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‘The Prophet’ Animated Project Add Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson & Quvenzhané Wallis
10 hours ago | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
The cast list is growing ever stronger for the new animated project from the man behind such movies as The Lion King and Aladdin. Salma Hayek, Liam Neeson and Quvenzhané Wallis are just three of the names attached to this movie; the rest of the cast list includes John Krasinski (‘The Office’), Frank Langella (Robot And Frank) and Alfred Molina.
Roger Allers will write and direct the narrative and he’s no stranger to big animation projects; he’s directed The Lion King, written for Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin and been on the animation team for The Little Mermaid and The Rescuers Down Under.
The Prophet, inspired by the book by Kahlil Gibran, will feature individual chapters based on Gibran’s poems and each chapter will be lead by a different director. Lined up so far are Tomm Moore (The Secret Of Kells), Joan Gratz (Lost And Found »
- Victoria Bull
Salma Hayek's 'The Prophet' casts John Krasinski, Liam Neeson
13 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Khalil Gibran's The Prophet has unveiled an all-star voice cast.
Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina and Quvenzhané Wallis have all been announced for the animated feature, reports Deadline.
Hayek will produce the movie for writer-director Roger Allers, who has worked on Disney's The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid.
Published in 1923, The Prophet is a collection of 26 prose poetry essays by Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Gibran.
Allers will direct the narrative story, with contributions from Marjane Satrapi, Tomm Moore, Joan Gratz, Bill Plympton, Nina Paley, Joann Sfar, Paul and Gaetan Brizzi, Michal Socha and Mohammed Harib , who will direct different segments based on the essays in the book.
The Prophet will be completed by Spring 2014. »
Salma Hayek’s Animated Passion Project ‘The Prophet’ Draws Liam Neeson, John Krasinski, Quvenzhane Wallis And Others
20 hours ago | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina and Quvenzhané Wallis have all joined the voice cast of Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, the animated feature film written and directed by Roger Allers, whose animation credits include directing Disney’s The Lion King and Open Season and whose writing and storyboard work encompasses such films as Aladdin, Beauty And The Beast, and The Little Mermaid. The film is being produced by Hayek, Clark Peterson, and Ron Senkowski. Participant Media and Doha Film Institute are financing and are exec producers. Allers’ script was inspired by The Prophet, the iconic book that is one of the biggest sellers in history, north of 100 million copies in over 40 languages since it was first published by Alfred Knopf in 1923. Allers is directing the narrative story, while individual chapters based on Gibran’s poems are being helmed by animation directors from around the world, »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
The Surprising Inspiration For Disney's 'Little Mermaid'
5 June 2013 4:10 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Alyssa Milano is probably best known for playing Sam Micelli ("Who's The Boss?"), Jennifer Mancini ("Melrose Place") and Phoebe Halliwell ("Charmed"). But there's an even more iconic character she's behind that some people may not know about -- Princess Ariel from Disney's 1989 animated hit "The Little Mermaid."
"I didn't know that when it was going on, but they asked me to host the making of 'The Little Mermaid' and it came out there that the drawing and likeness of The Little Mermaid was based on pictures of me from when I was younger, which is so cool," Milano, who's currently starring on ABC's "Mistresses," revealed during an appearance on "The Wendy Williams Show."
"Doesn't that just make you want to dye your hair red and wear a clamshell bra all the time?" Williams asked.
"Yes, that's how I walk around at home," the actress replied with a laugh.
But the »
- Jaimie Etkin
Norwegian Would Helm Pirates Of The Caribbean 5
29 May 2013 1:00 AM, PDT | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
Update: Norwegian directing team Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning (Kon-Tiki) will helm Pirates of the Caribbean 5. The film is scheduled for release July 10, 2015.
