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Watch the Newest Trailer for Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Earlier today Universal Pictures released a new theatrical trailer for their upcoming computer-animated film adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic 1971 children's book and environmental cautionary tale The Lorax.   read more

Watch the Trailer for Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Earlier today Universal Pictures released the first trailer for the upcoming animated film Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, produced by Illumination Entertainment and directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. Illumination and Renaud were also the producers and director, respectively, of 2010's Despicable Me. The film adaptation of the beloved Dr. Seuss children's book features a star-studded voice cast, including Danny DeVito as the titular Lorax, Zac Efron as Ted, Betty White as Grandma Norma and Taylor Swift as Ashley.  read more

Danny DeVito to Voice The Lorax

One of the most memorable (and arguably one of the most depressing) Dr. Seuss tales is set to hit the big screen in glorious 3D....  read more

Me and Orson Welles

Release Date: Nov. 25 (limited) Director: Richard Linklater Writers: Holly Gent Palmo, Vince Palmo Jr. (novel by Robert Kaplow) Starring: Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Zac Efron Cinematographer: Dick Pope Studio/Run Time: Freestyle Releasing, 113 mins. Newcomer upstages teen heartthrob in Richard Linklater’s latest Zac Efron is ostensibly the star of Me and Orson Welles—he has the biggest name, at least, thanks to his role in High School Musical. But he plays the nondescript pronoun in the film’s title, not the bigger-than-life dynamo who wraps pre-war New York City around his little finger. That role belongs to little-known Christian McKay,...  read more

Catching Up With... Richard Linklater

Few modern directors have displayed the sheer range and adoration of filmmaking as that of arthouse luminary Richard Linklater. After spending the last decade offering fare as diverse as rotoscoped sci-fi dirge A Scanner Darkly, yellow-journalism parable Fast Food Nation, a remake of nostalgic kids’ romp Bad News Bears and Jack Black comedy School of Rock, Linklater’s latest, Orson Welles And Me, is just as captivating and surprising as should be expected. In the period piece, Zac Efron plays an aspiring actor thrust into the world of egomaniacal showman Orson Welles, who, at 22, was directing and starring in “Julius...  read more

Richard Linklater Gets Long-Awaited Release Date for Orson Welles Biopic

Pushing through multiple delays, a filmmaker finally manages to get a release date for his film about another filmmaker directing a Shakespeare play on Broadway. It rarely gets more convoluted or meta than that. Small wonder, then, that it took nearly a year for said film to get that release date in the U.S....  read more

Zac Efron, Lil Wayne, More to Guest on Entourage

Entourage came back to life in its fifth season, and with the sixth round set to debut on HBO on July 12, new major-wattage cameos have begun to take shape. Among the first announced this year is Zac Efron, who will play a lightly caricatured version of himself in an episode later this summer. ...  read more

Zac Efron to Play Jonny Quest in Film Adaptation of Cartoon

After the Wachowski Brothers failed to attract audiences with the fast-talking, live-action fim version of the Japanese anime Speed Racer, those working on the adaptation of Hannah-Barbera's Jonny Quest cartoon seem to be wary of going the same route....  read more

Zac Efron's exit leaves Footloose revival in limbo

So Zac Efron does want to have an actual career. The actor has dropped out of Paramount’s revival of Footloose, the future of which is now uncertain. ...  read more

PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, Day 4: Cello Centered gets my vote

So! It's election day! Kind of a big deal, right? Right! Thusly, I tackled the “C” section of NaBloPoMo's November blog roll expecting a barrage of political chatter: Last-minute advocating on the behalf of beloved candidates, fervent ranting, harried tales of voting booth kerfuffles, or at least a bit of griping about how SNL's Presidential Bash last night was kinda super lame. But not one of the blogs I clicked through this morning even so much as mentioned “election day” or “voting” or “democratic process” or “averting the course of American history” or anything. Not nothin'.  ...  read more