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Appearing in the annual Pirelli Calendar is considered an honour by many models, but this year’s edition is truly something special. Related: The 2018 Pirelli Calendar Gathers All-Black Cast For ‘Alice In Wonderland’-Themed Shoot Featuring RuPaul, Whoopi Goldberg And More An all-black cast is reimagined as characters from “Alice In Wonderland”, with Whoopi Goldberg as […]...

The famous Pirelli Calendar has gone through many iterations since it debuted in 1964. The calendar originally began as a means of setting the tire company apart from their competition with a project that enlisted the best artists, photographers, and models of the era. Pirelli really began to make waves, however, as their annual publication became synonymous with pinup girls and nude photo shoots, but in recent years it has made an abrupt shift towards a more feminist, inclusive 21-century vision of fashion. The brand has enlisted Annie Leibowitz to shoot the women that inspire her and Peter Lindbergh to photograph...

The new annual Pirelli Calendar looks different. The 2018 edition features an all-black cast, shot by photographer Tim Walker. The theme: Alice in Wonderland. Model Duckie Thot is Alice, Lupita Nyong'o is a dormouse, Whoopi Goldberg is the Royal Duchess, RuPaul is the Queen of Hearts and Naomi Campbell and Diddy play Royal Beheaders. The calendar also features models Djimon Hounsou, King Owusu, Thando Hopa and Adwoa Aboah. "When we get the nod, it's all, 'Off with their heads!' That's how it will feel when people see these pictures too," Diddy told The New York Times. "In a positive way,...

Jon Favreau is at the helm, as Disney brings The Jungle Book to live action (again). Here's the first trailer.

Following its success with Cinderella and Alice In Wonderland, the next of Disney's animated films to get the live action treatment is The Jungle Book. This new version (unrelated to the 1994 live action movie from the studio) is being directed by Iron Man's Jon Favreau, with Neel Sethi taking on the role of Mowgli.

Also lending their talents to the endeavour are Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Christopher Walker and Lupita Nyong'o. And the first trailer for The Jungle Book has just been released by Disney.

Here it is, in fact...

And here's the synopsis...

Directed by Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”), based on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless stories and inspired by Disney’s classic animated film, “The Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi...

The stunning first trailer for Disney's CGI-version of Jungle Book remake has been revealed.

Mowgli comes face to face with Kaa and floats downstream with Baloo the Bear in the clip.

Jon Favreau has directed the film, the latest live action adaptation of a Disney movie following the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast.

A new poster for the film was revealed during Disney's D23 conference ahead of its April 2016 release.

The film stars newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli, and features the voice talents of Ben Kingsley and Lupita Nyong'o.

Bill Murray features as Baloo, while Christopher Walken, Idris Elba and Scarlett Johansson are also lending their voices to the movie.

The Jungle Book will hit cinemas in April 2016.

Ahead of the first trailer due to arrive on Monday, Walt Disney Studios has given us a brief glimpse of its live action adaptation of The Jungle Book.

Posting the short sequence of four scenes on Instagram, we see the dark and wild jungle and a young boy standing in the midst of it:

Your firsssst look is coming Monday on @AccessHollywoodLive. #JungleBook @disneythejunglebook

A video posted by Walt Disney Studios (@disneystudios) on Sep 12, 2015 at 9:16am Pdt

Jon Favreau has directed the film, the latest live action adaptation of a Disney film following the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast.

A new poster for the film was revealed during Disney's D23 conference ahead of its April 2016 release.

The film stars newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli, and features the voice talents of Ben Kingsley and Lupita Nyongo.

Bill Murray features as Baloo the Bear, while Christopher Walken,...

Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass War series, a dark fantasy look at Alice In Wonderland, has had a strong spinoff life in comics with Hatter M, the story of Hatter Madigan who is the bodyguard to the Queen of Wonderland and head of the elite security force known as the The Millinery.

Beddor has debuted a new Young Adult prose series at BookExpo America, Hatter Madigan, which shows his early days at the Millinery. And to mark the occasion, fan of the series Whoopi Goldberg will be highlighting the series and characters on The View on Friday. Beddor literally brought his characters to life on The View by inviting a team of cosplayers dressed up as his characters to appear on the show. “The audience exploded when they saw them come out. Fantasy rules reality. The reaction was amazing.”

