Luke Owen charts the biggest opening weekends of 2016…It’s fair to say that 2016 has been rather disappointing in terms of the quality of movie delivered, and the biggest opening weekend for 2016 would have been fourth last year behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron. With that said, […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2016
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2016…As 2016 draws to a close and we ring in the New Year, Flickering Myth’s writers have been putting our collective heads together to vote on the best cinematic offerings from the past twelve months. As always, we’ve voted on our individual top ten favourites, […]
Zootopia+ animated series trailer released by Disney+
Disney+ has released the first trailer and images for Zootopia+, the upcoming limited animated series which dives into the lives of some of the more intriguing residents featured in the 2016 movie; check them out here… “Zootopia+” heads back to the fast-paced mammal metropolis of Zootopia in a short-form series that dives deeper into the lives […]
Moana, The Princess and the Frog, Zootopia and Baymax! animated series coming to Disney+
During Disney’s Investor Day presentation this week, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced a slate of new Disney+ series based upon four of their classic animated features.In 2022, the streaming service will see the arrival of the Big Hero 6 spinoff Baymax!, The Princess and the Frog series Tiana, and Zootopia+ (Zootropolis+ in the UK?), with […]
Disney unveils Zootropolis voice cast
Twelve new character images have debuted from Disney’s Zootopia (a.k.a. Zootropolis in the UK), which introduces the cast of Disney’s 55th animated feature; check them out below… SEE ALSO: First concept art from Disney’s Zootopia (a.k.a. Zootropolis) · Idris Elba (Netflix’s “Beasts of No Nation,” BBC’s “Luther”) provides the voice of CHIEF BOGO, head of the […]
Blu-ray Review – Zootopia (2016)
Zootopia, 2016. Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush. Featuring the voices talents of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Bonnie Hunt, J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Don Lake and Tommy Chong. SYNOPSIS: Disney Animation does it again with a story that treads familiar thematic ground but serves up a fresh, inventive […]
The Ten Best Animated Films of the 2010s
Kate Harrold shares her picks of the best animated films of the 2010s…The past decade has been a breakthrough for animated film. Toy Story (1995) may have been the first feature-length computer animated film, but animation studios of the 2010s have gone on to break even more unimaginable feats. The genre seems to have done […]
Is Cinema Really Dead If Scorsese Says It Is?
Henry Bevan on whether cinema is really dead…The ‘cinema is dead’ narrative has gone around for a while. It is normally spouted by some blogger who wants to get across their “hot take”. But, sometimes, someone of note joins in, and as 2016 came to a close, a director trifecta chimed in — Martin Scorsese, […]
Disney reportedly working on two Zootopia sequels
Disney scored an enormous hit back in 2016 with Zootopia, with the animated buddy cop comedy grossing over $1 billion at the box office, as well as winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.As you’d expect given that kind of performance, there’s been talk that directors Bryon Howard and Rich Moore will be returning […]
Oscars: And the winners of the 89th Academy Awards are…
Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]
