Big News! “Monsters” will be returning to a theater near you! And I’m not talking about this year’s “Monsters vs. Aliens”. Pete Docter, fresh off his $290M (and counting) hit “Up” will be heading back to Monstropolis for his next film. “Monsters Inc. 2” will open in either 2012 or 2013. No word yet on […]
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” did some huge numbers at the box office despite the harsh reviews. In fact it nearly beat “The Dark Knight” for the largest 5-day opening of all-time: “The Dark Knight” – $203.8M “Transformers-2” – $201.2M. Now that was close! The worldwide total for “Transfomers”: $387M, and the film had the […]
Over the next couple of years, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation are going to be producing a ton of new shows and movies. Nickelodeon has ordered pilots for TV shows based on both “Monsters vs. Aliens” and “Kung Fu Panda”. And there’s talk of TV specials for both: “MVA: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space” is in […]
“Up” is the 10th Disney/Pixar film, it was one of the box office hits of this past summer and is one of the best films of 2009. And the DVD and Blu-ray editions were worth the wait. Ed Asner voices Carl Fredrickson, a widower who’s being forced to leave the house that he’s lived-in for […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Super Bowl is this Sunday on NBC. At the end of the 2nd quarter a special 3-minute preview of the upcoming animated film, “Monsters vs. Aliens”, will be shown – IN 3-D! It should be great, but you’ll need the special glasses. So you’ve got to go […]
In upcoming years Disney will be putting more and more movies out in 3-D. And they’ve just added “Beauty and the Beast” to the list! The 1991 classic was nominated for several academy awards, including Best Picture and it’s one of my all-time favorite films. According to Variety.com the re-rendering is expected to take about […]
It was certainly sad news last weekend when word came out that Paul Newman had died at the age of 83. His most famous roles, from the dozens of movies he made, were in the films “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Cool Hand Luke.” But most kids know him best as the voice […]