In addition to the U.S., the Halloween engagement of Coraline includes the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Austria, and Ecuador with more territories to follow. France and Italy will also begin their Coraline 15th Anniversary engagements this November.
Fans attending Coraline will be treated to an early glimpse of LAIKA’s upcoming film, Wildwood.
Tickets on sale date is Friday, June 21st at 6am PT. For more information about the global release, visit coraline.com.
Combining the visionary imaginations of celebrated author Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and groundbreaking film studio LAIKA (Kubo and the Two Strings, ParaNorman, the upcoming Wildwood), Coraline is a wondrous and thrilling, fun and suspenseful animated adventure.
After all that pre-show...TOY FAIR STARTS TODAY!! Before we hit the main event in New York next month, we begin in the UK where companies are shaking hands with buyers to get you Brits the plastics you desire..all done while the lazy Americans sleep. Shameful. Let's kick things off with some pats on the back peppered with new toy reveals, shall we?
Renowned director Ridley Scott takes fans on a gripping sci-fi adventure that “kicks ass so hard and often that it's impossible not to be thrilled by it” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Launching into space to discover the mysterious creators of the human race, the “genuinely epic” (Tom Long, Detroit News) film, PROMETHEUS, debuts globally on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD October 9 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. An unmatched home entertainment experience, watch the highly-anticipated blockbuster hit in the format it was meant to be viewed, stunning 3D high-definition.
I can't think of a movie more perfect for 3D than Monsters Inc ...with all the arm flailing, monster scaring, action sequences and such. December 19th will be here in no time, so time for the TEASERS!!
Here's the official statement from Hasbro:
Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ:HAS), and Paramount Pictures, announced today that G.I. JOE: RETALIATION will now be released in 3D. The film, originally slated for release in June 2012, is scheduled to be released March 29, 2013.
"It is increasingly evident that 3D resonates with movie-goers globally and together with Paramount, we made the decision to bring fans an even more immersive entertainment experience," said Brian Goldner, Hasbro's President and CEO.
"In 2012, we continue to have several strong motion picture and television entertainment backed properties that are selling well at retail and our entertainment strategy remains strong and on-track," Goldner said. "Through our own Hasbro Studios for television and in partnership with several movie studios including Paramount, Universal, Sony and Relativity, we are creating entertainment experiences around many of our highly popular iconic brands. For the full year 2012, we continue to believe, absent the impact of foreign exchange, we will again grow revenues and earnings per share."
What do you do when your movie has made over a billion dollars? Well, I suppose you just keep making money. REALLY??!! A BILLION DOLLARS??!! That's just...insane. I'm not jealous.
Sure, most of us still don't have these legendary 3D TV's, but this news is good enough incentive to drive you into the streets, knocking on random doors to see who does and make a date for this release! I sorely miss the yearly October viewings of Nightmare on the big screen in 3D, so this will, at the very least, bring back some of that magic.
Three facts will make you go see Drive Angry opening weekend. Nick Cage, gratuitous violence and 3D. Oh and Boobs. Four things. FOUR THINGS will make you go see drive angry on opening weekend!! Let's review...
Sometimes, you are just in the right place, at the right time, with the right people and the stars align juuuust right to make magic happen. This was the case at SDCC this past season when Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings sat down with a bunch of geeky reporters to talk about THOR, life, art, their place in this dorky world we've created around them, technology (or their lack of) and ...the unflinching eye that is the 3D camera lens. Partman, especially, would hit the "dislike" button on that last point. If ONLY someone had video of the pair talking about all these topics. OH WAIT! We got that. Enjoy!!
The battle for your weekend funnies BEGINS!! This fight may be a little different than the box office battles we are used to. Megamind will attract a solid family audience as well as the super geeks attracted to the comic bookified content, and then fans of the stars involved as well as those drawn to the advance buzz. Due Date will get a solid "date night" nod, heavy crowds of those old enough to watch and drawn in by "Director of The Hangover" on the trailers and posters, as well as people who think they are too cool to watch cartoons. BLASPHEMERS!!
agonizing flashbacks of Talladega Nights, but Ferrell takes the role and makes it his own, creating the perfect nuances for the character rather then having animation built around his own personal antics. The end result is awkward, geeky, self conscious and ridiculously over the top in the most perfect ways possible and deserving of a showboating master super villain who gets his showmanship inspiration from rock concert laser shows and pyrotechnics! This also means the soundtrack kicks ass. GET YOUR METAL ON! I've also got to give credit to Tina Fey whose comedic timing is impeccable and whose delivery of dry lines along side Megamind's grandstanding are consistently a source for "play that again" amusement. As for Brad Pitt, whom I love watching in films; I felt he didn't bring anything to the table and more times then not, I felt the role may as well have gone to George Clooney as..well..he sounds JUST LIKE Clooney and George would probably have brought a little funny to the role.
DUE DATE: Peter Highman rushes home to his pregnant wife who is about to pop when fate steps in...in the form of a pudgy, peculiar aspiring actor whose gift for chaos forces the two into a cross country odyssey packed with crime, misfortune and PAIN!! If you are the type of person (like me) who cringes in their seat when a character does something you REALLY don't want them to do and would love to scream for them to stop doing, then this movie is instantly not for you. I recall painful moments watching Seinfeld, watching a certain round man pull a pastry out of the garbage and eat it and experiencing a full body convulsion. This is what Zack Galifianakis does to me, and specifically, what he did to me in this film. The level of annoying is pumped up to a factor of 3 thousand, perhaps just below the boys from Dumb and Dumber, which made me beg for mercy every 20 minutes or so. The film makers seek to offset this pain with touches of drama where you realize that Zack's character Ethan's dream to be an actor may be warranted and that his urgency to never be alone drives his manic behavior. Well...all fine and good, but I still don't want to be friends with such a needy psycho, much less watch them systematically destroy a man's life. Galifianakis is absolutely a great actor...and I know this because I despised his character every minute of this film.
DOOOMED!! You loved her in Easy A and now, Emma Stone will play the perfect Gwen Stacy in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot film. Why is she doomed? Well if this version of the story follows the comics, Gwen is fated to come face to face with the Green Goblin who ends her life in a moment which changes Spider-Man for the rest of his life. Emma NYOOOOOO!! Will she survive? You'll have to wait until 2012 to find out...in 3D!!
Humans scratch away at the barren lands under the shadow of immortal beings who know no pain or suffering and demand unwavering worship. When men scream toward the heavens in protest, they are smacked to the ground. When the armies of man launch a campaign of defiance against Zeus himself, the god allows Hades to issue an ultimatum. Sacrifice the princess of Argos, or the Kraken will be set loose on the world! WHO will save them? Legend tells of a man with a shaved head and Australian accent who will lead a dour band of soldiers on a quest for the one weapon that will slay the Kraken. If Hollywood has taught us anything in the last year, it’s that Sam Worthington is the savior of us all.
Thirty-two one-liners later (all of which fall flat), and we are no closer to caring about any characters except maybe for Io (Arterton), who is cursed with looking hot for all eternity. To make matters worse, every spectacle the film has to offer (which we’ve already seen in the ten plus clips and nearly one hundred stills showing it all that have popped up online) is introduced with the artistic eye one might see on "The Deadliest Catch" when one of the fishermen holds a giant crab aloft in triumph. The best effect of the movie is no doubt the scene stealing Pegasus, the black winged horse. Medusa comes off looking like a high quality comic book drawing, the Kraken is less than awe inspiring, and the giant scorpions may as well have been stop-motion puppets. At one point in the flick we see a giant claw next to one of the warriors, and I swear it swayed like a puppet on strings. "Thunderbirds" are GO!
