ComingSoon.net talked exclusively to Matthew Broderick, Sigourney Weaver, Emma Watson (“Harry Potter” films) and author Kate DiCamillo about Universal Pictures’ new animated film, The Tale of Despereaux , opening in theaters on Friday, December 19. WATCH THE INTERVIEWS Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, raucous [...]
ComingSoon.net has received Walt Disney Pictures 2009 preview, featuring 14 releases. To view info on each movie, just select the titles, and to see the images, click on ‘View Pics’ (release dates are subject to change): February 13, 2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic ( View Pics ) February 27, 2009 Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert [...]
Clearview Cinemas today announced that it will feature a six-day exclusive engagement featuring all five “Harry Potter” films at the legendary Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, from December 19 to December 24. During the event’s opening weekend, the “Harry Potter” films will be shown for more than 12 consecutive hours in order of when [...]
ComingSoon.net‘s Heather Newgen talked exclusively to both Will Smith and Rosario Dawson about the Gabriele Muccino-directed drama, Seven Pounds , opening in theaters on Friday, December 19. In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of [...]
In July of 2003, Valerie Plame was outed as a covert CIA agent by columnist Robert Novak. During a Grand Jury investigation of the leak, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was called to testify about similar information she received and refused to reveal her source on the grounds of journalistic integrity. She was found [...]
Universal and “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski have acquired a 2007 Wall Street Journal article they will use as the basis for a film about the online fantasy role-playing world and its detrimental impact on the real lives of players. Variety says Verbinski will develop the film as a directing vehicle; Steven Knight [...]
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has released the following announcement stating that The Dark Knight has sold over 1.7 million Blu-ray Discs worldwide, including over 1 million domestically: “The Dark Knight” took the world by storm on Blu-ray and DVD, breaking records for 2008. The blockbuster hit from acclaimed director Christopher Nolan became an instant [...]
Scott Charles Stewart has signed to direct Priest , a horror Western that Michael De Luca and Stars Road Entertainment’s Josh Donen are producing for Screen Gems. Mitchell Peck will also produce. An adaptation of a TokyoPop comic book, the story is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire [...]
Jason Reitman and producing partner Daniel Dubiecki are executive producing The Wedding , a romantic comedy that visits the perils and peccadilloes of young love, says The Hollywood Reporter . Jesse Eisenberg is attached to star in the project as a young man who crashes the wedding of a 30-ish woman he is infatuated with. [...]
Devin Faraci at CHUD.com got a chance to watch the first 22 minutes of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Watchmen this weekend at Butt-Numb-A-Thon in Austin and has described what he saw in full. Here’s a clip: It will look and feel like a real movie. That’s a weird thing to say, but there are lots of [...]
