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WALL•E (DVD Review) - This ninth feature film from Pixar Animation Studios centers on WALL-E, the last little robot carrying out his duties on Earth. Those duties are cleaning and compressing trash on the evacuated planet; the name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class. WALL-E falls in love with EVE, a cold and clinical probe robot sent to check on Earth. There is a paucity of dialogue in this film, some of which is set in outer space. Like Star Wars' R2-D2, mechanical sounds are used to supply communication. Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") has the chief speaking part among animated characters, while Fred Willard portrays Buy n Large CEO Shelby Forthright in a live-action role, a first for Pixar. Longtime Pixar writer Andrew Stanton is credited with the script and, for the first time since 2003's record-setting blockbuster Finding Nemo, directing. The film opened on June 27, 2008 to rave reviews and Pixar's third biggest opening weekend gross. Having grossed $220 million stateside and nearly another $100 million overseas (where it's still being rolled out), WALL•E comes to DVD and Blu-ray this week in four versions. Review; Preorder: 1-Disc DVD, 3-Disc Special Edition DVD (with digital copy), 2-Disc Blu-ray, 3-Disc Blu-ray (with digital copy). For more information on the contents of WALL•E's releases, consult our DVDizzy.com November Schedule.
WALL-E | Prince Caspian | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Morning Light | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Bolt
Bedtime Stories | Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Movie | Race to Witch Mountain | Hannah Montana: The Movie
Earth | Up | G-Force | A Christmas Carol | Old Dogs | The Princess and the Frog | Alice in Wonderland
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Toy Story 3 | Rapunzel | More...
Wardrobe's director Andrew Adamson, composer Harry Gregson-Williams, and most of its principal cast are back for this follow-up. Returning actors include William Moseley (Peter), Anna Popplewell (Susan), Skandar Keynes (Edmund), Georgie Henley (Lucy), and Liam Neeson (as the voice of Aslan). Among the new additions is Ben Barnes, a 26-year-old English stage and film actor, who portrays the titular teen prince Caspian. Peter Dinklage, memorable as the demanding, petite author in Elf, plays the dwarf Trumpkin. Spanish actress Alicia Borrachero (star of "Hospital Central", Spain's equivalent of "ER") is Prunaprismia, queen of Narnia and wife of the evil General Miraz (Italy's Sergio Castellitto), while Belgium's Vincent Grass tackles the supporting role of Doctor Cornelius. English comedian Eddie Izzard adds to his voiceover record by lending his vocals to Reepicheep the mouse.
Originally planned for release on December 14, 2007, Caspian reached theaters instead on May 16, 2008. Disney has cited that opening date, two weeks after Iron Man and a week before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as cause for Caspian's unexpectedly feeble box office performance. With attendance mostly wrapped up, Caspian's $141.6 million domestic gross is less than half of what Wardrobe earned in North America and a far cry from the sequel's reported $200 M production budget. The $388 M worldwide tally is barely more than half of Wardrobe's comparative total. While The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is greenlit to begin shooting in October, one imagines the sharp drop in profits may derail Disney and Walden's plans to adapt all seven Narnia books.
Prince Caspian is now available to own in four different flavors. Read our review for loads of information on all of them. Buy 1-Disc DVD, 3-Disc Collector's Edition DVD (with digital copy), 2-Disc Blu-ray, 3-Disc Blu-ray (with digital copy).
