This is one of the films I am really looking forward to next year (Superman and Star Trek). 2013 should be a great year as long as the Mayans were wrong and the world doesn’t end next week. The new Superman reboot looks like it just might be pretty good. Check out the new Man of Steel [… read more]
PETER JACKSON (Director/Producer/Screenwriter) is one of the world’s most successful filmmakers. His monumental achievement was “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, which he directed, as well as co-wrote and produced together with fellow Academy Award® winners and frequent collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Collectively, the films earned a total of 30 Academy Award® nominations, [… read more]
IAN McKELLEN (Gandalf the Grey) has been honored with over 50 international acting awards during his half-century on stage and screen. He is treasured worldwide as Magneto in the “X-Men” films and Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy. In “The Hobbit” Trilogy he again plays Gandalf the Grey, the role that earned him [… read more]
RETURN TO MIDDLE-EARTH: DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD OF THE FILM Stone Street Studios, Peter Jackson’s production facilities in Miramar, New Zealand, has nearly tripled in size and capabilities since the days when he and his team made “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy in the converted paint factory. Building the world of “The Hobbit: [… read more]
A TALE THAT GREW IN THE TELLING: ADAPTING THE HOBBIT “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it [… read more]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey In High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D) in select theaters, other 2D and 3D formats, and IMAX® Friday, December 14 From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” the first of a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The three films [… read more]
Choose your ammo…Slug it out! [amazon_link id=”B00A429YRE” target=”_blank” ]SLUGTERRA: RETURN OF THE SHANE GANG[/amazon_link] The First DVD Collection from the Slugterra Animated Series Available in Stores February 12, 2013 from Shout! Factory Kids On February 12, 2013, Shout! Factory Kids, in collaboration with Nerd Corps Entertainment, will release SLUGTERRA: RETURN OF THE SHANE GANG, the [… read more]
Following the events of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling graphic novel (Superman: Earth One) by acclaimed writer Michael J. Straczynski and superstar artist Shane Davis, comes the long awaited sequel SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE VOL. 2. Young Clark Kent continues his journey toward becoming the World’s Greatest Super Hero, but finds dealing with humanity to be [… read more]
MONSUNO: DESTINY The First DVD Collection from the MONSUNO Animated Series Available in Stores January 8, 2013 from Shout! Factory Kids On January 8, 2013, Shout! Factory Kids, in collaboration with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), the brand extension and licensing arm of FremantleMedia, will release MONSUNO: DESTINY, the first DVD collection based on the highly popular [… read more]
THE MYSTICAL LAWS, a new Japanese anime film from the animators of “NARUTO,” “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and “Neon Genesis: EVANGELION.” Directed by Isamu Imakake (“Cowboy Bebop;” “Neon Genesis: EVANGELION”), THE MYSTICAL LAWS is the ultimate battle of good vs. evil as the Earth is under threat from militant forces and an invasion from another planet. Set in [… read more]