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The Angry Birds Movie
Angry Birds does a good job of taking the video game and creating a new, fuller world, giving the lifeless characters personalities. But they don’t sustain it and by the end all we get is a bonus level of the old game. |
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The Angry Birds Movie opens
Columbia/ImageWorks’ The Angry Birds Movie opens today in 3,932 theatres, according to Box Office Mojo. The film is splitting the critics, earning a 45% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Their consensus: “The Angry Birds Movie is substantially more entertaining than any film adapted from an app has any right to be — which may or may […] |
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Ratchet & Clank
Video game movies may be the next big thing in Hollywood, but Ratchet & Clank is an inauspicious start. This will be a trend that will soon run out of lives if the studios don’t figure out a winning strategy. |
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Song of the Summer? Timberlake releases Can’t Stop the Feeling from DreamWorks’ Trolls
Justin Timberlake released Can’t Stop the Feeling today, which will be featured on the soundtrack for DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls. The video for the song includes co-stars James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, Kunal Nayyar, Ron Funches. |
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Bling in limited theatrical release today
Momentum Pictures is bringing an English-language dub of the South Korean film Bling to select theaters in the United States today: “Featuring the voice talents of Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), Jennette McMcurdy (iCarly, Sam & Cat), Carla Gugino (Spy Kids) and James Woods (Justice League Action, Hercules) and distributed by Momentum Pictures and produced […] |
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Ratchet & Clank opens
Gramercy and Rainmaker’s Ratchet & Clank opens today in 2,891 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo. The film isn’t doing well with the critics, earning just a 21% so far at Rotten Tomatoes. It may underperform with audiences too, with BOM predicting a 6th place finish this weekend with $5.49 million. |
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Academy event to honor 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast
The Academy is honoring the 25th anniversary of Beauty and the Beast. Details follow in this AMPAS press release Eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken and three-time Oscar nominee Angela Lansbury will join voice actors Paige O’Hara, Richard White and Robby Benson, supervising animators Andreas Deja, Mark Henn and Glen Keane, key story artist Brenda Chapman, […] |
