Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More After success with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Disney is looking to put a Wizard of Oz prequel on the fast track with both a possible director and star circling the project. According to Production Weekly, Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to star as the wizard in an original …
Read More »Sam Clafin Joins Cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Disney has announced newcomer Sam Clafin has joined the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Clafin will be taking on the role of a youthful missionary named Philip, according to Coming Soon. Clafin is a twenty three year old recent graduate of the London Academy of Music, …
Read More »Experience More of Wonderland …
Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical new adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an imaginative new twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old, returns to the …
Read More »Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Catches a Mermaid
French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey has joined the cast of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, she will be playing Syrena, a “beautiful and alluring young mermaid.” Though relatively unknown outside of France, Berges-Frisbey has appeared on stage at the Theatre Marigny …
Read More »Zemeckis to Produce and Direct Dark Life
Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and Disney have partnered with Gotham Group to produce the soon to be published sci-fi young adult novel, Dark Life, to theater screens with Zemeckis attached to direct, according to Variety. The book was written by North Western University professor and screenwriter Kat Falls and will have …
Read More »Maleficent Nabs Alice’s Screenwriter
Hot on the heels of the success of Alice In Wonderland, Disney has hired Alice scribe Linda Woolverton to pen the live action screenplay of Sleeping Beauty from the wicked queen Maleficent’s point of view. Maleficent will probably be in the same spirit of the book and Broadway musical “Wicked”, …
Read More »Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Remastered For Hi-Def
This Spring, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) proudly presents the eagerly awaited high definition debuts of Disney/Pixar’s original animated classics Toy Story and Toy Story 2. In 1995, Toy Story made history as the first feature-length computer animated film and, together with its beloved sequel Toy Story 2, helped …
Read More »Box Office Remains In Wonderland
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” pulled off an impressive win at the weekend boxoffice, beating the highly-anticipated “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” with an estimated $34.5 million. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, March 21, 2010 include: Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross …
Read More »Box Office Takes Another Trip Through The Looking Glass
Disney’s fantasy Alice in Wonderland shrank al little in its second outing but again topped the box office in a big way, taking in an estimated $62 million over the weekend. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, March 14, 2010 include: …
Read More »Disney’s D23 Celebrates Disneyland’s 55th Anniversary
It’s a milestone year for the Disneyland® Resort, and D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans is celebrating with the premiere of DESTINATION D, a brand-new, two-day event exclusively for D23 Members that illuminates Disney’s fascinating history. D23 announced its latest members-only event on its first anniversary – capping a …
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