As Beauty and the Beast shatters box office records worldwide, Sean Wilson looks back at the illustrious Disney career of its celebrated composer Alan Menken… Disney’s in-vogue trend of rebooting their animated classics shows no signs of abating, as their live-action take on 1991 masterpiece Beauty and the Beast waltzes onto screens. Starring Emma Watson […]
Logan deleted scenes, X-Force update, R-rated DC movies, Wonder Woman teaser, live-action Little Mermaid and more – Daily News Roundup
Rounding up the big news from yesterday… LOGAN DELETED SCENES Doing the interview rounds for Logan, director James Mangold has been discussing a couple of deleted scenes from the X-Men spinoff – one of which namedropped Jean Grey, and the other featuring the ‘Westchester Incident’, which leads to the death of several members of the […]
Lindsay Lohan lobbying to star in a live-action The Little Mermaid
Everyone loves a good comeback story (exhibit A: that crazy Super Bowl game) so it doesn’t really come as a surprise that once upon a time Hollywood darling Lindsay Lohan is presenting options that would insert her presence back into the limelight. Outside of writing the script for a potential Mean Girls sequel, Lindsay Lohan […]
Exclusive Interview: Moana directors Ron Clements and Jon Musker talk film’s origins, Dwayne Johnson and Disney remakes
Disney have this weekend continued their unprecedented run of success with their latest animated film, Moana, storming to the top of the US charts with $81.1 million over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Now the film is bound for the UK this Friday and to celebrate the release, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sat down […]
All upcoming live-action Disney remakes
Luke Owen looks to the future of Disney’s live-action output… Following the announcement of a live-action version of The Lion King [read my thoughts on that here], I thought we should collate together all the information we have on Disney’s other upcoming live-action adaptations. To date, there are a whopping seventeen of these in development, but all […]
Chloe Grace Moretz drops out of The Little Mermaid and all upcoming projects
Universal and Working Title have already had to replace their director on the planned live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, with Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children) taking over from Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation), and now they will need to find a new star. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Chloe Grace Moretz has revealed that […]
Disney sets Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken for live-action The Little Mermaid
Deadline is reporting that Disney has tapped Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and Oscar-winning songwriter and composer Alan Menken to write the songs for a live-action adaptation of the animated classic The Little Mermaid. The new film will feature a blend of pre-existing songs from the 1989 animated feature (for which Menken won two Oscars for Best […]
Disney in early development on live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid
Fresh from the box office success of The Jungle Book and the first trailer for Beauty and the Beast, it looks like Disney could be adding another live-action adaptation from its animated back catalogue to its upcoming slate, with Deadline reporting that the studio is in early development on The Little Mermaid. According to the […]
Rebecca Thomas to direct Chloe Grace Moretz in The Little Mermaid
According to The Wrap, Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children) is in talks to direct Universal and Working Title’s live-action The Little Mermaid adaptation, which is set to star Chloe Grace Moretz in the title role. Sofia Coppola was previously attached to The Little Mermaid, which is being penned by Richard Curtis, although she pulled out of […]
Chloe Grace Moretz to star in The Little Mermaid live-action movie
Variety is reporting that Chloe Grace Moretz is set to star in the title role in The Little Mermaid, Universal Pictures and Working Title’s upcoming live-action retealling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, which will be scripted by Richard Curtis (Love Actually). The project originally had Sofia Coppola attached to direct, although the […]
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