Like most Americans, I learned about Alexander Dumas’ Three Musketeers from their countless adaptations on screen and in print. For me, it was probably Sheldon Mayer’s Three Mouseketeers reprints along with the rallying cry of “One for all, and all for one” shouted by just about every cartoon, sitcom and prime time drama at one…
Walt Disney Pictures 2012 Directed by Andrew Stanton Produced by Jim Morris and Colin Wilson Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon Based on “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs It was while waiting in the theater lobby for my wife after we had just seen JOHN CARTER that I heard…
The production of Walt Disney’s take on The Lone Ranger began about a week ago and now we have our first glimpse of the famous masked man and his Native American sidekick. In case you forgot, the Ranger is played by Armie Hammer (J. Edgar) and the guy under the war paint is Johnny Depp,…
BURBANK, Calif. (February 28, 2012) — Production has commenced on location in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado on Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ epic adventure “The Lone Ranger.” The film reunites the filmmaking team of the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” blockbusters—producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski—with Johnny Depp, who created Captain…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krwq5hZPY0 Here’s Disney’s extended game spot for “John Carter”, directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe, and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars”. Coming to theaters March 9.
Disney announced today that they have collaborated with the NFL to give viewers an opportunity to enter “The Journey to the Super Bowl Sweepstakes” with an ad for “John Carter” that will run during the Super Bowl XLVI broadcast this Sunday. The Grand Prize winner will receive a trip for two to Super Bowl XLVII…
Hugh Jackman stars in Real Steel, out on home video this week, and the native Australian is best known to ComicMix fans for his work as Wolverine in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand before spinning off into X-Men Origins: Wolverine and cameoing as the canucklehead in X-Men First Class. In the fall of…
What… too soon? Disney’s Anne Frank is an animated film released by Disney in the spring of 1989. It is very, very loosely based on The Diary of Anne Frank, but takes a lot of liberties with the source material, adding a talking animal sidekick, a Nazi necromancer Femme Fatale, and a Happily Ever After…
If you missed seeing the return of The Muppets in, well, The Muppets, then you get another chance when the movie is released on video this March. Director James Bobin revealed all the Easter Egg inspirations found throughout the delightful film in an interview and it’s worth a look. Here’s the press release: BURBANK, Calif.,…
Walt Disney has released their classic Beauty and the Beast in 3-D, hoping to capitalize on the success of their Lion King in 3-D release. We here at ComicMix think it’s merely a cash grab since the up-conversion doesn’t really add anything new to the story or songs but for those dwindling few who still…
Disney XD will launch Marvel Universe, a dedicated Marvel programming block, with the new series Ultimate Spider-Man as its centerpiece, on SUNDAY, APRIL 1, it was announced today by Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer, Disney Channels Worldwide at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California. Marvel Universe on Disney XD will…
We admit it, we’re hooked by this trailer. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars has a look and feel that separates it from our previous visual incarnations while remaining faithful to the source material. With this and The Hunger Games in March, suddenly that month is starting to feel like summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvYKl1fjBI
