Disney new Pooh and modern classics in 3D

Disney has begun work on a new film starring the worlds most honey obsessed bear, Winnie The Pooh.

It will be the first ‘pooh’ movie to be produced by the studio in more than 35 years. The company expects to release the film in the early part of 2011.

The world famous “bear of very little brain” has been a massive hit with readers and movie audiences of all ages not just children since its first appearance with the publication of “Winnie The Pooh” in 1926, a factor that Disney have presumably taken very much into account when green lighting the movie.

Disney has promised that his film, which will actually be a combination of no less than five Winnie the Pooh tales, will keep that very distinctive and subtle humour displayed in the books of AA Milne and in previous films.

John Lasseter, creative director of Disney-Pixars, added that designers are also using watercolour as a background as were used in the previous films.

Burny Mattinson, who worked on the original 1964 production “Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree ‘, is going to be responsible for the main story.

Lasseter said in London that Disney are stressing that the film is intended for all ages, not just the little ones.

His presentation ended with a preview of the first 30 minutes of ‘The Princess and the Frog’, the first hand drawn animation for Disney, and revealed that Rapunzel, the fairytale princess with the longest hair in the world, is one of the upcoming projects for the studio. They will be engaging Mandy Moore to voice the heroin.

Disney has also said that former Bond Timothy Dalton will be the voice of a new character in their upcoming third installment of the toy Story franchise. He is set to be Mr Pricklepants a hedgehog toy.

They will also be re-releasing Toy Story 2 as a 3D event ahead of the release of number 3.

If that were not enough Bond for Disney there will be a secret agent in their Cars 2 movie with the name Finn McMissile who will be an Aston martin

After that, if they have time, the people at Disney will stop all wars and bring an end to world hunger.

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March 8th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Movie News | Leave a comment

Rambo 5 given green light

Amazing as it seems Rambo is set to bring havoc and mayhem to the screen again in a new Rambo 5 adventure that this time will see our hero the Vietnam (very) veteran setting out to rescue a young girl abducted in Mexico’s border with the United States by drug traffickers, confirmed the studios.

Sylvester Stallone, now 63, will again to star in and direct, the reappearance of this character who had his last outing in 2008.

The latter raised in the US domestic market around $40 million and an additional $113 million in the international market, for a modest response compared with the first productions.

If that was not enough for a guy who is not far off picking up his bus pass Stallone will also be seen in yet another Rocky movie which will start shooting in spring next year in locations to be decided.

Although to be fair the last Rocky outing was far more like the original in feel and style and made us remember why the first Rocky was such a huge hit.

The history of the American soldier indestructible Rambo began in 1982 with the first production Rambo First Blood was released followed in 1985 by the imaginatively titled Rambo II and then Rambo III in 1988.

The actor and producer hopes to regain the glory of this character after more than two decades after having enjoyed his first great success.

Rambo is a saga of popular action films starring Sylvester Stallone. The film was cut from David Morrell’s story in his novel First Blood (which was the original title of the first film).

Author David Morrell wrote the origional books, and whose script was not involved. In both books Morrell added more elements to their stories that were not well liked in the films.

The Rambo films have been widely criticized for excessive violence. It is considered that the first part is the best in the series, since it has a tone that’s quite different from its follow-ups where Rambo becomes far more of a comic book super hero character rather than the misunderstood and lost veteran of the first movie.

It remains to be seen if Stallone can bring back the feel of the first movie as he managed to do with Rocky two years ago.

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March 8th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Movie News | Leave a comment

Redford Spielberg eye Abraham Lincoln movies

Oscar winner and filmmaker Steven Spielberg doesn’t worry but knows there is an undeniable history of Hollywood bound movies being “beaten to the draw” by a competitor yielding a script for a similar project.

Spielberg recently insisted he was continuing on with his plan to release a biography of Abraham Lincoln.

This is in spite of hearing that another film making giant Robert Redford has plans to release a similar project. Variety has reported that Spielberg has no plans to cancel his film about Abraham Lincoln (played by Liam Neeson) who by virtue of winning the Civil War, ended slavery.

Even though Redford’s movie will be released before his, Spielberg told Variety that he believes the two projects are very different, and will stand on their own merits. His Independently financed project, starring James McAvoy and Robin Wright Penn, will start shooting next month announced Redford.

Instead of being a biography “The Conspirator,” will be about the assassination of the President by a confederate supporter, John Wilkes Booth. It will tell the story of one of Booth’s alleged aides, Mary Surratt (played by Wright Penn.) Frederic Aiken (played by James McAvoy) is a young war hero and visionary, who unwillingly defends Surratt and eventually comes to believe she is innocent.

The Pulitzer Prize winning Tony Kushner is currently revising the screenplay for Spielberg’s film, which is most likely to center on Lincoln’s obsession with the length and consequences of the Civil War.

Spielberg is also planning a remake of Oscar winner Henry Kosher’s “Harvey” a 1950 comedy originally starring Jimmy Stewart, whose best friend is an invisible, six-foot tall rabbit. Robert Downey Jr will play the title role in the remake. .

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