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Planet 51
34 minutes ago | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez
Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Justin Long, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott
Running Time:
Rating: PG
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Plot: An American astronaut lands on an inhabited planet where the aliens resemble 1950’s Americans. Once he lands, he needs the help of Lem (Long) to hide from the alien army that wants to dissect his brain.
Who’S It For? Kids. Though their are a lot of jokes aimed at adults that will go right over most childrens heads.
Expectations: Not high, the premise seemed kind of like it hinges on one joke based on the trailer.
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Actors:
Dwayne Johnson as Captain Charles T. Baker: The Rock continues his assault on children’s movies with this role as the handsome, charismatic, and slightly dim astronaut Charles Baker. Johnson’s voice is a great fit for this vain, »
- Megan Lehar
Lea Thompson Talks 'Splinterheads,' 'Back to the Future 4' and Choosing Family First
13 November 2009 5:00 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Reinventing herself is nothing new for Lea Thompson. In the '80s, she was the red-hot young star of hits like 'All the Right Moves,' 'Some Kind of Wonderful,' 'Red Dawn,' and, of course, the 'Back to the Future' trilogy. After giving birth to her ... Read more
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- Kevin Polowy
Forrest Gump: Sapphire Series Blu-ray Review
12 November 2009 1:35 PM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
"You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded." . Kurt Lazarus
Forrest Gump (1994) has transcended the realm of mere cinema to become such a piece of Americana that turning a critical eye its way is almost blasphemy. I remember seeing director Robert Zemeckis' (Back to the Future, Polar Express) Academy Award winning effort during its theatrical run and, while it was cute, wondering what all the fuss was about (and being even more miffed at stealing the Best Picture Oscar from Pulp Fiction). Revisiting Gump over the years on home video, the main character's absurd adventures have slowly grown on me. Now I can happily state that though I still have minor reservations, watching Paramount's stellar Blu-ray release was thoroughly enjoyable.
Admittedly the movie, even as beloved as it is, »
Robert Zemeckis Eyeing The Nutcracker 3-D?
12 November 2009 6:30 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Robert Zemeckis is a director who was once mentioned alongside visionaries like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, having directed such blockbusters as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and the Back To The Future trilogy. He certainly earned that reputation, but lately his career has taken a strange detour into the realm of motion capture technology, where his focus seems to be exclusively on taking existing stories and putting them on the big screen in a new way. Certainly Spielberg and Lucas have been big on pushing technology forward as well, but is Zemeckis letting his desire to pioneer get in the way of making good movies? His latest film A Christmas Carol hit theatres just last weekend and the reviews haven't been so hot, but that hasn't stopped him from lining up another Christmas movie to immediately follow it. According to Pajiba [1], Zemeckis wants to use motion capture to »
- Sean
Splinterheads | Limited Release in Austin
11 November 2009 8:23 PM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Splinterheads will be opening this weekend at the Regal Arbor Cinema in Austin, TX, Friday, November 13th for a limited and exclusive engagement. Austin is one of three cities selected along with Portland, Oregon, and New York City to run Splinterheads’ theatrical release so far. Director Brant Sersen, whose previous film Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story won the Audience Award at the 2004 SXSW Film Festival, will be in attendance at the November 13th opening; with leading man Thomas Middleditch possibly joining as well. Splinterheads premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. If you were in Austin this past weekend, you may have also seen the Splinterheads dunking booth at Fun Fun Fun Fest. Read the review by clicking here. Splinterheads introduces rapidly-rising improvisational comic Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. Then, one summer night, he visits a touring carnival »
- Don Simpson
Zemeckis To Take On The Nutcracker
11 November 2009 1:21 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
I miss the old Robert Zemeckis. You know, the one that directed Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Castaway; those broad, fantastic stories with actual people. That is not to say that Beowulf and A Christmas Carol don't have their merits and place, but the whole "dead behind the eyes" thing is still rather unnerving. The director recently said that he will use motion capture for for the Roger Rabbit sequel, which, in a way, makes it seem that he is more in love with the technology than the story (unless they somehow work it into the plot.) Despite the uncanny valley factor, though, the computer-generated films have been bringing in the dough, and now Zemeckis has said that he will be tackling his third Christmas-themed film with The Nutcracker. Reported first by Pajiba, the film will not be an adaptation of the Tchaikovsky ballet, but rather the original »
New Ultra-Gory Pics from Piranha 3D
10 November 2009 10:26 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
When I first heard that Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Haute Tension) was writing and directing a remake of the classic 70’s Joe Dante film Piranha, I thought “Hmmm. This could be a good thing.” Then I read that he was doing it in 3D and I thought “Dang! I thought this could be a good thing; guess I was wrong.”
The remake, cleverly titled Piranha 3D, is set in the fictional location of Lake Victoria during spring break (think Lake Havasu), and after a underwater earthquake releases a prehistoric flesh-eating fish, “an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area’s new razor-toothed residents.” Sherriff Julie Forester must risk all that she loves and knows to destroy the piranha “save the lake and her family from totally being devoured.”
