Clockwise from left: The Little Mermaid (Screengrab: YouTube), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Screengrab: Disney); Star Wars:The Last Jedi (Screengrab: Disney+), Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Screengrab: Disney)Graphic: AVClub
Of all the streaming services, Disney+ has the most desirable IP sitting around waiting to be exploited (meaning content...
Of all the streaming services, Disney+ has the most desirable IP sitting around waiting to be exploited (meaning content...
- 9/9/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Yellow Submarine is a cult classic animated film featuring the blue meanies and music from The Beatles. Decades later, Disney wanted to remake the classic film but later scrapped the project for several reasons. While it would have been intriguing to see a modern take on this film, it’s for the best that Disney didn’t move forward with this.
Disney wanted to do a remake of The Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ Ringo Starr and George Harrison | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated musical featuring music from The Beatles. The film was influential at the time due to its impressive animation and distinct visual style. The film centers around a town called Pepperland, where evil creatures have taken over called the Blue Meanies that suck all of the music, color, and joy from this land. It is up to The Beatles to travel to Pepperland and bring back peace,...
Disney wanted to do a remake of The Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ Ringo Starr and George Harrison | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Yellow Submarine is a 1968 animated musical featuring music from The Beatles. The film was influential at the time due to its impressive animation and distinct visual style. The film centers around a town called Pepperland, where evil creatures have taken over called the Blue Meanies that suck all of the music, color, and joy from this land. It is up to The Beatles to travel to Pepperland and bring back peace,...
- 2/25/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
"There's always room to grow." This brief adage is also a quote from a best-selling book within the events of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania." The idea, evinced by the author of said book, Scott Lang/Ant-Man, is that the little guy should not be ignored, that David can always take down Goliath precisely because his size seems so un-intimidating that it's easy to look past him. But it's more than a little ironic to hear the words "room to grow" in the middle of a Marvel Cinematic Universe brand deposit/film like this one — because the very nature of the MCU is such that while there may be universes yet to explore, the creative stakes are never going to be too expansive because the status quo must be largely maintained. The MCU is many things, but it's not the epitome of the little guy.
And so it goes with "Quantumania,...
And so it goes with "Quantumania,...
- 2/20/2023
- by Josh Spiegel
- Slash Film
Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Alysia Reiner, David Myers Gregory, Deanna Dunagan, Kevin Cahoon, Andrew J. West, Katie Sarife | Written and Directed by Paul Shoulberg
So Cold the River opens with former hotshot documentary director Erica Shaw making a slideshow for someone’s funeral. It’s about all the work she can get since one of her films proved a convicted killer’s innocence. Only for him to slaughter his entire family as soon as he was released.
One of those slide shows leads to her being hired by Alyssa Bradford to shoot a biography of her father, Campbell Bradford. With a bottle of Pluto Water, mineral water with alleged healing properties as her only clue, she heads to the town of West Braden Indiana to begin shooting. Once there she quickly realizes this isn’t going to be as easy as it seems when Anne McKinney the self-appointed local historian...
So Cold the River opens with former hotshot documentary director Erica Shaw making a slideshow for someone’s funeral. It’s about all the work she can get since one of her films proved a convicted killer’s innocence. Only for him to slaughter his entire family as soon as he was released.
One of those slide shows leads to her being hired by Alyssa Bradford to shoot a biography of her father, Campbell Bradford. With a bottle of Pluto Water, mineral water with alleged healing properties as her only clue, she heads to the town of West Braden Indiana to begin shooting. Once there she quickly realizes this isn’t going to be as easy as it seems when Anne McKinney the self-appointed local historian...
- 3/31/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Ack! Bill the Cat, Opus and the rest of Berkeley Breathed’s “Bloom County” universe are heading to Fox. The comic strip, created and written by Berkeley Breathed, is being developed as an animated series at Fox, through its animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, as well as Miramax, Spyglass Media Group and Project X Entertainment.
Just like the strip, the TV version of “Bloom County” will center “on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.”
“Bloom County” will be co-written and executive produced by Breathed. Bento Box will serve as the animation studio on the project. Miramax, Spyglass and Project X will also executive-produce.
“I was introduced to the brilliance of Berkeley...
Just like the strip, the TV version of “Bloom County” will center “on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.”
“Bloom County” will be co-written and executive produced by Breathed. Bento Box will serve as the animation studio on the project. Miramax, Spyglass and Project X will also executive-produce.
“I was introduced to the brilliance of Berkeley...
- 2/15/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a good thing Brie Larson is at peace with her earlier heartbreaks. In a video she posted on Thursday, the “Captain Marvel” star rattled off all the movies she auditioned for and didn’t get — and it’s quite the list.
Larson broke her list down into movies she auditioned for and then missed out on, as well as movies she made it to the final round for and still didn’t get. And all of these were just from between 2008 and 2009.
“It’s a lot of heartbreak, folks. Here I am, still standing,” she said after running down her list.
Hearing Brie Larson rattle them off rapid-fire is delightful and hilarious, but in case you can’t watch, here’s the full list, including some blockbusters, Oscar-winners, some real stinkers and even a pair of Marvel movies!
“Sucker Punch,” “Gulliver’s Travels,” “Mars Needs Moms,” “Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief,...
Larson broke her list down into movies she auditioned for and then missed out on, as well as movies she made it to the final round for and still didn’t get. And all of these were just from between 2008 and 2009.
“It’s a lot of heartbreak, folks. Here I am, still standing,” she said after running down her list.
Hearing Brie Larson rattle them off rapid-fire is delightful and hilarious, but in case you can’t watch, here’s the full list, including some blockbusters, Oscar-winners, some real stinkers and even a pair of Marvel movies!
“Sucker Punch,” “Gulliver’s Travels,” “Mars Needs Moms,” “Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief,...
- 9/4/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
All films start out with the greatest of intentions, but some of them fail in massive proportions. When hit with budget over-runs, scripts rewritten by committee and other problems, they can be headed to the garbage dumps of movie history. Take a tour now through our photo gallery featuring 12 of the biggest box office bombs of all time. These turkeys might make you sick to your stomach, but let’s take a photo gallery tour anyway to look over these these rotten leftovers.
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1. Battlefield Earth – 2000
John Travolta fought for many years to get this adaptation of the L. Ron Hubbard novel made into a movie. Set in the year 3000, the science-fiction film is set on an Earth that has been ruled for 1,000 years by the brutal Psychlos.
2. Heaven’s Gate – 1980
Michael Cimino had full reign to do what he wanted coming off Best...
SEEThanksgiving on TV: 15 Greatest Episodes of All Time
1. Battlefield Earth – 2000
John Travolta fought for many years to get this adaptation of the L. Ron Hubbard novel made into a movie. Set in the year 3000, the science-fiction film is set on an Earth that has been ruled for 1,000 years by the brutal Psychlos.