The new book, Hatter Madigan: Ghost In the H.A.

Derek Hough will be spending spring in the city and not on the Dancing with the Stars' ballroom floor.

The 29-year-old entertainer will be skipping this season of the hit ABC show so that he can star as the male lead in New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall alongside the Rockettes and Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti.

And only Et has the inside scoop as to whether Derek might be able to squeeze in a DWTS appearance this season.

Photos: Complete Dancing with the Stars Winners List

"I'm moving over to the East coast for a couple of months," he exclusively tells Et. "I'm joining this amazing show at Radio City Music Hall, which is incredibly iconic and amazing and grand and spectacular, it's just amazing. I’m really excited about it."

New York Spring Spectacular kicks off in March, the same month Dancing with the Stars celebrates its 20th anniversary, something [link=nm...

Dancing with the Stars won't have as much spring in its step when it returns for its 20th anniversary in March.

Five-time winner Derek Hough has to bow out of the next installment of the ABC show because he'll play the male lead in New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall this spring.

Debuting in March, the limited, seven-week engagement will feature Hough as Jack, a man with a special mission who will receive an eternal reward if he's able to help a man named Bernie keep his position as a New York City tour guide. Bernie's job...

Independent distributor Cinedigm has agreed to distribute an octet of new cast-driven sci-fi and thriller features from Robert Halmi Jr.’s Great Point Media in a new multi-picture partnership between the companies. Cinedigm will take all U.S. rights to the films including theatrical, digital, VOD, home entertainment, and TV in addition to having first look rights to Great Point Media’s development line-up. First pair of features are slated for late 2014. Emmy and Golden Globe-winning producer Halmi has over three decades of film and TV under his belt, including genre titles Dinotopia, Arabian Nights, The 10th Kingdom, Cleopatra, Alice in Wonderland, […]...

While you were busy raging over the Emmy snubs on Thursday morning, Whoopi Goldberg was focusing her anger on the current state of The View — more specifically, the rumors of behind-the-scenes cat-fighting, following Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy’s exits.

“There’s a lot of speculation about a lot of stuff going on here,” Goldberg began at the top of the hour. “Yes, I’m here, [but] we don’t know who’s coming in.” (This was before ABC officially announced that Rosie O’Donnell will be returning as a co-host in Season 18.)

Related The View: Pick Your Dream Cast!

Following on from Sam Raimi’s endeavour into the fantastical world of Oz last spring, we now have another spin-off from the treasured and widely renowned world created by author L. Frank Baum. This time, adapting his grandson Roger S.Baum’s novel, directors Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre bring us Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, delving into this surreal universe in computer animated form.

Though biding her time in Kansas, Dorothy (Lea Michele) is alerted to the danger ongoing in her beloved Oz, with the dastardly Jester (Martin Short) wreaking havoc in the name of the Wicked Witch of the West, turning innocent civilians into marionettes. Transported back magically with the help of the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and the Cowardly Lion (James Belushi), Dorothy then has a task on her hands to reach the castle, embarking on an adventure across Oz alongside...

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Last week I wrote a long and rant-y column about the Disney Myth, as constructed in Saving Mr. Banks and deconstructed in Escape From Tomorrow. In an effort to prove I’m not the world’s biggest grouch — and because I spent the past week in the metaphorical Disneyland known as “being back home with my family for the holidays” — I decided to try an experiment that...

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The year of Baggins, Potter and Spider-Man also had a wealth of lesser-known movies. Here’s our pick of 2002's underappreciated films...

At the top of the box office tree, 2002 was dominated by fantasy and special effects. Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers made almost a billion dollars all by itself, with Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets taking second place and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man not too far behind.

In many ways, 2002 set the tempo for the Hollywood blockbuster landscape, which has changed relatively little in the decade since. A quick look at 2013‘s top 10, for example, reveals a markedly similar mix of superhero movies, with Iron Man 3 still ruling the roost at the time of writing, followed by effects-heavy action flicks and family-friendly animated features.

As usual in these lists, we're looking...