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (DVD Review) - It's not surprising that Disney and Walden Media would want to pursue adapting the other books in C.S. Lewis's best-selling fantasy series, after The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe became the second highest grossing film of 2005, the third highest grossing live action film domestically in Disney's history (behind Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Hollywood Pictures' The Sixth Sense) and the company's all-time #1 live action film worldwide. (It's since been surpassed by Pirates sequel Dead Man's Chest.) Caspian catches up with the four Pevensie children, who return to Narnia to find that one thousand years have passed since they left. They are again enlisted to join the magical world's colorful creatures in an effort to combat an evil villain preventing the rightful prince from ruling. On Groundhog Day 2006, Disney and Walden officially announced the commencement of preproduction on this sequel.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua - This live-action comedy tells of Chloe, a pampered California chihuahua dog (voiced by Drew Barrymore) who gets lost while on vacation in Mexico. She is helped by Delgado, a street-hardened German Shepherd (voiced by Andy Garcia) and Papi the amorous puppy (George Lopez) in a plot and structure that sounds derivative of Disney's 1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. Also lending their voices to this film (once titled South of the Border) are Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marin, and Paul Rodriguez. Jamie Lee Curtis plays Aunt Viv and she is joined in the human cast by Piper Perabo and Nick Zano. The film is directed by Raja Gosnell, who has helmed such clunkers as Home Alone 3, Big Momma's House and the two live-action Scooby-Doo movies. He previously worked with Barrymore on her 1999 comedy Never Been Kissed. Beverly Hills Chihuahua opened on October 3 and spent two weeks at #1 en route to an impressive $92 million domestic gross. The film will come to DVD and Blu-ray on March 3 with director's audio commentary, deleted scenes, bloopers, and featurettes: Preorder DVD
With the new Harry Potter film off the fall slate, Bolt moved from the day before Thanksgiving to the Friday before. Either way, it will be playing at a time traditionally quite popular for moviegoing. Disney would love to see Chicken Little-type numbers here, but current trends suggest a performance more in line with Meet the Robinsons' nearly $100 M domestic intake. Like both those works, Bolt will be treated to Disney Digital 3-D engagements at a premium price.
WALL-E | Prince Caspian | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Morning Light | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Bolt
Bedtime Stories | Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Movie | Race to Witch Mountain | Hannah Montana: The Movie
Earth | G-Force | A Christmas Carol | Old Dogs | The Princess and the Frog | Up | Alice in Wonderland
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Toy Story 3 | Rapunzel | More...
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Bedtime Stories - After departing "Saturday Night Live" in 1995, Adam Sandler quickly became one of American cinema's leading men. By the end of the 1990s, Sandler had elevated himself to one of the box office's biggest comedic draws. Thirteen years have passed since Billy Madison established Sandler as the everyman slacker with a penchant for violent outbursts. Sandler remains today not only one of the few recent SNL alums with an active career beyond the sketch show, but also one of the few comedians who can guarantee a large theatrical turnout. He's weathered the occasional flop (Little Nicky, the animated Eight Crazy Nights), gained respect for his infrequent, under-attended dramatic turns (Punch-Drunk Love, Reign Over Me), and continues, on an annual basis, to make PG-13-rated comedies that easily surpass the $100 million mark domestically. In terms of reliability, his track record handily eclipses even those of formidable contemporaries Jim Carrey and Mike Myers.
With Bedtime Stories, Sandler returns to Disney for the first time since Touchstone Pictures' 1998 hit The Waterboy. This time, however, he's in a family domain with Walt Disney Pictures branding and sharing the screen with some of his youngest co-stars since Dylan and Cole Sprouse (Zack and Cody to today's Disney Channel audiences) in his career high grosser, Big Daddy. Sandler plays Skeeter, a busy architect whose life turns upside down when the crazy bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew begin coming true. Keri Russell co-stars, presumably as the requisite love interest, as do "Friends" alum Courtney Cox, "Xena" warrior Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Russell Brand, and Memento's Guy Pearce. Adam Shankman (The Pacifier, Hairspray) directs from the debut screenplay of Matt Lopez, who previously contributed story material to Disney's The Wild. The $80-million-budgeted Bedtime Stories has been scheduled for a December 25, 2008 opening, with Disney clearly hoping for the same kind of smashing Christmas break business that Night at the Museum
WALL-E | Prince Caspian | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Morning Light | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Bolt
Bedtime Stories | Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Movie | Race to Witch Mountain | Hannah Montana: The Movie
Earth | Up | G-Force | A Christmas Carol | Old Dogs | The Princess and the Frog | Alice in Wonderland
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Toy Story 3 | Rapunzel | More...
