Behind The Films

Empire online upcoming issue has an exclusive new image from Disney and Pixar’s upcoming film UP.

“Up,” a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. From the Academy Award®-nominated director Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc.”), Disney•Pixar’s “Up” invites you on a hilarious journey into a lost world, with the least likely duo on Earth. “Up” will be presented in Disney Digital 3-D™ in select theaters.

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I apologize for the following but this is no way to do business, this whole deal seems shady from day one. Having the rights to the movie since the 1980’s, doing nothing about it and yet once someone actually does make a adaptation of Watchmen, one that’s a more faithful looking film than they could ever wish to pull off. Not only do they wait, not until the film is announced but rather after the film is ready and set in stone for a release, having been promoted and garnered a great amount of hype from the fans and that’s when they suddenly decide to step in? Running around screaming “copyright infringement” at the eleventh hour just so they can get their greasy hands all over WB’s next year’s tentpole. The timing of their lawsuit should be taken into consideration and used against them as this is just a very cheap shot and poor attempt to cash in and get a freebie without having done a thing. I’ve you have been following movie news all around, you will know that FOX is a studio notorious for ruining films and by that i mean not letting it’s directors do their job and getting in the way at all times like changing set designs while the director is busy elsewhere, cutting the film against the director’s vision and many many more cheap shots. Most of this is usually the responsibility of one man, Tom Rothman, president of FOX.

Anyhow, that’s just my two cents, here’s the latest on the trial:

An attorney for 20th Century Fox says the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of Watchmen, according to The Associated Press.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess last week agreed with Fox that Warner Bros. had infringed its copyright by developing and shooting the film, scheduled for release March 6.

Feess said Monday he plans to hold a trial Jan. 20 to decide remaining issues.

Fox claims it never fully relinquished story rights from its deal made in the late 1980s, and sued Warner Bros. in February. Warner Bros. contended Fox isn’t entitled to distribution.

Warner Bros.’ attorney said Monday he didn’t know if an appeal was coming, but thinks a trial is necessary and a settlement unlikely.

Source: SuperHeroHype

I really hope this is a sign of more official stuff to come with these updates of official pictures we’ve been getting in the past two days. These are the new pictures that have been posted on USA Today’s website that seems to have gone unnoticed by us.

Source: USA Today

In case you haven’t heard yet, that is the title to the forth film in the series, just plain and simply “Fast & Furious” leaving two  THE  behind. A nice little throwback to the original as it seems that’s really what they are going for if one looks at the tagline “new model, original part” and most of the original cast being back. The poster is really simple yet very effective, i really like what i’m seeing from this movie so far. Since i haven’t poster the trailer yet i figured this is a good opportunity to post it at the same time. For the poster you know what to do, just click the image as for the trailer, you can watch it below!

Sources: MTV Movies Blog, YouTube

Just as i was about to post the story on how i had been looking all over the internet to see if these pictures have been posted with no result, here they pop online on the official Empire magazine website!

Sources: Empire Online, Flickr

While we wait for the first official pictures to pop-up online, i have found some pictures that were recently posted on the Flickr site from the White Sands filming. It’s nothing big but it mentions a stunt that they probably did for the film. For the rest, click the image to the left.

Also, there has been some images posted online on various Transformer fan sites but they might be considered somewhat spoilers. That’s not the reason why we didn’t post those on the site, it’s due to very poor quality of the images themselves and to be honest we’re not sure what they are of exactly.

Source: Flickr

Finally some more official goodies from this 80’s slasher remake. The official website for the film has fully opened with many goodies and in a very interactive way. To find out just click the image to the left and you’ll be sent down to the mine! 

Source: Coming Soon

It seems that will indeed be the case even though a third movie was planned to begin next year. The news comes from the good folks over at Coming Soon’s website:

Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media have confirmed that for budgetary and logistical reasons the Burbank-based studio is not exercising its option to co-produce and co-finance The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with Walden.

The Hollywood Reporter says the third installment was in preproduction and set for a spring shoot for a planned May 2010 release. The development puts the participation of the talent attached in doubt, adds the trade. Michael Apted was on board to direct a script by Steven Knight. The key players of the second installment, “Prince Caspian” — Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, William Moseley and Anna Popplewell — were to return for the third film.

You can read more from the statement at the link below.

Source: Coming Soon

The official poster for the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony has appeared online. I figure due to this show being high profile it’s worth posting a small mention of it. You can view the image below in it’s full size by clicking the image.

The poster in my opinion lack impact and although the idea is nice, the execution of the poster itself lacks that final glow that we’ve come to expect from such a big awards show. The Globes nominees and winner are usually an indication of the movies that will be in the running at this year’s Oscars.

Source: Filmofilia

First of all, i wish you all some very happy holidays and hope nothing but the best for all during the christmas season and the coming year. I wanted to apologize on behalf of the whole team for the constant changes to the site’s design. We’re having a few issues with some of the templates since they are very limited in the amount of content we can put on them. The holiday season has also slowed down work on the site somewhat. Right now this current design is here to stay and we’re working on the missing images that aren’t displaying properly or at all. So please hang in there while we address these issues and thank you for displaying patience. Don’t let these issues turn you away, all will be dealt with ASAP.

The staff