Category: News
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Sony’s 2015 back on track after Hotel Transylvania 2 storms September
It looks as though Sony Pictures Entertainment’s rather lacklustre year of film releases might finally be coming to an end, as Hotel Transylvania 2 has made history by setting a new September opening weekend record. According to Box Office Mojo, the film took an estimated $47.5 million, which is almost $5 million more than the… Read More >
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Minions becomes Second Biggest Animated Movie of all time
According to The Wrap, the opening of Illumination Entertainment’s Minions in China sees the movie become the second highest-grossing animated movie of all time. The worldwide haul for Minions is $1.08 billion which narrowly edges past the $1.06 billion rung up by Toy Story 3 in 2010. The only film with a higher global total than these is Frozen,… Read More >
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Plot details revealed for Toy Story 4
We’ve known for a while that Toy Story 4 is on the way and that Pixar will attempt to turn the 4th film into a love story but Director John Lasseter took to the stage at this weekend’s D23 to fill us in with a few more details. “We have the old characters back and some great new characters we’ll tell… Read More >
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 casts a new Shredder
Despite last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles receiving a critical lashing, the train for the sequel chugs relentlessly ever on. And now we’ve learned that the Turtles’ biggest foe, Shredder, will once again appear in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 – albeit played by a different actor. Portrayed by Tohoru Masamune in the first film, the character was mainly… Read More >
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Another new Lego spin-off movie is in the works
Last year’s The LEGO Movie was a resounding success; not only did it make over $250m at the box office, but it was also released to huge critical acclaim (check out the film’s Rotten Tomatoes score, which sits pretty at 96%). Sequels and spin-offs were only the next logical step: announced so far is the Lego Movie… Read More >
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Toy Story 4 gets a second director
Although the news of a Toy Story 4 has been largely met with doubt, it keeps giving us less and less reason to think it’ll end up being anything but great. Firstly, there was the President of Pixar’s opinion of the film’s premise (as yet undisclosed) describing it as a ‘romantic comedy’, and now, we’ve learned that… Read More >
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Toy Story 4 won’t be a direct sequel, says Pixar President
Late last year, the news that Toy Story 4 was happening made many of us grumpy at the prospect of Toy Story 3‘s satisfying – some might say perfect – conclusion being undone. But it seems as if that isn’t necessarily the case, as the President of Pixar, Jim Morris, revealed to Disney Latino more of the nature… Read More >
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Toy Story 4 coming in 2017
Toy Story 4 has been announced during Disney’s latest quarterly earnings report. Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Bob Iger made the announcement, stating that the sequel will be released in June 2017, and that John Lasseter will be returning as the director… Read More >
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Tom Hanks & Woody Allen returning for Toy Story That Time Forgot
Tom Hanks and Woody Allen will once again voice the characters of Woody and Buzz Lightyear, respectively, in ABC’s Toy Story That Time Forgot Christmas special, which will air this December 2nd on the network. TheWrap reports that they will be rejoined by Joan Cusack, Kristen Schaal, Wallace Shawn, Don Rickles and Timothy Dalton, and… Read More >
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Frozen short announced for 2015
Disney is looking to build on the success of Frozen even further with the announcement that a short film will be released in spring 2015, which will welcome back to the big screen Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf. Directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, and produced by Peter Del Vecho, with an all-new original… Read More >
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