After last year’s live-action remake of How To Train Your Dragon became a box office success, Dreamworks decided to move ahead with adapting the second film in their animated trilogy, and the studio has now announced the return of another of the original’s vocal cast to reprise their role in live-action. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Cate Blanchett […]
Movie Review – How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
How to Train Your Dragon 2, 2014. Directed by Dean DeBlois. Featuring the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, Djimon Hounsou and Kit Harington. SYNOPSIS: When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new […]
How DreamWorks Animation has been quietly killing it for years
George Chrysostomou on DreamWorks Animation… Ahead of the release of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which could arguably round out one of the best film trilogies ever [read our review of the film here], it occurred to me that DreamWorks Animation has been quietly killing it for years, without the recognition, awards and […]
Highest grossing movies of 2014
While 2014 has given us some brilliant movies (Guardians of the Galaxy, The LEGO Movie, Boyhood, Nightcrawler, Edge of Tomorrow, to name a few), the box office numbers have not reflected the quality. In terms of domestic growth, the top four movies of last year (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Iron Man 3, Frozen and […]
20th Century Fox records $5.5 billion global box office for 2014
One of Hollywood’s major studios, 20th Century Fox, has had a record-breaking year at the worldwide box office. Topping the previous record high set by Paramount Pictures in 2011 by over $350 million, 2014 saw the studio earn in excess of $5.5 billion at this years box office. Hitting it big for the studio in […]
IMDb’s Top 50 Highest Rated Movies of 2014
Earlier this week we brought you a list of the most Facebooked movies and TV shows of the year [see here], and now the IMDb has released a list of the top 50 highest-rated English-language movies of the year (with at least 5000 votes). Here they are, in descending order… 50. Veronica Mars (6.9) 49. […]
