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• The Animated Disney Movies That Deserve a Live-Action Follow-up
• The Geek Beat: Like Superhero Stories, Fairy Tales Are the Gift That Keeps on Giving
• What Is the Funniest Western Since 'Blazing Saddles'?
• Comics on Film: Five 'Daredevil' Stories We'd Like to See on the Netflix Series
• Watch: Fantastic Video Shows Why American Comedies Need to Step Up Their Game
• Origin Stories: How Seth MacFarlane Went from a Student Film to 'Family Guy'
• Now You Can Eat Out of a Monkey Head Just Like Indiana Jones Did in 'Temple of Doom'
• Quentin Tarantino Will Shoot His Next Movie This Fall
• See the Real-Life Inspiration for the Disney Villain Maleficent
• Marvel Bites: Meet the New 'Daredevil,' Plus: Watch Hugh Jackman's Original Wolverine Audition

The Animated Disney Movies That Deserve a Live-Action Follow-up Posted: 28 May 2014 08:00 PM PDT With Maleficent, Disney reexamines one of its most iconic animated characters in the live-action realm, taking the familiar and turning it on its head. It's not the first time it's tackled a live-action redo of an iconic film -- the studio made updated versions of 101 Dalmatians and Alice in Wonderland in the past. Since there's no way Disney is going to stop returning to its animated well to find inspiration for its big tentpole films (Cinderella is in the works for next year), all we can do is help push the studio in the right direction. Here are a few Disney classics that could actually use a live-action follow-up.   Pinocchio Have you watched Pinocchio recently? For a film that's become such an iconic part of the... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Geek Beat: Like Superhero Stories, Fairy Tales Are the Gift That Keeps on Giving Posted: 28 May 2014 07:00 PM PDT With Maleficent arriving in theaters this weekend, I can't help thinking that fairy tales really are the gift that keeps on giving. For good or bad (I haven't actually seen Maleficent yet, so I can't vouch for it), stories penned by the likes of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault and countless other fairy-tale authors have been popping up on the big screen nearly as long as there's been a “big screen.” And the list of fairy tales that have served as the source material for movies just keeps getting longer every year. Sure, for every heartwarming Hook or The Wizard of Oz, there's a thoroughly disappointing Beastly or 2011's Red Riding Hood, but you have to respect the existence of centuries-old stories that are so... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