They say three's a crowd, but apparently none of the studios planning movies based on "The Jungle Book" have heard that adage.

Disney is the latest studio to hop onto the "Jungle Book" re-tooling boat, putting yet another egg into the House of Mouse's live-action reboot-heavy basket.

Yep, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that the Rudyard Kipling classic has been ordered to a live-action script by Justin Marks, who recently penned an adaptation of "The Raven" as well as a "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," and is now on the prowl for a director to attach to the pic.

Disney, of course, housed the  beloved 1967 animated and sing-songy adaptation which taught us all about how about how to forget about our worries and strife and so forth as Mowgli and Baloo the Bear pranced around the wilderness philosophizing and otherwise just steering clear of the toothy tiger Shere Khan. Ah,...

Last weekend the wall-eyed animated nightmare The Croods was an unexpected slam-dunk at the box office. Like many of you, we were sent into fits of existential panic over the lumpy, prehistoric countenances of the film's jug-faced-yet-allegedly-lovable lead characters, and probably won't be checking out the film anytime soon. After all, we already have plenty of other kid-targeted flicks to pepper our dreams with flashes of unintended terror. Here are a few of the most scarring examples.

(Note - we're focusing here on kids' movies that are way creepier than they probably intended to be, so classic kid-scarring genre flicks like The Dark Crystal, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Watcher in the Woods, etc. are off the table.)

The Peanut Butter Solution

I remember seeing this bizarre Canadian family film in the theatre when it came out in 1985, and I still have an irrational fear of homeless ghosts, paintbrushes made of human hair,...

Don’t worry, Disney isn’t developing a live-action adaptation of Tangled, or at least not yet. This is just the latest photo in Disney’s Disney Dreams portrait series featuring live-action reenactments of classic Walt Disney Animated classics using some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. The first batch included Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyonce as Alice in Wonderland. The second batch included Jessica Biel as Pocahontas, Whoopi Goldberg as [...]...

We've got a shitload of lists on this website. Top 10 most brutal women in horror, top buggy movies, top animal attacks; we even recently had top supermarket horror films. But we may have reached another level with this one… Film's Most Frightening Rabbits!

Bunnies are generally cute and cuddly so you'd think that "evil" ones would be a pretty rare find, right? Well, think again, my friend! Bunnies aren't always as cute as Anna Farris and Angela Bettis in May. Sometimes those flop-eared bastards are downright nasty. Sinister rabbits have made their presence known in all types of movies.

We celebrate this list in conjunction with the release of Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the long anticipated sequel to Silent Hill, which hits theaters on Friday, October 26.

There have been plenty of disturbing rabbits in film. One of the most disturbing that immediately comes to mind is Eminem's character, Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith in 8 Mile.

It's only three weeks since the Avengers began to arrive in UK cinemas - and less than two weeks in the USA - and discussions are already turning to sequels.

As the film climbs past The Dark Knight, Alice in Wonderland and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace to 9th place on the all-time global chart, with a total of $1.036 billion so far, it's clear that Marvel and its owner Disney will want to assemble the Avengers again.

Director Joss Whedon has scarcely had chance to relax before being tackled about a potential follow-up, which Disney chief Bob Iger has already said is in development.

Whedon tells the La Times - in an interview just published but conducted before the film's Us opening - that he has mixed feelings about returning for Avengers 2.

He said: "You know, I'm very torn. It's an enormous amount of work telling what is ultimately somebody else's story,...

I'm not particularly a fan of the whole Peter Pan story, so I didn't really make it a priority to watch a preview of the upcoming Syfy miniseries "Neverland." Sure, the same people who brought us an excellent retelling of "The Wizard of Oz" as well as a so-so exploration into "Alice in Wonderland" in the form of "Tin Man" and "Alice," were behind it. But still. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to visit Neverland, Capt. Hook, the Lost Boys and everyone else. But I'm glad I did. And when "Neverland" premieres Dec. 4 on Syfy, you will too. Written and directed by Nick Willing, who also wrote "Alice" and directed "Tin Man," this new approach to the story of Peter Pan and the creation of what would become a world where no one ages is both fun and moving at the same time. Charlie Rowe, ...

