Disney Reviews, Interviews & More
In new sure to make fanboys and fangirls positively squeal with excitement, The Hollywood Reporter has it that Lawrence Kasdan (you know, the guy who happened to write the scripts for The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, no big deal) has struck a deal with Disney to write one of...
Aside from the fact that Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt is writing the thing, and that Disney is producing the thing, all we know about Star Wars: Episode VII is who isn’t directing it. Steven Spielberg or Zack Snyder? Nope. Quentin Tarantino? Not happening. J.J. Abrams is a definite no, with Jon Favreau a big maybe. Matthew Vaughn? ...
Ever since it was announced that a new, George Lucas-free Star Wars trilogy was happening courtesy of a mega-sale with Disney, the internet has been virtually imploding with speculation as to who would direct Star Wars: Episode VII, the first film in the new sequel trilogy. While Matthew Vaughn emerged as a rumored...
Some people, it seems, can keep one hell of a secret—such as Mark Hamill (a.k.a., Luke Skywalker) who has known of the upcoming trilogy of Star Wars sequels since August. It seems that Star Wars architect George Lucas dished the dirt to Hamill months ago. And now that the news is out, Hamill is talking about the new films, and what may or may not be in...
If you’ll recall, yesterday the internet had a full on nerdgasm at the news that not only had Disney purchased Lucasfilm (give the company that already runs Marvel Studios and Pixas the rights to Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and more), but that Disney would be launching an all new sequel trilogy of Star Wars films, with the first coming our way in 2015. And...
Well, here’s some news that will shake nerdom and the internet to their very cores—The Walt Disney company is purchasing LucasFilm Ltd. from one George Lucas. Yes, that George Lucas, and yes, that LucasFilm Ltd. And not only that—brace yourselves—Disney will be releasing Star Wars: Episode 7 in 2015.
The Rocketeer—the 1991 Disney film about 1930s-era hero adorned with a rocket pack and an Iron Man-ish helmet famously crashed and burned at the box office when it was released 21 years ago (time, critical reevaluation, and fan appreciation have been kinder to the film over the years). And now, two decades later—and despite original director Joe...
Finding Nemo—Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature, and Pixar’s second highest grossing film (Number one? Toy Story 3)—is one of Pixar’s crowning achievements. It’s even getting a 3D makeover and rerelease in September. And now, after nine years, it looks like it’s finally getting the sequel treatment, as well.
Preview Night is upon us here at the annual San Diego Comic-Con 2012. So when the doors first opened at the floor of the convention center, where did we go first? To Disney's The Art of Frankenweenie exhibit.
Between the abysmal Mirror, Mirror and the upcoming Bella and Thor Battle Aileen Wuornos (you make know it as Snow White and the Huntsman) it seems remixing and revising the classic Snow White premise is the hot new trend in Hollywood—as long as it’s relatively cheap that is, as a post-John Carter Disney has announced they’ve halted...
Studio chairman Rich Ross was let go today from Disney, after a tumultuous two and a half year run as the head of the studio. He came into to replace Dick Cook, who ran it for eight years. Heads of studios tend to fall into two categories: those who hope be like the old school heads and stay in the position until they're virtually dead, or fresh blood that...
Well, in case you were hoping to avoid any potential spoilers about who would survive the ending of the upcoming Avengers film, Marvel and Disney went ahead and spoiled that somewhat by announcing today that the sequel to 2011’s Captain America will be seeing the First Avenger return to the big screen on April 4, 2014.
Since its release in 1991, Beauty and the Beast has been one of the crown jewels of Disney animation. Until 2009's Up, it was the only animated film to be nominated for best picture, and showed that The Little Mermaid was no fluke. It signaled the great 90's renaissance of the studio, leading to...
After the success of The Lion King 3-D, Disney announced they were going to dimensionalize some of the older films, and first up is Beauty and the Beast, the 1991 Academy Award Best Picture nominee. It's going to hit theaters January 13, 2012, with a Tangled short film attached, Tangled Ever...
D23, named after the year the Walt Disney Company was founded, was started as fan service. For most people, Disney is the films they grew up with and watched with their parents, and watch with their children - or even by themselves - and Disneyland (especially if you don't live in California) is a place to go to once, maybe twice. For the D23 crowd, Walt Disney and its various products are a...
I'm often inclined to give family movies a pass (as evidenced by my favorable review of Mr. Popper's Penguins), if only because sometimes you've got to drag the family to a movie theater just to get them all to shut up for 2 hours. Don't worry, I sympathize here for you. If you needed this critic's permission to pack up the family and go to the multiplex, here it is: Cars...
Disney and Pixar have really revved up the publicity for this week's release of Cars 2! Did you see what I did back there, by the way? That was a hilarious car pun. Listen, I'm just trying to appeal to the Cars crowd here. It seemed to work for those studios, at least. Do you have any idea how popular this franchise is?! $2 Billion dollars a year...
Mickey Mouse fans, get this: did you know that the 80-something icon, despite having been featured in a bevy of short films, cameo roles, cartoons, straight-to-video releases, and video games, has never actually starred in his own theatrical feature?
That is, until now. Maybe.
Well, this could get interesting—turns out that a U.K. screenwriter, Jake Mandeville-Anthony, is suing Disney and Pixar for allegedly basing Cars and its upcoming sequel, the cleverly-titled Cars 2, on his original scripts that were written and submitted in the 1990s. Reminds me of the time Michael Bay totally swiped my original...
Walt Disney has confirmed a report that director Marc Forster is in talks to helm their new sci-fi property, The Runner. Over at Deadline, that got word that the studio acquired a pitch for the film that also has super producer Brian Grazer attached. With the power of Disney, the business savvy of Grazer, and the creative vision of Forster, they might be on to...
