Sort of spectacle on a discount price
Watch Frozen Online While the release date is still a few weeks away, the short has actually been finished for a number of months now - and I know that because I've actually already seen it. A special screening of Party Central was held during the Walt Disney Animation/Pixar presentation at the D23 Expo last August, and without giving too much away I can tell you that you're all in for quite a treat. In addition to just being a clever expansion of the Monsters universe, the whole thing is packed with some really funny moments and clever gags. I can highly recommend looking for it when it hits theaters, plus you'll be able to stick around and watch Muppets Most Wanted!
Watch Ride Along Online Directed by Kelsey Mann, a story supervisor on Monsters University, Party Central follows the nerdy brothers of Oozma Kappa as they try to throw a big on-campus shindig. Being as unpopular as they are, however, when the time comes for the event to start, nobody shows up. Fortunately, as you can see in the clip, Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) have a plan to lure people in using the very special door system that allows monsters to enter into the human world.
Watch The Monuments Men Online The new Monsters University short film Party Central was originally going to make its theatrical debut with Pixar's The Good Dinosaur this summer, but with the feature pushed back to 2015, the movie will now be screening with Muppets Most Wanted - hitting theaters in late March. If the short were still coming during the blockbuster season we would probably have had to wait a few more months in order to get our first wide-released look at it, but fortunately that's no longer the case. Moviefone has premiered a brand-spanking new clip from the short, which you can watch above.
Watch Lone Survivor Online Theres also the cultural appropriation going on regarding what is already an awesome anime and comic. Why do we need an American Akira? Is there something more that can be said about Akira that needs an American eye? And is there something to the fact that the WBs Akira, in its original incarnation, was dead-set on whitewashing the cast, but weirdly not blackwashing or Hispanicwashing, or whatever youd call it, with names like Garret Hedlund, Gary Oldman and Kristen Stewart among the basically all-white collection of names being linked to roles? Whatever the case, it sounds like the success of Collet-Serras next movies will make or break his Akira at WB. Vote with your dollars.
Watch The Nut Job Online Of course, crazier things should NOT happen. The American Akira should stay dead and buried. The original film, which only takes chunks of the manga, is already jam-packed with disquieting and disturbing ideas and imagery that can barely be contained by the two hour runtime. The live-action version would also need to be an R-rated film, because films that "shoot" for a certain rating are usually neutered from the word go, even if the MPAA can be fairly lax when it comes to body horror - and youre gonna have to horrify if you want Akira to land with any force. Also, hello? You cant DO an American Akira because an American Akira DOESNT MAKE SENSE. It is called AKIRA. It is not called Billy or Bob or Thornton. Its distinctly Japanese, dealing with the complex feelings of Japanese society in the decades following Hiroshima. Making it American and having it echo 9/11 is not only incredibly obvious, but extremely tacky, essentially equating man-made disasters with each other and disrespecting both.
Watch American Hustle Online But no. Collet-Serra persists, and speaking to Collider to promote his new movie Non-Stop, he reveals that the project is still his baby."Ive done two movies since I put this little pause on that project," he tells them, "but now powers that be are interested." Those two movies were the upcoming Non-Stop and Run All Night, both reuniting him with his Unknown lead Liam Neeson. Making a couple of in-house hits for a studio is a good way to endear them to you, and Collet-Serra has stayed with the WB his whole career, with a brief diversion overseas to make Goal 2: Living The Dream. Its entirely possible the WB is waiting on these Neeson actioners before committing to Collet-Serra: his Unknown was a forgettable Neeson vehicle that nonetheless grossed $131 million worldwide. And his earlier horror chops on House Of Wax and the adorably bonkers and stupid Orphan dont really suggests hes ready for big budget sci-fi. But crazier things have happened.
