Robert Zemeckis

'Back To The Future' Broadway-Bound?

Posted 02.03.2012

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Get your DeLorean ready: "Back to the Future" could be returning -- as a musical. A representative for writer and director Robert Zemeckis confirme...

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Denzel Washington's Takes 'Flight'

ew.com | Posted 11.09.2011

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Robert Zemeckis has settled on a Flight plan. The Back to the Future filmmaker is making his first non-motion-capture movie since 2000′s Cast Away,...

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Tom Hanks Blasting Off Again

Posted 08.13.2011

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Call it the ultimate Tom Hanks mashup. After his trip to the moon in "Apollo 13" went haywire 16-years ago, Tom Hanks is set to blast off into space o...

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Denzel Washington's Flight Drama

Posted 08.06.2011

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Denzel Washington is close to playing a hero pilot, but don't put him in Sully Sullenberger territory just yet. According to the Los Angeles Times,...

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Mars Needs Moms and the Uncanny Valley

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.28.2011

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Naturally, such a spectacular flop has caused furious head scratching as studio executives try to figure out what happened so future films can avoid a similar fate.

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Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast: Zemeckis Vanishes Into the Uncanny Valley

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

A fond farewell to actor Michael Gough, a fine character actor who appeared in numerous genre films, ranging from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Sleepy Hollow (1999).

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Artistic Comeback? From Where? Matthew McConaughey's Best Films, Post-Stardom

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Much of the babbling over this weekends The Lincoln Lawyer has been about the idea that the well-reviewed legal thriller represents some kind of artistic reawakening for Mr. Matthew McConaughey.

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ReThink Review: Mars Needs Moms -- Appreciate Your Mom, Or Else!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Mars Needs Moms Milo's true journey isn't to the red planet and back, but to learn to appreciate the often thankless work of being a good parent.

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Movie Review: Toy Story 3

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Forget every other computer-animated film that's on the schedule for this summer: Toy Story 3, which is in 3D, is the one computer-animated film that you need to see.

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Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is, by my count, the third version of Dickens' story that Walt Disney Studios has put out. The story, however, was always Dickens', as it is now.

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ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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I found parts of A Christmas Carol, which is being marketed exclusively to kids with Disney's promotional muscle, to be much more upsetting than anything in Where the Wild Things Are.

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Christmas In Cannes: 'Carol' Peek With Jim Carrey's Scrooge

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CANNES, France — Jim Carrey has multiple personalities in his next movie. Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis brought a bit of holiday cheer to...

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Beowulf Review: The New York Times Can't Resist Angelina Jolie Naked

New York Times | MANOHLA DARGIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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You don't need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this "Beowulf" isn't your high ...

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Beowulf Review: "Highly Entertaining - But Far From Classic"

NY Post | Lou Lumenick | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this lusty Hollywood version, Beowulf rises to the throne of Denmark after striking a Faustian bargain with Grendel's mom, only to pay an awful pri...

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Beowulf Review: Variety Calls Epic "Sometimes Stirring But Ultimately Soulless"

Variety | Justin Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

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Further advancing the much-vaunted performance-capture technology he unleashed with "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis delivers a muscular,...

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Beowulf In A Fight With Itself

LA Times | John Horn | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's as close as moviegoers will ever get to being Brad Pitt: the chance to hang out with Angelina Jolie (or a digitally manipulated version of the ac...

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Beowulf Review: "A Lot More Fun" Than The Poem

USA Today | Claudia Puig | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beowulf couldn't be less faithful to the original epic poem, and that's actually a good thing for moviegoers. It's a lot more fun than the mythic adv...

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Beowulf Technology Review: "It Is Leaving Something Out"

New York Times | David F. Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011

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When John Markoff wrote about the Contour digital special-effects system last year, he noted that it would be judged by its ability to help animators ...

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"Beowulf" Is "Postmodern Fun" In 3-D Performance Capture

Hollywood Reporter via Reuters | Kirk Honeycutt | Posted 05.25.2011

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What have they done to "Beowulf," everyone's least favorite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoyi...

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Beowulf Review: "Some Of The Dialogue Sounds Like Monty Python"

Chicago Sun Times | Roger Ebert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Variety reports that Paramount has entered "Beowulf" in the Academy Awards' best animated film category, which means nothing is really there, realisti...

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Beowulf Review Round-Up: Jaw-Dropping Technology And Naked Angelina Almost Make It A Winner

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The new version of "Beowulf", Robert Zemeckis' $150 million performance-capture extravaganza is the most anticipated movie of the weekend, and for tec...

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Beowulf Review: AP Says "Beowulf Could Be Paris Hilton"

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 05.25.2011

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The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf...

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3-D Epic "Beowulf" Aims To Score With Adults

Los Angeles Times | Josh Friedman, Lorenza Muñoz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Movie ticket sales are flat, but Hollywood thinks a sword-wielding Nordic warrior seduced by Angelina Jolie in 3-D can pump them up. Loosely drawn fr...

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Beowulf Review: "Holy ****ing Moly"

Cinematical | Scott Weinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Part I: The Presentation Holy ****ing moly. I've simply never seen anything like it. IMAX 3-D and a movie that was tailor-made for this kind of prese...

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Beowulf Review: "A Singular Work Of Art"

IGN | Todd Gilchrist | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Zemeckis' new film Beowulf offers a powerful reminder of how far we've come, and perhaps have yet to go, in the ever-expanding world of special...

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