2. Heaven’s Gate – 1980
Michael Cimino had full reign to do what he wanted coming off Best...
- 11/28/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Filmmakers have chased eye-popping visuals since George Melies’ 1902 “A Trip to the Moon.” Of course, all the visual stylings that helped propel the first sci-fi film to worldwide success now look antique; without the film’s groundbreaking approaches to storytelling, it would be a minor footnote rather than the cultural touchstone that also served as a key plot point in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 “Hugo.”
Scorsese took Melies’ lesson to heart with “The Irishman,” but it’s one that still eluded Ang Lee with “Gemini Man.” The innovative filmmaker, like others before him, was so hellbent on dragging moviegoers into seeing cinema the way he does, that he forgot to give them a compelling story.
When Scorsese agreed to make “The Irishman,” he did so only after a 2015 VFX test comparing Robert De Niro in “Goodfellas” to the then-72-year-old actor’s recreation of some scenes, with Pablo Helman’s Ilm de-aging effects added.
Scorsese took Melies’ lesson to heart with “The Irishman,” but it’s one that still eluded Ang Lee with “Gemini Man.” The innovative filmmaker, like others before him, was so hellbent on dragging moviegoers into seeing cinema the way he does, that he forgot to give them a compelling story.
When Scorsese agreed to make “The Irishman,” he did so only after a 2015 VFX test comparing Robert De Niro in “Goodfellas” to the then-72-year-old actor’s recreation of some scenes, with Pablo Helman’s Ilm de-aging effects added.
- 11/3/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Filmmakers have chased eye-popping visuals since George Melies’ 1902 “A Trip to the Moon.” Of course, all the visual stylings that helped propel the first sci-fi film to worldwide success now look antique; without the film’s groundbreaking approaches to storytelling, it would be a minor footnote rather than the cultural touchstone that also served as a key plot point in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 “Hugo.”
Scorsese took Melies’ lesson to heart with “The Irishman,” but it’s one that still eluded Ang Lee with “Gemini Man.” The innovative filmmaker, like others before him, was so hellbent on dragging moviegoers into seeing cinema the way he does, that he forgot to give them a compelling story.
When Scorsese agreed to make “The Irishman,” he did so only after a 2015 VFX test comparing Robert De Niro in “Goodfellas” to the then-72-year-old actor’s recreation of some scenes, with Pablo Helman’s Ilm de-aging effects added.
Scorsese took Melies’ lesson to heart with “The Irishman,” but it’s one that still eluded Ang Lee with “Gemini Man.” The innovative filmmaker, like others before him, was so hellbent on dragging moviegoers into seeing cinema the way he does, that he forgot to give them a compelling story.
When Scorsese agreed to make “The Irishman,” he did so only after a 2015 VFX test comparing Robert De Niro in “Goodfellas” to the then-72-year-old actor’s recreation of some scenes, with Pablo Helman’s Ilm de-aging effects added.
- 11/3/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: The following articles contains spoilers.]
When two people bear a striking resemblance to one another, we often call those similarities uncanny. The word is so rarely used outside that context, in fact, that we may forget its most basic definition: “seeming to have a supernatural character or origin.” For two things to have a truly uncanny resemblance, simply looking alike isn’t enough — they have to arouse discomfort for being nearly, but not entirely, identical. The more alike they are, the more unsettling their small differences become.
Jordan Peele understands that distinction, and he puts it to effective use in his second film, “Us.” A horror-thriller about a family of four confronted by their ill-intentioned doppelgängers, it brings to mind not only such genre influences as “The Twilight Zone” but also this passage from Sigmund Freud’ 1919 essay “The Uncanny”:
“The subject of the ‘uncanny’ is a province of this kind. It is undoubtedly related...
When two people bear a striking resemblance to one another, we often call those similarities uncanny. The word is so rarely used outside that context, in fact, that we may forget its most basic definition: “seeming to have a supernatural character or origin.” For two things to have a truly uncanny resemblance, simply looking alike isn’t enough — they have to arouse discomfort for being nearly, but not entirely, identical. The more alike they are, the more unsettling their small differences become.
Jordan Peele understands that distinction, and he puts it to effective use in his second film, “Us.” A horror-thriller about a family of four confronted by their ill-intentioned doppelgängers, it brings to mind not only such genre influences as “The Twilight Zone” but also this passage from Sigmund Freud’ 1919 essay “The Uncanny”:
“The subject of the ‘uncanny’ is a province of this kind. It is undoubtedly related...
- 3/23/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Debuting with a piddling $14.7 million and a third place finish, the Guy Ritchie-directed King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword has turned out be a huge flop. Some industry news sources are predicting that it could lose as much as $150 million, having also flopped in China. (In fact, The Hollywood Reporter estimates it had the third worst opening weekend ever for a movie with such a large budget and wide release, behind Monster Trucks and the all-time champ, Mars Needs Moms.) That’s a shame, because although it’s clearly the lesser of this year’s two Charlie-Hunnam-as-updated-Arthurian-figure vision quest movies, it had some fun parts.
King Arthur was badly beaten by another under-performer, Snatched, the Amy Schumer-led comedy that marked Goldie Hawn’s first role in 15 years. Grossing an estimated $17.5 million, the film fell somewhat below expectations, and well short of the kind of ...
King Arthur was badly beaten by another under-performer, Snatched, the Amy Schumer-led comedy that marked Goldie Hawn’s first role in 15 years. Grossing an estimated $17.5 million, the film fell somewhat below expectations, and well short of the kind of ...
- 5/15/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Ryan Lambie Feb 15, 2017
Had Tomorrowland been a hit, we might have had a Tron sequel. We look at movies whose fate had a knock-on effect on other films...
You've probably heard of chaos theory and a thing called the butterfly effect - a concept where the flapping of an insect's wings in a London borough causes a shed to collapse somewhere in the Australian outback. In other words, seemingly incidental events can have a knock-on effect on everything else - like that old board game, Mousetrap, where a ball falling into a bath caused a boot to kick a bucket, which eventually led to the cruel detainment of several rodents.
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The concept applies even in the high-stakes, high-energy world of filmmaking, where the success of one type of movie can prompt rival studios to greenlight their own,...
Had Tomorrowland been a hit, we might have had a Tron sequel. We look at movies whose fate had a knock-on effect on other films...
You've probably heard of chaos theory and a thing called the butterfly effect - a concept where the flapping of an insect's wings in a London borough causes a shed to collapse somewhere in the Australian outback. In other words, seemingly incidental events can have a knock-on effect on everything else - like that old board game, Mousetrap, where a ball falling into a bath caused a boot to kick a bucket, which eventually led to the cruel detainment of several rodents.
