Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:15PM - By Mali Elfman
Although all the characters in Up are amazing, but I can’t help but pick favorites. Second only to Dug the Dog (the most amazing dog in the world) comes Kevin the “undiscovered species” aka, “a bird with attitude.” Kevin is somewhere between a peacock, an ostrich, and possibly a do-do bird. He’s big, colorful, and full of witty comebacks (well, I guess that depends on your version of wit?).
Check out Kevin’s featurette below…
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:15PM - By Mali Elfman
This is quickly becoming one of the most look forward to films of the year. Wolverine, Star Trek, Potter, move aside! Up is coming! After seeing about 50 minutes of this film at ShoWest I can say that it is definitely all you’re hoping for and more. It’s sarcastic, funny, and absolutely beautiful to watch. It’s no wonder why it was picked to open the Cannes Film Festival this year.
They have been releasing Upisodes, which are really just short film clips, in anticiaption for this film.
Check out the most recent one, titled “Snipe Trap” along with two other Upisodes and some of the posters below…
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:00PM - By Mali Elfman
First Sundance opened with Mary and Max and now Up will open Cannes! Apparently it’s a animation world! It was just announced today by Disney/Pixar’s that the new summer 3-D animation Up, directed by Pete Docter, will premiere as the opening night movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This will be the first time that either a Disney movie or an animated film have opened the festival, which is known for showing the the best of the best.
I guess that Cannes is showing that they’re not blind to the changes in the industry. Who said that you can’t be pretigious and have a sense of what’s going on in the world!? (Oh yeah, that was the Oscars)
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Monday, March 9, 2009 11:45AM - By Guest Writer
From Pixar’s dynamic duo of Pete Docter, director of Monsters, Inc and writer of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, and Bob Peterson the writer of Finding Nemo, comes the much anticipated Up. The film is about 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen who embarks on an adventure to South America by tying thousands of balloons to his house and allowing his house to float down south. Midair, Carl receives a knock at his door and discovers 8-year-old Russell on his front porch. Sounds like it could be fun. The visuals will certainly be amazing.
Check out the trailer below…
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Monday, January 12, 2009 1:18PM - By Krystal Clark
According to MTV, rumors have been circulating that Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker is up for a role in the Marvel team up movie The Avengers. The actress was seen with a “stack of Avengers stories” last year, while leaving the Marvel Studios HQ, raising speculation that she may be eying a role in the film. The character Longoria has been rumored to be researching is none other than Wasp, aka Janet van Dyne.
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Friday, January 9, 2009 10:00AM - By Krystal Clark
The Super Bowl is almost here, and that means a sneak peek at select trailers, and previews from the biggest films of 2009. According to LatinoReview, some of the years most highly anticipated movies have been confirmed to air exclusive promos during the game.
Films confirmed for Super Bowl ad time include, Star Trek, Angels and Demons, Monsters vs. Aliens, Land of the Lost, Fast and Furious , and Up. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and G.I. Joe will also make their debuts during the game, giving us our first peek at some live action footage!
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Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:55AM - By Krystal Clark
Who was the last comic book heroine, to have a live action film based on her? Didn’t Elektra and Aeon Flux both come out over three years ago? Well, producer Gale Anne Hurd (Punisher: War Zone), is working on the comic book project Magdalena. According to Shocktillyoudrop, the film is very much underway and will star Step Up alum Jenna Dewan as the lead.
A heroine who first appeared within the pages of Top Cow’s “The Darkness,” Magdalena has been given two limited series and has hopped around various other titles like “Vampirella,” “Witchblade” and even “Tomb Raider.” Jenna Dewan (pictured) will play the titular character, a woman name Patience who discovers that she’s a part of the lineage of female warriors descended from Mary Magdalene who fight supernatural evil.
More on Magdalena after the jump.
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Friday, November 7, 2008 11:08AM - By Mali Elfman
Suddenly almost all the trailers I see are either films going for Academy Awards or soon to be released “kids” films. Now not all of these are kids films. Some of them are made for adults who are hung over, on a plane, or in some kind of way, looking for a distraction. Ever since Shrek, films have been getting a number of A-list movie stars to show up in animations or slap-stick comedies with adult-ish humor that both kids and adults can enjoy. Some succeed, some don’t. Looks like we’ve got a pretty impressive list to choose from with actors including Christopher Plummer, John Travolta, Emily Mortimer, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Steve Martin, Reese Witherspoon and more.
Check out the trailers and stats of the upcoming “kids” movies:
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Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:00AM - By Tom von Logue Newth
Almost the definition of an auteur, Russ Meyer was on the one hand a first-rate cameraman (he filmed for the army in WWII) and a remarkably deft editor and, whilst striving always to entertain, he spent a lifetime exploring an obsessive personal vision in films about strong women. On the other hand, these women all have improbably large breasts, which are usually bare, and in ridiculous paper-thin backwoods plots they are subjected to violence and rape by macho men, though they always fight back, and watch out the weakling!
His penultimate feature, Up! is a cornucopia of Meyerist lunacy, with more blood and nudity than ever before, fantastically elongated prosthetic penises (in teasing glimpses), the magnificent Raven de la Croix doing her best Mae West impersonation, and a piranha-in-the-bathtub murder (the victim: a distinctively mustachioed Adolf “Schwarz”).
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