made just under $50 million over the 5-Day 4th of July weekend – flat-out AWFUL compared to “Despicable Me 2″‘s $142.1 million. “Ranger” is this year’s “John Carter” for Disney. And while it should do better than that film’s $73M total when it […]

Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks could receive a double Oscar nomination this year for his upcoming roles as Captain Phillips in “Captain Phillips” and Walt Disney in the making-of “Mary Poppins” movie “Saving Mr. Banks”. He also just ended his Tony-nominated run on Broadway in the play “Lucky Guy”. This past weekend I was […]

We’ve reached the halfway point of 2013. That means it’s time for my annual Mid-Year Movie Awards: Best Picture “42” “Fast & Furious 6” “Monsters University” “Star Trek Into Darkness” “World War Z” Best Director J.J. Abrams – “Star Trek Into Darkness” Marc Forster – “World War Z” Justin Lin – “Fast & Furious 6” […]