Jan. 15, 2011 - Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriter Terry Rossio will also write the fifth movie in the franchise but without his writing partner, Ted Elliott. Elliott cowrote all of the first four scripts with Rossio so this will be Rossio's first time to go solo on Pirates. In fact, Rossio and Elliott have written nearly all their film scripts together including National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Legend of Zorro, The Mask of Zorro and Godzilla as well as animated films Shrek, Aladdin and Road to El Dorado. Rossio did write the Denzel Washington starrer Deja Vu with a different writer, Bill Marsilii.
Deadline is reporting that Disney is trying to get Poc: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall to return and that Johnny Depp appears »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
The Most Unlikely Actors in Disney Animated Features
28 May 2013 5:11 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the G-rated world of a Disney animated feature?
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely »
- Moviefone Staff
The Most Unlikely Actors in Disney Animated Features
28 May 2013 5:11 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the G-rated world of a Disney animated feature?
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely »
- Moviefone Staff
Richard M. Sherman and Alan Menken Performing “The Disney Songbook” At D23 Expo 2013
23 May 2013 8:33 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
For one night only, two of the world’s most celebrated songwriters and composers will take to the stage for “Richard M. Sherman and Alan Menken: The Disney Songbook.” The concert will take place at the D23 Expo 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center in the D23 Expo Arena on Saturday, August 10.
Together Sherman and Menken have won a combined 10 Academy Awards for their work with Disney, and have composed music and songs for more than three dozen Disney feature films, over two dozen Disney Park attractions and half a dozen Disney musicals on Broadway.
“I can’t express how excited I am that my esteemed friend Alan Menken and I will be sharing the same bill for the very first time,” said Sherman. “Alan is an incredible talent, and I know we’re both thrilled to be performing for Disney’s most ardent fans—they’re the best and »
- Michelle McCue
7 Classic Disney Characters You Had No Idea Were Modelled On Real People
18 May 2013 10:35 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Walt Disney’s impassable animations have been shaping children for generations, making old folk tales and history accessible to all with bright colours and friendly characters. No matter what you think of Bolt or Tangled, there’s no denying the studios real strength is in classical 2D cell animation, which makes the announcement earlier this year that they are ditching their traditional, hand drawn style a depressing development.
Back in the late thirties Disney pioneered motion capture with Snow White, using real actors on film as models for the animators. This was a method that was used throughout the companies history, aiding their giant leaps forward in style (for example, underwater action in The Little Mermaid). As well as occasionally getting famous people to help in this process, often for the actual designs of the characters, the animators would often turn to popular culture, choosing elements from real people and working them into their models. »
- Alex Leadbeater
'Hobs Pit' Dark Ride Opening in the UK This Summer
14 May 2013 2:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
UK theme park Pleasurewood Hills has announced next month's launch of their new horror attraction, “Hobs Pit.” The dark ride was developed in partnership with special effects expert Rob Ostir and voice actor Corey Burton as one of several new rides commemorating the park's 30th anniversary. Parks and Burton have worked previously on Us-based theme parks, including Disney World and Universal Studios, and have been involved with numerous Disney features, as well as the films 2012, Mars Attacks! and The Chronicles of Narnia. Burton's long history of voice acting roles includes Disney's Aladdin, TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and video games like Batman: Arkham City and God of War: Ascension. While park management are keeping a tight lid on the ride details, they revealed that Hobs Pit is based on an old abandoned mine shaft and “unexplained phenomena” discovered during excavations at the park. Pleasurewood Hills General Manager Alexis »
- Gregory Burkart
Hyde Park Picks Up International Rights To Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’S Return
7 May 2013 12:51 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International announced today that the company has picked-up international rights to directors Will Finn and Daniel St. Pierre’s 3D animated family adventure film Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’S Return starring Lea Michele, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi and Kelsey Grammer. The film is from a script by Adam Balsam and Randi Barnes, based on the series of books by Roger Stanton Baum. Bonne Radford is producing alongside Ryan Carroll and Roland Carroll of Summertime Entertainment.
