Exclusive Interview: Brad Bird talks Iron Giant, Tomorrowland flop, & more!

Posted 11 years ago

While attending the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, I was contacted by Warner Bros with an interesting proposal. They wanted to know if JoBlo.com would be interested in a solid fifteen minute interview with director Brad Bird to celebrate the...

Review: The Iron Giant: Signature Edition (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Hogarth Hughes  (Eli Marienthal) lives with his mother (Jennifer Aniston) in Rockwell, a picturesque small town in 1950’s middle-America. A sci-fi buff, Hogarth’s dreams of adventure come true when he discovers a giant robot (Vin Diesel) with no memory...

Vin Diesel teases sequel to Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant

Posted 11 years ago

THE IRON GIANT was a big box office bomb, grossing only a little over $30 million worldwide against a budget of $70 million, however it received critical acclaim from critics, and many consider it to be one of the best...

Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant will return to theaters this fall

Posted 11 years ago

Brad Bird didn't exactly make waves with his latest feature, TOMORROWLAND. Given the man's track record, it seems fair that a dent would finally be made in an otherwise immaculate filmography. Back in 1999, Bird released his first feature-film, THE...

Cameron Crowe says he could still write Say Anything 2

Posted 11 years ago

Writer/director Cameron Crowe was on fire early on in his career, dishing out coming-of-age tales SAY ANYTHING and SINGLES right out the gate. He then dived into major critical success with JERRY MAGUIRE before delivering the fan-favorite ALMOST FAMOUS, thus...

The UnPopular Opinion: Say Anything

Posted 11 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

I Want That: Mondo’s The Iron Giant deluxe figure

Posted 11 years ago

If there were ever a reason to scrimp and save to be able to purchase something related to one of the great animated movies of our time, it’s now. Mondo will release a deluxe figure based on the movie THE...

NBC developing Say Anything TV series sequel and Cameron Crowe is not happy

Posted 12 years ago

EDITOR'S UPDATE: While much of Hollywood is getting slap happy with one movie-to-TV show after another, it appears that Cameron Crowe has put the kabosh on this one. After voicing his displeasure with the whole thing, stating that he'd never...

Ink & Pixel: Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Posted 13 years ago

Steve Ink & Pixel is a source of pride and joy for me as a writer and as such, I’m always striving to take this column further for those who read and enjoy it. If you yourself, or anyone you...