Watch The Hunger Games Catching Fire Online The brassy Vergara seems to be a good matchup for Witherspoon, even if it hews pretty closely to the popular buddy cop formula of square white person-saucy ethnic counterpoint that has been outdated for awhile now, though if Witherspoon were essentially playing Tracy Flick again, it could certainly work. Better yet, why not riff off Witherspoons dubious arrest last year and have her as the convict, forced to work with by-the-book professional Vergara? Now were cooking with Crisco.
Watch That Awkward Moment Online The teaming of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara seems like the films trump card. Witherspoons had a rough go of it the last couple of years. In fact, its almost been a bad decade for Ms. Witherspoon, as the wheels started to come off as soon as she took home her Academy Award for Walk The Line. She still popped up in stuff like the odious pro-life romantic comedy Just Like Heaven and the noxious Four Christmases, but those films werent as successful as her previous efforts in the genre, in addition to being pretty terrible. She was merely an accessory in stuff like Water For Elephants and This Means War, and was front-and-center in the ad campaigns for Rendition and How Do You Know, two massive flops. Shes diversified with supporting roles in recent years, but she wasnt a tremendous source of drama in Mud and might be equally overshadowed in the upcoming Inherent Vice. She could use a hit.
We all thought it was dead. We dreamed of stepping on its throat, and having it let out its dying breath. And when it came true, we took to the hills and celebrated. We fired weapons. We kissed our loved ones just a little harder, wetter, better. We swam in the oceans and lakes, danced to the loudest beats and stood over its grave and relieved ourselves. The Akira remake was dead.Or is it? Jaume Collet-Serra was the last filmmaker involved in Warner Bros. ill-advised in-development live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomos acclaimed manga and anime film. Warner Bros. had constantly been tamping down their ambitions, claiming it would be a trilogy, then two films, then one mega-budgeted one - the budget of which kept slipping. Even as Collett-Serra talked the budget down to $90 million ($10 million more than Grown Ups 2 cost), the studio persisted on a version that would only cost $60-$70 million. Afterwards, everything went quiet, likely because everyone realized they had no Josh Tranks around who could deliver that sort of spectacle on a discount price.
Watch Frozen Online While the release date is still a few weeks away, the short has actually been finished for a number of months now - and I know that because I've actually already seen it. A special screening of Party Central was held during the Walt Disney Animation/Pixar presentation at the D23 Expo last August, and without giving too much away I can tell you that you're all in for quite a treat. In addition to just being a clever expansion of the Monsters universe, the whole thing is packed with some really funny moments and clever gags. I can highly recommend looking for it when it hits theaters, plus you'll be able to stick around and watch Muppets Most Wanted!
Watch Ride Along Online Directed by Kelsey Mann, a story supervisor on Monsters University, Party Central follows the nerdy brothers of Oozma Kappa as they try to throw a big on-campus shindig. Being as unpopular as they are, however, when the time comes for the event to start, nobody shows up. Fortunately, as you can see in the clip, Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) have a plan to lure people in using the very special door system that allows monsters to enter into the human world.
Watch The Monuments Men Online The new Monsters University short film Party Central was originally going to make its theatrical debut with Pixar's The Good Dinosaur this summer, but with the feature pushed back to 2015, the movie will now be screening with Muppets Most Wanted - hitting theaters in late March. If the short were still coming during the blockbuster season we would probably have had to wait a few more months in order to get our first wide-released look at it, but fortunately that's no longer the case. Moviefone has premiered a brand-spanking new clip from the short, which you can watch above.
Watch Lone Survivor Online Theres also the cultural appropriation going on regarding what is already an awesome anime and comic. Why do we need an American Akira? Is there something more that can be said about Akira that needs an American eye? And is there something to the fact that the WBs Akira, in its original incarnation, was dead-set on whitewashing the cast, but weirdly not blackwashing or Hispanicwashing, or whatever youd call it, with names like Garret Hedlund, Gary Oldman and Kristen Stewart among the basically all-white collection of names being linked to roles? Whatever the case, it sounds like the success of Collet-Serras next movies will make or break his Akira at WB. Vote with your dollars.