Ken Russell, the British director of Women in Love and The Devils, has died at the age of 84. We will be doing a retrospective on Russell throughout the month of December with reviews, articles and one special podcast dedicated to the provocative film maker who passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday afternoon. Active to the end, he reportedly was working on a new Alice in Wonderland movie musical – if only he completed it.

In an interview with the BBC, Glenda Jackson, who won an Oscar for her performance in Women in Love said that it was “a great shame” that Russell was virtually ignored by his peers in the British film industry. “I find it utterly scandalous for someone who was so innovative and a film director of international stature,” she said. Producer/director Michael Winner said, “He pushed the barriers completely and got away with it sometimes and didn’t others,...

Another bumper edition- I hereby pledge never to write several 2000 word reviews a week while neglecting this beautiful little column- with three weeks worth of viewing listed below.

An added element to the Film Diary this time around is the sub-challenge A Disney A Day, instigated at the behest of my girlfriend, who discovered that between us we now own every Disney home release- except the somewhat controversial Song of the South (which, despite featuring one of Disney’s most released soundtrack songs, is yet to see a DVD release)- and has decided that it would be a missed opportunity not to watch all of them as quickly as possible. Seems my spirit may have rubbed off there a little…

The count so far: 101 Films

Anyway, into three figures now, and catching up to the 1 film a day rate (though that’s slow for me). Read on, lovely Diary...

Currently, we’re in the throes of a Hollywood obsession to bring fairy tales to the big screen. It’s a fad that’s years away from peaking, leaving the sneaky triumph of “Hanna” all the more bewitching.

It’s not exactly “Snow White” or “Alice in Wonderland,” but a weird, swirling amalgamation of the Grimm Brothers’ catalog, sharpened to Ginsu standards by the Euro sensibilities of director Joe Wright. Think of a fantastical storybook odyssey crossed with “The Bourne Identity,” and you’ll have a slightly accurate read of the moviegoing pleasures of this surreal, neck-snapping revenge escapade…read more [DrarkHorizons]

Saoirse Ronan, Hanna

Hanna” is a first-rate thriller about the drawbacks of home schooling. As it opens, a teenage girl is in the act of killing a deer with her bow and arrow, and then as she’s gutting the carcass, a man sneaks up behind and says, “You’re dead!

A relatively quiet two weeks was had by all associated with the Film Diary (so that’s just me then), so this week’s edition is a bumper two week Summer Special. And why is it so special? Because it’s not summer yet, obviously.

Read on for twelve more additions to the sprawling beast that is this experiment in self-important “journalism” (including one familiar title)…

For anyone who missed it, here’s the skinny. Basically, what I’m presenting here is my attempt to chart a whole year’s worth of film-watching – something I have wanted to do for some time now. The aim is to post frequently, chronicling every film I watch this year – both offering reviews and setting myself the ultimate goal of watching (and writing about) as many films as humanly possible, without abandoning the necessary functions of normal existence…

Film #47 Easy A

See my full review here.

Keira Knightley has joined the cast of Syfy’s four-hour "Neverland" as the voice of Tinker Bell. A prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic "Peter Pan," "Neverland" is being written and directed by Nick Willing, and will air on Syfy in December 2011. Willing seems to have cornered the market on made-for-tv re-imaginings of classic tales. Among others, he's worked on 1999's "Alice in Wonderland," 2000's "Jason and the Argonauts" and SyFy's 2007 mini "Tin Man" with Zooey Deschanel. Other castmembers headed to "Neverland" include Rhys Ifans (as "Jimmy" Hook), Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins, and Charlie Rowe as a young Peter...

Keira Knightley may have bowed out of a fourth Pirates of the Carribean movie, but that doesn’t mean she’s quite ready to give up the pirate-themed projects. The actress has signed on to voice Tinker Bell in Syfy’s Peter Pan prequel Neverland, the network announced.

The four-hour, live-action film will be be written and directed by Nick Willing, who previously directed NBC’s 2009 Alice in Wonderland TV movie.

In the movie, a young Peter (Charlie Rowe, Pirate Radio) and his gang of pickpockets are accidentally transported to Neverland while attempting to steal a magical orb for their mentor Jimmy Hook (Rhys Ifans,...

