National Treasure’s dynamic duo, Nicholas Cage and director Jon Turteltaub, are teaming up to bring us a live-action adaptation of Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Fanboyz.net has the first promotional photos featuring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. Based on the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and later the animated short in Fantasia, Sorcerer’s Apprentice tells [...]
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Web Crawler: Disney/ Marvel
The news that Disney had bought Marvel for $4 billion dollars has sent many comic book fans into a state of shock. This is the cover for the latest issue of Wizard Magazine. It embodies what many people believe to be the fate of the comic book power house. Really, I just think that is [...]
Ghost Rider Sequel Moving Forward
Variety is reporting that Columbia Pictures is moving forward on a sequel to 2007′s Ghost Rider which starred Nicolas Cage as the Marvel vigilante. Screenwriter David Goyer (The Dark Knight, Blade) has already written the script for the sequel which will star Nicolas Cage once again. The first Ghost Rider suffered from horrible reviews but [...]
Jack Sparrow Returns In “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
Just announced at Disney’s D23 Expo, Johnny Depp came stumbling onto the stage in full Captain Jack Sparrow costume, and announced the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was in fact due to hit theaters summer 2011. While there has been a lot of talk about who would be returning and when [...]
The Z Cast: Episode 2 – Summer Movie Recap: Dude, It’s Got Robots!
The Z Cast has returned for our second episode where we recapped summer 2009. With Labor Day approaching the end of the summer movie season has arrived so we decided to bring you our best and worst picks for the 2009 summer. The last three months have been filled with blockbuster hits, box office bombs, [...]
Disney Buys Marvel Comics
Big news today, the Walt Disney Company is going to purchase Marvel Entertainment Inc. for approximatly $4 billion dollars for its 5000 characters. These characters do include Spiderman, Iron Man and the X-Men. If you do the math that is about $800,000 per character. That’s a lot of moolah. In my talks today with many [...]
Comic-Con: Disney Looks Ahead with the Past
Disney is showing their commitment to progress the film going experience by releasing some of their recent popular films in 3D, as well as taking a page from the past in developing a new fairy tale musical. Also, acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki will have his upcoming film, Ponyo, distributed through Disney in America. We [...]
Comic-Con: Disney’s 3D Panel Impresses Audience
This morning, Disney debuted at Comic-Con with the first ever 3D presentation of their upcoming releases. Moderated by comedian Patton Oswalt, the 6,500 fans scrunched together got to get their first look at A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, and Tron Legacy. With incredible footage, intriguing commentary, and some big surprises, everyone in attendance had [...]
Fanboyz.net Arrives at San Diego Comic-Con
The Fanboyz.net crew arrived in San Diego, California this afternoon for the 2009 Comic-Con. This is our first year attending the convetion and we look forward to covering all the major attractions during our five day stay here. Be sure to follow all of our updates on Twitter as we will be taking photos and [...]
First Photo of Ben Kingsley in Prince of Persia
Comingsoon.net has the exclusive photo of Sir Ben Kingsley in the upcoming Disney adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Yesterday we showed you the first posters for the flick which stars Jake Gyllenhaal in an adaptation of the popular video game. Kinglsey plays a “villainous nobleman” who is in possession of the Sands [...]
First Photo of Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia
Entertainment Weekly sure has brought us a lot of fun stuff this last week. Several of our posts have been from EW and their latest issue which features the cast of Iron Man 2 as well as a preview for this years Comic-Con. In this issue, which is now on newsstands, there is a first [...]
Check Out: Cast Pictures from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
The more I see from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, the more curious, yet disturbed I become. Only Burton could take this classic tale and make it this dark and twisted. Planet Disney has posted these images which feature Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Mia Wasikowska [...]
Classic Looking Photos from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
Disney has released a set of photos for their new hand drawn animated fairy tale The Princess and the Frog. These pictures have a real classic Disney feel to them and they will most likely remind you of older Disney productions like Bambi or Peter Pan. I am excited to see a hand drawn animated [...]
Movie Review: Pixar’s ‘UP’
78 year old Carl Fredricksen sets out on the voyage of a life when he rigs his house with thousands of balloons to make it fly. Fredricksen is trying to fulfill a life-long dream by taking his home to a place that he has only dreamed of. Once he is in the air, he finds [...]
Holla Back: What is Your Favorite Pixar Movie?
As we all start back to the work week we thought we could get your Monday rolling with a new Holla Back topic. With the latest Pixar movie released this past weekend there has been much talk as to what is the best Pixar movie. Is the new film Up now a Pixar classic? Does [...]
First Poster Released for Jim Carrey’s Christmas Carol
We have a new poster today for a movie which doesn’t hit theaters until this holiday season! Jim Carrey stars in Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. This animated tale of the classic Dickens’ story stars Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and is being directed by Robert Zemeckis who last brought us his animated tale Beowulf. [...]
First Poster Debuts for The Princess and the Frog
For those Disney fans out there this is for you. Just yesterday we debuted the first full length trailer for the new Disney animated flick The Princess and the Frog. Today we have the films first poster which is a classic throwback to the old school Disney movies we all know and love. For those [...]
First Full Trailer for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
The return of hand drawn animation is upon us. Not since 2004′s Home on the Range, have we seen a hand drawn movie that did not involve computer graphics. With Pixar’s animation studio releasing some of, if not the best, animation in movies, how can hand drawn animation compete? Well, Disney is taking that challenge [...]
UPDATE: The Rock NOT Cast as Captain Nemo in McG’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
We have an update on a story we ran this morning. Production Weekly had reported that The Rock was cast as Captain Nemo in a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. That rumor has now been cleared up and it turns out Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has not been cast as Captain Nemo. This [...]
