Disney’s Prom Trailer Online

Posted by Rodneyon 19. 11. 2010in News Chat

Disney is pushing out another feelgood coming of age highschool film, but this time it won’t be a musical and the characters feel a little more real.

The movie is aptly named Prom, and deals with an ensemble of teenagers’ different views on the tradition.

This could have the cultural impact of The Breakfast Club, but instead I think it will just be a light film about teenage angst and the contradition to conform to tradition while everything you experienced in highschool makes you want to rebel.

I went to seven Proms (I didn’t make that up) and I loved everything around them. I guess I am just a hopeless romantic. So this might have my attention.

At least in a rental.

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Family Guy Star Wars It’s a Trap Trailer Online

Posted by Rodneyon 19. 11. 2010in News Chat

The trailer for Family Guy’s latest installment of their Star Wars spoofs It’s A Trap finally has a trailer:

And just for comparison, the original Return of the Jedi trailer… because its that awesome.

I am looking forward to this, and I wonder if Family Guy will tackle the prequels after this?

Because this treads on both TV and Movies, you can also find this post over at IdiotBox.ca The Official Home of Correct TV Opinions

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Disney to Develop Hover Car Racer

Posted by Rodneyon 18. 11. 2010in News Chat

The latest in young reader books turned to film will be Hover Car Racer, a book that found humble beginnings in an online serial, then eventually a set of partially illustrated chidren’s novels written by Matthew Reilly.

Disney is developing it as a 3D adventure film.

/Film shares:

Walt Disney Pictures is developing Hovercar 3D, based on an online serial which resulted in a popular young-adult book series from the Australian novelist Matthew Reilly. The film project is being described as “a live-action techno-thriller” which follows a hovercar racer “tasked with escorting an informant to safety as the two come under fire from corrupt government operatives.”

I haven’t read the book series, but the description sounds interesting.

However the promo blurb for the book says that it is ” the most original novel yet” and I dare to challenge this statement.

Isn’t hovercar racing just like Pod Racing in Star Wars? Which was just Chariot Racing without wheels?

So while hovercar racing doesn’t sound very original, it promises to have a log of great visuals, action packed chase scenes. That alone will sell the movie.

Could be everything Speed Racer was (shuddap – I liked it) but without the monkey.

There isn’t a monkey is there?

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Footloose Bad Teacher and Ceremony get New Release Dates

Posted by Rodneyon 19. 11. 2010in News Chat

Shuffling release dates on films is hardly new, but all at once we hear of three films being shifted to different dates for no appearant reason.

Collider reports:

Paramount has pushed the remake of Footloose from April 1st (guess it’s not a joke) to October 14, 2011, where it faces The Three Musketeers.
Sony has likewise pushed Bad Teacher from April 1st (same joke) to June 17, 2011, where it will engage in a battle of wits with Green Lantern.
Magnolia has scheduled TIFF acquisition Ceremony for April 8, 2011, against Rio, Hanna, and Your Highness.

I wonder where the motivations come from when making these shifts.

With the Footloose remake, it might not be ready by April, or perhaps they were hoping it would get a better run against The Three Musketeers instead of the limbo that is becoming the Pre-Summer gap.

Bad Teacher is a comedy that stars Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz, and while it promises some Apatow level inappropriate-ness, I wonder if the studio is throwing them under the bus moving them to challenge the Sexiest Man Alive as Green Lantern.

And the TIFF premiering drama Ceremony will be dropping in the long production animated Rio (didn’t we see a teaser for that over a year ago?) and goofball slacker stoner comedy Your Highness. Well they are all shooting for different demographics that weekend.

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