See related Ash Vs Evil Dead renewed for season 3 Bruce Campbell interview: Ash Vs Evil Dead
The concept applies even in the high-stakes, high-energy world of filmmaking, where the success of one type of movie can prompt rival studios to greenlight their own,...
- 2/9/2017
- Den of Geek
Move over Ron Weasley — there’s a new funny guy in the Potter-verse!
The first Harry Potter prequel, in a series of five, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hits theaters Friday and follows the life of magizoologist Newt Scamander — played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne — as he travels to New York with a peculiar case filled with magical creatures.
But the real fun comes from Dan Fogler’s character, Jacob Kowalski, a no-maj (the American word for Muggle or non-magic person) World War I vet who gets caught up in Scamander’s dangerous and magic filled adventures.
“I equate...
The first Harry Potter prequel, in a series of five, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them hits theaters Friday and follows the life of magizoologist Newt Scamander — played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne — as he travels to New York with a peculiar case filled with magical creatures.
But the real fun comes from Dan Fogler’s character, Jacob Kowalski, a no-maj (the American word for Muggle or non-magic person) World War I vet who gets caught up in Scamander’s dangerous and magic filled adventures.
“I equate...
- 11/16/2016
- by russiale93
- PEOPLE.com
Fearing that the golden age of television will make the public overlook cinema’s charms, studios and their filmmakers are desperate to find ways to lure audiences into the theater. Much of their arsenal relies on technology, including immersive 3D, eye-popping visual effects, bone-shattering immersive sound — and now, 3D delivered at a super-high frame rate via Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”
Read More: At CinemaCon, the Studios Look Out Theatrical Windows and Say It’s Sunny
In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...
Read More: At CinemaCon, the Studios Look Out Theatrical Windows and Say It’s Sunny
In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Fearing that the golden age of television will make the public overlook cinema’s charms, studios and their filmmakers are desperate to find ways to lure audiences into the theater. Much of their arsenal relies on technology, including immersive 3D, eye-popping visual effects, bone-shattering immersive sound — and now, 3D delivered at a super-high frame rate via Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”
Read More: At CinemaCon, the Studios Look Out Theatrical Windows and Say It’s Sunny
In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...
Read More: At CinemaCon, the Studios Look Out Theatrical Windows and Say It’s Sunny
In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In the past few years as Disney has essentially become a nuclear superpower in its own right, the studio has had a steady stream of hits both critically and commercially. Yet there's always seemingly one or two films a year that rain on its parade.
These include 2010's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," 2011's "Mars Needs Moms," 2012's "John Carter," 2013's "The Lone Ranger," 2014's "Muppets Most Wanted," and 2015's "Tomorrowland" which were all notable (and costly) duds for the Mouse House.
Now, industry projections have revised the numbers for its Memorial Day release "Alice Through the Looking Glass" downward with Deadline reporting that the $170 million budgeted fantasy sequel is looking to take in just $31 million for the three-day weekend and $40 million for the four-day holiday.
That's considerably down on the $60 million estimates being bandied about earlier this week. Domestically the movie is on track to earn just $9 million on Friday, including...
These include 2010's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," 2011's "Mars Needs Moms," 2012's "John Carter," 2013's "The Lone Ranger," 2014's "Muppets Most Wanted," and 2015's "Tomorrowland" which were all notable (and costly) duds for the Mouse House.
Now, industry projections have revised the numbers for its Memorial Day release "Alice Through the Looking Glass" downward with Deadline reporting that the $170 million budgeted fantasy sequel is looking to take in just $31 million for the three-day weekend and $40 million for the four-day holiday.
That's considerably down on the $60 million estimates being bandied about earlier this week. Domestically the movie is on track to earn just $9 million on Friday, including...
- 5/27/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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We’re seeing big cinema releases almost every weekend now. But is this a good thing?
Do you remember during 2014, where lots of fans stubbornly declared Captain America: The Winter Soldier the best film of that summer despite its opening in March/April? It was joined by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in trying to steal a march on the competition, but clearly when you think big blockbusters, they’re associated with a certain time of year. And given how for the studios, summer season occupies a full third of the year from May to August, and Christmas the sweet period from November all the way through to New Year, that should be plenty of room for the Avengers, Star Wars and Jurassic Parks of the world, right?
Except that there are plenty more 'tentpoles' (big releases to prop up the studio’s bottom line) being made and...
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We’re seeing big cinema releases almost every weekend now. But is this a good thing?
Do you remember during 2014, where lots of fans stubbornly declared Captain America: The Winter Soldier the best film of that summer despite its opening in March/April? It was joined by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in trying to steal a march on the competition, but clearly when you think big blockbusters, they’re associated with a certain time of year. And given how for the studios, summer season occupies a full third of the year from May to August, and Christmas the sweet period from November all the way through to New Year, that should be plenty of room for the Avengers, Star Wars and Jurassic Parks of the world, right?
Except that there are plenty more 'tentpoles' (big releases to prop up the studio’s bottom line) being made and...
- 1/17/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Rubber-faced characters and a seemingly ceaseless parade of repurposed pop ditties combine to make what might be the worst animated feature Disney has ever released
Well, now we know what a Las Vegas show designed for eight-year-olds would look like.
The advance marketing on producer George Lucas’ “Strange Magic” suggested a retread of the not-all-that-memorable 2013 cartoon “Epic.” And yes, this fairies-versus-bugs story does recall that earlier film, but “Magic” also ladles in unwieldy dollops of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Moulin Rouge!” and a particularly long and excruciating episode of “American Idol.”
See Video: Sing Along With the First Trailer...
Well, now we know what a Las Vegas show designed for eight-year-olds would look like.
The advance marketing on producer George Lucas’ “Strange Magic” suggested a retread of the not-all-that-memorable 2013 cartoon “Epic.” And yes, this fairies-versus-bugs story does recall that earlier film, but “Magic” also ladles in unwieldy dollops of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Moulin Rouge!” and a particularly long and excruciating episode of “American Idol.”
See Video: Sing Along With the First Trailer...
- 1/21/2015
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Ridley Scott’s epic Exodus: Gods And Kings opens in theaters in three weeks.
Jessica Chastain currently stars in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar where she plays a scientist trying to save humanity from extinction.
One year from now, Scott and Chastain, along with Matt Damon, come together in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming sci-fi film The Martian.
“Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.”
During her recent visit to The Daily Show, the Oscar-nominated...
Jessica Chastain currently stars in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar where she plays a scientist trying to save humanity from extinction.
