John Lasseter, the big man at Pixar, appeared at Disney’s shareholder meeting (held in New Orleans, I guess as a way to throw some bucks in the direction of what is incredibly still a disaster area) and announced, “We are finally in production on Toy Story 3.” He then gave a date for the release: … Continue reading
IESB is reporting that Jay Scherick and David Ronn, the poison pens behind Norbit, have been brought in to do a rewrite on a big screen version of old anthology show Fantasy Island, which will apparently star Eddie Murphy in a number of roles. My bet is that he’ll play just about every role – … Continue reading
Shooting has started on the second Chronicles of Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, and already Disney and Walden Media are looking ahead to number three. That film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will not be directed by Andrew Adamson, the Shrek guy who has helmed the first two. So who will be taking over the reins? … Continue reading
MTV.com got an exclusive with Star Trek XI co-screenwriters and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci where they spilled a very few beans (their most common reply to the interviewer seems to be “Really, who can say?”) – including one that feels pretty big to me: Star Trek XI is not a prequel but … Continue reading
Following today’s theme of developing stories we first reported on a few weeks back, Woody Allen spoke to the Spanish press this week about his upcoming untitled romantic drama set there and he mentioned that he’d like to add to the already cast Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz with his favorite muse as of late, … Continue reading
On Monday, I had the honor of passing along the news that (A) Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has sights set on a G.I. Joe flick and that (B) he wouldn’t mind having Mark Wahlberg on board. Today, Latino Review ran an exclusive interview with the producer in which he spilled a few more Joe-y … Continue reading
Making Manga into live action films has always been a dubious concept to me. The fantasy worlds of martial artists, giant robots, school love, and everything else in between just don’t seem to work as well when you don’t have the benefit of creating motion lines behind rigid stances to convey action. And no, I’m … Continue reading
One of the scenes you’ll probably never see in the CHUD.com movie involved a couple of minor characters hunting for the autographs of famous — and not-so famous — monsters. The next best thing might be Nick Redfern’s novel Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil … Continue reading
I only have a passing familiarity with the Robosapien toy. It’s some sort of plastic robot that is preprogrammed to mimic certain human functions and respond to commands from a remote. And by virtue of it being comparatively cheap against 4-figure toys like Sony’s now-defunct AIBO robot dog, this thing has fulfilled the dreams of … Continue reading