Alice In Wonderland Getting IMAX 3D Release March 31, 2009 6:58 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in IMAX, Movies, News, Walt Disney Pictures.Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton
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Walt Disney Pictures also announced today, along with IMAX, that Alice in Wonderland, from director Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released to IMAX theaters simultaneously with the film’s wide release on March 5, 2010. The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
Disney To Release Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3D Double Feature in October March 31, 2009 6:36 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, News.Tags: Toy Story, Toy Story 2
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At ShoWest today, Walt Disney Pictures announced that 3D presentations of Disney-Pixar’s animated features Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will be released in theaters starting on October 2, 2009, for a limited two-week engagement. The double feature will play exclusively in 3D.
The double-feature will lead into an all new chapter the following year, when Walt Disney releases Toy Story 3 on June 18, 2010. The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, March 30, 2009 March 31, 2009 6:23 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Nielsen TV Ratings, Television.Tags: Broadcast TV Ratings, Monday
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Full ratings and breakdown’s, including my full analysis, week-to-week comparisons, etc., follows after the jump.
Drag Me to Hell Poster March 31, 2009 5:26 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movie Posters, Movies, Universal Pictures.Tags: Drage Me to Hell
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Shock Till You Drop has a brand new one-sheet of Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell. Click the poster above to see the poster in higher res over at STYD.
Drag Me to Hell hits theaters on May 29, 2009.
Sam Raimi: Spider-Man 4 Script Will Be Ready by Summer March 31, 2009 5:19 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Columbia Pictures, Movies, Sony Pictures.Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 4
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Sam Raimi says that the script for Spider-Man 4, written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Inkheart), should be ready by summer: “Right now, David Lindsay-Abaire is working on a draft of the new picture,” Raimi told SCI FI Wire. “And he’s hard at work, and hopefully we’ll see something in about three months.”
Raimi, who’ll be directing the film, said that there is a rush to hit the scheduled May 6, 2011 release date:
“We have to make the release date, and on all of these pictures, the Spider-Man films—and I’m sure it’s the same as with many of the other bigger-budgeted films—they have release dates far in advance of a screenplay,” he said. “So it’s about getting it ready the best you can in time for the first day of production. That’s what we’ve always done, and that’s what we’ll try to do again.”
In regards to casting, Tobey Maguire is reportedly signed on to reprise the title role, and Raimi adds that while it’s still early to discuss other casting, he does plan to reassemble the core cast which includes Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane:
“At this point I do, but it’s really … all going to be dependent upon the script, and I’ll just have to wait and see,” Raimi said. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but hopefully we can service the story in the screenplay, and whatever it demands, hopefully we’ll be its eager servants.”
And finally, Raimi declined to discuss possible villains for the fourth installment, telling SCI FI Wire that he thinks he should wait “till the finished screenplay, and then it’d really be up to Sony Pictures and the producers to determine when they want to release that information.”
Orci & Kurtzman Talk Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen March 31, 2009 5:05 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in DreamWorks, Movies, News, Paramount Pictures.Tags: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman recently spoke with SCI FI Wire to discuss what’s coming up with the new story, what robots we may see in it and the possibility of getting Leonard Nimoy to voice a character. Here are a few excerpts:
Talk about the process of deciding what robots to keep, what robots to add. There are so many of these characters that you have to pick from. How do you winnow them down, how do you add the new ones, integrate them?
Orci: Well, the easier one, obviously, is the fact that we inherit certain ones from the previous movie and from the fact that Prime and Bumblebee are kind of the two front-and-center relationships. … In terms of villains, it was again going back to all the source material. … We got a bunch of the comics again, we got a bunch of the old cartoons, and just started looking for kind of the most elemental bad guy that kind of jumped off the material, and we found one in the Fallen.
And you’ve got to bring Megatron back.
Orci: Exactly. But part of it, too, was because of the oddity of the strike, what happened before the strike is that Alex and I and Ehren wrote up kind of a 20-page treatment of … kind of, basically, the moves of the movie. And so many of the robots were selected there. But then many of them were also selected during the strike while we couldn’t do anything, as a matter of necessity, by Hasbro and by [director] Michael Bay for some of the action sequences. They literally had to start designing somebody. And they were prohibited by the law from calling us and saying, “Who should that other somebody be?” So it was a mixture of the characters that we had in our treatment and some of the characters that were designed specifically for the movie for production.
And here’s what Orci had to say about the possibility of Nimoy voicing a character in the film:
And you, Bob, were quoted as saying you were trying to get Leonard Nimoy to do the Fallen?
Orci: He originally was the voice in the animated movie, and at one of the conventions, Alex and I actually spoke to him about it, and he’s like, “Yeah, I’d be open to that.” But it’ll be Michael’s decision.
Have you talked with Michael about that?
Orci Oh, sure. … He’s like, “Hmm.” And we’re like, “You know you’re cousins, right?” [Nimoy’s wife is Michael Bay’s cousin.]
There was also some talk about Frank Welker, the original voice of Megatron, and whether he’d actually end up in the movie after all?
Orci: Exactly, and I think they’re in the middle of hashing that out. We’ll see who we get.
Read the entire interview over at SCI FI Wire.
True Blood Season Two Set for June 14th + First Photos March 31, 2009 1:41 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in HBO, Images/Photos, News, Television.Tags: True Blood
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HBO has set a June 14th date for the second season premiere of its hit vampire drama True Blood. The network has also released several new publicity photos from the second season. Click through the jump to see more. (more…)
MTV Orders Four More Seasons of The Real World March 31, 2009 1:32 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in MTV, News, Television, The Real World.Tags: The Real World
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MTV has ordered four additional seasons of its 17-year-old reality hit The Real World. The renewal will bring the reality series to an amazing 26 cycles. The network is also ordering another four seasons of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, bringing the competition series to 21 cycles.
The early extended renewal will help spur creativity among the show’s creators:
“This allows us to plan,” executive producer Jon Murray said. “It helps us figure out where we’re going next and allows us to do some long-range thinking.”
Source: THR
Paramount Moving Foward on Star Trek Sequel; Writers on Board March 31, 2009 1:04 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, News, Paramount Pictures.Tags: Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Star Trek
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With just a little over a month before Paramount Pictures releases Star Trek (May 1, 2009), the studio is moving forward with a sequel and has hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman (who wrote the first film) and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay.
Director J.J. Abrams will be back to produce alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk, but no decision has been made yet on whether Abrams will return to direct the sequel. The three screenwriters will also be receiving producing credit for the sequel.
Read the rest after the jump, plus check out some new photos and high-res art of the final U.S. poster. (more…)
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