One year from now, Scott and Chastain, along with Matt Damon, come together in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming sci-fi film The Martian.
“Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.”
During her recent visit to The Daily Show, the Oscar-nominated...
- 11/21/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Today, we’ve received our first look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt as daredevil Philippe Petit in Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk. And though it’s in no way an official shot from the movie, hailing from Facebook, we’re still excited to see Gordon-Levitt in character for the first time.
Though we personally preferred the title To Reach the Clouds for Zemeckis’ upcoming film about Petit, who in 1974 successfully strung a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked across it, the Flight director could really call his film whatever he wanted and we’d still go see it. After all, he’s recruited a tremendous actor in Gordon-Levitt, and his supporting cast is also stellar. Gordon-Levitt is pictured above with co-star Charlotte Le Bon, but The Walk also stars Ben Kingsley and James Badge Dale.
It will probably be a while until we see a trailer for The Walk,...
Though we personally preferred the title To Reach the Clouds for Zemeckis’ upcoming film about Petit, who in 1974 successfully strung a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked across it, the Flight director could really call his film whatever he wanted and we’d still go see it. After all, he’s recruited a tremendous actor in Gordon-Levitt, and his supporting cast is also stellar. Gordon-Levitt is pictured above with co-star Charlotte Le Bon, but The Walk also stars Ben Kingsley and James Badge Dale.
It will probably be a while until we see a trailer for The Walk,...
- 7/14/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Maleficent
Written by Linda Woolverton
Directed by Robert Stromberg
USA, 2014
Every year or so, apropos of very little, the Walt Disney Company will showcase a new series of ads courtesy of acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz, in which a celebrity plays one of the company’s iconic human characters, whether it’s Jessica Chastain as Princess Merida from Brave, Russell Brand as Captain Hook, or Taylor Swift as the Tangled version of Rapunzel. Now, filling a need that was not exactly desired, Disney has made Maleficent, a feature film with the visual flair and creative hollowness of one of Leibovitz’s so-called “Disney Dream Portraits.” Ostensibly a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, both the original fairy tale by Charles Perrault as well as the 1959 take from Disney’s animation arm, Maleficent is boosted by its impressive lead performer, and little else.
Angelina Jolie, after a few years away from live-action filmmaking, stars...
Written by Linda Woolverton
Directed by Robert Stromberg
USA, 2014
Every year or so, apropos of very little, the Walt Disney Company will showcase a new series of ads courtesy of acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz, in which a celebrity plays one of the company’s iconic human characters, whether it’s Jessica Chastain as Princess Merida from Brave, Russell Brand as Captain Hook, or Taylor Swift as the Tangled version of Rapunzel. Now, filling a need that was not exactly desired, Disney has made Maleficent, a feature film with the visual flair and creative hollowness of one of Leibovitz’s so-called “Disney Dream Portraits.” Ostensibly a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, both the original fairy tale by Charles Perrault as well as the 1959 take from Disney’s animation arm, Maleficent is boosted by its impressive lead performer, and little else.
Angelina Jolie, after a few years away from live-action filmmaking, stars...
- 5/30/2014
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
By Matthew Helderman, & Luke Taylor
Determining specifics on the success of a product’s launch is always speculative. We’ve seen the same story countless times — a studio primes their latest release to be a massive box office success, only to watch the film crash and burn into box office bomb oblivion. Cloud Atlas, Mars Needs Moms, John Carter, Battleship, […]...
Determining specifics on the success of a product’s launch is always speculative. We’ve seen the same story countless times — a studio primes their latest release to be a massive box office success, only to watch the film crash and burn into box office bomb oblivion. Cloud Atlas, Mars Needs Moms, John Carter, Battleship, […]...
- 5/19/2014
- by tedhope
- Hope for Film
Warner Bros.
The word “flop” can mean a number of things in the movie industry, for a failure can of course be critical, commercial, or in the worst cases, both. Commentators love to discuss movies that have flopped, though it’s worth distinguishing between movies that simply underwhelmed at the box office (and possibly with critics) and movies that were flat-out, horrendous train-wrecks.
These 12 films all have one common fibre: they are presumed by most audiences to be colossal, money-losing flops, when in reality, that just isn’t the case, even if a profit of $50 million might ultimately seem like chump change to some studio executives.
Did these films all underwhelm compared to expectations? Absolutely, but they’re far away from failures such as John Carter (which cost over $350 million to produce and market, and only made $284 million at the box office), or even worse, movies like Mars Needs Moms,...
The word “flop” can mean a number of things in the movie industry, for a failure can of course be critical, commercial, or in the worst cases, both. Commentators love to discuss movies that have flopped, though it’s worth distinguishing between movies that simply underwhelmed at the box office (and possibly with critics) and movies that were flat-out, horrendous train-wrecks.
These 12 films all have one common fibre: they are presumed by most audiences to be colossal, money-losing flops, when in reality, that just isn’t the case, even if a profit of $50 million might ultimately seem like chump change to some studio executives.
Did these films all underwhelm compared to expectations? Absolutely, but they’re far away from failures such as John Carter (which cost over $350 million to produce and market, and only made $284 million at the box office), or even worse, movies like Mars Needs Moms,...
- 3/1/2014
- by Jack Pooley
- Obsessed with Film
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 17, 2013
Price: DVD $39.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $49.99
Studio: Showtime/Warner
It's all in the family in Shameless.
Premium cable channel Showtime’s critically acclaimed television comedy-drama series Shameless: Season Three delivers another 12 episodes of outrageous family dysfunction.
Shameless stars William H. Macy (The Lincoln Lawyer) as the South side of Chicago’s Frank Gallagher, a proud, working-class patriarch to a motley brood of six smart, spirited and independent kids. Booze-addled Frank leaves it up to eldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera) to hold down the fort as he takes a drunken bite out of life. Unofficial matriarch Fiona is fiercely determined to keep her dysfunctional family happy and whole, even if it means sacrificing her own personal needs. Needless to say, a half-dozen kids means a half-dozen unique sets of circumstances (and at least as many storylines)!
Season three of Shameless picks...
Price: DVD $39.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $49.99
Studio: Showtime/Warner
It's all in the family in Shameless.
Premium cable channel Showtime’s critically acclaimed television comedy-drama series Shameless: Season Three delivers another 12 episodes of outrageous family dysfunction.
Shameless stars William H. Macy (The Lincoln Lawyer) as the South side of Chicago’s Frank Gallagher, a proud, working-class patriarch to a motley brood of six smart, spirited and independent kids. Booze-addled Frank leaves it up to eldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera) to hold down the fort as he takes a drunken bite out of life. Unofficial matriarch Fiona is fiercely determined to keep her dysfunctional family happy and whole, even if it means sacrificing her own personal needs. Needless to say, a half-dozen kids means a half-dozen unique sets of circumstances (and at least as many storylines)!
