Award season is ready to get into full swing, and one of the early stages of the runup to the Academy Awards is the submission of Best Animated Feature options. This year there are nineteen submitted features, including big studio fare (Cloudy 2, The Croods, Despicable Me 2, Monsters University), one from Studio Ghibli (The…
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Luc Besson wants to make another Fifth Element, kind of. Also after the jump: David Heyman comments on the Harry Potter spinoff Dredd finally gets a sequel... in comic book form A new Terminator comic chronicles the end of the war The newest Cloudy 2 clip features a dramatic entrance See No Evil 2 adds Freddy…
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The food puns keep on coming in a new batch of posters from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. Also after the jump: Director Scott Derrickson will return for Sinister 2 in some capacity Keri Russell offers more Dawn of the Planet of the Apes plot details The Conjuring 2 won't be about Amityville, unless…
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Briefly: The full schedule for San Diego Comic-Con 2013 will be released very soon, but the major movie studios have already started to jump the gun. Sony revealed they'll be bringing RoboCop, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Hall H on Friday July 19. Then, Marvel Studios announced they'll…
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The first teaser for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 introduced an island overrun by food/animal hybrids -- the sort of place a hungry Jules Verne might scribble down in a notebook. A featurette showed off more of the "foodimals," and now the full trailer for the film serves up a few additional glimpses…
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When Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader) created a machine that turned water into food, he never could have predicted the results. In Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2, he'll be introduced to Foodimals -- animals made out of food -- that are threatening to take over his beloved hometown and possibly the world. In a new featurette,…
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In case you were wondering, yes, Kevin Smith is still pretty sure Clerks III will be his best film ever. It's not clear whether Rosario Dawson totally agrees with that sentiment, but apparently she wants in too. Also after the jump: Danny Boyle dishes on the Trainspotting sequel Gru is an awkward parent in Despicable Me 2 clip…
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I put off seeing Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, because I had no associations with the book from which the film took inspiration, and I thought the film would be childish and ridiculous based on the title. I was wrong; the movie is super-charming and well-made. This year we'll see the sequel, and the…
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It's not always the case that "family films" actually appeal to the whole family, but two that do are Monsters, Inc. and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. So even though we (as childless adults) may not be in their ideal target demo per se, we've very much looking forward to the sequels Monsters University…
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The Hangover Part III may feature a whole new plotline, but based on these new stills the wolf pack still looks exactly the same. Also after the jump: Dwayne Johnson is pumped for Fast & Furious 6 The latest Star Trek comic drops still more hints The Allspark might resurface in Transformers 4 Stephenie Meyer wants The Host…
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The cheeseburger rainstorms may have ceased for now, but Flint Lockwood's battles with food are far from over. In this fall's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs sequel, Flint (Bill Hader) continues to deal with the consequences of his malfunctioning FLDSMDFR device when he discovers that it's created a new race of food-animal hybrids --…
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller immediately marked themselves as filmmakers to watch with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a sweet family CG comedy. So naturally, for their sophomore effort, they attempted to something completely different. 21 Jump Street is rowdy and live-action, and yet it retains much of the same heart and humor that…
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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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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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