With those elfin features and popular hairdo, Keira Knightley has often been called a pixie. That tag will only become more fitting now that the Oscar-nominated actress has signed on to provide the voice of the magical faerie Tinker Bell in "Neverland," Syfy's upcoming four-hour miniseries. Written and directed by Nick Willing, who also helmed the network's 2009 miniseries "Alice" (based on "Alice in Wonderland"), "Neverland" will be a live-action prequel to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan." Knightley joins previously announced cast members Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel and Bob Hoskins -- a solid list of...

What do you get when you combine the magic of Disney, the camera of Annie Leibovitz and some of the biggest stars in Hollywood? Well, you get a stellar collection of photographs by Annie Leibovitz. The Disney Dream Portrait Series is an ad campaign featuring a collection of iconic portraits by the famed photographer recreating scenes and portraying beloved characters from classic Disney films. The famous Disney characters are as easily recognizable as the stars portraying them and are truly marvelous and enchanting to behold.

Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges as Belle and the Beast transformed in Beauty and the Beast.

Where a moment of beauty lasts forever.

Beyonce as Alice, Lyle Lovett as the March Hare and Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland.

Where wonderland is your destiny.

Gisele Bundchen as Wendy Darling, Tina Fey as Tinkerbell and Mikhail Baryshnikov as that eternal boy Peter...

Over the last few years, Disney decided to create live-action reenactments of classic Walt Disney Animated classics using some of Hollywood's biggest stars. The first batch [1] included Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyonce as Alice in Wonderland. The second batch [2] included Jessica Biel as Pocahontas, Whoopi Goldberg as the Genie, Jennifer Lopez as Princess Jasmine and Marc Anthony as Aladdin, Tina Fey as Tinker Bell, Gisele Bundchen as Wendy Darling and Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan. Disney has decided to create another series of these Dream Portrait Series Ads by photographer Annie Leibovitz.The new set includes Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin as the spirit of the magic mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges appear as Belle and the transformed prince recalling the final scene from Beauty and the Beast, and Queen Latifah as Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

Special effects wizard Christian Manz is getting his tuxedo ready for this year's Oscars after helping to put the magic in the Harry Potter film franchise.

The 36-year-old visual effects supervisor has been nominated for an Academy Award for bringing the elves Dobby and Kreacher to life in blockbuster Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.

Manz (pictured above), a Kingston University illustration graduate, is a supervisor at Framestore, the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe, based in Soho, central London.  

Here he explains his involvement in the film - watch out for Spoilers if you haven't yet seen Deathly Hallows Pt 1 and don't want to know what happens - as well as other projects he has worked on and what he's in the midst of creating now.

When Deathly Hallows was being filmed, Toby Jones and Simon McBurney played the roles of Dobby and Kreacher.

The...

In Contention: Guy Lodge, the site’s England-based contributor, breaks down this year’s BAFTA Award nominations, which were announced this morning: “The King’s Speech” leads the field with 14 nominations, though “Black Swan” is close behind with 12; Julianne Moore was nominated alongside her “The Kids Are All Right” co-star Annette Bening in the best actress category, which is something that only one person that I know of — ahem — has been projecting for next week’s Oscar nominations; Barbara Hershey scored a best supporting actress nod over her “Black Swan” co-star Mila Kunis; Hailee Steinfeld (“True Grit”), was nominated for best actress, not best supporting actress; a Pete Postlethwaite (“The Town”) received a posthumous best supporting actor nod “shamelessly rooted in sentiment.” Lodge notes with dismay BAFTA’s best adapted screenplay snub of “Winter’s Bone” but nod for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”; visual effects snub of “Tron: Legacy...

“Deep Vote,” an Oscar winning screenwriter and a member of the Academy, will write this column — exclusively for ScottFeinberg.com — every week until the Academy Awards. He will help to peel back the curtain on the Oscar voting process by sharing his thoughts about the films he sees and, ultimately, his nomination and final ballots, as well. His identity must be protected in order to spare him from repercussions for disclosing the aforementioned information.

