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Christmas is coming, and Disney’s getting fat
6 November 2009 2:18 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Christmas is a bit like the flu. You are forced to lie around all day, watch crap TV, consume lots of food you wouldn’t normally eat, and each year both seem to arrive earlier and than the last. This year I had flu fashionably early,setting the trend in July while London’s utterly loathsome and incompetent major, Boris Johnson has been bribed by Disney to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights purely to coincide with the release of, A Christmas Carol, this week. They even allowed the films star Jim Carrey to switch the buggers on!!!!! Yet, directed by Robert (Forest Gump , Back to the Future) Zemeckis this 3D animated adaptation of the Dickens tale is not aimed at kids of all ages. I’d say, due to it’s thoroughly creepy protagonists, nightmarish scenes of ghouls taking their jaws off and spectres chasing ol’ Scrooge through dark alleys, »
- Chris Sullivan
A Christmas Carol Review
5 November 2009 7:28 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When it was announced that Robert Zemeckis was directing an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” starring Jim Carrey and made with 3D motion-capture, my response was viciously negative. Zemeckis had left behind movies like “Back to the Future” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”, movies with characters and charming stories, in favor of 3D motion-captured films featuring CG characters who resembled the voice actor except they were trapped deep within the uncanny valley (the place where CG facsimiles of people look like very expensive animatronics). Throwing Jim Carrey into the mix to have him constantly mug for the camera made the idea of a 3D motion-captured film even more unappealing. And “A Christmas Carol”? How many times do we need to see this story? Seeing it in 3D with Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge was an argument not to make the movie. (Hit the jump to find out why »
- Matt Goldberg
Review: Did you ever see… Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
This week sees the release of the year’s first Christmas movie, Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. The latest in a long line of adaptations of this classic story, Zemeckis has made it using his motion capture animation. This is the third movie Zemeckis has made using the technique, having perfected it after Polar Express and Beowulf. Zemeckis has been interested in combining human actors and animation for a long time. With news breaking last week of a sequel in development, it’s the perfect time to look back at 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Following huge success with Back to the Future in 1985, Robert Zemeckis was in big demand. This allowed him the clout to take hold of what would be a hugely ambitious project. Live action had been combined with animation previously, most notably in Mary Poppins. No-one yet, however, had attempted a feature length movie.
Bob Hoskins is a 1940’s private dick, »
- Barry Steele
On 'Back To The Future' Day, We Celebrate The Discovery Of Time Travel!
5 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Great Scott! On this day in 1955 -- in the fiction of "Back to the Future" anyway -- Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) discovered the secret of time travel. In his own words: "I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this!" This? What is this? It's This!
In honor of Dr. Brown's momentous discovery, we've decided to celebrate this day with a small image gallery. Click the image above to check out our flipbook, featuring images of the iconic DeLorean time machine and stars Lloyd, Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson.
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- Adam Rosenberg
The Five: Must-See Movies in November
5 November 2009 1:53 PM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
In these tough economic times it's hard to decide which movies to spend your hard-earned dollars on, which is why I've come along at the beginning of the month to save the day (kinda like Superman, only slightly overweight and balding) by giving you a list of five must-see movies hitting theaters at some point over the next 30 days. While I can't fully vouch for their awesomeness, advance buzz and my non-existent superhuman spidey sense should be enough to go by…I think…and hope. Check it: A Christmas Carol (November 6th) The month of November begins with a Christmas movie, yes, but it's one that's directed by the great Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forest Gump) and it stars the hilarious Jim Carrey as several different characters in this mo-capped version of the...
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- affiliates@fandango.com
Roger Rabbit 2: Two-Dimensional Toons & CGI Humans?
5 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Don’t act like you’re surprised. You knew this announcement was coming from the moment we first heard that director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) was making a sequel to his 1988 smash hit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? It was just a matter of time, really. With three Mocap (that’s the new slang for “motion-capture”, Fyi) films already under his belt – Polar Express, Beowulf, and A Christmas Carol – it was a natural leap of thought to assume Zemeckis would use his favorite new toy in a Roger Rabbit sequel.
However, it appears that the Toon characters (Roger, Jessica, Benny the Cab) will not be the ones making the leap into the 21st century. According to his interview with MTV, Zemeckis doesn’t plan on using Mocap for those characters, just the human ones (as if that makes it any better). Read what he had to say below:
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- Paul Young
Robert Zemeckis 'Never Been Offered' A Superhero Movie
5 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From Splash Page: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Back to the Future" director Robert Zemeckis is certainly no stranger to the art of bringing fantasy fare to life on the big screen, so when we had the chance to chat with him during a press event for "A Christmas Carol," we had to ask: why hasn't he tackled a superhero movie yet?
"I'm a superhero fan, although I actually have never been offered one," Zemeckis told MTV News. "I've never really brought one to someone and said I really want to do this superhero [movie]. Obviously, I love the form, as movies really are the extension of comic books."
