Oh my goodness, it’s almost here! After years of speculation, false starts, and delays, the release of the first part of The Hobbit trilogy is only a few short days away. And with such a big tent-pole release, the studios are rushing to attach previews to it, in order to create more awareness for their upcoming 2013 films. One such film is Star Trek Into Darkness, and that movie’s anno...[Read More]
In my more recent weekly box office columns, I pointed out a few times that British-based Aardman Animation has yet to find much success across the Atlantic except in very rare cases. Its initial full-length feature Chicken Run and the movie adaptation of their greatest claim to fame, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit remain the most popular and financially successful of the compan...[Read More]
If you make a feature-length movie in one month and decide not to give your actors a script, you can expect to see some flaws in the final product. The good news for Like Crazy, winner of this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the latest film from 28-year-old writer/director Drake Doremus, is that the movie’s positives far outweigh its negatives. What begins as a stereotypi...[Read More]