Watch The Nut Job Online Of course, crazier things should NOT happen. The American Akira should stay dead and buried. The original film, which only takes chunks of the manga, is already jam-packed with disquieting and disturbing ideas and imagery that can barely be contained by the two hour runtime. The live-action version would also need to be an R-rated film, because films that "shoot" for a certain rating are usually neutered from the word go, even if the MPAA can be fairly lax when it comes to body horror - and youre gonna have to horrify if you want Akira to land with any force. Also, hello? You cant DO an American Akira because an American Akira DOESNT MAKE SENSE. It is called AKIRA. It is not called Billy or Bob or Thornton. Its distinctly Japanese, dealing with the complex feelings of Japanese society in the decades following Hiroshima. Making it American and having it echo 9/11 is not only incredibly obvious, but extremely tacky, essentially equating man-made disasters with each other and disrespecting both.
Watch American Hustle Online But no. Collet-Serra persists, and speaking to Collider to promote his new movie Non-Stop, he reveals that the project is still his baby."Ive done two movies since I put this little pause on that project," he tells them, "but now powers that be are interested." Those two movies were the upcoming Non-Stop and Run All Night, both reuniting him with his Unknown lead Liam Neeson. Making a couple of in-house hits for a studio is a good way to endear them to you, and Collet-Serra has stayed with the WB his whole career, with a brief diversion overseas to make Goal 2: Living The Dream. Its entirely possible the WB is waiting on these Neeson actioners before committing to Collet-Serra: his Unknown was a forgettable Neeson vehicle that nonetheless grossed $131 million worldwide. And his earlier horror chops on House Of Wax and the adorably bonkers and stupid Orphan dont really suggests hes ready for big budget sci-fi. But crazier things have happened.
Watch The Hunger Games Catching Fire Online The brassy Vergara seems to be a good matchup for Witherspoon, even if it hews pretty closely to the popular buddy cop formula of square white person-saucy ethnic counterpoint that has been outdated for awhile now, though if Witherspoon were essentially playing Tracy Flick again, it could certainly work. Better yet, why not riff off Witherspoons dubious arrest last year and have her as the convict, forced to work with by-the-book professional Vergara? Now were cooking with Crisco.
Watch That Awkward Moment Online The teaming of Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara seems like the films trump card. Witherspoons had a rough go of it the last couple of years. In fact, its almost been a bad decade for Ms. Witherspoon, as the wheels started to come off as soon as she took home her Academy Award for Walk The Line. She still popped up in stuff like the odious pro-life romantic comedy Just Like Heaven and the noxious Four Christmases, but those films werent as successful as her previous efforts in the genre, in addition to being pretty terrible. She was merely an accessory in stuff like Water For Elephants and This Means War, and was front-and-center in the ad campaigns for Rendition and How Do You Know, two massive flops. Shes diversified with supporting roles in recent years, but she wasnt a tremendous source of drama in Mud and might be equally overshadowed in the upcoming Inherent Vice. She could use a hit.
We all thought it was dead. We dreamed of stepping on its throat, and having it let out its dying breath. And when it came true, we took to the hills and celebrated. We fired weapons. We kissed our loved ones just a little harder, wetter, better. We swam in the oceans and lakes, danced to the loudest beats and stood over its grave and relieved ourselves. The Akira remake was dead.Or is it? Jaume Collet-Serra was the last filmmaker involved in Warner Bros. ill-advised in-development live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomos acclaimed manga and anime film. Warner Bros. had constantly been tamping down their ambitions, claiming it would be a trilogy, then two films, then one mega-budgeted one - the budget of which kept slipping. Even as Collett-Serra talked the budget down to $90 million ($10 million more than Grown Ups 2 cost), the studio persisted on a version that would only cost $60-$70 million. Afterwards, everything went quiet, likely because everyone realized they had no Josh Tranks around who could deliver that sort of spectacle on a discount price.