Robert Zemeckis has signed on to direct ‘Dark Life’ for Disney and his company Image Movers. Based on a novel by Kat Falls, ‘Dark Life’ tells the story of a world where the oceans have risen and human civilization packs themselves on the few regions of dryland. As a result, the deep-sea world takes on [...]
At the D23 Expo, (the Disney company’s take on Comic-Con,) on Friday, Disney Chairman Dick Cook announced that a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie will be released summer, 2011. The next movie, (the series’ fourth,) will be sub-titled, “On Stranger Tides.” Johnny Depp also made an appearance at the announcement, dressed as Jack Sparrow. [...]
One of the big stories yesterday was word that the Walt Disney Company had bought Marvel Entertainment. One of the smaller stories is that Marvel is also considering rebooting their “Fantastic Four” franchise. Writer Akiva Goldsman scribe for the two worst Batman movies, “Batman & Robin,” and “Batman Forever,” as well as producer of the [...]
So, Disney is back at it, and they’ve gone back to traditional animation! Check it out:
Apparently the Disney shareholders meeting went well this week, with a look at Tim Burton’s upcoming ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ The film stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter (of course it does). The film will be a mix of CGI and live action, and stars Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, Helena Bonham Carter as [...]
Halfway through the large slate of movies released annually
Panda’s are big this year (just check out the box office lately), at least Disney thinks so. Walt Disney Studios will be distributing a new Chinese-made movie called “Touch of the Panda.” A live action film, it is the story of a young panda rescued by an orphan boy. The film is currently in post-production, [...]
Things have been relatively quiet from the house that mouse built. Since the merger of Pixar, and John Lasseter taking over as head of the animation studios, there’s hasn’t been a public road map to the direction Lasseter was going to be taking the group. Looking at what is on the schedule, I definitely feel [...]
The House that Mouse built is entering the market that was perfected by Guitar Hero, and made even better by Rock Band. Disney’s video game unit announced the Nintendo exclusive on Wednesday. Ultimate Band rather then using an new controller, would rather use the existing Wiimote and DS. “We thought we could do a very [...]
To the delight of one our bloggers (read: sarcasm), Dwayne Johnson, collectively known as The Rock, will be starring as the Tooth Fairy in a new comedy from Fox. Directed by Michael Lembeck (The Santa Claus 2 and 3, which in my humble opinion, were terrible), the film follows the Santa Claus’ take on fantasy [...]