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John Debney scores 'The Jungle Book' movie

Edit The Examiner 20 Apr 2016
The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. Based on Rudyard Kipling's work, the film is a live-action/CGI reimagining of Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name ... The film was released in North America on April 15, 2016 ... In 1993 he secured his first studio feature film, the Disney comedy HOCUS POCUS starring Bette Midler....

Winter’s War’ This Weekend

Edit The Wrap 20 Apr 2016
Disney’s “The Jungle Book” will devour Universal’s “The Huntsman ... In its second round, box office analysts are projecting a 45 percent drop-off for the CGI-heavy animation film, which would mean around $52 million for the studio ... However, the first film had a budget of $170 million, while the prequel only had a production budget of $115 million ... Stewart will not appear in the film....

How J.J. Abrams Used Harrison Ford's Millennium Falcon Injury To Improve The Force Awakens

Edit Cinema Blend 20 Apr 2016
Abrams was recently a guest of the Tribeca Film Festival, as he was involved in a discussion event moderated by Chris Rock ... By the point of the film's home video release, the internet would have been choked with references of how "Jar Jar Abrams" screwed the pooch with Disney's golden goose ... The Force Awakens was a chance to "re-calibrate" the film for the better....

Disney offers behind-the-scenes look at Epcot’s new ‘Frozen’ attraction

Edit The Examiner 20 Apr 2016
Walt Disney World is ... Photo courtesy of Walt Disney World, used with permission....

HK has to work harder to attract mainland tourists

Edit China Daily 20 Apr 2016
Shanghai Disney Resort, which is three times the size of Hong Kong Disneyland, is due to open on June 16 ... In stark contrast, Shanghai Disney Resort looks set to become the most popular theme park worldwide, with tickets sold out in advance for the first three months after its opening....

Disney to offer new Rhine River cruises

Edit Orlando Sentinel 20 Apr 2016
Disney's foray into river cruising in Europe is growing with the introduction of new Rhine River trips on board a new ship in 2017. Adventures by Disney, which will make ts first river cruise trips this summer on the Danube and will return in 2017 will now take on the Rhine River as well on a new... ....

Dancing to the top of television ratings

Edit Times Union 20 Apr 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — A night of Disney tunes led ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" to the largest audience of its current season and to the top of the television rankings. The Nielsen company said an estimated 12.5 million people watched "Dancing," which featured the contestants showing their steps to songs made famous by ABC's parent company ... New Orleans" — showed repeat episodes, shuffling the rankings ... ___. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co....

TCM Announces Oscar®-Winning Screen Legend Faye Dunaway For Live from the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Interview (TBS - Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
TCM Announces Oscar®-Winning Screen Legend Faye Dunaway For Live from the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Interview ... 'She is one of the great beauties and magical leading ladies of film ... Actor Stacy Keach will be discussing John Huston's gritty look at the world of small-time boxing in Fat City (1972) and French actress Anna Karina will be introducing Band of Outsiders (1964), Jean-Luc Godard's riff on gangster films....

Discovering the genius that is Harold Lloyd: a personal essay

Edit The Examiner 20 Apr 2016
And Harold Lloyd also means different things to different silent comedy film buffs ... The reason we did not know Lloyd was because his films just weren’t on television or anthologized in the various salutes to silent movie comedians. We wondered why, but did not realize that Lloyd owned most of his films and was keeping them out of circulation ... Most of the movies at the library were from a company called Blackhawk Films....

Disney Drives Wall Street to Highest Close of 2016

Edit Topix 20 Apr 2016
The Dow Jones Industrial Average crested 18,000 in intraday trading, the first time it has crossed that level since July. The Dow, which includes Disney, added 0.6% ... ....

POLIN Museum Debuts Short Film on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (USC Shoah Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews premiered an original short film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising featuring testimony from the Visual History Archive on the 73rd anniversary of the uprising ... The 30-minute film was produced under the supervision of historian Dr ... In just one day, the museum estimates that 100,000 stduents have watched the film....

A small look at "Green Room"

Edit The Examiner 20 Apr 2016
“Green Room” is a new independent film being marketed as a horror thriller ... The film stars Patrick Stewart (“X-Men, “Star Trek ... However, a more definitive way of thinking of “Green Room” would be as a “survive the night” film, which is a subcategory to the subgenre in other films “survival.” It boils down to the hook that the characters in a “survival” type film must do exactly what it sounds like....

Nanni Moretti’s ‘Mia Madre’ Sells to Music Box

Edit Variety 20 Apr 2016
Music Box Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Italian director Nanni Moretti’s comedy-drama “Mia Madre,” starring Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Beatrice Mancini and Moretti. The film won the prize of the ecumenical jury at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was acquired by Alchemy from Paris-based sales company Films Distribution.... Read more » ... ....
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