https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb8WDATVB6A It looks like Disney just put its very own ABC network on ice. Expanding far beyond the traditional run time of 5-plus minutes that most pre-feature animated shorts abide, the 21-minute featurette Olaf's Frozen Adventure will play before Pixar's big holiday release Coco in theaters worldwide. The length of this Frozen mini-sequel, which is [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HusZbDM2fkk The boys are sold on Cars 3, but are the parents? Pixar hopes goosing their last ad before opening with a classic Eagles tune helps. With the returning voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, and more, plus a list of racing and sports stars that's a track lap [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWvtMOGAhw If I have to put up with Marvel silliness, I'm sure glad it'll be under the direction of Ryan Coogler (Creed) and that stellar cast, starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, and Martin Freeman. Black Panther hits theaters in the heart of Black History Month: February 16, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcy3DHRtEc Those are some high-tech tights. In this latest "trailer" (a 1-minute ad), Marvel shows off Spidey costumes both old and new (but mostly new), including features that only someone like Tony Stark could provide. This ad is also another example of how this iteration with Tom Holland by director Jon Watts may end up [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt9-osT0WtA It's hard to complain about excessive CGI when it looks this good - and convincing. Director Luc Beeson (The Fifth Element, Lucy) may have the sleeper hit of the summer with this sci-fi extravaganza starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, who both look like they're having a lot more fun than they usually have in [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGKzyC4KLFg Need to see more clips of things blowed up real good? Here you go. It's a pretty great tease of what to expect from the story, too. Transformers: The Last Knight opens on June 21, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlnPHQ3TLX8 Who knew the afterlife looked so much like a possible future Disney World theme park? That's what Disney's corporate brand Pixar has devised in Coco, their next original story that's set to hit theaters this holiday season. Inspired by the annual Mexican holiday tradition known as Day of the Dead, in which celebrants pray for [...]
Ride into the nostalgia zone. Access Hollywood, the entertainment gossip show, scored a surprise scoop during a puff piece interview with Tom Cruise. The action star icon let slip the official title of the confirmed Top Gun sequel: Top Gun: Maverick In the clip (see below), Cruise goes on to share more details, assuring fans that he and the film's [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4m3yAoW8E "There is evil on this train." There's also a lot of famous actors. Following an Entertainment Weekly photo spread and some savvy Star Wars related social media posts by Josh Gad and Daisy Ridley, we get the first trailer for Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. Perhaps the most popular adaptation of [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxaJLr92Av0 The original Paddington movie, based on the popular series of children's books, may not have been a box office sensation, but it's nice to see a family friendly charmer produced with such vibrant artful panache (like a Wes Anderson movie, for kids) do well enough to spawn a sequel. This first teaser for Paddington 2 [...]
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