By: Jerry Beck,
on 9/28/2016
If you described today's announcement of a "Lion King" remake as a 'live-action film,' you really shouldn't be covering the film industry.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 9/12/2016
Fresh off "The Jungle Book," Jon Favreau has discovered a new passion: vr filmmaking.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 5/22/2016
Cartoon Brew delves into the animation challenges of Disney's latest blockbuster.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 4/25/2016
Following the runaway success of "The Jungle Book," Disney announces 9 more films.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 4/24/2016
What do you call a live-action film that's 90% animated?
The post ‘Jungle Book’ Filmmakers Can’t Decide If They Made An Animated Film Or Not appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 2/23/2016
Disney has unleashed a new teaser for The Jungle Book. Entertainment Weekly reports that the video features the voice acting talents of Sir Ben Kingsley as Bagheera the black panther and Neel Sethi as Mowgli the man cub.
According to The Disney Blog, Jon Favreau served as the director and Justin Marks served as the screenwriter for this live action/CG hybrid movie. The movie studio has set the theatrical release date for April 15.
Follow these links to watch the first teaser and an international trailer. Click here to download a free digital copy of Rudyard Kipling’s original novel. (via io9)
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 9/30/2015
By: Jerry Beck,
on 9/16/2015
Jon Favreau's dark reboot screens like a terrorized tale drained of humor, compared to Wolfgang Reitherman's amiable 1967 feature.
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 9/15/2015
By: Jerry Beck,
on 6/30/2015
By: Maryann Yin,
on 8/12/2014
Christopher Walken has signed on to star in the new Jungle Book movie re-make.
The Oscar-winning actor will play the orangutan King Louie in Disney’s live action adaptation. TheaterMania reports that the movie will be released in October 2015.
As we previously reported, Iron Man director Jon Favreau will helm this project. The cast also includes Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, and Scarlett Johansson. Who would you cast as Rudyard Kipling’s orphan “man cub” character, Mowgli?
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 7/23/2014
Maybe I am one of the last people in America to see that delicious movie, "Chef," but maybe that's okay: I saw it when I most needed to. It's a Jon Favreau concoction (he wrote it, directed it, stars in it, produced it). It's Roy Choi influenced, cubano-sandwich powered, infiltrated by actors I love—Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey, Jr., Dustin Hoffman, Bobby Cannavale, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Sofia Vergara. It yields wide patches of time to the fabulous young actor Emjay Anthony. It explores what happens when one's safe world implodes and there is nothing left to lose. You have a job as a chef in a fine restaurant? You have a beautiful girlfriend, an ex-wife who loves you, a little boy who thinks the world of you, security? It all blows up after a bad restaurant critic's review, and you fought back over Twitter? Boom. What are you going to do? Maybe you'll go small. You'll start a food truck.
Affection, humor, tenderness, food you can practically eat off the screen—it is abiding in "Chef." But resiliency is the film's primary theme. Getting back up after someone's been unkind to you, after the unfair thing has happened, after you lose your decorum, your reputation, your holdings in the blink of a Twitter eye. What is the trajectory of second chances? That is what "Chef" is about.
We're out here as writers, and some critics will be unkind. We're out here doing our service jobs, and the person on the other end of the phone has demeaning attitude, that power that comes from being the one in charge, that edge in the curl of their words. We're out here letting the lady at the ATM yell at us because she's having a bad day. We're endlessly holding our own tongues, being the better guy, stepping aside, or stepping up. But, who knows? Someday we may just blow. We may just speak our equalizing minds.
"Chef" is about the guy who blew and the guy who got it back.
It's about hope of another kind. Hope that we can be our best selves again. Hope that the world will make room.
By: Maryann Yin,
on 6/5/2014
Disney has hired filmmaker Bill Condon as the director for a Beauty & The Beast live-action film adaptation. Variety reports that screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos has signed on to pen the script. According to Nerdist, the details of the plot have not yet been revealed. Some speculate that the story for Condon's production will be similar to the one featured in Disney's 1991 animated movie. The screenplay for that project is based on Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont's classic French fairy tale. As of late, Disney has been working on a number of live-action fairy tale movies. Maleficent hit the silver screen last week and has received great reviews. Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella has a release date set for March 13, 2015. Jon Favreau will helm a live-action/CG hybrid remake of The Jungle Book. What fairy tale would you like to see get the live-action movie treatment?
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 4/25/2014
Two movie studios, Disney and Warner Bros., plan to create new adaptations of Rudyard Kipling’s beloved classic, The Jungle Book.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Warner Bros. production will mark the feature directorial debut of Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis. This project features a screenplay written by Callie Kloves. Her father Steve Kloves, the screenwriter of the Harry Potter film franchise, will serve as a producer.
Disney’s live action/CG hybrid version will be helmed by Iron Man director Jon Favreau. Long Walk to Freedom actor Idris Elba has signed on to lend his voice as the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Other potential cast members include Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o and The Avengers actress Scarlett Johansson.
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 3/6/2013
Marvel Studios has released the theatrical trailer for Iron Man 3. We’ve embedded the video above–what did you think?
The first official trailer came out back in October 2012. The movie hits the silver screen on May 03, 2013.
Robert Downey Jr. returns as the star of the franchise. Academy Award-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley has come on board to portray the comic superhero’s infamous enemy, The Mandarin.
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Newly released Cowboys & Aliens may not be an Oscar contender, but it’s darn good fun and worth the price of a movie ticket … which, in the current movie climate, is saying something. Simple plot line: “A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way.”
Sounds like the cowboys might get their asses handed to them, you know? But as a friend of mine pointed out, “If James Bond and Indiana Jones can’t save the world, who can?”
I grew up watching Harrison Ford (and not because my friends thought my dad resembled the guy). I watched all the Indiana Jones movies, and embarrassingly, they may be the reason I minored in classical civilizations in college. I was among the many viewers who were thoroughly disturbed by the movie What Lies Beneath, when <spoiler spoiler SPOILER> Harrison Ford turned out to be a bad guy. That said he’s not exactly a good guy in Cowboys & Aliens—at least not at the beginning.
I hate when that happens.
From there, the stranger waltzes into town and causes a raucous, until alien spaceships show up and he uses his mysterious bracelet to blow ‘em away. So begins the battle of cowboys versus aliens.
Jon Favreau is the director. He did Iron Man. (Robert Downey Jr. was the original choice for Daniel Craig’s character, in fact.) So expect lots of fast-paced action scenes, explosions, and comic quips amidst the bloodshed—alien and human alike.
Mm. I like chaps.
Harrison Ford is his charismatic, comic self. The man’s still got it, despite being sixty-nine years old. Daniel Craig is hotter than the desert heat, as is Olivia Wilde, for you Y-chromosomes out there. There are plenty of other interesting cameos. No name stars, but people who’ll make you say, “I know that guy.” And you’ll like him, because there’s plenty to like about this movie.
As I mentioned, it’s not going to win any Oscars (except maybe for special effects), but it’s good, clean, action-
