The Croods

New Images from ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SAFE, AFTERSHOCK, CASA DE MI PADRE, BYZANTIUM, THE CROODS and THE LORDS OF SALEM

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: February 13th, 2012 at 8:03 pm

We’ve got a bunch of new images for you from the following projects:

• Safe, starring Jason Statham, opens April 27th.
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, starring Benjamin Walker, opens June 22nd.
• Casa de mi Padre, starring Will Ferrell, opens March 16th.
• Aftershock, starring Eli Roth, opens next year.
• Byzantium, starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton, opens later this year.
• The Lords of Salem, from writer/director Rob Zombie, opens later this year.
• The Croods, starring Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Nicolas Cage, opens March 22nd of 2013.

Hit the jump to check them out.

Promo Posters for THE HOBBIT, THE HUNGER GAMES, BATTLESHIP, and More

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: June 14th, 2011 at 1:37 pm

With the 2011 Licensing International Expo currently underway in Las Vegas, many promo posters have started hitting the net.  Yesterday we posted the promo poster for The Avengers as well as the promo posters for The Amazing Spider-Man, Hotel Transylvania, and more.  Continuing the barrage of advertising, we now have promo posters for The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, Battleship, The Three Stooges, The Lorax, 47 Ronin, The Croods, The Bourne Legacy, Rise of the Guardians, Stretch Armstrong, RIPD, Fast & Furious 6, and How to Train Your Dragon 2.  It’s worth noting that the promo poster for Fast & Furious 6 says the film is due out in 2013, which isn’t too surprising.  More intriguing is that the poster for How to Train Your Dragon 2 is simply titled “Dragons“.

Hit the jump to check out the promo posters and look out for more over the coming days.

DreamWorks Animation Announces Schedule Through 2014; Includes Release Dates and Synopses

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: March 8th, 2011 at 10:07 am

DreamWorks Animation has announced their schedule through 2014 and it’s loaded with both original projects and sequels.  As far as sequels, the studio has three planned and they include Kung Fu Panda 2, Madagascar 3 and How to Train Your Dragon 2.  While I’m very excited for a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon, some of their upcoming original projects also sound great.  The two that immediately stand out are Me and My Shadow (which will combine both CG and traditional animation) and director Rob Minkoff’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman - which is based on Jay Ward’s classic cartoon and will feature the voice of Robert Downey Jr.!  Here’s the release schedule:

• Kung Fu Panda 2 - May 26, 2011
• Puss In Boots - November 4, 2011
• Madagascar 3 - June 8, 2012
• Rise of the Guardians - November 21, 2012
• The Croods - March 1, 2013
• Turbo - June 7, 2013
• Me and My Shadow - November 8, 2013
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman - March 21, 2014
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 - June 20, 2014

Hit the jump for the synopses:

WRATH OF THE TITANS Moves to March 23, 2012, the Same Date as THE HUNGER GAMES

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: February 9th, 2011 at 10:53 am

Warner Bros. has moved up the Clash of the Titans sequel, Wrath of the Titans, from March 30, 2012 to March 23, 2012.  That new date puts it into conflict with Lionsgate’s planned released of Gary Ross’ adaptation of the popular young-adult novel The Hunger Games.  Now the question is whether or not Lionsgate will blink and shift Hunger Games to a new date.

After Wrath of the Titans‘ date shift, the only film that currently occupies the March 30th slot is DreamWorks Animation’s family comedy The Croods.  It’s possible that Wrath of the Titans was shifted so it wouldn’t have to share 3D screens with the DWA flick. [Box Office Mojo]

Emma Stone Interview EASY A

by Sheila Roberts    Posted: September 11th, 2010 at 8:04 am

With her striking beauty and genuine talent, Emma Stone is one of Hollywood’s most sought after young actresses. In her hilarious new comedy, Easy A, she turns in a terrific performance as Olive Penderghast, a smart high school senior who tells a little white lie about losing her virginity and gains an overnight reputation for being the campus slut. As her life begins to parallel Hester Prynne’s in The Scarlet Letter, Olive sets out to loosen the town up a little bit from its Puritanical values by turning the rumor mill to her advantage.

The 21-year-old actress recently wrapped production on Crazy, Stupid, Love in which she stars opposite Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling. She is currently in production on The Help, adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s New York Times best-selling novel about three women set in the deep south of 1962. The film, which also stars Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard, is being directed by Tate Taylor and is scheduled for release in 2011. She is also lending her voice to the animated comedy The Croods along with Ryan Reynolds and Nicholas Cage. And there are rumors of a script in the works for a 3D sequel to the popular zombie comedy, Zombieland, in which Emma might reprise the role of Wichita.  More after the jump:

Nicholas Cage and Ryan Reynolds Join THE CROODS

by David Corbin    Posted: February 25th, 2010 at 8:59 am

DreamWorks Animation is going back to basic with their new movie, The Croods. Croods will be a prehistoric comedy set in the early days of mankind. Variety is reporting that Croods will feature Nicholas Cage as a tribal leader who must lead his people to a new home in the aftermath of a disastrous earthquake. Ryan Reynolds will voice a wanderer full of modern (read: dangerous) ideas. Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimps) will share the writing and directing with Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch). Hit the jump for my thoughts on DWA’s latest project.

DreamWorks Animation Plans To Do Nothing I Like

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

DreamWorks Animation is profitable.  It has been ever since a billion pop-culture references vomited out of Shrek’s mouth back in 2001.  I suppose DreamWorks Animation is useful in that we’ll always have a company that will be wildly inferior to Pixar.

But when reading Variety’s report about DWA’s plans for the future, it’s not hard to see why.  For starters, they want five new films over the next two years.  Pixar keeps to one really, really good film per year.  Second, bragging about their successful franchies of “Shrek”, “Kung Fu Panda”, and now “Monsters vs. Aliens”, Co-President of Production Bill Damaschke says they want two sequels a year and one original movie.  Huzzah.  And finally, as per CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg’s asinine mandate, all projects will be produced in 3D (you know, because it’s the future and shit.  Emphasis on the “and shit”).

I don’t mean to be so down on DreamWorks Animation because they have produced some enjoyable flicks like “Bee Movie” and “Over the Hedge”.  But this insistence on arbitrary business guidelines like how many films they’ll make and how many must be sequels and why they all have to be in 3D so that we can breed a nation of cross-eyed children (someone will do a study; mark my words) is the hollowness of Hollywood laid bare.  And I’m not saying that Pixar only thinks of stories and lives in a magical world where they don’t have business considerations.  But it’s so disheartening to read an article like this because it reads like “Happy Meal First, Movie Second”.

However, they do know the movies they’re making through 2012 and we’ve included a list of them below along with brief synopsis after the jump.

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