Movies of 2009

Post by **EricJ** » March 12th, 2009, 4:10 pm

According to Variety, Disney has moved up the release date of the traditionally animated feature The Princess And The Frog. Previously slated for a Christmas Day opening, the film will now open exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on November 25th and nationwide on December 11th. The originally planned opening date would have pitched Princess against the sequel to the highly successful Alvin and the Chipmunks.

I believe the operative expression is "O-KAY!!...Freakin' HAPPY now???"

Although I suspect the change is not so much completely due to even Disney being hypnotized by every other ani-clueless media analysts' inability to distinguish one family-oriented movie from another (which is how all that "Massacre of '02" Sinbad vs. Treasure Planet malarkey started in the first place)...
And more due to Disney wanting to cash in on "Enchanted" making Thanksgiving openings popular again, while still being able to take advantage of Christmas vacation demographics...And prime the movie up to "Event" status in the process--knowing that their fans are ready to agree--by pulling out an old Event-Movie trick they haven't used since "Lion King". (Or was it the "Beauty & the Beast" festival screening?)

As for turd-eating rodents...Let Fox believe what they are sucker enough to believe.
History shows us, however, that no studio ever had a hit with a winsomely self-conscious ": The Sequel" joke in the title, which real audiences tend to feel is either flop-sweat hubris, or false-arrogantly rubbing insult into injury.
(With the exception of "Hot Shots, Pt. Deux", but that was a much better movie.)

Post by **droosan** » March 12th, 2009, 6:02 pm

So, EricJ .. now that all that is out of your system ..

.. are you happy, now?

Post by **OriginalGagBonkers** » March 12th, 2009, 7:50 pm

Here's the news on the changing of the date on Princess and frog
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... =1050&cs=1

Post by **Ben** » March 12th, 2009, 10:25 pm

Why aren't we talking about P&TF here:
http://www.animated-news.com/forum/view ... 7847#57847

This thread was really for the other movies of 2009 that wouldn't really support their own threads, at least on these boards.

And, really...the move is no surprise at all. The minute Fox dumped Alvin on Christmas Day, P&TF was destined to move, and not for any Thanksgiving reasons, whatever Eric wants to believe. And the B&TB festival screening was a completely different kettle of fish, with six months between the WIP and final release.

RIGHT...NOW back on topic...P&TF talk in the above linked thread, please.

Post by **OriginalGagBonkers** » March 13th, 2009, 9:48 am

Ben the princess and the frog is one of the "2009 movies" I want to see along with 9.

Post by **Ben** » March 13th, 2009, 11:50 am

Ben wrote:This thread was really for the other movies of 2009 that wouldn't really support their own threads, at least on these boards.

What part of that did you not understand? Both P&TF and 9 have their own threads here. Go make talky-talky about them in there...!

Post by **Dacey** » March 24th, 2009, 4:41 pm

First look at "Where the Wild Things Are":

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/new ... main_N.htm

I must say that I do *not* have especially high hopes for this movie, but dang, those stills are pretty promising.

Post by **eddievalient** » March 25th, 2009, 1:35 am

It looks like the kind of film Jim Henson might have made, in the same vein as Labyrinth. I'm in!

Post by **Dacey** » March 25th, 2009, 6:45 pm

That's exactly what hit my mind when I first saw the images.

Here's the first trailer for the film. I must say, the tone is slightly different from what I had expected:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53962

Post by **eddievalient** » March 25th, 2009, 8:58 pm

Looks pretty good to me. This one will be worth seeing for the creatures alone (which are probably all CG, but really look like something handmade by the Jim Henson Creature Shop).

Post by **Dacey** » March 26th, 2009, 12:42 pm

Actually, it's not CGI. The "Wild Things" are all tall actors in costumes.

Post by **Ben** » March 26th, 2009, 2:04 pm

...Which is what gives it the Henson/Crystal feel.

American_dog_2008 · Post by **American_dog_2008** » March 26th, 2009, 7:00 pm

Can't wait for "Knowing", "Chipmunks 2" and "Where the wild things Are".

Post by **Once Upon A Dream** » April 20th, 2009, 9:02 am

I just saw the trailer for 17 Again and it doesn't look really good,looks like a movie created for Zac Afron fangirls but saying that Matthew Perry was Zac Afron when he young is stupid.

Post by **Ben** » April 20th, 2009, 2:23 pm

Yeah. We all know he was Chandler Bing.