Disney has released the first trailer for Race to Witch Mountain. It’s easy to immediately discount any kids film (outside of the Pixar-animated movies), but I actually think Witch Mountain looks like disposable fun. Kinda like the kid flicks from the 1980’s. And that might just be the echos of my fond childhood memories of Escape to Witch Mountain, a film this is based on. Please, tell me what you think in the comments below.
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Official Plot Synopsis: Race to Witch Mountain is [...]

Disney has launched an official teaser website for the reboot of Race to Witch Mountain. Our friend Mike was really surprised at the footage that premiered at Comic Con. I decided to skip the panel and apparently missed out, which is a shame since I loved the original Witch Mountain movies as a kid.

I decided to skip Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain panel and not only missed out on a surprise 3-minute long Tron 2 trailer, but apparently a good flick. Our good friend Mike from Great White Snark sat through the Witch Mountain presentation and was raving about how great it was. Wait, what? Yeah, apparently it looked cool. Who would have thought? So I decided to capture his review on video for you to enjoy.
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Photo thanks to ComingSoon

Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!

WALL-E has been spotted hanging on to the side of San Francisco’s MUNI Fast Rail public transit system. [flickr]
Phillip Noyce is in negotiations to direct The Art of Making Money, a DreamWorks project about a notorious counterfeiter who printed more than $10 million in fake bills. [thr]
MTV has the poster for Henry Poole is Here.
United Artists and Lakeshore Entertainment have hired 24 co-creator-executive producer Joel Surnow to develop a contemporary spy thriller that will be directed by Casino Royale helmer Martin Campbell. [Variety]

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder will arrive [...]

Last week Paramount and Fox announced major post-writers strike schedule shuffles. I speculated that because of ‘the rule of threes’, that one more studio would announce a reshuffled calendar by Friday. And here we are on Wednesday, with a bunch of new dates from Disney. Let’s take a look at the new Disney schedule:
The big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has been moved forward from mid-June to July 10th 2009. Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 hits theaters two weeks earlier on June 26th. Disney believes they will make more at the box office with the head start.
The sci-fi adventure comedy sequel/remake Race [...]