Brand New Posters: ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D’, ‘Indiana Jones 4′, ‘Get Smart’…
A new poster for the upcoming “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D” has been released, featuring our heroes sliding down a rope next to a giant T-Rex. It is scheduled to hit theaters on July 11th.
We have more new posters in our gallery: “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skul“, “Get Smart“, “Deception” and “Kung Fu Panda“.
41 Kung Fu Pandas - Jack Black at Cannes
The animated movie Kung Fu Panda with voices of Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie had its premiere yesterday at Cannes Film Festival, out of competition, of course.
Jack Black and 40 Kung Fu Pandas kicked off the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, and here’s some photos:
Cannes Reveals Two Animated Films In Competition
Cannes Film Festival officials on Wednesday revealed the lineup for the 61st festival in France.
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s ‘Waltz With Bashir‘, an animated feature about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon is entered in the competition, and is garnering some buzz.
‘My Rabbit Hoppy‘ from Anthony Lucas (Australia) is one of nine films in the shorts competition. He was nominated for an Oscar for his 2005 short ‘The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello’.
DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Kung Fu Panda‘ will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday May 15. The film will be released on June 6 in the U.S. and most major world markets by the end of July.
DreamWorks has previously shown clips or screenings of films at Cannes, including clips of ‘Bee Movie, a screening of ‘Over the Hedge‘, clips of ‘Shark Tale‘ and a screening of ‘Shrek‘.
Hollywood and Cannes Film Festival
Clint Eastwood’s film “The Changeling“, starring Angelina Jolie as a woman searching for her missing son in 1920s Los Angeles and “Synechdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut.joins a competition list.
Steven Soderbergh, who took the top Cannes award in 1989 for “Sex, Lies and Videotape“, won a race against time to complete his four-hour epic “Che“, on the life of the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in time for the festival.
Steven Soderbergh’s inclusion looks like a last-minute decision. He competes with two pic ”Che” bio - “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla”
As predicted, Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” world preems down on the Croisette, possibly on Sunday May 18. It promises this fest’s must-attend, highest-glam event.
Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s head said the presence of Steven Spielberg and the stars of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, which will premiere outside the main competition, would ensure “a magnificent red carpet”.
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and George Lucas are expected to join Spielberg on the steps outside the Palais des Festivals, guaranteeing the kinds of flashing cameras that add essential glamour to the festival’s arthouse fare.
Out-of-competition, DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda,” an adventure, comedic chop-soc tooner, promises another Hollywood red-carpet cavalcade.
Also non-competing, as is Woody Allen’s custom, is the Spain-shot “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
After its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, the Hollywood satire “What Just Happened?” will get a second chance at Cannes - closing night, but we are not sure yet because organizers said they would announce the movies that open and close the festival in a few days.
Robert De Niro stars an embattled Hollywood producer whose life falls apart during one turbulent week. In a life-imitating-art turn, the film’s climactic scene takes place at the Cannes Film Festival, with the producer’s fictional movie-within-a-movie opening the event.
“What Just Happened?” also stars Catherine Keener as a tough-as-nails studio chief and features a number of stars, including Sean Penn and Bruce Willis, playing themselves in self-parodying roles. Barry Levinson directs from an adaptation of “Into the Wild” producer Art Linson’s memoir.
The film generated strong buzz going into January’s Sundance Film Festival, and was expected to sell for a significant seven-figure sum. But the movie received a mixed critical.