Thus far, he has shared his thoughts in column one about his general preferences; column two about “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions, 6/11, R, trailer) and “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay Films, 5/21, R, trailer); column three about “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney, 3/5, PG, trailer), “Toy Story 3” (Disney, 6/18, G, trailer), and “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/7, R, trailer); and column four about “Get Low” (Sony Pictures Classics, 7/30, PG-13, trailer), “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features, 7/9, R, trailer), and “The Social Network” (Columbia,...

Syfy is bringing another re-imagined take on a classic tale to life. Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, at Syfy has announced that production is set to begin ona prequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan, entitled Neverland.

Neverland will be helmed by writer/director Nick Willing. Syfy and Mr. Willing have successfully teamed up in the past to create several Syfy television mini-series.

Willing directed the three part reinterpretation of The Wizard of Oz, Tin Man for Syfy in 2007, and wrote and directed Syfy’s spin on Alice In Wonderland, Alice in 2009.

Tin Man offered an engaging take on Oz and its central characters. The story was fresh, dynamic, and emotionally rewarding. An outstanding cast, rounded out by Richard Dreyfuss as the infamous “wizard,” brought the…

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SyFy has announced that they will begin production on a new TV movie called Neverland, which will be a four-hour prequel to the story of Peter Pan.  It's being written and directed by Nick Willing, who worked on Syfy's Tin Man and Alice, which were reimaginings of The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland.

Synopsis:

Sweeping in time from the turbulent seas of the pirates of the Caribbean to the back alleys of Dickensian London to a world of pure imagination, "Neverland" is the inspired origin story of one of the most cherished characters of all time, Peter Pan.

Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter (Rowe) and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they've been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a priceless--some believe, magical--treasure which transports them to another world. Neverland is a...

The Emmy Awards are getting closer, and for fans of TV that probably means more than Oscar Night. But whether you are a television addict or not, the medium’s hiking quality means that the night of August 29th will present some of the most talented people currently working in the entertainment industry. In a year when feature films have consistently disappointed –with few exceptions –and when a hike in 3D and spectacle has also led to huge gaps in scripts and a general movie snooze-fest, TV has done its best to show that the small screen holds a lot of surprises; the list of this year’s nominees is a first-rate display of shows and performances that have often surpassed their big screen counterparts. Who said TV had an inferiority complex?

The main categories in play contain welcome newcomers (Glee, Modern Family, The Good Wife, Men of a Certain Age...

Thelma Schoonmaker — who is working with Martin Scorsese as editor on his new movie Hugo Cabret — has revealed to Empire that the storied director was keen to shoot the project in 3-D because it creates a different feel to a movie.

“He’s always been passionate about 3-D and, as a matter of fact, we’ve started screening older 3-D movies," she said. "We looked at Avatar and Alice in Wonderland then we looked at the older ones, and we love them."

“Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder in 3-D is a whole other movie," Schoonmaker went on. "There’s only one really dramatic shot that is 3-D in the sense that most people think of it—Grace Kelly’s being strangled, the camera’s behind her, and she reaches back for the scissors. And that’s a beautiful 3-D Shot.”

However, she also confirmed the decision to shoot Hugo Cabret...

Ok guys, we already know that 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret is coming, and we’re all very excited to see what legendary director Martin Scorsese will do with this story.

And yes, we all had a chance to hear that he’s very excited by 3D as well, but trust us, it looks that this project is going to be an extraordinary one…

Scorsese previously said: “if the camera move is going to be a 3D effect, it has to be for dramatic purposes – not just throwing spears at the audience. And that, maybe I can’t do that. Maybe my daughter’s generation, she’s 10 now, can think that way.”

And now, a little update! Filmmaker’s longtime collaborator/editor Thelma Schoonmaker added:

“Scorsese is in love with 3D. He looked at Avatar and Alice in Wonderland and he didn’t...

Everything old is/will be new again in Hollywood. And it's not just the standard issue remakes, sequels, and prequels that are responsible for it, but thanks to the success of Sherlock Holmes and Alice in Wonderland, the studios are searching the public domain vaults for recognizable, crowd-pleasing titles that they can get for free.

