* Blue Sky Studios is still revelling in the success of their latest animated hit, Rio, but that's not stopping them from filling out the voice cast for the fourth film in their popular Ice Cage franchise. The fourth film, titled Ice Age: Continental Drift, already features returning stars Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, John Leguizamo and Josh Peck. Now THR reports that Jennifer Lopez, Aziz Ansari, Drake, Keke Palmer, and Jeremy Renner will be lending their talents as well. How Renner can possibly fit this in with all the damn movies he's got cooking is beyond me. Ice Age 4 will hit theaters on July 13th 2012, and will be the first not to feature director Carlos Saldanha. Instead, Steve Marino and Mike Thurmeier will helm. The first three Ice Age 
flicks have earned nearly $2B worldwide.
flicks have earned nearly $2B worldwide.* Even though I never got a chance to see the pitiful looking, indie-financed adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
, I've been not so secretly hoping for it's demise. What can I say, I can be quite spiteful at times, and the fanatical Tea Party folks who think they know a lick about Rand's philosophy have made me bitter. The film was planned as a trilogy, and part 1 actually didn't do too badly when it opened a couple weeks ago. But the reviews were almost universally negative, and the 2nd weeks grosses tanked. Now producer Michael Aglialoro has made statements to the LA Times indicating the critics have "won", and now he's going "on strike" from making the sequels. Awwww. Dude, it wasn't critics who "won". The free market judged your product and found it lacking. Bye bye seeya latah.
, I've been not so secretly hoping for it's demise. What can I say, I can be quite spiteful at times, and the fanatical Tea Party folks who think they know a lick about Rand's philosophy have made me bitter. The film was planned as a trilogy, and part 1 actually didn't do too badly when it opened a couple weeks ago. But the reviews were almost universally negative, and the 2nd weeks grosses tanked. Now producer Michael Aglialoro has made statements to the LA Times indicating the critics have "won", and now he's going "on strike" from making the sequels. Awwww. Dude, it wasn't critics who "won". The free market judged your product and found it lacking. Bye bye seeya latah.* I loved the Antonio Banderas Zorro flicks. Ok, moreso 1998's The Mask of Zorro 
and not so much the 2005 sequel, but overall both were pretty good and Catherine Zeta-Jones was absolutely smokin'. Zorro is a tough character to get right, though, and Fox is taking a scary risk with their planned return of the hero, a film they're calling Zorro Reborn. It's being directed by Rpin Suwannath, and would put the masked swashbuckler into a dystopian future where he'll seek revenge for...something. Whether or not his trademark swords and whips will remain is in question. This sounds like a fu**ing terrible idea, the type that usually ends so disastrously that guys like me will be writing about it for years. Can someone tell me why you'd take Zorro out of Spanish California and put him...where, in Blade Runner 
land? Supposedly the story will have more of a Western focus, resembling the great works of Sergio Leone, but honestly I just think that's stuff producers tell you to make their crap smell sweet.
and not so much the 2005 sequel, but overall both were pretty good and Catherine Zeta-Jones was absolutely smokin'. Zorro is a tough character to get right, though, and Fox is taking a scary risk with their planned return of the hero, a film they're calling Zorro Reborn. It's being directed by Rpin Suwannath, and would put the masked swashbuckler into a dystopian future where he'll seek revenge for...something. Whether or not his trademark swords and whips will remain is in question. This sounds like a fu**ing terrible idea, the type that usually ends so disastrously that guys like me will be writing about it for years. Can someone tell me why you'd take Zorro out of Spanish California and put him...where, in Blade Runner land? Supposedly the story will have more of a Western focus, resembling the great works of Sergio Leone, but honestly I just think that's stuff producers tell you to make their crap smell sweet. 
