'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' Series Preview: Flint Lockwood Has A New Invention
Watch a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs series preview to see how the film franchise gets turned into an animated series on Cartoon Network.
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Theme Park Bits: 'Ghostbusters' And 'Smurfs' Coming To Dubai; Plus 'Frozen' Invades Disneyland
This edition of Theme Park Bits travels the globe. China, the Middle East and even the Frozen land of Arendelle. Below, read about the following: Sony Pictures has licensed several of their major properties, including Ghostbusters, for a Dubai Theme Park. The Frozen city of Arendelle is now part of the Disneyland ride Storybook Land Canal…
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Over 30 Movies Being Adapted Into TV Shows, Ranked From Worst To Best Idea
Hollywood is developing over 30 television shows based on feature films. I attempt to rank the concepts of all of the movies being adapted into TV shows.
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'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' TV Series Now In Development
DHX Media, the company behind the Paddington film and in-development TV re-do of Inspector Gadget, is now working with Sony Animation to create a Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs TV series. The show will consist of 22-minute CG-animated episodes that follow at least the basic concept of the two films. But there's mention of…
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Sequel Bits: 'Men In Black 3', 'Mad Max: Fury Road', 'Star Trek 2', 'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2', 'Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters', 'Friday 4'
We've got a lot of odds and ends to cover in today's Sequel Bits, so let's get right to it. After the jump: MIB3 helmer says shooting with an incomplete script was either "genius" or "really stupid" Vehicles from Mad Max: Fury Road revealed Benedict Cumberbatch says lovely things about his Star Trek 2 colleauges…
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VOTD: 'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' As A 60-Second, Live-Action Short
Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs contains so many crazy, fantastical elements that I never figured the story could've worked as anything but an animated film. I mean, c'mon. Live-action hobbits or dragons or space battles are one thing, but live-action hamburger storms would just be ridiculous, right? But perhaps that's…
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Cody Cameron And Kris Pearn To Direct 'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' Sequel
Briefly: It has been quite a while since we heard anything about a sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Last time we got wind of the film that Sony Animation has been developing, original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were said to be attached, and the source material was said to be…
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Sequel Bits: Brent Spiner Jokes About 'Star Trek 2,' 'Horrible Bosses' Screenwriters Writing 'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' Sequel
Couple of bits of info on upcoming sequels for you today. First up, Brent Spiner, who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in several movies that followed, might like to appear in the upcoming Star Trek sequel currently being written by Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and J.J. Abrams. Emphasis on…
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/Filmcast Ep. 95 - Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (GUEST: C. Robert Cargill From Ain't It Cool News)
In this week's /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley assess whether or not Joss Whedon would make a good Avengers director, try to figure out what Summit Entertainment is trying to do with the final Twilight films, and discuss why the Green Lantern's CG-only suit...actually makes a lot of sense. You can always…
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Sequel Talk: Robin Hood 2; Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2; And An Odd Mulholland Drive Rumor
The public hasn't had a chance to check out Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, which premieres at Cannes, but if the receipts are high, we may see more than one episode featuring Russell Crowe as the famous British character. Speaking to the Times Online, Scott defines this film as an origin story, saying, "It is the…
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/Filmcast Ep. 83 - Daybreakers (GUEST: Rian Johnson, Director Of The Brothers Bloom)
In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley ring in the new year with thoughts on Total Recall, Land of the Lost, and Youth In Revolt. Also, some thoughts on Sam Mendes doing Bond, Spidey IV being scrapped, and the classic Casablanca. Special guest writer/director Rian Johnson joins us…
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Sony To Release First 3D Movie On Blu-Ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced on Thursday that it will begin to release 3D movies on Blu-ray Disc worldwide for the first time, beginning this summer with the computer animated release Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. And I'm not talking about the paper red and blue glasses that you might have gotten with some…
Read MoreThis Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, The Final Destination, And More
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (DVD available as single-disc and 2-Disc Super-Sized Edition) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is one…
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/Filmcast Ep. 68 - Jennifer's Body (GUEST: Adam Kempenaar From Filmspotting)
In this week's /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the sad state of Disney's live action brand, assess Tomas Alfredson's proclivities for gender-bending storylines, offer up some unabashed praise for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and report back on the first week of the fall TV season. Special guest Adam Kempenaar…
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Movie Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - An Unlikely Success
Consider me shocked that Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is not only a good kids film, but a great comedy in general. The first film from former How I Met Your Mother and Clone High writer/producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Cloudy manages to take the premise from the classic children's book and transform…
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3D Movie Preview In 3D: Toy Story, Up, Alpha And Omega
NOTE: I'll just go over this one more time before we begin. The current polarised lens, digital 3D system is superb; anaglyph systems don't work one tenth as well. Bear that in mind as I share with you some anaglyphic 3D stills from films that will on release come in the digital fashion. These images…
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Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Movie Trailer
Sony Pictures Animation has released the movie trailer for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film tells the story of a scientist named Flint Lockwood, who while trying to solve world hunger who encounters a problem of global proportions, as food begins to fall from the sky like…
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Super Cool Cast For Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
It's like one of those dreams where everyone is laughing crazily at a neverending dinner table. An awesome ensemble cast has filled out for 2010's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a 3D animated film based on the bestselling children's book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett: Anna Faris (yes, in a gentler type of…
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