Piranha 3D stars Elizabeth Shue as Sherriff Julie Forester, along with Steve R. »
- Paul Young
Elisabeth Shue Talks New Movie "Piranha 3-D"
8 November 2009 11:47 PM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Elisabeth Shue , best known for her Oscar-nominated turn in "Leaving Las Vegas" as well as her roles in hits like the "Back to the Future" sequels and "Adventures in Babysitting," has recently starred in more independent fare like "Hamlet 2," where she played a parody of herself and "Gracie," which she helped produce.
But next year, Shue will hit the big screen in "Piranha 3-D," a horror comedy which lifts the name and fish from the 1980's cult classic, but with a brand new story. Shue plays Sheriff Julie Forester, who has to fight off flesh-eating piranhas when an underwater tremor unleashes them into a tourist-filled lake.
Shooting took place in Arizona's Lake Havasu during the summer's record temperatures. "It was really fun, although the heat. I say fun, but ha!" Shue said, on a break from participating in the yearly charity event the Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic.
"My »
Moviegoers Stingy with Scrooge
8 November 2009 5:22 PM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
It was a miserly start to the Holiday movie season as the high profile movie positioned to bring the most cheer, A Christmas Carol, stumbled a bit out of the gate. Overall weekend business was off 14 percent from the same timeframe last year, when Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa landed, and was on the low end for early November.
Haunting approximately 6,500 screens at 3,683 sites, A Christmas Carol churned out an estimated $31 million, selling fewer tickets than Elf and The Santa Clause 2 and far fewer than star Jim Carrey's last Christmas movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. On the other hand, Carol's opening grossed more than The Polar Express, the previous performance-capture animated Christmas movie from director Robert Zemeckis that chugged strongly throughout the 2004 season despite its disappointing $23.3 million start, but that picture was muted by The Incredibles whereas Carol had no such direct competitor. According to distributor Walt Disney Pictures' exit polling, »
- Brandon Gray
Christmas is coming, and Disney’s getting fat
6 November 2009 2:18 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Christmas is a bit like the flu. You are forced to lie around all day, watch crap TV, consume lots of food you wouldn’t normally eat, and each year both seem to arrive earlier and than the last. This year I had flu fashionably early,setting the trend in July while London’s utterly loathsome and incompetent major, Boris Johnson has been bribed by Disney to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights purely to coincide with the release of, A Christmas Carol, this week. They even allowed the films star Jim Carrey to switch the buggers on!!!!! Yet, directed by Robert (Forest Gump , Back to the Future) Zemeckis this 3D animated adaptation of the Dickens tale is not aimed at kids of all ages. I’d say, due to it’s thoroughly creepy protagonists, nightmarish scenes of ghouls taking their jaws off and spectres chasing ol’ Scrooge through dark alleys, »
- Chris Sullivan
A Christmas Carol Review
5 November 2009 7:28 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When it was announced that Robert Zemeckis was directing an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” starring Jim Carrey and made with 3D motion-capture, my response was viciously negative. Zemeckis had left behind movies like “Back to the Future” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”, movies with characters and charming stories, in favor of 3D motion-captured films featuring CG characters who resembled the voice actor except they were trapped deep within the uncanny valley (the place where CG facsimiles of people look like very expensive animatronics). Throwing Jim Carrey into the mix to have him constantly mug for the camera made the idea of a 3D motion-captured film even more unappealing. And “A Christmas Carol”? How many times do we need to see this story? Seeing it in 3D with Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge was an argument not to make the movie. (Hit the jump to find out why »
- Matt Goldberg
Review: Did you ever see… Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
This week sees the release of the year’s first Christmas movie, Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. The latest in a long line of adaptations of this classic story, Zemeckis has made it using his motion capture animation. This is the third movie Zemeckis has made using the technique, having perfected it after Polar Express and Beowulf. Zemeckis has been interested in combining human actors and animation for a long time. With news breaking last week of a sequel in development, it’s the perfect time to look back at 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Following huge success with Back to the Future in 1985, Robert Zemeckis was in big demand. This allowed him the clout to take hold of what would be a hugely ambitious project. Live action had been combined with animation previously, most notably in Mary Poppins. No-one yet, however, had attempted a feature length movie.
Bob Hoskins is a 1940’s private dick, »
- Barry Steele
On 'Back To The Future' Day, We Celebrate The Discovery Of Time Travel!
5 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Great Scott! On this day in 1955 -- in the fiction of "Back to the Future" anyway -- Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) discovered the secret of time travel. In his own words: "I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this!" This? What is this? It's This!
In honor of Dr. Brown's momentous discovery, we've decided to celebrate this day with a small image gallery. Click the image above to check out our flipbook, featuring images of the iconic DeLorean time machine and stars Lloyd, Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson.