Season three of Shameless picks...
- 9/30/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Film starring Johnny Depp opens in Britain this weekend as losses could reach $200m after scathing reviews
It was billed as one of the summer's biggest blockbusters, reuniting Johnny Depp – as Tonto in The Lone Ranger – with the team behind the huge success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
But Walt Disney has now warned that the film could instead go down as one of the year's biggest flops, predicting losses of almost $200m.
The Lone Ranger, which opens in Britain this weekend, stars Armie Hammer as the masked Texas lawman and Depp as his Comanche spirit guide. Budgeted at $225m, the film, directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, suffered a tortuous production process and met with largely scathing reviews on its release in the Us.
Concerns over the odds of recouping the investment were reportedly voiced during production, and the shoot halted for several months...
It was billed as one of the summer's biggest blockbusters, reuniting Johnny Depp – as Tonto in The Lone Ranger – with the team behind the huge success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
But Walt Disney has now warned that the film could instead go down as one of the year's biggest flops, predicting losses of almost $200m.
The Lone Ranger, which opens in Britain this weekend, stars Armie Hammer as the masked Texas lawman and Depp as his Comanche spirit guide. Budgeted at $225m, the film, directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, suffered a tortuous production process and met with largely scathing reviews on its release in the Us.
Concerns over the odds of recouping the investment were reportedly voiced during production, and the shoot halted for several months...
- 8/7/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
After a string of major duds – Mars Needs Moms, John Carter and The Lone Ranger – Disney could really use a hit right now. The Hollywood Reporter writes today that the studio is working on a live-action reboot of The Jungle Book. Right now the remake is in the very early stages, but Justin Marks is attached to write the screenplay....Read more»...
- 7/9/2013
- by Robert Kessler
- Celebuzz.com
The Lone Ranger weekend box office: Bigger flop than early estimates indicated? (Photo: Johnny Depp as Tonto, Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger) The Pirates of the Caribbean team is back with The Lone Ranger: that’s producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski, screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, actor Johnny Depp, and distributor Disney. But whereas Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the White Pearl, co-starring Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, and Orlando Bloom, was a major domestic box-office hit, opening with $46.63 million at 3,269 locations in early July 2003 (approximately $61 million today) and going on to gross $305.41 million in North America (approximately $402 million today), The Lone Ranger is bound to become one of the biggest domestic box-office flops of 2013 in relation to its exorbitant $215 million production budget, alongside several other costly underperformers at the North American box office: M. Night Shyamalan / Will Smith’s After Earth, Roland Emmerich’s White House Down,...
- 7/7/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Lulu Jarmen's ultra gory contagion horror Bad Meat, which had its world premiere at the FrightFest Halloween Allnighter back in 2011, is finally available on DVD in the UK from Kaleidoscope Entertainment, and we have a look at the box art and more here.
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms), Jessica Parker-Kennedy ("The Secret Circle"), and Mark Pellegrino ("Supernatural," "Lost"), Bad Meat follows a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation.
Bad Meat is also available on DVD and VOD in the Us and Canada, where it was recently released by Jinga Films and Mvd.
Compared to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever and Michal J. Bassett's Wilderness, Bad Meat trades in all manner of bodily fluids, puking perverts, a graphic dog dissection, amateur stomach-pumping, chewed body parts, and ripped-off genitals. You Brits enjoy now - Cheerio!
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms), Jessica Parker-Kennedy ("The Secret Circle"), and Mark Pellegrino ("Supernatural," "Lost"), Bad Meat follows a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation.
Bad Meat is also available on DVD and VOD in the Us and Canada, where it was recently released by Jinga Films and Mvd.
Compared to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever and Michal J. Bassett's Wilderness, Bad Meat trades in all manner of bodily fluids, puking perverts, a graphic dog dissection, amateur stomach-pumping, chewed body parts, and ripped-off genitals. You Brits enjoy now - Cheerio!
- 6/25/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
In his review of the film Flight, The Observer.s Phillip French describes the scene in which Denzel Washington.s plane goes down as .worth the admission price in itself..
Other reviewers such as Ed Gibbs from the Age have echoed French.s praise, with Gibbs writing .Breathtaking scenes on board the doomed jet defy expectation, raising the bar beyond even Zemeckis's own Cast Away for sheer believability and terror..
Chris Tookey from the Daily Mail, who only gave the feature two stars, was also in awe for the crash, stating, .Robert Zemeckis.s Flight is at its best with the opening, super-realistic air crash, which will have you gripping the arm-rests..
So, whether you liked the film or not, it seems everyone is giving Flight.s half-an-hour crash sequence two thumbs up..
Enter Kevin Baillie from Atomic Fiction, whose VFX work on the film ranged from .placing sky and...
Other reviewers such as Ed Gibbs from the Age have echoed French.s praise, with Gibbs writing .Breathtaking scenes on board the doomed jet defy expectation, raising the bar beyond even Zemeckis's own Cast Away for sheer believability and terror..
Chris Tookey from the Daily Mail, who only gave the feature two stars, was also in awe for the crash, stating, .Robert Zemeckis.s Flight is at its best with the opening, super-realistic air crash, which will have you gripping the arm-rests..
So, whether you liked the film or not, it seems everyone is giving Flight.s half-an-hour crash sequence two thumbs up..
Enter Kevin Baillie from Atomic Fiction, whose VFX work on the film ranged from .placing sky and...
- 6/21/2013
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Brad Pitt's star power helps his new film avoid disaster. So what does it take to make a genuine modern mega-flop?
You can almost taste the disappointment in the air: World War Z turned out all right, after all. "Advanced word said [it] was the walking dead. This was the giant zombie turkey, come screeching from the shadows to tear the careers of director Marc Forster and producer/star Brad Pitt to shreds," wrote Henry Barnes in this paper, before admitting the film to be "a punchy, if conventional action thriller".
As anyone who understands the ecosphere of Hollywood will know, this was most ungentlemanly of Pitt, the only thing keeping the press alive during the wall-to-wall marketing jamboree of the summer being the slim hope that one film will mount the diving board and execute a perfect triple summersault and twist, before going splat on to the concrete. With bear-baiting now illegal,...
You can almost taste the disappointment in the air: World War Z turned out all right, after all. "Advanced word said [it] was the walking dead. This was the giant zombie turkey, come screeching from the shadows to tear the careers of director Marc Forster and producer/star Brad Pitt to shreds," wrote Henry Barnes in this paper, before admitting the film to be "a punchy, if conventional action thriller".