The most popular title in this new trend is without question The Wizard of Oz. Currently, there are four - count 'em, four - projects in various stages of development based on L. Frank Baum's characters and story. Sam Raimi will direct Oz: The Great and Powerful starring Robert Downey, Jr., Drew Barrymore has been mentioned to helm the sequel Surrender Dorothy, and Todd McFarlane is still working on a dark, gothic version of the story. That's nothing new to Oz: The 1939 movie everybody knows was the 13th attempt at a film adaptation in 20 years.

Last night, HeyUGuys attended the World Premiere of Disney’s new movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (you can see all our coverage here). The big change in this premiere to all others was the location in which it was staged. Rather than bringing the world’s press to London’s famous and historic Leicester Square, the premiere was hosted by the brand spanking new shopping centre, Westfield which is located in Shepherd’s Bush – a place that unless you live in the UK, you’ve probably never heard of!

I’ve tried to find information on what and when the first ever movie premiere was held in Leicester Square but have so far failed to find the information. I did however come across information on the first ever Royal Premiere on BigBusTours.com who tell us:

The first Royal film premiere took place at the Odeon Leicester...

I could write a post discussing 3D every single day as a new film will be released in the format or discussion arises over the effect 3D is going to have on the future of film. Back in March Martin Scorsese raised a few eyebrows when he weighed in with his thoughts on 3D saying, "We see in depth, for the most part. We go to the theater -- it's in depth. Why couldn't a film like Precious be in 3D? It should be." To which many people said (myself included), "Really Marty?"

As it turns out his reply is, "Yes, really, and I am going to now do my own movie in 3D."

The news comes via Variety saying Scorsese's The Invention of Hugo Cabret for Columbia Pictures will be shot in 3D and released on December 9, 2011. Of course, the main bit of news here is that Scorsese will...

'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and 'G.I. Joe 2' might also use the eye-popping technology.

By Eric Ditzian

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"

Photo: Kimberley French/Summit Entertainment

During MTV News' 3-D Week, we've suggested films that deserve a conversion into three dimensions ("The Matrix," "Predator") and certain scenes we never want to see in 3-D (the birthing scene in "Breaking Dawn," Leo DiCaprio's death in "Titanic").

We've also previewed the next three years in 3-D releases: animated flicks like "Cars 2," comic book adaptations like "Green Lantern," genre works like "Sucker Punch" and more.

Now we turn our attention to films we're not exactly sure will get the 3-D treatment but we have a pretty strong feeling will. From the "Twilight" franchise to big-budget action productions to live-action/animation hybrids, here are the movies we think might well be...

Dear Mr. Burton: What happened to you? You used to be so creative, have such imagination. You were strange, unknowable but always managed to imbue your films with such heart and feeling. From “Ed Wood” to “Edward Scissorhands” to “Beetlejuice” your films have always entertained and inspired us. But when you undertook to usurp the brilliant work of Gene Wilder with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” you crossed the line, and you’ve never come back. “Alice in Wonderland,” or “Alice in Blunder-land” as Scott calls it, marks a new low in your descending career. Why such harsh words for you? You’ll have to listen to find out!

Also, Scott and I go off on a tangent about the enigma that is Nicolas Cage. Genius? Abomination? Or both? How can the same actor be responsible for both “Raising Arizona” and “Ghost Rider”? It boggles the mind.

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I love top 1o articles, its a great way to get debate going for a few hours. I try not to make a habit of doing them all the time but today I was sort of inspired. I recently saw Alice In Wonderland this weekend and it donned on me that we still have 2 months before the summer movies grace us with the their presence, I then began to wonder what films I was actually excited about seeing this summer. I have now compiled the top 10 movies I Can’t Wait to See This Summer.

So all of you know I consider the summer movie season to begin in May and end in July. So movies looked at were only in those release periods, not before or afterwards. Oh yeah I left Iron Man 2 off the list because that one just seemed to easy to get excited for, also...

Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Mark Ruffalo on the set of Shutter Island (top); America Ferrera, Lance Gross in Our Family Wedding (bottom) Weekend Box Office: Alice In Wonderland Rules; Green Zone, Remember Me Disappoint Right behind Remember Me, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, was #5 with $8.3 million. To date, the dark thriller has grossed $108 million. New entry Our Family Wedding, featuring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera, was #6, with $7.6 million at 1,558 screens or $4,735 per screen. James Cameron’s Avatar was #7 with $6.6 million. To date, the sci-fier has grossed $730.3 million. At #8, Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest earned $4.29 million. Starring Richard Gere, Don [...]...

Arjuna, a regular reader and frequent commenter, emailed in with an editorial idea as a follow-up to my "Will You Pay to Upgrade to a 3D TV?" post wondering how much 3D has affected film piracy.

The question as Hollywood appears to be turning to 3D for more and more of their blockbuster releases, many of which are being converted from 2D to 3D such as the recently released Alice in Wonderland and the upcoming Clash of the Titans. However, to this point very few of these films were actually shot in 3D, which means the experience will likely differ from one film to the next, or at least that is the assumed logic from one to the next.

Outside of CG-animated films, which are already in 3D and for many years were actually just flattened for 2D releases, Avatar is the first (and really only) film that comes to...

Below you will see a new poster for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which features Ben Kingsley looking menacing, Gemma Arterton looking sultry, and Jake Gyllenhaal looking heroic and hairy but not remotely Persian. It's basically the character posters we've been seeing for months now, except with everyone in one place this time. In other words, big yawn. I don't know why this movie feels so much more hyped than, say, Iron Man 2, which comes out a week earlier, but it's becoming the new Alice in Wonderland in terms of "movies for which I am sick of writing about promotional materials." Just get the damn movie out there already. In the meantime, check out the poster below and ponder the meaning of the big red cloth tied around Jake's waist.

Anne Hathaway has admitted to channelling Nigella's 'sensuality' for her White Queen in Alice in Wonderland. But she's only blown the whistle on the greatest source of character inspiration in modern cinema

Aside from the boycott drama and the mixed reviews, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has drawn attention for one reason: Anne Hathaway's portrayal of the White Queen. Apparently, it's based entirely on Nigella Lawson. Tim Burton hinted as much last month, noting Lawson's ability to look "really nuts", and Hathaway herself confirmed the rumours this week by praising Lawson's "passion" and "sensuality".

To the uninitiated, all this Nigella talk might seem like nothing more than a cheap ploy to get a few more dads to go to the pictures. But in reality Burton and Hathaway are simply tapping into a long history of movie characters based on television chefs. It's a little-known fact that almost...

The "Jersey Shore" cast stopped by "The View" today (Tue. Feb. 23), but the showdown we were hoping for never went down.

Instead of watching some kind of brawl between trash talking Joy Behar and the cast, we felt like we were watching visiting day at the old folks' home.

Even as we watched the show's "Hot Topics" segment it seemed fireworks were in store when the cast arrived. Behar, once again, restated her position that the MTV show portrayed negative Italian-American stereotypes.

Whoopi Goldberg wore a huge top hat like the one worn by The Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland" saying that having the cast as guests made her feel like she "fell down the rabbit hole." Oh, this is going to be good, we thought.

We creeped until our favorite guidos and guidettes finally took to the couch. When they did? Nothing.

Blowout: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino began...

Super Bowl Xliv‎ is over and the Saints were able to shut down Peyton Manning and the Colts, but we’re not here to talk about that. It’s often said that the majority of viewers tune into the big game just for the commercials, so on that note we have some TV spots for upcoming movies for you.

We already had a chance to see the Super Bowl ads for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender as well as Ridley Scott’s take on Robin Hood but now that the game has aired, we can show you the latest commercials for The Wolfman, Prince of Persia and Alice in Wonderland.

We’ll go through this in order of when the movies debut so starting us off is Joe Johnston’s remake of The Wolfman which stars Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving

The Wolfman opens next weekend,...

The two Super Bowl Spots which have just run in this year's Super Bowl are now available to embed on your site. First up, see the spot from Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Anne Hathaway, Stephen Fry, Christopher Lee, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman, Matt Lucas, Timothy Spall and Barbara Windsor. Next, see the spot for the eagerly anticipated game adaptation "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time," starring Jake Gylenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Roby Kebbell and Richard Coyle...