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Cinefantastique’s Greatest Movie Cheats: Tangled
All movies cheat, but horror, fantasy films, and science fiction films are a special case. Every motion picture shoots its scenes over and over, then edits the best bits together to hide the seams: camera angles conceal objects the filmmakers do not want us to see; lens filters enhance the look of real locations, while [...]
Iron Man 3 in theatres May 3
Walt Disney Pictures releases the third IRON MAN movie during the lucrative month of May (”summer” blockbusters don’t wait for summer anymore). Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark, the man in the iron suit, along iwth Dwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, and Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan. However, [...]
Monsters University in theatres June 21
Walt Disney Pictures releases the latest computer-animated fantasy from Pixar Animation Stuidios – a prequel to the popular MONSTERS, INC. This time, we get to see Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) back in their college days, when they were studying – and competing – to beomc the scariest monsters. Steve Buscemi, Jennifer [...]
Oz The Great and Powerful in theatres March 8
Walt Disney Pictures releases this prequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ, which explains how a sideshow magician was swept away in a balloon to the magical land, where he became the titular character. Sam Raimi directed from a screenplay by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the novel by L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful [...]
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN featurette
Short video about making THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN, featuring interviews with writer-director Peter Hedges, producer-writer Ahmet Zappa, producer Scott Sanders, and cast members Jennifer Garner, Rosemarie DeWitt, C.J. Adams, Joel Edgerton, Ron Livingston, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Walt Disney Pictures releases the film on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green Trailer 2
Second trailer from the THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN, the Walt Disney fantasy film about a young couple, unable to conceive, who “grow” a child in their garden.
Release Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
Frankenweenie in theatres October 5
Walt Disney Pictures releases this stop-motion family-friendly horror-fantasy from the Tim Burton Animation Company. Based on Burton’s 1984 live-action short subject, FRANKENWEENIE tells the story of a young boy who brings his beloved pet Sparky back to life after a car accident. When the neighbors find out, they fear that the resurrected pooch is a [...]
Finding Nemo 3-D Re-release Trailer #5
Fifth trailer from Walt Disney’s 3-D re-release of Pixar Animation’s CGI fantasy-comedy. The 3-D version hits screens on September 14.
Finding Nemo opens 7/14 in 3-D
Walt Disney Pictures re-releases Pixar’s amusing underwater opus, this time in 3-D. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich directed the computer-animated film, from a screenplay by Stanton, Bob Peterson & David Reynolds. Voices: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis.
Release Date: September 14, 2012.
Beauty and the Beast (Capsules: The Divide; Tangled Ever After): CFQ Spotlight Podcast 3:2
Does Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST need to undergo digital conversion to the 3D format in order to lure audiences back into the theater? It shouldn’t, not really. BEAUTY is a certified classic, the first animated film to net a “Best Picture” Oscar nom and the one that re-energized the Disney animation division. To think [...]
‘John Carter’ Poster & Pics
JOHN CARTER continues to look like it was shot in Utah (it was), and the nude characters cover-up for Disney-ification.
