Posts Tagged ‘Universal Pictures’

Lost Disney short discovered in UK archive

Lost Disney short discovered in UK archive

A long lost short film of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who provided inspiration for iconic Disney character Mickey Mouse has been discovered in a film archive in England. Once upon a time, in 1927 to be precise, Walt Disney and his cartoonist partner Ub Iwerk's created a creature called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit with Universal Pictures. After...

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Stretch Armstrong film in the making

We've got Toy Story 3 hitting the screens next year, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen coming in a few weeks and G.I. Joe this summer... As if anymore proof was needed that we really are all over-grown kids with an insatiable appetite for play-things, Universal have now announced a live-action movie adaptation based around elasticised doll...

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Martin Scorsese set to direct Frank Sinatra biopic

John Travolta showed us all he could sing in Grease and Hairspray, but has he got what it takes to be Sinatra? Martin Scorsese is set to direct a film about the musical legend and the Saturday Night Fever star is just one of the names being bandied around about the lead (along with the suitably more slimmer and mopped Leonardo DiCaprio).With...

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New Exclusive Trailer: Public Enemies

In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp)-the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top...

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