Continue reading Robert Zemeckis Explains Why He Hasn't Directed A Superhero Movie (Yet)
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- Rick Marshall
Robert Zemeckis Explains Why He Hasn't Directed A Superhero Movie (Yet)
4 November 2009 2:08 PM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Back to the Future" director Robert Zemeckis is certainly no stranger to the art of bringing fantasy fare to life on the big screen, so when we had the chance to chat with him during a press event for "A Christmas Carol," we had to ask: why hasn't he tackled a superhero movie yet?
"I'm a superhero fan, although I actually have never been offered one," Zemeckis told MTV News. "I've never really brought one to someone and said I really want to do this superhero [movie]. Obviously, I love the form, as movies really are the extension of comic books."
"When I was real young, we had the George Reeves 'Superman' on TV all the time," he explained when asked if he had any favorites in the comics world. "I've seen every one of those episodes and probably have them all memorized and »
- Rick Marshall
Review: Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the World Premiere
3 November 2009 3:33 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Update: Video footage from outside the event by GeekTown.co.uk below.
Tonight the lovely people at Sky Movies HD invited us along to the World Premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol. This was no ordinary premiere as it boasts the largest premiere for a 3D movie, Ever! Greeted by fake snow falling from the sky and a huge stage with period carol singers, and Andrea Bocelli giving a breathtaking performance, we knew we were in for a treat. Not that I’ve been to loads, but this was by far the biggest premiere I’ve ever seen in London’s Leicester Square with the premiere taking over both the Empire and the Odeon Mezzanine. That totals 3013 seats, which alone is a huge number to fill on an opening night.
Once we found our seats, I noticed that we were literally in front of Eamon Holmes and Demot Murnaghan »
- David Sztypuljak
Robert Zemeckis Sucks At Video Games (And He's Fine With It!)
3 November 2009 3:07 PM, PST | MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news »
The director of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and the forthcoming "A Christmas Carol" remake is not much of a gamer. Despite the awesome video game based on the "Roger Rabbit" flick, it seems that Robert Zemeckis has never really been very good at video games, despite being very impressed by them:
"I love what they do in the technology, the way they move those images, I'm fascinated by the amount of code-writing those guys do to make those games work. But I just have a problem sitting there for hours and hours and hours knowing that I'm always going to end up losing. It's such a fatalistic mindset, I know I'm never going to get to the highest level...but I'm gonna play anyway."
Yeah, rock on Zemeckis! Now you just need to make up for the bad games based on "Back To The Future," "Back To The Future 2," "Back To the Future 3" and "Beowulf. »
- Russ Frushtick
Zemeckis: 'Carol had to be set in UK'
3 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
A Christmas Carol director Robert Zemeckis has said that he never considered setting his adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic story outside the UK. Speaking at the London press conference for the 3D animated film, the Back To The Future filmmaker insisted that he didn't want to take the movie away from the source material's British roots. "Set it in another country? No, never," he remarked. "A Christmas Carol in Miami? I just could never imagine it. It never crossed my mind." Zemeckis explained that the pioneering performance-capture technology, which involves actors' movements (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
Roger Rabbit Sequel To Be Penned By Original Scriptwriters
2 November 2009 2:26 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Robert Zemeckis has just revealed that writing for the sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? has begun. Original scripters, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman are in the process of writing the new screenplay.
For the past few months, Robert Zemeckis has been slipping weighted suggestions about the possibility of returning to the Roger Rabbit story for a second installment. In April of this year, the Back To The Future director said he had a good idea for a sequel. In July, he said he had been talking with Roger Rabbit star Bob Hoskins about the possibility and the following day he told Comic Con audiences that he could neither confirm nor deny plans for a sequel.
It is unknown at this time what the finished product aims to achieve aesthetically, but Zemeckis has recently been heavily involved in utilizing motion capture technology, with films like Beowulf and the upcoming A Christmas Carol. »
Film School 101: Protagonists
1 November 2009 4:57 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
First off I need to apologize for the tardiness of this entry. I was infected with the swine pandemic and was unable to do anything but utter “Bbbbraaaiiinsssss…” feebly from my bed. Now I’m up and about again, so here we go.