The film, scheduled for a May 2, 2014 domestic theatrical release by Clarius Entertainment on a minimum of 3,000 screens, will be introduced by Hpi’s President Eric Christenson and will screen at the upcoming Marché du Film. Cannes screenings are scheduled for Saturday, May 18th at 4:00pm at Olympia 2, Monday May 20th at 4:00pm at Olympia 2, and Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00pm at Olympia 8.
The film will »
- Michelle McCue
Risky blockbusters of the 1990s that underperformed
2 May 2013 6:29 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature Simon Brew 3 May 2013 - 07:03
It's a risky business, filmmaking. Simon looks back at some bold, expensive 1990s movies where the gambles didn't quite pay off...
This summer's blockbuster season has got off to a startling start, with Iron Man 3 being widely praised for its willingness to rip up the rule book a little, as it continues the story of Tony Stark.
In fact, there's a subset of modern blockbusters - Nolan films, some X-Men features for instance - that are garnering increasing praise for taking bold choices with the material. That they're wagering a lot of movie studio money on projects and stories that once upon a time would have struggled to get through the system.
However, we'd argue that the 1990s was rich with such gambles too, it's just most of them never really made quite the levels of cash we're seeing now. So, here's a »
- ryanlambie
Six Things You Didn't Know about Tom Cruise
18 April 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
By Tara Fowler
This weekend, a movie called "Oblivion" hits theaters. It is not, as I believed when it was first announced, based on the popular video game (which I wouldn't be opposed to — make it happen, Hollywood!). Instead, this film sees Tom Cruise as one of the last humans stationed on a dying Earth following an alien attack sixty years prior*. Here are seven facts about the savior of mankind:
1) The name of Cruise's daughter Suri comes from the Hebrew word for "princess": And the Persian word for "red rose," per the statement released at the time of her birth. It's also the Japanese word for "pickpocket," but the press release doesn't mention that. In any case, it's a moot point since this very reliable British tabloid has reported that Katie Holmes is planning to change her daughter's name after her divorce from Tom Cruise is finalized. The top contender? »
- MTV Movies Team
"American Idol" Recap: 20 Necessary Observations About The Most Painless Elimination Yet
12 April 2013 7:19 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
1. Mindblow: I loved the opening Bacharach medley! I bet you didn't, and that's fine. I didn't love Lazaro's weepy drone and lyrical glitches, but Janelle's sweet version of "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)," Kree's pitch-perfect "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me," and Amber and Candice's "One Less Bell to Answer" were inspiringly quaint. I'd kill to hear Amber get zesty and cheeky on "Promises, Promises," but we got a lot of good cute-ass stuff here.
2. There will never be a song as unblinkingly earnest as "That's What Friends Are For." I'm picturing Gladys Knight's mile-wide grin and aping it in horror.
3. The little Ford Fiesta skit where the idols "kicked" around a gigantic inflated soccer ball using their cars was... almost Dada? I couldn't make heads or tails of the "game" they were playing, or if there were rules or even points. I »
- virtel
Blu-ray Review - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
25 March 2013 1:21 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996.
Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.
Featuring the voice talents of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay and Mary Wickes.
Synopsis:
At the urging of his gargoyle pals, Quasimodo leave the solitary safety of his tower, venturing out to find his first true friend, the gypsy beauty Esmeralda. The most unlikely of heroes, Quasi fights to save the people and the city he loved and, in turn, helps us to see people for who they are, rather than how they appear.
Among a line of hits for Disney in the 1990s - including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and Mulan - The Hunchback of Notre Dame is little remembered, but it’s one of the more striking and entertaining, and deftly engages with themes of religious prejudice and state power, »
- Flickering Myth
Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco Give Dallas, TX Press and Children Sneak Peek of The Croods
23 March 2013 10:41 PM, PDT | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox chose a unique way to promote their newest animated family film. The studios sent directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco out on a tour of several different target markets to host question and answer sessions with reporters and their children about the making of "The Croods." The interactive sessions lasted about 35 minutes and utilized scenes from the film to keep even the youngest attendee interested.