Disney doubtlessly must be excited about this film. They'd have to look long and hard for a person not at all affected by Dickens' book. Modern audiences might be plenty familiar with the tale, but there hasn't been a major feature film doing a straight adaptation since the 1970 musical starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness. A quick look at the performances of the director and star's works this decade promises high attendance; though it started sluggish, Polar Express went onto become one of 2004's highest-grossers (and remains the benchmark for motion capture), while the live-action Grinch easily ranks as the biggest earner in Carrey's robust career. The two films maintain the highest grosses among Christmas-themed movies, a class that rarely fails to turn a profit. Add to this Disney's long string of success with heavily-promoted November openings, and you'll see that only a tremendous fumble will keep this film from becoming a colossal worldwide blockbuster, whether it's any good or, like Grinch and Polar, not. Filming began early in 2008. This will be one of a number of 2009 releases treated to showings in Disney Digital 3-D.
WALL-E | Prince Caspian | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Morning Light | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Bolt
Bedtime Stories | Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Movie | Race to Witch Mountain | Hannah Montana: The Movie
Earth | Up | G-Force | A Christmas Carol | Old Dogs | The Princess and the Frog | Alice in Wonderland
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Toy Story 3 | Rapunzel | More...
In November of 2007, Burton signed a deal to direct two Disney Digital 3-D projects. First up is a live-action/motion-capture/CGI adaptation of Lewis Carroll's most famous story. It seems like an apt fit, based on the trippy source material and Burton's penchant for trippy material. Of course, Disney fans will be judging the project next to Walt Disney's 1951 animated film, which today is regarded highly. Eighteen-year-old Australian girl Mia Wasikowska (HBO's "In Treatment") has been cast in the coveted title role, while "Little Britain" co-creator/performer Matt Lucas has signed onto portray both Tweedledee and Tweedledum. After many rumors, Johnny Depp has now been confirmed to play the Mad Hatter. The only casting less surprising would Burton's partner Helena Bonham Carter trying her hand at the Red Queen, a.k.a. the Queen of Hearts. After years away, Anne Hathaway will return to Disney to play the White Queen, who has been banished by her sister (the Red Queen) and needs Alice's help. Production has begun in England and Disney has pegged the film for a March 5, 2010 theatrical release, which will include Disney Digital 3-D engagements.
If it remains true to the video game, Sands of Time follows Persian Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal, Zodiac), his father King Sharaman, and the Maharajah's daughter Princess Farah Tamina (Gemma Arteton) in a trek across India to Azad. Along their way, their potent, newly-acquired possesions (a giant hourglass full of sand and a mysterious dagger) make them the targets of a dying Vizier (Oscar-winning Gandhi portrayer Ben Kingsley) and his staff. Romantic relationships, time warps, and twisted allegiances all figure into what unravels and most of that is sure to translate to the type of sweeping, spectacle cinema that Bruckheimer has repeatedly relied on with success.
Originally pegged for a late 2008 release and then briefly summer 2009, this film -- directed by Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers) -- will now open May 28, 2010, narrowly preceding the colossally-expected Toy Story 3.

Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist, The World is Not Enough, and television's renowned "Up" documentaries) will direct, taking over from Andrew Adamson, who will stay on as a producer. William Moseley and Anna Popplewell will not return as the two elder Pevensie children, who do not appear in the Voyage book. The film was scheduled to open in May of 2010, but Prince Caspian's lower than expected earnings in a similar window probably led the studios to reconsider this tentpole's debut. Filming has been repeatedly delayed, awaiting the official greenlight while the budget is pulled back. With Prince of Persia now slated for a Memorial Day 2010 release, it seems safe to say this one won't be opening the same month.
Here, a frustrated witch brings two romantically-challenged teenagers from the real world into that of the story, casting them as Rapunzel and her prince. Broadway veteran Kristin Chenoweth (who starred in the Wonderful World of Disney musicals Annie and The Music Man) will voice Rapunzel, while another stage actor (Dan Fogler) will lend his vocals to the prince. Although estimated releases have seemingly changed with the years, the most recent and firm documents pin this for a Christmastime 2010 release.