As anyone who understands the ecosphere of Hollywood will know, this was most ungentlemanly of Pitt, the only thing keeping the press alive during the wall-to-wall marketing jamboree of the summer being the slim hope that one film will mount the diving board and execute a perfect triple summersault and twist, before going splat on to the concrete. With bear-baiting now illegal,...
- 6/20/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
This week’s opening of Pixar’s latest film, Monsters University, a sequel starring fan favorites Mike Wazowski and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan, also signals the debut of another perennial Pixar favorite – the accompanying short film. Since the animation house’s second theatrical release, Toy Story 2, every Pixar feature film has kicked off with an all-new short. Some of them have been instant classics (like For the Birds, Day & Night, and my personal favorite, Presto) and some of them have fallen somewhat flat (I forgot about Geri’s Game, Boundin’, and Lifted almost immediately after watching them). Three of them even won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (and of the twelve already released, ten of them were nominated for the award). The short attached to Monsters University, Saschka Unseld’s The Blue Umbrella, is a different kind of short film for Pixar. Its use of photorealistic CGI is a departure from the more...
- 6/18/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Alice in Wonderland
Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Linda Woolverton
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Stephen Fry, Helena Bonham Carter
Alice in Wonderland is a truly inexplicable, baffling, painful film to watch. I don’t know what anyone involved in the film was thinking in making it. Did they want to honor the vision from the late Lewis Carroll? Did they want to honor the 1951 animated film? Or did they simply expect, callously if correctly, that if they threw a bunch of CGI against a wall, we’d all show up to watch in awe? There were, I imagine, people who hoped their experience would be that way. Instead, anyone watching this for the first time would likely start out hopeful, devolve into confusion, and then end angry at what they just sat through. Every single decision in this film is a misstep, every line of dialogue forgettable or painful,...
Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Linda Woolverton
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Stephen Fry, Helena Bonham Carter
Alice in Wonderland is a truly inexplicable, baffling, painful film to watch. I don’t know what anyone involved in the film was thinking in making it. Did they want to honor the vision from the late Lewis Carroll? Did they want to honor the 1951 animated film? Or did they simply expect, callously if correctly, that if they threw a bunch of CGI against a wall, we’d all show up to watch in awe? There were, I imagine, people who hoped their experience would be that way. Instead, anyone watching this for the first time would likely start out hopeful, devolve into confusion, and then end angry at what they just sat through. Every single decision in this film is a misstep, every line of dialogue forgettable or painful,...
- 4/13/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
Rob Thomas‘ enormously successful, recently Kickstarter-financed Veronica Mars feature film has officially added Jason Dohring to the cast. He’ll return to his role of Logan Echolls. As director updated, “Jason Dohring is officially on board for the Veronica Mars movie. We now have three actors officially cast. Veronica, Logan and the waiter who says, ‘Your check, sir.’” The series starred Kristen Bell as the titular Mars, a young student who, when her county sheriff father got killed, started moonlighting as a private investigator. The series ran for three seasons, transitioning Veronica from high school to college. Having already broken several records, the funding campaign for...
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- 4/5/2013
- by Vesna Sunrider
- Filmofilia
Its questionable status has long been eclipsed by other unnatural disasters, like “Mars Needs Moms,” “Cutthroat Island” and that darling of revisionists, “Heaven’s Gate.” But for a long time it was “Cleopatra” that ranked in the public consciousness as Hollywood’s greatest, and certainly best publicized, disaster. (Think “Howard the Duck” in a toga, an asp at his throat.) Now, synched up with the 1963 epic’s 50th anniversary, Vintage Books (Random House) is reissuing producer Walter Wanger’s “My Life With Cleopatra,” a diary-style memoir of the making of the Liz Taylor-Richard Burton-Rex Harrison fiasco, the making of which captured the imagination of moviegoers far more that the actual movie.As Kenny Turan says in his afterword to the new edition (due in June, they say), the movie actually made money -- eventually, after being sold to TV (a cruel irony, given the scope of...
- 3/28/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell from the cult TV-Show Veronica Mars have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their long-gestating film treatment with a goal of $2 million and it only took them 11 hours to raise that much money! Of course, it’s not really crowd funding, this is much more similar to what’s known in the film industry as a pre-sales. Well, it’s officially on! The Mars creator Thomas told EW: My mind is blown. I’ve been fantasizing about this and had to tell myself, ‘Stop it, Rob, you’re being silly. You’re setting yourself up for disappointment.’ And now today has exceeded the wildest... Related posts: Michael Shannon has Officially Joined the Now Officially Titled Man of Steel Three New Mars Needs Moms! Images Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Movie and TV Series Three New Mars Needs Moms Posters...
- 3/14/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
The new edition of the Indie Spotlight contains the latest independent horror news sent our way. In this week’s feature, we have the first information on this year’s CineMayhem Film Festival, details on Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. I & II, the first photos from Warhouse, and much more:
CineMayhem Film Festival Announced: “Created as a way to pay homage to and celebrate the spirit of independent filmmaking and those unafraid to take risks with their storytelling, CineMayhem’s diverse line-up includes advanced screenings of two highly anticipated genre projects including Magnet Releasing’s visceral horror anthology The ABC’s Of Death and Breaking Glass Pictures’ mindbending drama K-11 directed by Jules Stewart (Crank: High Voltage, Mortal Kombat).
CineMayhem is also thrilled to announce that it will also be hosting the World Premieres of Roadside directed by Eric England (Madison County) and the latest short film from Ryan Spindell...
CineMayhem Film Festival Announced: “Created as a way to pay homage to and celebrate the spirit of independent filmmaking and those unafraid to take risks with their storytelling, CineMayhem’s diverse line-up includes advanced screenings of two highly anticipated genre projects including Magnet Releasing’s visceral horror anthology The ABC’s Of Death and Breaking Glass Pictures’ mindbending drama K-11 directed by Jules Stewart (Crank: High Voltage, Mortal Kombat).
CineMayhem is also thrilled to announce that it will also be hosting the World Premieres of Roadside directed by Eric England (Madison County) and the latest short film from Ryan Spindell...
- 2/10/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Josh brought his Mousterpiece Cinema podcast to Sound on Sight this time last year, starting by reposting his older podcasts beginning with his very first podcast about Cars 2.
One of Ricky D‘s constructive criticisms for Josh on joining the site was that his best podcasts were the ones where he was joined by a guest like Gabriel Bucsko for their podcast on The Muppets film. Since Gabe actually works in Hollywood (an experience he discussed during the podcast on the cinematic atrocity Disney Animated classic Fox and the Hound 2) he is not regularly available to do the podcast. I volunteered to be a more regular co-host, taking the opportunity of Gabe being around to boycott films I had no interest in watching or re-watching like say the Disney Direct to Video Sequels, Midquels and Prequels, or films I couldn’t get my hands on, or allow me to...