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- Adam Rosenberg
The Five: Must-See Movies in November
5 November 2009 1:53 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
In these tough economic times it's hard to decide which movies to spend your hard-earned dollars on, which is why I've come along at the beginning of the month to save the day (kinda like Superman, only slightly overweight and balding) by giving you a list of five must-see movies hitting theaters at some point over the next 30 days. While I can't fully vouch for their awesomeness, advance buzz and my non-existent superhuman spidey sense should be enough to go by…I think…and hope. Check it: A Christmas Carol (November 6th) The month of November begins with a Christmas movie, yes, but it's one that's directed by the great Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forest Gump) and it stars the hilarious Jim Carrey as several different characters in this mo-capped version of the...
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Roger Rabbit 2: Two-Dimensional Toons & CGI Humans?
5 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Don’t act like you’re surprised. You knew this announcement was coming from the moment we first heard that director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) was making a sequel to his 1988 smash hit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? It was just a matter of time, really. With three Mocap (that’s the new slang for “motion-capture”, Fyi) films already under his belt – Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol – it was a natural leap of thought to assume Zemeckis would use his favorite new toy in a Roger Rabbit sequel.
However, it appears that the Toon characters (Roger, Jessica, Benny the Cab) will not be the ones making the leap into the 21st century. According to his interview with MTV, Zemeckis doesn’t plan on using Mocap for those characters, just the human ones (as if that makes it any better). Read what he had to say below:
“I »
- Paul Young
Robert Zemeckis 'Never Been Offered' A Superhero Movie
5 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From Splash Page: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Back to the Future" director Robert Zemeckis is certainly no stranger to the art of bringing fantasy fare to life on the big screen, so when we had the chance to chat with him during a press event for "A Christmas Carol," we had to ask: why hasn't he tackled a superhero movie yet?
"I'm a superhero fan, although I actually have never been offered one," Zemeckis told MTV News. "I've never really brought one to someone and said I really want to do this superhero [movie]. Obviously, I love the form, as movies really are the extension of comic books."
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- Rick Marshall
Robert Zemeckis Explains Why He Hasn't Directed A Superhero Movie (Yet)
4 November 2009 2:08 PM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Back to the Future" director Robert Zemeckis is certainly no stranger to the art of bringing fantasy fare to life on the big screen, so when we had the chance to chat with him during a press event for "A Christmas Carol," we had to ask: why hasn't he tackled a superhero movie yet?
"I'm a superhero fan, although I actually have never been offered one," Zemeckis told MTV News. "I've never really brought one to someone and said I really want to do this superhero [movie]. Obviously, I love the form, as movies really are the extension of comic books."
"When I was real young, we had the George Reeves 'Superman' on TV all the time," he explained when asked if he had any favorites in the comics world. "I've seen every one of those episodes and probably have them all memorized and »
- Rick Marshall
Review: Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the World Premiere
3 November 2009 3:33 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Update: Video footage from outside the event by GeekTown.co.uk below.
Tonight the lovely people at Sky Movies HD invited us along to the World Premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol. This was no ordinary premiere as it boasts the largest premiere for a 3D movie, Ever! Greeted by fake snow falling from the sky and a huge stage with period carol singers, and Andrea Bocelli giving a breathtaking performance, we knew we were in for a treat. Not that I’ve been to loads, but this was by far the biggest premiere I’ve ever seen in London’s Leicester Square with the premiere taking over both the Empire and the Odeon Mezzanine. That totals 3013 seats, which alone is a huge number to fill on an opening night.
Once we found our seats, I noticed that we were literally in front of Eamon Holmes and Demot Murnaghan »
- David Sztypuljak
Robert Zemeckis Sucks At Video Games (And He's Fine With It!)
3 November 2009 3:07 PM, PST | MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news »
The director of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and the forthcoming "A Christmas Carol" remake is not much of a gamer. Despite the awesome video game based on the "Roger Rabbit" flick, it seems that Robert Zemeckis has never really been very good at video games, despite being very impressed by them:
"I love what they do in the technology, the way they move those images, I'm fascinated by the amount of code-writing those guys do to make those games work. But I just have a problem sitting there for hours and hours and hours knowing that I'm always going to end up losing. It's such a fatalistic mindset, I know I'm never going to get to the highest level...but I'm gonna play anyway."
Yeah, rock on Zemeckis! Now you just need to make up for the bad games based on "Back To The Future," "Back To The Future 2," "Back To the Future 3" and "Beowulf. »
- Russ Frushtick
Zemeckis: 'Carol had to be set in UK'
3 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
A Christmas Carol director Robert Zemeckis has said that he never considered setting his adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic story outside the UK. Speaking at the London press conference for the 3D animated film, the Back To The Future filmmaker insisted that he didn't want to take the movie away from the source material's British roots. "Set it in another country? No, never," he remarked. "A Christmas Carol in Miami? I just could never imagine it. It never crossed my mind." Zemeckis explained that the pioneering performance-capture technology, which involves actors' movements (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
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