Disney’s got a new website up that offers, among other things, a few new glimpses of their lovely looking, traditionally animated film The Princess and The Frog scheduled to open Christmas 2009.
Via: Coming Soon
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I have to admit, in the 74 times I’ve seen the trailer for the new animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I’ve slowly gotten sucked in to hoping that it would recapture some of the old Star Wars magic that had been so buried in the three prequels. Well, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame [...]
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As a director, Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Centennial Man, Mrs. Doubtfire, the first two Harry Potter movies) is a poster-boy for the words bland, middle of the road and workmanlike. So it is that news he’s planning to direct a film based on Thurton Clarke’s book The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days [...]
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It’s kind of a weird week for DVD releases anyway so I’m experimenting with bumping the column up to Sunday. This way those of you who return movies to Netflix in time for Monday shipments of new releases can adjust your queues accordingly and get your new releases by Tuesday.
Here then making their Sunday debut are the [...]
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Isaac Hayes, the Academy and Grammy award-winning icon of the music industry has died of unspecified causes.
Redefining popular music throughout the 60’s and 70’s both as a songwriter (he co-wrote the hits Soul Man and Hold On I’m Coming) and solo performer, the purveyor of the Memphis soul sound helped lay the groundwork for disco [...]
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Michael Cieply reports in the New York Times that several groups representing people with disabilities are expected to announce a boycott of the new comedy Tropic Thunder as early as Monday. At issue is the frequent use of the word “retard” in the film, a Hollywood satire about the filming of a war picture.
Special Olympics [...]
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Several box office number crunchers predicted yesterday that The Dark Knight would top new release Pineapple Express on its way to leading the box office for the 4th weekend in a row. As of Sunday, it appears Batman has pulled it off $26 million to $22.4.
It makes a good headline but it’s meaningless.
Had Pineapple Express [...]
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