What Is the Funniest Western Since 'Blazing Saddles'? Posted: 28 May 2014 06:00 PM PDT Just as the Western genre as a whole has been lightly represented in the past 40 years, the subgenre of the Western comedy has also been rare. Maybe both have something to do with the fact that just over 40 years ago the greatest Western parody of all time was released. Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles will never be topped for the most laughs or most insight into the Western genre and its period setting. At the same time, it dropped the mic on so many conventions, tropes and problems of the genre and American history that it's been hard for the Western to make a proper comeback on the level that it was in its heydey. Look at the box office stats and you'll see that Wild Wild West is still among the five highest grossing Westerns of at least the past three decades, so... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Comics on Film: Five 'Daredevil' Stories We'd Like to See on the Netflix Series Posted: 28 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT It's been a long time coming, but after 20th Century Fox lost the rights to ol' Hornhead after passing on Joe Carnahan's pretty awesome pitch, the Man Without Fear has come home to Marvel Studios and will join that company's cinematic universe with a new Netflix TV series. Even though cameras have yet to roll on the upcoming series, it's endured a bit of a roller-coaster ride in recent days due to the loss of Drew Goddard as showrunner combined with the announcement of the show's lead actor. Marvel recently revealed that Goddard has been replaced by Steven S. DeKnight, creator of Spartacus and a writer for Joss Whedon's TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Meanwhile, Variety reported that Charlie Cox has been cast as... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Watch: Fantastic Video Shows Why American Comedies Need to Step Up Their Game Posted: 28 May 2014 04:08 PM PDT The below video is titled Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy, and even though it certainly celebrates the beloved British director's unique style, this is far better than your average supercut dedicated to one filmmaker. This is a concise lesson in how cinema can so easily be used to enhance comedy, and how American comedies are so weirdly noncinematic. In the video, creator Tony Zhou uses footage from movies like The Heat, Old School and This Is Tte End to reveal how shockingly inert the Hollywood comedy has become. Now before you cry, "But those movies are funny!," Zhou's not disagreeing with you. All he's doing is pointing out how most of these movies use only the most basic parts of cinematic craft to tell their jokes.  It just so happens that... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Origin Stories: How Seth MacFarlane Went from a Student Film to 'Family Guy' Posted: 28 May 2014 03:21 PM PDT Origin Stories is a new feature here at Movies.com that takes a look back at how a star became, well, a star. This week's focus is A Million Ways to Die in the West actor-writer-director Seth MacFarlane. Love or hate Seth MacFarlane's brand of humor, you have to at least admire the man for being consistent. For example, take a look at one of his earliest pieces of animation, The Life of Larry, about a schluby husband, his wise-cracking dog, and his prodding wife making pop-culture jokes while living their middle-class lives. MacFarlane created The Life of Larry in 1995 as his senior thesis film while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. It helped land him a job at legendary animation house Hanna-Barbera, where he bounced around from show to show, working... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Now You Can Eat Out of a Monkey Head Just Like Indiana Jones Did in 'Temple of Doom' Posted: 28 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom celebrated its 30-year anniversary this past weekend, so there was no shortage of cool Indy tidbits to parse through if you’re a fan of Harrison Ford’s swashbuckling adventurer. One of the cooler stories to get time in the spotlight was featured in a Yahoo! Movies interview with actor Nizwar Karanj, who plays the poor guy early in the film who gets his heart ripped out by Mola Ram. That scene is pretty graphic – and one of the reasons why the MPAA created the PG-13 rating in the first place – but Karanj reveals that Spielberg wanted it to be even more brutal. According to the actor, Spielberg commissioned a face mold of the actor that would also be lowered into the lava before melting off the skull &ndash... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Quentin Tarantino Will Shoot His Next Movie This Fall Posted: 28 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT   We were almost sure that Quentin Tarantino’s newest project The Hateful Eight was going to be lost to the annals of films that might have been. After he seemingly shelved the project after a script leak, lawsuits followed and there was a live read of the film with an incredible cast, but a feature still seemed uncertain.   Apparently the director has had a change of heart, as Showbiz411 reports that Tarantino’s Hateful Eight will film this November with many of the same actors who performed the Los Angeles live read. Those big names include Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, James Remar, Amber Tamblyn, Walt Goggins and Zoe Bell. Sadly, this will be the first Tarantino film without Christoph Waltz since he first... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

See the Real-Life Inspiration for the Disney Villain Maleficent Posted: 28 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT Angelina Jolie plays Sleeping Beauty’s nemesis, the wicked Maleficent, in a new movie out this weekend that presents the classic tale from the villain’s perspective.  However, Jolie isn’t the first live performer to play the role on the screen – voice actress Eleanor Audley donned the dark robes and black horns for Disney animators as they worked on their version of the iconic tale. Audley provided the voice for the wicked character in the film (as well as the voice of the evil stepmother in Cinderella), but also pulled double duty by modeling for the artists bringing the film’s visuals to life. According to a cool piece at the FW, Disney animators often studied voice actors as a reference point for how to animate the character properly... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Marvel Bites: Meet the New 'Daredevil,' Plus: Watch Hugh Jackman's Original Wolverine Audition Posted: 28 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT We’ve got lots of Marvel goodies to share today – including the casting of Daredevil in Netflix’s new series, a look back at Hugh Jackman’s X-Men audition, and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Times Square. Fans who were clamoring for Michael C. Hall to play the lead role in Marvel and Netflix’s upcoming Daredevil series are about to be disappointed. Latino Review reveals that the casting decision for lead character Matt Murdock – blind attorney by day, crime fighter after dark – has been made, and that Boardwalk Empire actor Charlie Cox will be the new “man without fear”. Cox looks the part, and the kid can act, so we like this casting. The 13-episode series (one of four created in Marvel and Netflix’s new pact... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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