Screenwriters Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price bare all about how iconic toon bombshell came to life.
The pair will also be de-aged for the movie.
The young British actor behind the new voice of Pinocchio has revealed he was completely 'starstruck' when he met his co-stars on the set of Disney’s latest re-make.
British actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth studied the 1940 Pinocchio to master the voice of the boy puppet.
The anticipated remake stars Tom Hanks as Geppetto alongside Cynthia Erivo and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Amid the insane deluge of Star Wars and Marvel announcements at the Disney Investor Day in December, the remake of Pinocchio with Tom Hanks got slightly lost.
'A whole new generation of kids is going to need therapy.'
It's another hammer blow for beleaguered cinemas.
The Roald Dahl movie is heading straight to HBO Max in the USA, with its UK fate unknown.
Forrest almost didn't run at all.
Take a look inside the Wild West-set final entry in the delightful 'Back to the Future' trilogy from Robert Zemeckis.
No major Hollywood film since has attempted anything quite like Cast Away.
Bob Gale has cleared up the plot hole that has been nagging fans for years.
A gold logo, set against a dark blue backdrop, spells out the film’s title – which looks to be Roald Dahl’s The Witches.
Bob Gale says fans shouldn't get their hopes up for 'Back to the Future 4', because it's not happening.
It's official. Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is fully aboard Disney's live-action remake of its animated classic Pinocchio. He'll direct, and co-write the next draft with Chris Weitz for a possible year-end production start. Casting is still being determined. Zemeckis and Weitz will write off the previous draft that the latter penned with Simon Farnaby. The original […]
The screenwriter admits he stole one of Jurassic Park's best lines from another filmmaker.
The musical version of the film has been in the works for six years, its producer said.
Anne Hathaway has closed a deal to star as the Grand High Witch in Robert Zemeckis and Warner Bros.' "The Witches" adaptation. Variety first reported that Hathaway was holding the offer for both that and "Sesame Street," and at the time, scheduling for both films were holding up dealmaking. With those issues settled, Hathaway is […]
'Welcome To Marwen' features a huge nod to one of Robert Zemeckis' most iconic movies that will catch audiences completely unaware.
Welcome To Marwen. It’s a dramatic retelling of the story first told in the acclaimed 2010 documentary Marwencol, of Mark Hogancamp, an artist whose life is changed forever when he’s dealt a brutal beating by a gang of thugs. The attack deprives Mark (played in the film by Steve Carell) of his memory and, as part of his therapy, the artist builds a toy WW2 town – Marwen – which he populates with dolls inspired by people in his life, and Hoagie, his doll avatar.
Screenwriters Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price take us behind the scenes of the blockbuster that united Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny for the first, and last, time.
How they did it: A chat with visual effects artist Doug Chiang, then starting his ILM career, now a VP and executive creative director at Lucasfilm.
Warner Bros. is getting closer to naming a director for its adaptation of “The Flash.” While an offer hasn’t been delivered yet, sources tell Variety that Matthew Vaughn and Robert Zemeckis are the studio’s top choices to direct the superhero tentpole. WB declined to comment on the news. Although insiders stress that others are still in the mix,... <a href="http://variety.com/2017/film/news/robert-zemeckis-matthew-vaughn-the-flash-director-1202422782/" title="Read ‘The Flash’: Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Vaughn Vying for Directing Job">Read more »</a><img src="http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/Entertainment/Variety/pc17#038;c26035310#038;c310000#038;cv2.0#038;cj1" class="editorial"/>
In an example of life imitating the movies, a motorist has been caught speeding in his DeLorean at speeds of, wait for it, 88mph. Nigel Mills, 55, of Brentwood was actually summoned to court after being accused of getting his 34-year-old sports car, a classic DeLorean made famous by the ‘Back to the Future’ films, to 89mph… so shouldn’t he have disappeared leaving blazing tire marks? The incident took place in November of last year whereby Mr. Mills protested his innocence after receiving a court summons to Chelmsford Magistrates after two officers clocked him speeding.