One of the first things to do when making your movie is figure out who your main character is going to be. Now, you may pick your plot first and then figure what kind of protagonist you want or you may pick your characters and write about what they do – it all depends on your style of writing. In either case, understanding your protagonist(s) is very important since these are the people whom the plot revolves around, who we will come to know and love and who we will follow for the next 120 minutes. They will be our tour guides through your movie so you have »
- Marco Duran
Jessica Rabbit: She's Just Drawn That Way
31 October 2009 10:08 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Producer/director Robert "Back To The Future" Zemeckis is looking for a follow-up sequel to his Who Framed Roger Rabbit feature-length live-action/toon hybird, developing a new screenplay with original Rabbit writers Peter S. Seaman and Jeffrey Price, for a 3D update. "I.ll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability," said Zemeckis. "The digital tools, performance capture... I.m starting to think about Roger Rabbit." Released in 1988, from co-producer Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, the $70 million, live-action/animation feature grossed $329,803,958 worldwide. Based on the novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" from author Gary K. Wolf, the film starred actors Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd, Kathleen Turner and Joanna Cassidy, set in 1947 Hollywood, where cartoon characters, aka 'toons' interact with the studio system of Classical Hollywood cinema. Premise follows private investigator 'Eddie Valiant' caught up in a mystery that involves 'Roger Rabbit', »
A Christmas Carol - New featurette added!
29 October 2009 10:49 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Check out a new "3D Thrill Ride" Behind-the-Scenes Featurette from the Robert Zemeckis film. The animated family adventure features the voice talents of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Molly C. Quinn, Fionnula Flanagan, Bob Hoskins, Daryl Sebara, Sammi Hanratty, Fay Masterson and Lesley Manville. Legendary director Robert Zemeckis, known for such greats as the "Back to the Future" trilogy, "Cast Away" and the more recent "Beowulf," directs as well as adapting the screenplay based on the story by Charles Dickens. See this incredible release on November 6th in Digital 3D. »
Slideshow: Hollywood Collectors Show Chicago Portraits of Tia Carrere, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Frakes, More
28 October 2009 10:51 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – This 14-image slideshow contains our exclusive portraits from the Oct. 2009 Hollywood Collectors Show in Chicago.
You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto and HollywoodChicago.com. All rights reserved.
We also have the following celebrity portraits on file from their appearances at the Oct. 2009 Hollywood Collectors Show in Chicago: Ernest Borgnine, Charles Martin Smith, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Tippi Hedren, Sally Kellerman, Candy Clark, Eddie Mekka, Barbara Luna, Bo Hopkins, Joan Severance, Elliott Gould and Sally Kellerman.
hollywoodcollectors1: Tia Carrere of “True Lies”
hollywoodcollectors2: Tia Carrere
hollywoodcollectors3: Tia Carrere (left) and HollywoodChicago.com’s Patrick McDonald
hollywoodcollectors4: Julie McCullough of “Breast Men”
hollywoodcollectors5: Julie McCullough
hollywoodcollectors6: Genie Francis of TV’s “General Hospital”
hollywoodcollectors7: Gregory Harrison of “Razorback”
hollywoodcollectors8: HollywoodChicago. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
David Spade Defends Commercial with Chris Farley
28 October 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
When he agreed to do a DirecTV commercial featuring a scene from Tommy Boy with the late Chris Farley, actor David Spade never dreamed anybody would be offended. "Slight shock," Spade told People on Wednesday night of the fallout from the ad, which some commentators saw as tasteless. "These commercials are cool. They're well done. They're clever. And that they would include Tommy Boy in that company, I thought was very flattering." The 30-second spot, airing during the World Series, appears to have been taken directly from the 1995 movie, except that while Farley does his famous "Fat Boy in a Little Coat" routine, »
- Abby Stern and Mike Fleeman
Lloyd Pulls Out Of Grinch
28 October 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Back To The Future star Christopher Lloyd won't be going green for Christmas - he has pulled out of a festive production of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas in Los Angeles.
The actor, who played Scrooge in A Christmas Carol onstage last year, has quit the show due to a family illness.
He’ll be replaced by Stefan Karl, who has performed as The Grinch in the musical in Boston, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland, according to the Los Angeles Times. »
A Christmas Carol interviews with Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis
28 October 2009 3:28 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Christmas is coming early this year … November 6 to be exact. That’s when Disney’s 3D retelling of A Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey hits theaters. We’ve been following the holiday classic for months now.
In July, Nick Allen covered the train tour promoting the film …
For Chicago, it’s Christmas in July indeed, as the A Christmas Carol Train Tour promoting the new film from Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey is currently parked inside the Windy city’s grandiose Union Station.
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And if you haven’t seen the trailer, you can watch that by clicking here.
Now on to interviews with those behind the film.
Click Here for interviews with Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes and Bob Hoskins.
Jim Carrey talks about creating his Scrooge character and more …
Back to the Future and Cast Away director Robert Zemeckis talks »
- Jeff Bayer
A Christmas Carol - New featurette added! 13 videos available so far.
28 October 2009 2:04 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"A Christmas Carol" group has yet another interesting video addition for your viewing pleasure. Learn how Jim Carrey not only embodies Ebenezer Scrooge at 4 ages, but the Ghosts of Past, Present and Yet to Come in Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "A Christmas Carol" with the help of performance capture. Based on the classic Dickens tale, is re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump,” “Back to the Future” and “Cast Away”) in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Robin Wright Penn. »
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