Almost one year ago to the day, Brett Ratner took over from Steven Spielberg to helm a property Spielberg championed way back in 2008: The 39 Clues. Ratner had been actively developing the film for the past year, but apparently he’s now out and the incredibly busy Shawn Levy is on board to direct.
Based on the an 11-book series, The 39 Clues follows two children who find out they’re part of the most famous family in history, with a lineage that includes Napoleon and Houdini. The pair then sets out on a global treasure hunt to find 39 clues, ingredients to a potion which will create the most powerful person in the world. Read more after the jump. Read More »
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Posted on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 by Angie Han
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Disney has unveiled a brand-new trailer for its family-oriented fantasy The Odd Life of Timothy Green. Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton star as a loving couple who finally give up on their dreams of having a child, only to find an adorable Manic Pixie Dream Son on their doorstep the next day. Because I tend not to love kids, I find that set-up more frightening than enchanting. If you like this kind of stuff, though, you could probably do worse than this movie. Watch the video after the jump.
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Posted on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 by Angie Han
Having enjoyed quite a bit of success with their recent adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Illumination Entertainment and Universal are re-teaming to bring another beloved childhood figure to the big screen. The companies have just hired Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) to pen a live-action/animation hybrid feature centered around Clifford, the big red dog. The unusual canine has been featured in some seventy-odd books since his creation in 1963 by author and illustrator Norman Bridwell. More details after the jump.
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With Tim Burton in press mode promoting Dark Shadows, Disney took the opportunity to show a bunch of journalists scenes from his other 2012 release: Frankenweenie. Burton’s 3D black and white return to stop motion animation (after producing The Nightmare Before Christmas and co-directing Corpse Bride) is a re-telling of one of his earliest films, the story of a young boy who brings his dog back to life a la Frankenstein.
Burton specially edited together 26 minutes of footage from the movie to give an idea of the tone, humor and scope of what audiences will see come October 5. Not surprisingly, Frankenweenie is decidedly dark, but with a quirky, fun tone that escalates into something much bigger than the early trailers have suggested. After the jump, check out a video blog I recorded about the footage as well as some new photos from the movie. Read More »
Posted on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 by Angie Han
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm sign on to play the same guy, while a Cabin in the Woods star who’s not Chris Hemsworth lands a sweet new gig. Also after the jump:
- True Blood reveals a new poster for Season 5
- A Heroes alum becomes Sigourney Weaver’s boss
- Amazon Studios pushes into TV, calls for ideas
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Pixar is being very careful with how they’re marketing their latest film, Brave. As I’ve already written, almost every single piece of the marketing has been from the first 30 minutes of the movie and only a very select few glances at the latter part of the story have popped online. The Japanese trailer had a few, same with the Japanese poster and now two new images do the same. They also give a taste at just how much action is likely to be in the film when it opens June 22. Check them out below. Read More »
There are a couple examples in manga and anime of the school teaching tool The Visible Man showing up as a character or personality. But I don’t think any of them feature the guy dancing, fleeing from half-skinned rabbits wielding machine guns, or jumping a dirt bike through the face of a giant clock.
But the trailer for a Japanese summer kids movie called After School Midnighters (Hokago middonaitâzu) does feature all that stuff, and as a result it is a must-see. Read More »
Briefly: Yesterday we told you two things: one, that Disney had picked up Neil Gaiman‘s The Graveyard Book and would make development of a feature based on the book a priority. And two, that Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and another Neil Gaiman book adaptation, Coraline, has been consulting with Disney and Pixar talent for his latest feature. Turns out those things are more closely related than we thought.
Now Disney has attached Selick to direct The Graveyard Book, which sounds wonderful. I thought very highly of his work on Coraline, which aside from the one character invented for the film, was a really solid effort. Incidentally, Deadline also says that The Graveyard Book will come after the film Selick has been working on for the past year.
Here’s where there’s some confusion. Deadline says that Selick is “already working for Disney-based Pixar on a top secret film.” That contrasts the last info we had, which said that Selick had consulted with Pixar on the feature he’s working on at his own animation studio, Cinderbiter. Regardless, Disney is set to release his next film, and I wouldn’t settle into the idea that he’s making a Pixar movie just yet.
