With Harry Potter Gone, ‘Twilight’ Moves Up to Nov. 21!
Posted on August 15, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Releases, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Distribution, Family Films, Newsstand, Harry Potter
For all you Harry Potter fans who are also devoted to a certain series of teen-vampire romance novels, here’s something that should help you deal with Thursday’s devastating news about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince being pushed back to […]
Read More..>>Go Ahead and Disregard That New Entertainment Weekly Cover
Posted on August 15, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Releases, Warner Brothers, Family Films, Newsstand, Harry Potter
This is the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly, which hit newsstands today, approximately 24 hours after its top story became outdated. As you’ve heard by now, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is no longer the most-anticipated movie of the fall; […]
BREAKING: ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ Moved to Next July!
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Releases, Warner Brothers, Exhibition, Family Films, Newsstand, Harry Potter
Thanksgiving just got a lot less magical. Warner Bros. has announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, originally scheduled for release on Nov. 21, has been pushed back to July 17. As in 2009. As in ELEVEN MONTHS AWAY! It’s […]
Read More..>>Gumballs Rain Down on Adam Sandler in ‘Bedtime Story’
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Family Films, Images
I think I need to befriend Adam Sandler’s new character…
No, I’m not talking about Zohan. I’m talking about Skeeter Bronson in Bedtime Stories. He’s a hotel handyman who discovers that the bedtime stories he’s telling his niece and nephew are starting to come true. When Skeeter realizes his talent, he tries […]
New ‘Chihuahua’ Trailer: It’s Like That Tape from ‘The Ring’
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Comedy, Disney, Family Films, Trailers and Clips
When Weinberg made clear his sentiment regarding the prospect of sitting through a film titled Beverly Hills Chihuahua in this or any other lifetime — his words: “[it] looks to be an endless migraine composed of forced cuteness and bad effects” — he drew the ire of […]
New DVD Pick of the Week: ‘Nim’s Island’
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: New Releases, DVD Reviews, New on DVD, Family Films, Home Entertainment
The movie DVD choices from this week’s release schedule are quite scarce, but there is Abigail Breslin swinging in to save the day.
Nim’s IslandIn the vein of classic family adventure scenarios, Breslin stars as Nim, a young girl who lives with her scientist […]
‘Meatballs’ Will Rain Down in 3-D
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Tech Stuff, Exhibition, Family Films
As anyone who went to see Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D last weekend knows, a viable, attractive, non-headache-inducing 3-D technology now exists for feature-length films in regular theaters (albeit ones outfitted with a special projector). Unfortunately, it’s still not being used as a storytelling tool so […]
Walden Media Gets ‘Savvy’
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Scripts, 20th Century Fox, Family Films, Newsstand
Magical trends just never end! According to Variety, Walden Media has hired Karen Janszen to adapt Ingrid Law’s book Savvy, which only just hit bookstores a few months ago. The rights have been optioned at least that long, but it looks like Walden is […]
Yay! ‘High School Musical 3: Senior Year’ Gets a Trailer and New Images!
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Disney, Family Films, Trailers and Clips
As I posted last week, the trailer for High School Musical 3: Senior Year was scheduled to hit Disney yesterday, and it did. You can check it out big or small and shnazzy over at Disney.com, but since it’s location-locked, I’m including the YouTube video of the premiere […]
Read More..>>Tim Burton Casts ‘Alice’
Posted on July 27, 2008 - Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Family Films
Tim Burton has cast the title role in the new adaptation of Alice in Wonderland he’s working on for Disney. It is not, as was rumored a couple weeks ago, Ryan Nikole Parker, but it’s not anyone more well-known, either. The role has gone to Australian actress Mia […]