Be Our Guest

May 23, 2016

The first teaser trailer for the live action Disney version of Beauty and the Beast is here! Starring Emma Watson as Belle this new film will join Cinderella and The Jungle Book as Disney works through its animated catalogue including alternative stories like Maleficent. The cast is extensive and from this first look it seems mood and music are at the forefront of Beauty and the Beast. The film will include music from composer Alan Menken along with Menken’s original songs he wrote with lyricist Howard Ashman. Two more songs will be added, but the film down not release until March 17, 2017 so that could still change. Looks to be the first full musical for Disney so get ready!

Beauty and the Beast

The first trailer has arrived from 20th Century Fox for their adaptation of the video game Assassin’s Creed. Directed by Australian Justin Kurzel the film stars his Macbeth team of Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. Hitting theaters in December of this year, the trailer gets a pulsing overcoat of sound that includes a track from Kanye West. Check it out!

Assassin’s Creed

A Tale of Two Jungles

September 16, 2015

One of my favorite Disney animated features is coming again to the big screen in their live action (meaning CGI) adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. If this will do anything hopefully it will dispel my horrible memories of the 1994 live action version directed by Stephen Sommers. This version will play into our animated childhood as the animals have voices, Scarlett Johansson’s is an overtly seductive Ka in this trailer. This is NOT to be confused with the competing Warner Bros project that has Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan and is being put together by Andy Serkis’ company, Imaginarium. Hopefully director Jon Favreau will not fall into the Cinderella trap and gives us something fresh, but I have my doubts that will not be satiated until April 2016.

The Jungle Book