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‘The Lion King’ Early Box Office Tracking Predicts a Massive Opening Weekend

May 26, 2019

We’re still eight weeks out from the release of Disney’s “live-action” remake of The Lion King, but audiences are already very excited to see what the visual effects extravaganza has to offer. The early box office tracking for The Lion King is predicting a huge opening weekend for the remake, one that would probably give…

The Insane Way Jon Favreau Directed ‘The Lion King’ on a Virtual Reality Set

Apr 26, 2019

Jon Favreau’s upcoming “The Lion King” is technically an animated feature, but that’s not how the director approached the film when it came to filmmaking. In order to be able to shoot his remake of Disney’s 1994 animated classic, Favreau wanted to have the same freedom a director would have on a live-action set in…

Summer Box Office: Five Weekends to Watch

Apr 22, 2019

Popcorn season is upon us, and it’ll be up to comic-book heroes, a wise-cracking genie, and a lion who would be king to ensure movie theaters are still the hottest place to spend the summer.Last summer, blockbusters like “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” Ocean’s 8,” and “The Meg” drove moviegoers to their local…

How ‘The Mandalorian’ Uses New Technology That Blends Physical Sets With CGI, According to Giancarlo Esposito

Apr 18, 2019

Jon Favreau is proving to be one of the foremost filmmakers when it comes to testing game-changing technology, from his dazzling visual effects work in The Jungle Book, to the audacious CGI scale of the upcoming The Lion King. And The Mandalorian, for which Favreau acts as showrunner and executive producer, is no exception. Favreau…

Movie Talk: That ‘Shazam!’ Cameo Was Supposed to Include [Spoiler]

Apr 10, 2019

On this episode of Movie Talk, Perri Nemiroff, Haleigh Foutch and Angie Han discuss the following: Disney released a new The Lion King trailer that featured Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Scar taking center stage along with James Earl Jones’s Mufasa. In an interview with Comicbook.com., Shazam! producer Peter Safran revealed that the cameo at the end of…

Disney’s Brittany Grooms Joins Columbia Pictures as Vice President of Casting (Exclusive)

Feb 7, 2019

Brittany Grooms has been named vice president of casting at Columbia Pictures.Grooms joins the team from Walt Disney Pictures, where she spent six years casting live-action features like “Beauty and the Beast,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Aladdin,” and “The Lion King.” Prior to joining Disney, Grooms worked in casting for scripted and unscripted television, including reality…

The most anticipated films of 2019: 50-41

Dec 24, 2018

What big-screen treats does the new year have in store? We’re running a preview of cinema’s spring highlights on 2 January, but here’s the first in a five-part look at 2019’s key titlesApparently another “live action” remake of a Disney classic, but in fact a photorealistic CGI rendering, in the recent Jungle Book style (with…

Film Review: ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’

Dec 8, 2018

Let’s pretend for a moment that Disney didn’t just release a “live-action” remake of its 1967 “The Jungle Book” two years ago. In a world without such competition, “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” might have seemed like a good idea: a darker, decidedly non-Disney approach to Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories about a boy raised…

‘The Lion King’ Live-Action Remake Poster Takes One Small Step for Simba-Kind

Nov 23, 2018

On Thanksgiving, Disney unveiled the very first trailer for the live-action Lion King, for lack of a better description. But in addition to the goosebump-inducing teaser trailer, Disney also dropped the very first teaser poster for the film, and it is “totes adorbs” as they say. While described as live-action, The Lion King is actually…

‘The Lion King’ Teaser: Jon Favreau Paints the Disney Classic in Live Action