Live-action

Be our guest! Beauty and the Beast clip shows Lumiere plotting romance!

Posted 9 years ago

I've not been a big supporter of the live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST remake, but I know many people are excited. I've just always been put off by the Stockholm Syndrome aspects of the story (even if it's a bit...

Beauty and the Beast remake to feature first openly gay Disney character

Posted 9 years ago

You read that right! Seems that Disney will have its first gay character (at least on screen) debuting in the live-action remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. And, of course it will be Gaston's (Luke Evans) toady, LeFou (Josh Gad)....

Live-action Secret of NIMH film finds its director

Posted 9 years ago

So there's going to be a live-action SECRET OF NIMH film, now titled RATS OF NIMH for some reason. Now, I don't have a problem with live-action remakes of animated films in theory, and have even enjoyed a few of them....

New promo for Beauty and the Beast, introduced by the stars themselves

Posted 9 years ago

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Disney's love-letter to Stockholm Syndrome, is going to be the next animated film of theirs to get the live-action treatment. I mean, after MALEFICENT, CINDERELLA, and JUNGLE BOOK made stupid amounts of money, it makes sense...

Amy Schumer to star in the upcoming live-action Barbie movie

Posted 9 years ago

Apparently, Amy Schumer is going to headline Sony's new big-budget live-action BARBIE movie. Here's the official synopsis: "[I]n a perfect land of Barbies…one woman slowly awakens to the fact that she doesn’t fit it. She is expelled from the idealistic...

VFX wiz Robert Legato hints Lion King remake will come before Jungle Book 2

Posted 9 years ago

Disney has been making it their mission in recent years to take as many of their animated classics as possible and turn them into live-action features. Though their recent efforts like JUNGLE BOOK have won critical acclaim and huge box...

World War Z’s Marc Forster tapped to helm Disney’s Christopher Robin

Posted 9 years ago

Christoper Robin, the young boy who shared his adventures with Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and the rest of the animals of the Hundred Acre Wood, will be the focus of an upcoming Disney film, except this time, he'll...

Guy Ritchie to direct live-action Aladdin movie for Disney

Posted 10 years ago

Sigh. Is anyone really surprised by this news? With live-action remakes of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, LITTLE MERMAID, LION KING, and the recently announcement of MULAN (among others) on the way, a resigned sigh is really the only response at this point. To be fair,...

Enchanted sequel Disenchanted on its way from Disney

Posted 10 years ago

You know, I really liked ENCHANTED. I thought Amy Adams was delightfully charming as a naive waif, without coming off cloying or annoying – which is a hard feat indeed. Everyone else in the cast – from Susan Sarandon vamping it...

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