For a while now, Jennifer Garner has been set to star in TWC’s comedy/parody/metaphor, BUTTER, which kinda makes fun of the 2008 caucus of Hillary Clinton Vs. Obama. Garner will play a Hillary-esque character in this story scripted by Jason Micallef, it actually made it in the 2008 Black list (great unproduced screenplays)… Read the rest of this entry »
Gotta love Funnyordie.com.. now it has reunited all of the former Presidents to advice Barrack Obama on Consumer protection agency. Directed by Ron Howard starring SNL legends and current stars as Obama, Michelle, W. Bush, Bush Sr. Even Dan Aykroyd showed up as Jimmy Carter although the real Carter isn’t fat. And the cream of the crop is Jim Carrey as the ghost of Ronald Reagan. Regan in SNL back in the day was played by the late great Phil Hartman. Check out the vibrant video after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »
I’m watching SUPERBOWL right now but since it’s halftime, I figured I’d tackle these 2 info that arrived this past weekend via Deadline Hollywood, in a recent article about studios hiring newcomer directors so they won’t spend too much money on already established directors,so here they are… Read the rest of this entry »
After all the controversy and the long wait, I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS will finally hit U.S. theaters this Spring in select cities and Freestyle Releasing has released the official U.S. trailer online for the upcoming comedy starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. A thousand thanks to Rama’s SCREEN reader Steven for the heads up and for also pointing us to 3 clips and 1 small poster, via JimCarreyOnline, from EuropaCorp that also hit the web. Watch them all after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Some might get angry if we call it Motion capture, they’d insist the politically correct term is performance capture well either way I don’t wanna say the word ‘performance’ twice in one sentence, hell I’m already grammatically challenged as it is.
But when I saw Disney’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL, I was impressed by Jim Carrey whom we know does have the talent for such physical demanding gigs like this plus those marker-based performance and facial capture suit and gadgets that the actors have to wear while performing the scenes look like they could get uncomfortable.
My question is, do you think there would come a time when someday Oscar would recognize motion-captured performances for Acting categories? Or do you think these types of technological performances are separate and in a completely different category than the traditional acting nominations (Best lead and Best Supporting)?
A new clip from Disney’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL in 3D directed by Rob Zemeckis has showed up online, via comingsoon. This is the scene after Scrooge (Jim Carrey) went through his rude awakening and is about to surprise Bob Cratchit (Gary Oldman) with an unlikely news. Watch the clip after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Only less than a month away until the release of Disney’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL in 3D directed by the great Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge and a bunch of other motion capture characters in this classic tale.
The featurette is online, via Yahoo, which you can watch using the media player below. Basic stuff, actors praising directors, directors praising actors, all of them praising one of the oldest redemption stories ever told. Check it out after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Disney has released the second trailer for A CHRISTMAS CAROL in 3D directed by Robert Zemeckis, via Apple, which you can watch using the media player below. Compared to the previous trailer, this one starts off with carolers and ‘Joy To The World’ and then Scrooge comes along and takes the fun out of it. I’m beginning to think that maybe Will Ferrell should’ve played the motion capture role instead of Jim Carrey only because there’s lots of screaming involved. At one point, Scrooge literally becomes small and he rides on an icicle. Zemeckis said that he wanted to make A CHRISTMAS CAROL the way Charles Dickens had it in mind because Zemeckis felt the story in the book itself was cinematic.. I’ve never read the book but was a giant icicle part of it?
“Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it’s too late.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL opens November 6th, 2009
It’s an evening of posters, next stop is A CHRISTMAS CAROL by director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, The Polar Express). Now that the trailer is finally online, the poster is available as well via Cinematical. But I don’t find it as stunning, creative and artistic as the previous fiery poster. Zemeckis said at Comic-Con ‘09 that he believed Charles Dickens‘ classic story was cinematic so he tried to capture it the way it’s intended. I wonder if the look in the artwork above is what Dickens had in mind a long time ago,… but I’m sure he’d be impressed. Bah, Humbug!
A multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it’s too late.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL opens November 6th, 2009
I know we’re in the middle of fixing Rama’s SCREEN right now, but Rama’s SCREEN reader Esteban has informed that the Italian trailer for Robert Zemeckis‘ upcoming 3D Disney’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL hit the web. It’s lo-quality but it shows Jim Carrey’s motion performance as Ebenezer Scrooge flying and screaming everywhere. Click on the image below to watch the trailer on youtube…
