Robert Zemeckis
New image set from Real Steel

A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing …
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Disney’s A Christmas Carol 2-Disc Blu-ray combo pack review

Today Walt Disney Studios debuts Academy Award- winning director Robert Zemeckis’ (Best Director, Forrest Gump in 1994) unique interpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey as multiple characters including the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, along with the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come, on Blu-ray Disc. Robert Zemeckis’ …
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Cars 2, Mars Needs Moms and Pirates of the Caribbean 4 coming to IMAX in 3D next year

IMAX and Walt Disney Studios are teaming up to release three more 3D pictures in IMAX theatres in 2011. The titles included are Mars Needs Moms, starring Seth Green and Joan Cusack, slated for release on March 11, 2011 and executive produced by Robert Zemeckis; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp …
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Robert Zemeckis may have found his Beatles for Yellow Submarine remake
Actors Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are in talks to portray members of The Beatles in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming remake of Yellow Submarine, according to THR’s HeatVisionBlog. Disney is the studio behind the project. The original 1968 animated film was based on the Beatles music and featured a storyline wherein …
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Pirates of the Caribbean producing team board DevaShard comic adaptation

Eric McLeod and David Venghaus, who worked together on Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, have joined the ranks of DevaShard, the fantasy adaptation recently picked up by Vanquish Motion Pictures, that’s based on eastern mythology. Vanquish’s Jay Douglas and Nav Gupta are writing the script and will produce the film with McLeod. Heather Kenealy is …
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Hugh Jackman eyeing adaptation of Richard Matheson’s sci-fi tale Real Steel

Variety reports that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in the Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) film adaptation of I Am Legend writer Richard Matheson’s short story Real Steel, for DreamWorks. Real Steel is described as a Rocky-type story of a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxing becomes obsolete, replaced …
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I watched this trailer on Sunday attached to Surrogates, and the film looks fantastic. This is definitely a movie to watch in IMAX 3D, with family in tow. Apple has posted the trailer online in glorious Quicktime. Disney’s A Christmas Carol, a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical …
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Full trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ 3D animated A Christmas Carol now online
Toy Story 1 and 2 returning to theaters in 3D, plus updates on a boatload of new 3D projects

Low-cost quality hosting and domain names: byhandmedia.net On October 2nd, Disney/Pixar has scheduled a short-run release of the Toy Story films as a double feature, according to Screenrant. For two weeks the films will play in theaters. This of course, is meant to lead up to the Lee Unkrich-directed Toy Story 3, slated for release …
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Tron, Alice in Wonderland and more footage to be in 3-D at Comic-Con ’09, plus Miyazaki and Lasseter to attend

Disney has released its Comic-Con 3-D heavy lineup, and the studio confirmed that it will showcase 3-D footage of the new Tron film, along with 3-D clips from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. Directors Robert Zemeckis and Tim Burton will join Tron producers Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger on …
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Here’s the first image of Jim Carrey as a miserly animated Ebenezer Scrooge

Disney has released the first image of Jim Carrey in the upcoming Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Carrey stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming film, a multi-sensory film re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Capturing the essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event, Disney’s A Christmas …
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Robert Zemeckis and Seth Green say Mars Needs Moms
Seth Green – who played the cool Amish guy named Ezekiel in Sex Drive – is set to star in Walt Disney Pictures’ adaptation of the Berkeley Breathed children’s novel Mars Needs Moms, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Green will play Milo, a boy who stows away on a spaceship to rescue his mother after …
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