"The Croods" tells the tale of the first family of humans. The group finds themselves forced into a brave new world after their cave home is destroyed. They run into many dangers and exotic creatures in their journeys. Can they re-locate and find their place in this new domain or will they just go extinct?
You could feel the excitement in the air as directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco entered the meeting room of the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, »
- feeds@cinelinx.com (Eric Shirey)
Interview: Directors Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders of ‘The Croods’
22 March 2013 1:20 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The fast, funny and brightly thematic “The Croods” is the latest animated epic to come out of DreamWorks Studios, and a couple of veterans in the cartoon game, Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders, are both the writers and directors of this vivid look into a prehistoric cave family and their evolutionary adventures.
“The Croods” are voiced by Nicolas Cage (Grug), Emma Stone (Eep), Catherine Keener (Ugga), Ryan Reynolds (Guy) and Cloris Leachman (Gran). They live to survive, but mostly hide in their dark cave from the outside elements. It is Eep who wants more out of life, and finds it with the adventurous Guy, who exists to enlighten himself.
Chris Sanders (left) and Kirk De Micco in the Recording Studio for ‘The Croods’
Photo credit: DreamWorks Animation
The writers and directors of this modern stone age fantasy are Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders. Both are veterans of animation, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Croods Review
20 March 2013 6:35 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Although The Croods has come from the immensely intelligent and creative minds of screenwriters Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco – with the former boasting the likes of Aladdin, The Lion King and more recently How to Train Your Dragon amongst his impressive repertoire – unfortunately this prehistoric road movie is not quite of the same standard as his previous ventures, in what is regrettably a somewhat conventional family animation.
We observe life through the perspective of the adventurous and ambitious youngster Eep (Emma Stone), who feels she is being held back by her over-protective father Grug (Nicolas Cage); who remains adamant that the world is a dangerous place and in order to survive, the family – also consisting of Ugga (Catherine Keener), Thunk (Clark Duke) and Gran (Cloris Leachman) – must stick together. However once their humble abode – otherwise known as a cave – is destroyed, the family must embark on a trip to a new home, »
- Stefan Pape
The Croods Review
20 March 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Director: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke, Chris Sanders, Randy Thom.
Running Time: 98 minutes.
Certificate: U.
Synopsis: Follow the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Travelling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures, and their outlook is changed forever.
With Pixar reigning supreme in the world of animation, many studios have been trying to live up to their hype. DreamWorks’ latest project The Croods may not have the same magic, but it is very nearly there.
The film starts with Eep (Emma Stone) telling the story of her weird but wonderful family and how they survived monsters and the common cold as their father, Grug (Nicolas Cage), hides them away in a cave. »
- Lucy Cave
5 Things You Didn't Know About DJ's Boyfriend On 'Full House'
19 March 2013 2:37 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
With everyone's nostalgia for "Tgif" piqued by the upcoming "Boy Meets World" spinoff, we thought we'd revisit our old crush from that era. No, it's not Cory Matthews (sorry, Ben Savage). It's Scott Weinger, who played DJ's boyfriend Steve on "Full House." (Has enough time passed since their split for us to ask him out?) Here are some fun facts about Weinger, 37, you might not remember.
1. He was the titular voice of Disney's classic "Aladdin." (For us, there was pretty much nothing more important than "Full House" and "Aladdin" circa 1992).
2. He writes for the new iteration of "90210."
In case you're a 90210 fan...I wrote tonight's episode.Check it out!
— Scott Weinger (@ScottWeinger) November 1, 2010
3. He went to Harvard. (Is there nothing he can't do?) In 1995, Weinger told People that while he was thrilled with his tiny Cambridge abode, some classmates assumed him to be high-maintenance because of his Disney pedigree. "I »
- The Huffington Post
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