Friday, April 18, 2014
Ironside Hired as Paramount’s VP of Brand Management
Paramount Pictures has tapped Sabrina Ironside to be its Senior VP of brand management, where she will be developing strategies for the new Paramount Animation division. She will report ... Continue Reading →
‘Monsters U.’ Scares Up Terrific Business at No. 1
Mike and Sulley and the rest of the gang of collegiate scarers of Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University managed to scare up lots of tickets sales at the box office this past weekend. ... Continue Reading →
Pixar’s ‘Monsters’ to Fight Zombies This Weekend
This weekend is shaping up to be an interesting battleground between new arrivals Disney/Pixar’s much-awaited prequel Monsters University and Paramount’s intriguing Brad ... Continue Reading →
Lights! Camera! Summer Eye Candy!
How two of this season’s biggest blockbusters Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness delivered their spectacular CG visuals.
Time was the biggest challenge facing two of 2013′s ... Continue Reading →
Updated Fairy Tales ‘Oz’ and ‘Hansel’ Come Home
Updated re-imaginings of fairy tales have been all the rage of late, with two of the year’s highest-profile features arriving this week on home video.
Up first is Oz: The Great ... Continue Reading →
Authorities Pull ‘The Croods’ Out of Chinese Theaters
A Guangzhou-based cinema chain manager told The Hollywood Reporter that Chinese authorities are forcing theater owns to end the run of DreamWorks’ The Croods two weeks earlier ... Continue Reading →
A-list Voice Cast Revealed for ‘Little Prince’ Pic
The new CG-animated feature version of The Little Prince is shaping up to be quite an A-list affair. The pic, which is being directed by Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne, has attracted ... Continue Reading →
Mike Mitchell to Direct DreamWorks ‘Trolls’ Movie
Mike Mitchell (Shrek Forever After, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked) has been tapped to direct DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming animated Trolls feature. The pic will be written ... Continue Reading →
‘Star Trek’ Beams Down $84 Mil. Weekend
Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office this weekend, with an estimated $84 million. The J.J. Abrams-directed sequel to the rebooted franchise ... Continue Reading →
IDW to Publish New ‘Rocky & Bullwinkle’ Comics
Here is a wonderful new comic-book venture we can all get behind. Over the weekend, we got word that San Diego-based IDW Publishing will be launching a new series featuring Jay Ward’s ... Continue Reading →