One of Ricky D‘s constructive criticisms for Josh on joining the site was that his best podcasts were the ones where he was joined by a guest like Gabriel Bucsko for their podcast on The Muppets film. Since Gabe actually works in Hollywood (an experience he discussed during the podcast on the cinematic atrocity Disney Animated classic Fox and the Hound 2) he is not regularly available to do the podcast. I volunteered to be a more regular co-host, taking the opportunity of Gabe being around to boycott films I had no interest in watching or re-watching like say the Disney Direct to Video Sequels, Midquels and Prequels, or films I couldn’t get my hands on, or allow me to...
- 1/5/2013
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Robert Zemeckis doesn’t want to play any more. Coming off of his acclaimed but low-scoring Denzel Washington feature Flight, Zemeckis has crossed another hotly anticipated film off his list: the remake of the Beatles animated feature Yellow Submarine.
Disney pulled the plug on Zemeckis’s proposed motion-capture version of Yellow Submarine awhile back, but there was still talk about Zemeckis shopping the film around to other companies. With a cast that was to include Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell as the voices of the Fab Four, the film should have started production in December 2011. Now, in an interview with Total Film (via Moviehole), Zemeckis has officially sunk the project:
“That would have been a great one to bring the Beatles back to life. But it’s probably better not to be remade – you’re always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake. It...
Disney pulled the plug on Zemeckis’s proposed motion-capture version of Yellow Submarine awhile back, but there was still talk about Zemeckis shopping the film around to other companies. With a cast that was to include Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell as the voices of the Fab Four, the film should have started production in December 2011. Now, in an interview with Total Film (via Moviehole), Zemeckis has officially sunk the project:
“That would have been a great one to bring the Beatles back to life. But it’s probably better not to be remade – you’re always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake. It...
- 1/1/2013
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Robert Zemeckis has officially given up on his remake of the cult The Beatles-themed animated classic "Yellow Submarine."
Disney Pictures announced the mo-cap film in 2009, and shooting was to begin in 2011. Not only did it not happen, but the disastrous performance of Zemeckis' "Mars Needs Moms" that year saw the studio pull the plug on "Yellow Submarine."
Zemeckis moved onto "Flight," but had hoped to setup "Yellow Submarine" at a different studio. Now, in an official statement, he has given up on the movie completely:
"That would have been a great one to bring The Beatles back to life. But it's probably better not to be remade - you're always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake. It gets harder and harder [to make movies].
With the current state of the industry, it's difficult to stay passionate about it. The hardest thing for a filmmaker as he's aging is saying, "How much...
Disney Pictures announced the mo-cap film in 2009, and shooting was to begin in 2011. Not only did it not happen, but the disastrous performance of Zemeckis' "Mars Needs Moms" that year saw the studio pull the plug on "Yellow Submarine."
Zemeckis moved onto "Flight," but had hoped to setup "Yellow Submarine" at a different studio. Now, in an official statement, he has given up on the movie completely:
"That would have been a great one to bring The Beatles back to life. But it's probably better not to be remade - you're always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake. It gets harder and harder [to make movies].
With the current state of the industry, it's difficult to stay passionate about it. The hardest thing for a filmmaker as he's aging is saying, "How much...
- 12/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Robert Zemeckis has officially given up on his remake of the cult The Beatles-themed animated classic "Yellow Submarine."
Disney Pictures announced the mo-cap film in 2009, and shooting was to begin in 2011. Not only did it not happen, but the disastrous performance of Zemeckis' "Mars Needs Moms" that year saw the studio pull the plug on "Yellow Submarine."
Zemeckis moved onto "Flight," but had hoped to setup "Yellow Submarine" at a different studio. Now, in an official statement, he has given up on the movie completely:
"That would have been a great one to bring The Beatles back to life. But it's probably better not to be remade - you're always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake. It gets harder and harder [to make movies].
With the current state of the industry, it's difficult to stay passionate about it. The hardest thing for a filmmaker as he's aging is saying, "How much...
Disney Pictures announced the mo-cap film in 2009, and shooting was to begin in 2011. Not only did it not happen, but the disastrous performance of Zemeckis' "Mars Needs Moms" that year saw the studio pull the plug on "Yellow Submarine."
Zemeckis moved onto "Flight," but had hoped to setup "Yellow Submarine" at a different studio. Now, in an official statement, he has given up on the movie completely:
"That would have been a great one to bring The Beatles back to life. But it's probably better not to be remade - you're always behind the 8-ball when do you a remake. It gets harder and harder [to make movies].
With the current state of the industry, it's difficult to stay passionate about it. The hardest thing for a filmmaker as he's aging is saying, "How much...
- 12/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Here's the latest update on a project that's been floundering around in limbo for years. Total Film (via MovieHole) spoke with Flight director Robert Zemeckis recently, and the filmmaker revealed that he is no longer interested in remaking the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine. The idea to remake the film using motion capture technology had been percolating since 2009, and even got as far as casting in 2010 before Disney shut down Zemeckis' ImageMovers company (following the dismal performance of one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, Mars Needs Moms) and eventually pulled the plug on the project. There was some brief talk that Zemeckis could take the project to Universal under a new deal with that studio, but that never panned out and now, in his interview with Total Film, the director essentially says he's done with Yellow Submarine for good. Here are his exact quotes: "That would...
- 12/28/2012
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
With his return to live-action filmmaking a financial and critical success, it seems like Robert Zemeckis isn’t in a hurry to return to the cold and creepy embrace of mo-cap. The “Flight” director was originally set to helm a mo-cap remake of the landmark Beatles animated film “Yellow Submarine” before Disney put the kibosh on the project in the wake of the dismal showing of “Mars Needs Moms” and now hit seems e’s cooled on the idea of ever returning to the project. In a conversation with Total Film (via Movie Hole) Zemeckis talked about the difficulty of handling a remake of such a beloved property. “That would have been a great one to bring the Beatles back to life. But it’s probably better not to be remade - you’re always behind the 8-ball when you do a remake. It gets harder and harder [to make movies] with the current state of the industry,...
- 12/28/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Robert Zemeckis may be finally be coming to the end of his motion capture obsession. The director of Beowulf and The Polar Express has been trying to remake The Beatles' animated classic Yellow Submarine using the motion capture format. Back in 2011, with the massive failure of Mars Needs Moms, Zemeckis lost Disney support for the remake. But, Zemeckis never stopped trying to get the project off the ground. Until now. MovieHole reports that Zemeckis is no longer interested in making the...
