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Endgame drops the hammer with $350 million opening weekend, $1.2 billion worldwide
…up for Marvel and Disney is Spider-Man: Far From Home this July, while the Mouse House still has Aladdin, The Lion King, Frozen II and Star Wars: The Rise of… |
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And your Oscar hosts are…
ComingSoon.net has just revealed that the 2011 Oscars will be co-hosted by Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) and James Franco (the Spider-Man films). Franco himself is an interesting choice… |
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Hazbin Hotel
…Dust, the hotel’s spider-like first guest, is so flamboyant and unabashed that he’s appealing even at his most despicable, which is quite often and intentional. But the show-stealer is new… |
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Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details
…Murphy (Spider-Man 2, The Fountain) as Mother Gothel, and Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The City of Lost Children) as the Stabbington Brothers. From directors Byron Howard… |
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Mila Kunis to join Disney’s Oz: The Great and the Powerful?
…that Kunis is said to be walking away from the live action Akira remake to join James Franco in the movie to be directed by Spider-Man helmer Sam Raimi. Franco… |
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Katzenberg, Poehler talk Shrek the Third
According to Reuters via Yahoo! Movies, DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg feels confident that Shrek the Third will do well against fellow third installments Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of… |
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Sony’s Morbius trailer connects it to the MCU
Sony launched the trailer for Morbius today, and you can check it out in the player above. The vampire character–who is sometimes Spider-Man’s enemy, other times his friend in the… |
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Robosapien to invade the big screen
Coming Soon indicates that Avi Arad, who has produced such popular Marvel pictures as the Spider-Man sequels and X-Men: The Last Stand, is now looking to bring the Wowwee Ltd…. |
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Sun shines on Charlotte's Web
Creative Match explains the technology by visual effects software developer 2d3 that helped Rising Sun Pictures craft the famous spider in the most recent version of Charlotte’s Web. According to… |
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
…to older kids. I can imagine that with the release of Captain America and Thor, the popularity of the show will increase as it goes into its second season. It… |
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Early Man
…Younger kids will love it and everyone else will at least get a few laughs out of it. But it could have been more. Aardman is still on top of… |
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Paramount Pictures to Launch its Own Animation Studio
…CGI animated films, with a key piece being titles under the label of Viacom’s Nickelodeon, the number one entertainment brand for kids worldwide. Paramount will also look to build on… |
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Box office slingshot doesn’t fling Angry Birds far
…and what’s hurting the film seems to be its strangely timed release date. With many kids returning to school, why release a big family movie during mid-August? Not helping matters… |
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Muppet Babies Composers Andy Bean & Keith Horn Make Your Dreams Come True
Almost 30 years after the Muppet Babies first won the hearts of kids and families around the world, Disney Junior’s reimagined television series, which premiered earlier this year, chronicles the… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…to kids. This gave us a lot of opportunity to create areas of warm local light for our characters to act in, and it gave the movie a pleasant warm… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Studio Ponoc (2017), Universal/GKids (May 1, 2018), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 103 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (for Japanese and English), Rated PG, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: A… |
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Coco
…that in mind! Coco is a beautiful film in a lot of ways — artistically, musically, and culturally. But the plot is a bit too dry for kids and a… |
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Cars 2
…Powers’ groovy babes, named as she is so close to one of his conquests (again lazily, she’s an almost-clone of Sally from the first movie), and although the Stevenson pun… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…First Class. Snafu is given his own command to address his gripes. The result is more babes on base, but no discipline. Spies – Snafu as a blabber. Adolf Hitler… |
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Watch the trailer for Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures animated series of shorts
Disney and LucasFilm have launched a trailer for Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures. The animated series of shorts will be released to the recently launched Star Wars Kids YouTube channel… |
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The Star
…joy to their target audience — kids — during the Christmas season. (Based on the crowd I saw it with, they have wildly succeeded in that regard.) So if you… |
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Incredibles 2 drowns Finding Dory’s opening weekend record
…of all time, eclipsing the title Finding Dory held by more than $40 million. Incredibles 2 was a massive hit with audiences, earning a rare “A+” CinemaScore (for you kids… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…kids, but they haven’t done anything in between. As a first attempt to reach the middle audience, the series is worth watching and many of the episodes are enjoyable to… |
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Playmobil: The Movie
…choices were very grating to me. OK, let’s be honest. This is not going to win any Academy Awards. But if given the chance to watch, kids will probably love… |
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Wonder Park’s $16 million opening beats expectations, but did it ride high enough?
…serve as a pilot for a new TV series for Nickelodeon, so aiming for the kids made sense, even as the film faced competition not only from How to Train… |
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Simba roars mighty as The Lion King makes the record books
…culture significance, and like with Aladdin earlier this summer, parents who saw the animated film in theaters as children are now able to bring their own kids to the new… |
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Frozen II lets it go to record-breaking $350 million global opening
…benefit of opening during the summer when kids are off from school on Fridays. And there’s still a slight chance that Anna and Elsa could eclipse Dory once actuals come… |
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The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
…kids who have had any previous exposure to the characters. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones may be ordered directly from Warner Archive…. |
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The Secret Life of Pets 2’s bark proves worse than its box office bite
…weekend? That is, of course, a very broad and potentially unlikely assessment. Kids usually don’t mind that sort of thing, and they are a big part of the target audience… |
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The Angry Birds Movie 2
…in the movie, a clip of a song stands in for dialogue, humor, or plot. The plot is full of holes. I get it. It’s a kids movie. But even… |