Elemental box office: Peter Sohn’s computer-animated romantic comedy fantasy is Pixar and the Walt Disney Studios’ latest costly money-loser. Leah Lewis heads the voice cast.
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Republicans Want Agrabah Bombed: What Has Aladdin Done to Deserve It? And was American Sniper Chris Kyle hero or hate-filled killer?
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Maze Runner 2 to Easily Beat Johnny Depp Black Mass: Weekend Box Office Predictions show the Pirates star hasn’t recovered his mojo.
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Original version of Richard Williams’ animated film gets Academy premiere The first public screening of the original version of Richard Williams’ The Thief and the…
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The Conjuring with paranormal investigator Patrick Wilson. The Conjuring movie may have broken horror genre box office record – even considering inflation July 22 update: James Wan’s Warner Bros.-distributed horror…
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‘Despicable Me 2’ Despicable Me 2 easily tops domestic box office as ‘The Lone Ranger’ 2013 bombs July 8 update: Here’s a quick rundown of the July 5-7 weekend’s top…
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Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in The Heat. Sandra Bullock The Heat: Bullock’s biggest opening weekend at domestic box office? July 1 update: Starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, Paul…
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European Film Awards: Michael Haneke Best Director record as 2 French cinema veterans win their 1st award + Annie Awards bypass blockbusters.
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Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts…
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The Monkey King 3D. Who is the Monkey King? Chance to find out as Chinese animated classic to have West Coast premiere The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven in 3D…
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Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax with Ted (Zac Efron), Audrey (Taylor Swift) March 4 update: Partly thanks to 3D ticket surcharges – and the fact that five- and ten-year-olds can’t go…
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Film Critics Awards: Major Korean Surprise and Favorite Jessica Chastain + Michael Bay Bomb and Cinema Homage as well as beginnings of cosmic consciousness.
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Swedish lesbian film: Ruth Vega Fernandez and Liv Mjönes in With Every Heartbeat. AUDIENCE AWARDS Breakthrough Section (award accompanied by a $5,000 cash prize) WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT by Alexandra-Therese Keining…
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Carl Reiner, John Hubley, Hope Lange, Oscar 1959 John Hubley, considered one of animation’s most innovative and influential designer-directors, will have his life and art celebrated by the Academy of…
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Kung Fu Panda 2 movie box office: DreamWorks’ costlier sequel to their 2008 hit opened far behind the original in the domestic market. Voice cast: Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.
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Rio movie box office: Directed by Carlos Saldanha, Fox’s 3D computer-animated musical comedy adventure is doing strong global business. Voice cast: Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway.
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Rango box office: With Johnny Depp heading the voice cast, Gore Verbinski’s animated comedy Western had the year’s biggest opening weekend so far in the domestic market. Is that enough?
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Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), How to Train Your Dragon (top); Jay Baruchel performing Hiccup (bottom) I have to commend DreamWorks. With movies like Kung Fu Panda and now How to Train…
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Annie Awards: DreamWorks Animation vs. Pixar-Disney controversy. Have Animation Academy been giving DW movies an unfair edge?
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Tangled box office: The Disney version of the old German fairy tale ‘Rapunzel’ is on its way to becoming one of the year’s biggest hits. In the voice cast: Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi.
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Judy Garland as Dorothy in Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz So, Robert Zemeckis, the guy who brought you Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her,…
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Megamind movie box office: DreamWorks’ supervillain 3D comedy to become a sizable hit – but will that be enough to offset its mega-budget?
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Toy Story 3 box office: About to become the year’s biggest domestic release, the animated adventure shattered Pixar’s opening-weekend record.
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Focused on an existential crisis pitting Shrek against Rumpelstiltskin, Shrek Forever After has opened below expectations at the domestic box office.
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The Back-up Plan movie box office: Starring Alex O’Loughlin and Jennifer Lopez, Alan Poul’s romcom has failed to lure domestic audiences.
Zhang Ziyi: Actress seen in The Grandmaster. Golden Horse Awards: Singapore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission wins Best Picture Surprisingly, the 2013 Golden Horse Award for Best Picture was…
‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit.’ ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’: Robert Zemeckis’ classic mix of animation and live action to have special 25th anniversary screening at the Academy Who Framed Roger Rabbit…
Madagascar 3 movie: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted June 10 update: Weekend box office: The Prometheus movie monsters have been beaten by Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted‘s cuddly talking animals.…
Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago…
Mars Needs Moms box office: Coproduced by Robert Zemeckis, the Walt Disney Studios’ computer-animated sci-fi adventure has turned out to be one of the biggest disasters in Hollywood history.
Yogi Bear movie box office: Comedy mixing live action and computer animation has no chance of recovering its budget domestically. Dan Aykroyd stars.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice box office: Nicolas Cage stars in Disney’s costly fantasy, which has become the Oscar winner’s latest commercial misfire.