- 12/27/2012
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
This is just a taste of what you’re in for from Parental Guidance: Completely random “humorous” ethnic stereotyping. The public berating of a man for being madly in love with a woman who does not conform to the Hollywood caricature of “hot.” Crotch injury as comedic. The questioning of the masculinity of a man who is kind and gentle. Children’s toilet habits held up for ridicule. Blatant narrative and thematic hypocrisy. These are family values, mind you. They must be, at least in the minds of those responsible for this trial of a film, which is more akin to the tortures of the damned than the frothy yet tender holiday cinematic treat it thinks it is. Because the entire reason for the existence of Parental Guidance, it would seem, is to smack down what it sees as today’s simultaneously overprotective and overindulgent helicopter parents, as represented...
- 12/25/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Honor Roll is a daily series for December that features new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-person stories of some of the year's most notable cinematic voices. Today, we're running a new interview with Robert Zemeckis, whose acclaimed return to live-action filmmaking, "Flight," has been drawing praise and awards buzz since world premiering as the closing night film of the New York Film Festival. Following the computer-animated folly "Mars Needs Moms," the biggest flop in his remarkably accomplished career, Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis is back on top a mere one year later with one of his most acclaimed films to date, "Flight." Already a hit at the domestic box office, where it surprised in early November by opening to a $25-million gross (a big win for an R-rated adult drama), the film recently earned its star Denzel Washington Golden Globe and SAG nominations, which bodes well for the film's Oscar.
- 12/14/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
It's been months since we last heard any news about Lulu Jarmen's ultra gory contagion horror film Bad Meat, but finally word has come that it will be released in the Us and Canada by Mvd with a street date of February 19, 2013.
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms) Jessica Parker-Kennedy ("The Secret Circle"), and Mark Pellegrino ("Supernatural"), Bad Meat premiered at London's FrightFest before screenings at Razor Reel in Belgium and Fancine in Spain.
Synopsis:
Bad Meat tells the story of a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation. Compared to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever and Michal J. Bassett's Wilderness, Bad Meat trades in all manner of bodily fluids, puking perverts, a graphic dog dissection, amateur stomach-pumping, chewed body parts, and ripped-off genitals.
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Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms) Jessica Parker-Kennedy ("The Secret Circle"), and Mark Pellegrino ("Supernatural"), Bad Meat premiered at London's FrightFest before screenings at Razor Reel in Belgium and Fancine in Spain.
Synopsis:
Bad Meat tells the story of a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation. Compared to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever and Michal J. Bassett's Wilderness, Bad Meat trades in all manner of bodily fluids, puking perverts, a graphic dog dissection, amateur stomach-pumping, chewed body parts, and ripped-off genitals.
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- 12/7/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Director Lulu Jarmen’s “Bad Meat” proves once again why it’s always a bad idea to send teenage delinquents to rehabilitation clinics in the middle of nowhere. If they don’t spend their time hooking up in grungy cabins, they tend to get eviscerated by people with nefarious agendas. I’ve seen it happen time and time again. Of course, Jarmen’s nasty looking horror movie shouldn’t be confused with Scott Dikkers’s bizarre Chevy Chase comedy “Bad Meat.” Trust me when I say you don’t want to confuse the two. Although I haven’t seen Jarmen’s film yet, I’m almost positive it’s better than the other “Bad Meat.” Read the DVD packaging very carefully before purchase. Here’s what the official press release says about the flick: Starring Dave Franco (“21 Jump Street”), Elisabeth Harnois (“Mars Needs Moms”) Jessica Parker-Kennedy (“Decoys”) and Mark Pellegrino...
- 12/5/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Today's Indie Beat comes in the form of a North American release date for the Indie horror film, Bad Meat. Come on inside to check out the scoop on this upcomign ultra gory film...if you're into that sort of thing.
Here at TheMoviePool we like to talk about all aspects of filmmaking and movie news. To that end, we now have Indie Beat where we'll highlight some of the latest news, trailers, and PR releases from the indie filmmaker scene. So if you're an independent filmmaker and want some coverage on our site, be sure to drop us a line at jordan@themoviepool.com. Now, onto today's news.
Lulu Jarmen's ultra gory contagion horror Bad Meat will be released in the Us and Canada by Mvd with a street date of February 19th 2013.
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms) Jessica Parker-Kennedy (Decoys) and Mark Pellegrino (Mulholland Drive) Bad Meat,...
Here at TheMoviePool we like to talk about all aspects of filmmaking and movie news. To that end, we now have Indie Beat where we'll highlight some of the latest news, trailers, and PR releases from the indie filmmaker scene. So if you're an independent filmmaker and want some coverage on our site, be sure to drop us a line at jordan@themoviepool.com. Now, onto today's news.
Lulu Jarmen's ultra gory contagion horror Bad Meat will be released in the Us and Canada by Mvd with a street date of February 19th 2013.
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms) Jessica Parker-Kennedy (Decoys) and Mark Pellegrino (Mulholland Drive) Bad Meat,...
- 12/3/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
The film with the troubled past, Bad Meat, is making its way to DVD on February 19th. Lulu Jarmen took the helm of this gory thriller when Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn) bowed out after directing a chunk of the film until its funding fell through.
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms) Jessica Parker-Kennedy (Decoys) and Mark Pellegrino (Mulholland Drive) Bad Meat, which premiered at London's Frightfest before screenings at Razor Reel in Belgium and Fancine in Spain, tells the story of a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation.
You can watch a trailer inside.
Read more...
Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), Elisabeth Harnois (Mars Needs Moms) Jessica Parker-Kennedy (Decoys) and Mark Pellegrino (Mulholland Drive) Bad Meat, which premiered at London's Frightfest before screenings at Razor Reel in Belgium and Fancine in Spain, tells the story of a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation.
You can watch a trailer inside.
Read more...
- 12/3/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Director Lulu Jarmen’s horror comedy ‘Bad Meat’ is set to be released on DVD in the U.S. and Canada on February 19, 2013 by Mvd. Written by and compared to Eli Roth’s ‘Cabin Fever’ and Michal J. Bassett’s ‘Wilderness,’ ‘Bad Meat’ is set to frighten audiences with bodily fluids, a graphic dog dissection, amateur stomach-pumping and chewed body parts. Revolver Entertainment’s horror comedy stars Dave Franco from ’21 Jump Street,’ ‘Mars Needs Moms‘ Elisabeth Harnois, Jessica Parker-Kennedy from ‘Decoys’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’s Mark Pellegrino. ‘Bad Meat’ premiered at London’s Frightfest before it screened at Razor Reel in Belgium and Francine in Spain. ‘Bad Meat’ follows a group of troubled teens [ Read More ]
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- 12/3/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
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