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by: the Moleman     source: Movieweb

Check out this featurette that was posted on the net. It’s partially in french but anyone that’s important speaks english. (more…)

by: Austin Welch    source: Ain’t It Cool

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by Austin Welch    source: Variety

This has all the makings of another Burton/Depp marriage. (more…)

by Chris Eaton-

Catch it whiles its hot…

No..really.  God only knows how long this footage will be on line till some sort of teaser hits theaters around Christmas..Its bootleg, but its good enough to get you an idea..

Personally.  I love it.  Fury, Tony’s public life, Black Widow, WHIPLASH!!  oh.. and War Machine.. War Machine. I’m in love. I have no fear about this film what so ever.  May 2010.. I await you.

by Chris Eaton-

Finally, something more meaty from IRON MAN 2!

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by Chris Eaton-

Good Ol Jon Favreau alerted the public minutes ago from this post to the good people at ROAD AND TRUCK MAGAZINE to a sweet behind the scene photo.

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by Chris Eaton-
I make it no secret.  I love Pixar.  There’s just.. a magic that they manage to pull out of a top hat every single time they make a movie. Magic that is NOT compromised by whoring of toys, or celebrity casting. Its something, perfect.

Ok,  not everyone of their films are prefect. I have quips with CARS and FINDING NEMO, but even those films are still good.  On a bad day, I’d choose those films over dozens of others to watch.

But, every now and again, I’m still taken back by how good they can get.

May has been a month of.. Meh, for me.  X-Men Origins: Wolverine, while I found to be fun, was still a very flawed movie.  Star Trek, wowed many people, I found to be just a glossed over version of the old show.  I didn’t even watch Angels and Demons, and I’ve been told that its nothing great.  Terminator Salvation, while I thought it was “good”, still had a weak first act, and a very flawed script.

This weekend though, I knew I was going to at least get one “GOOD” movie that wasn’t mediocre good.  I was surprised that I got two, one in DRAG ME TO HELL being astonishingly tits, and the second, my socks knocked off by Pixar’s latest masterpiece. Make a Wish couldn’t of full filled my hopes as high as this over the weekend.

Though, what surprised me the most, is just, how fantastic UP was. A movie that had probably the simplest ad campaign of any Pixar film, or any animated Disney film in years. A film that as a public, we knew little about.

This is the scene.  Saturday night, I’m in Carlsbad California, visiting some friends.  We’ve all been waiting eagerly to see UP.  We choose a 10 pm showing at the local EDWARDS THEATER, thinking that we’d go the path of least resistance.  That late, wouldn’t be that many people to see the film…

The theater was unusually packed.  We picked the regular 2-D showing, I got my customary large Mr. Pibb and we managed to snag decent seats.  I look around us, a more “ADULT” crowd, which is good, but still, more kids than I was expecting at this time.  Most under the age of 4.  I brace for oncoming screams and possible night of yelling. Lights dim, place goes silent.

We get a swath of previews, including G-Force, and a more “PG, High school Musical cash in” remake of FAME trailer, then a wonderful short that would anger both Creationists and Atheist a like. Then, the light bounces out and 24 frames per second of animation un-spool before us.

Let me say this, the first 15 minutes of UP had more emotional impact, more heart and character, than any movie that has won the OSCAR in the last 10 years.  People apparently cried at the end of Million Dollar Baby, people, and I’ll admit, a tear was shed, were balling at the beginning of this movie.  But UP is not a Debbie downer of a movie.. NO!  No, for that is just the first 15 minutes, the next hour and forty minutes turn into what is probably the most honestly hilarious movie Pixar, or even DISNEY has done in this last decade.

Now, at just a glance, this is an odd movie, even for Disney/Pixar.  The two main characters are an elderly man and a small Asian boy scout as they are propelled in a house that’s kept afloat by thousands of balloons, settle in a lost land in South America, and face off against a former adventurer and his pack of talking dogs while they drag a floating house to its final location with a large land raptor of a bird following them.  Sounds like a jigsaw puzzled that was forced together with  a hammer.

But, it works.. so well.

Directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson create characters out of everything in this movie, and not one of them ever feels forced.  Carl, the main character of the picture, is trying to full fill a promise he made to his wife.  Russell, is trying to prove himself as a cub scout.  Kevin, the bird, has a playful sense to it, but never gets into an ABU level of “Cute” or uncharacteristic of its species.  Dug, the talking dog, that looked to be a one note character, was proper comic relief without over staying its welcome.  And Charles Muntz, the villain of the film, is portrayed as a man who has lost his way in trying to obtain one thing that’s keeping him alive. A fine animated cast.  All of them feel VERY real.

When the lights in that theater went up, not a dry eye in the house.  Yet those watery eyes were accompanied by applause and laughter. Something very rare these days.  An ANIMATED movie, a cartoon if you will, did that.  To that, I say KUDOS to everyone at Pixar.

See, UP is the reason to go to the movies.  UP is the reason that we as people go to movies.  UP is entertainment and art fused together with a touch of magic that Hollywood lost many years ago.  It’s Pixar at its best, and it shows with out being boastful.  There is no other studio right now that can hold a candle to what these men and women and possible thunder god are doing in the halls of that wonderful building in Norther California.

To quote Jon Favreau on his Twitter account:

Jon_Favreau: Just saw Up. It might be time for a Pixar movie to win Best Picture.

I couldn’t agree more.