A comedy adventure, Happy Feet is set deep in Antarctica. Into the land of the Emperor penguins, where each needs a Heartsong to attract a soul mate, a penguin is born who cannot sing. Our hero Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood), son of Memphis (voiced by Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (voiced by Nicole Kidman), is the worst singer in the world… however, as it happens, he is a brilliant tap dancer!
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January 18, 2010: Pitt and Damon reteam as badass...penguins?:
What could bring Brad Pitt and Matt Damon together for another film? No, not George Clooney and a new OCEAN’S installment, rather it’s George Miller, who according to Movieline, has just signed on the studly pair to voice two penguins in HAPPY...
August 1, 2007: Miller does JLA?:
Those crafty Latinos at "Latino Review" have landed yet another superhero related scoop. This time, their incredibly accurate spy network informs them that tap dancing CGI penguin mastermind George Miller may be directing the upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE film....
June 4, 2007: Australia update:
Everything we know about Baz Luhrmann's epic drama AUSTRALIA has thus far been gleaned from a few scattered pictures . Recently, however, the Sydney Morning Herald went on set of the currently filming drama and siphoned some concrete details from anyone they...
May 16, 2007: Wood is Iggy Pop:
Around September/October of 2005, during the press rounds for the films he had coming out that year, Elijah Wood teased about an upcoming film in which he would star as an iconic musician and, seeing as how there was also a rumor floating around that he'd be...
December 27, 2006: Wood commits Murders:
Elijah Wood has joined the cast of Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia's English language debut crime thriller OXFORD MURDERS. Written by Iglesia and his longtime writing partner Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Wood will star as a student studying at Oxford who...
December 13, 2006: Miller talks Max 4:
Director George Miller, whose animated tapdancing penguins in HAPPY FEET are currently destroying the competition at the box office, is still pretty damn gung-ho about
directing a fourth MAD MAX film. Seeing as how Mel Gibson's a little preoccupied with...
November 15, 2006: INT: Wood/Williams:
What happens when the
director of the MAD MAX franchise as well as THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
and LORENZO’S OIL decides to make a family film?
Well we got a taste of it in BABE: PIG IN THE...
November 17, 2006: INT: George Miller:
George
Miller is one of the most diversely talented directors in film
today. He has worked in an
apocalyptic future in the MAD MAX franchise to the barnyard
shenanigans or a...
August 7, 2006: McGregor is Tourist:
A few months ago, we told you about Hugh Jackman signing on to the thriller THE TOURIST.
Today comes word that Ewan McGregor will co-star with Jackman in the Marcel Langenegger-directed film. Coming from a script by Mark Bomback (CONSTANTINE),...
July 27, 2006: Happy Feet trailer:
The full trailer for Warner Bros. animated HAPPY FEET recently premiered on
Moviefone. In it, Elijah Wood voices a "loser" penguin who's ostracized from his community for his decided lack of singing or dancing skills. However, he soons gains
notoriety...
July 25, 2006: CON: WB Animation:
WARNER
BROS/WEINSTEIN COMPANY
ANIMATION PANEL:
THE
ANT BULLY
Participants:
John
Davis – director
Sarah...
July 18, 2006: Kidman has Compass:
A rumor has apparently been circulating that Nicole Kidman would be joining the cast of director Chris Weitz' feature adaptation of THE GOLDEN COMPASS, the first in
Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS fantasy trilogy. According to the folks at IGN ,...
July 13, 2006: Kidman joins Pacino:
A couple of years ago, Al Pacino was in talks to star in a
remake of Billy Wilder's classic drama WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. At the time, Robert Benton (KRAMER VS. KRAMER) had expressed interest in directing
with veteran TV producer David E....
May 5, 2006: Elijah is gangsta:
When you think about Elijah Wood, most of us don't really think bad ass gangsta who'd cut your heart out and possibly eat it for looking at him too long. With a
freshly shaved, tattoed head, state trooper glasses, a cig in hand and a f*ck you and get out...
May 2, 2006: Jackman is Tourist:
Stax over at IGN recently got the scoop that one of Hugh Jackman's post-X-Men roles may possibly be the thriller THE TOURIST. According to producer Arnold Rifkin,
" We close next week [with] Hugh Jackman on a film I bought as a pitch [by Mark Bomback]...
December 14, 2005: Jackman uses Fed X:
I wanted to check the release date for one of Hugh Jackman's upcoming films so, like anybody else in the universe, I headed to the Internet Movie Database and was
reminded that Jackman has about five hundred upcoming films. What's more interesting is that...
