“Brave” is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Thompson). An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida (Macdonald) one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman (Walters) and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida’s quest – and serving as comic relief – are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Ferguson), and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Coltrane).
Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.
The actual trailer which gave us some insight into what the Muppets movie was really about was actually really good. All of these "let's mock movies that will make more money than us" posters and tv spots I can take or leave. I get what they are going for but we're at the point where the movie needs to speak for itself, and by some early accounts it's a fun flick.
Inspired by the major three dimensional bank Avatar pulled in James Cameron decided to re-release Titanic in 3D. So I guess this means Jack and Rose's hearts will indeed go on? I can't blame anybody for wanting to re-release a movie that made the money that Titanic made, especially after the success of the re-release of Lion King in 3D.
I'm sort of interested to see if Billy Zane's smugness is magnified on screen if you watch it in 3D. Check out the poster below, it's like Jack never froze to death in that water and old lady Rose never selfishly threw that giant blue gem into the sea years later.
What is the phrase I am looking for? "It's the suit that makes the man." Something like that. Fans of the upcoming Man Of Steel movie were waiting not so patiently for the release of the "new Superman suit". When it finally was revealed there was laughing and there were tears. People loved the cape attachment, people hated lack of red shorts, people loved the lack of red shorts. On and on it went.
The same mass hysteria will occur when the movie related action figures are revealed, which won't be for a good while. Until then, matthancock of the SuperHeroHype Forums has created his own version of Henry Cavill as Superman and Russell Crowe as Jor-El to hold the masses over until the real thing. Not a bad job at all.
During the height of the Disney Renaissance, with animated musicals such as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin breaking box office records and winning awards left and right, Disney decided to go for broke and try to bring back the live-action movie musical. The result was 1992's Newsies, a song-and-dance tale of New York's newsboy strike of 1899. The film featured an adorably off-key Christian Bale, a singing Bill Pullman, and more terrible New Yawk accents than any movie before or since has ever had, as you can see from the original trailer:
Anyone hoping that this would mark the return of the live-action movie musical was sorely disappointed, as Newsies crashed and burned at the box office, earning only $2.8 million in its initial release. My friends and I actually managed to see it twice. Both times, we were the only people in the theater.
However, a funny thing happened on the way to the discount shelf: after being released on video and becoming something of a staple on the Disney Channel, Newsies picked up a fan following. High schools started putting on unofficial versions of the musical, and composer Alan Menken mentioned during a recent interview on The View that songs from Newsies have been met with wild applause at concerts.
Well, Disney decided it was time to revisit Newsies by giving fans what they've been wanting for years: an official stage production. With a re-worked book by Harvey Firestein, just about all of the original score and songs by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman (minus the Razzie-winning Ann Margaret song that I always skip over when I listen to the soundtrack on my iPod), and a leading man with a much better singing voice than Christian Bale's, Newsies opened at NJ's Papermill Playhouse earlier this fall.
Disney's original plan was to create a nice regional theater edition of Newsies that they could ultimately license out to schools, which is what they successfully did with the stage version of High School Musical. But with raves from critics and Broadway producers desperate for a new musical in a season so slow that Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark is starting to look like a serious Tony contender, the plans have suddenly changed.
So now, what's happening with this flop movie that no one noticed when it first hit theaters?
Yeah. That's what's happening.
Playbill confirms that Newsies will open at Broadway's Nederlander Theater on March 15, 2012. It's currently listed as a limited run through June 10, but it's likely to extend if the tickets sell as well as they did during its run at the Papermill. It's also up in the air if the show's original leading man, Jeremy Jordan, will reprise his role as Jack Kelly, since he's currently starring in the new musical version of Bonnie & Clyde.
Regardless, Newsies is finally coming to Broadway. And it's actually eagerly anticipated - some columnists are even calling it the Tony front runner and the heir to Annie. But as those of us who sat in an empty theater loving this silly movie in 1992 could have told anyone, we always knew it was awesome.
Tarsem, Relativity Media and all the key players said from the start Mirror Mirror was apples and oranges compared to Snow White & the Huntsman. That Universal-backed, Rupert Sanders take is more-action, male-driven. Mirror Mirror is intended to be a lighter, family-friendly Snow White affair.
Unfortunately, they didn't tell us when Julia Roberts was playing the Evil Queen (a casting call I thought was brilliant) she wouldn't play it "Evil" per say. Instead her frame of mind is from a staple romantic comedy of hers, and not one of the good ones either.
That's what we get with our first-look at Mirror Mirror courtesy of Yahoo! Movies:
Both Tarsem and Relativity are on a roll after Immortals proved many (read: my big mouth) wrong by its commercial success and not being a 300-cloning piece of crap. That said, way to fuck up your lead, gentlemen. You're opening four months before Snow White & the Huntsman and have good will coming off Immortals and now this?
When a studio commissions a writer for a sequel to an as-yet-released franchise-hopeful, it's an act of showing confidence in their product. They're telling us, "We have a winner here, you fellas are gonna love it and we're getting the ball rolling for more now because of that!"
It's just hard to cipher through that bullshit to guage when it's legitimate confidence or a case of the studio saving face. Paramount did that on Star Trek, hammering out new deals for Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, and Roberto Orci to pen a sequel a month prior to its release and judging by its reception the move was justified. Not so much in other cases, like Green Lantern 2, Tron 3 and that Terminator: Salvation sequel McG was telling everyone about.
We're hearing through the grapevine executives in Burbank are very happy with what they've seen from The Man of Steel so far. Both regarding the latest round of rewrites as supplied by the Mulroneys (the husband-wife writing duo behind the unmade Justice League: Mortal and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) among others and the footage assembled.
Production doesn't wrap 'till the start of 2012 and even then Zack Snyder's Superman epic will have another year and half before the general public votes with their wallets come June 2013. Nevertheless, Warner Brothers already has their sights set for a Man of Steel follow-up and gone as far to commission a shortlist of writers with Steve Kloves at the very top in addition to Travis Beacham and Lawrence Kasdan.
Keep in mind, no meetings, deals, etc. have gone down with any of these guys and/or their representation. Beacham (hot off his Pacific Rim script at WB/Legendary) is quite the active Twitterer. So it wouldn't surprise if he denies this, and that's perfectly fine. This is WB's way of covering their ass and keeping stuff lined up in the event The Man of Steel goes over as well as they're hoping and, so far, feeling based on everything they're seeing.
In the follow-up, Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son Erik is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly!! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father's 'guts and grit' as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures - from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals - to put things right.
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way. Based off the book “Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey”
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