Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Chuck The Movie Guy interviewed actor Justin Long on the upcoming animated film “Planet 51″ by directors Jorge Blanco and Javier Abad starring Dwayne Johnson (Tooth Fairy), Seann William Scott (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Jessica Biel (Nailed), Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell) and John Cleese (Crood Awakening). Synopsis: The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and more from “Planet 51″ and Sony Pictures. »
- Brian Corder

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Twentieth Century Fox has boasted that it was able to prevent Redbox from offering cheap rentals of Ice Age:Dawn of the Dinosaurs after it was released on DVD last month. Redbox had vowed to purchase from retail outlets DVDs that Fox, Universal and Warner said would only be provided to the kiosk operator 30 days after they became available elsewhere. But, according to the Los Angeles Times, Fox researchers checked 1,105 Redbox kiosks in 35 states and found that Ice Age was missing from most of them when first released. But Redbox President Mitch Lowe told the Times that new films are generally available at the kiosks only about 30 percent of the time (presumably because of heavy demand). He insisted that Redbox has been able to fully stock DVDs from the non-cooperating studios within a few days of their release dates. Meanwhile, financial services firm Merriman Curhan Ford said Tuesday that by Nov. 14, Ice Age was stocked in 94 percent of Redbox machines. Home Media magazine quoted Merriman analyst Eric Wold was saying, "We are encouraged by the incremental gains in stocking the title with the company's workaround program." »

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Here's another list for you to digest as we approach the end of the decade. Jason Kottke [1] recently took a look at the list of highest-grossing films from 2000-2009 courtesy of Wikipedia [2], and makes the observation that only one movie in the top 20 is based on an original screenplay. The rest of the movies are all adaptations of books or sequels to existing franchises. Now, it's pretty easy to jump on this list and whine and moan about how it means there is nothing original in Hollywood anymore. While I agree that there is a problem with studios valuing brand over concept, don't forget, we are talking about the movies that made the most money here. Of Course familiar characters and titles are going to attract more viewers than strange and unfamiliar ones... doesn't that make sense? A lot of people don't even see movies at the theatre, so they »
- Sean

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