Live action/CG family comedies for everyone! That's right, yet another hybrid animated film is moving forward this week, with the announcement of some pretty big names entering discussions for the Warner Brothers adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Yogi Bear. It looks like the studio has found voices for both Yogi and Boo-Boo, plus an actress for their first live action role. According...
Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear movie is back on track, a year after the film had been announced with no solid news or leads detailing where it was going to end up next. With new writer Brad Copeland (Wild Hogs) and new director Eric Brevig (Journey to the Center of the Earth) announced, they have decided to [...]
Entertainment Weekly has uncovered the supposed casting for the upcoming live-action/hybrid adventure that will bring the lovable picnic basket thief Yogi Bear to the big screen.
He’s smarter than the average bear, partial to the odd pic-a-nic basket and pals with Boo Boo, and pretty soon he’s going to a film star too. That’s right, prepare yourself for Yogi Bear: The Movie, a fusion of live action and CGI, that, if Warner Bros. get their way, will see Dan Aykroyd voicing [...]
There is a Yogi Bear live action/CGI movie coming with Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake in talks to star. The film is being directed by Eric Brevig and produced by Donald De Line and Karen Rosenfelt as a live-action/CG hybrid. Faris will play a nature documentarian who follows the antics of a bear in fictional [...]
I could make another joke about how Hollywood is out of ideas, but why bother? However, as further proof of the concept, a live-action/CGI Yogi Bear movie is in the works based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon from way back when. Dan Aykroyd will be lending his voice for Yogi and Justin Timberlake will be the voice of Boo Boo. Did anyone else just feel a cold shiver down their spine? Anna Faris will also...
Ahoy, squirts! here. This is probably the oddest piece of news to hit this week... Apparently next month production begins on a live action/CG animation hybrid adaptation of Yogi Bear directed by JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH helmer Eric Brevig. has a story on this film indicating a cast is shaping up with Dan Aykroyd in talks to voice Yogi Bear, Justin Timberlake in talks to voice Boo-Boo and...
By Paul Hatfield It was shades of “Point, Counterpoint” from SNL, one of the classic comedy routines from the golden age of the show with Jane Curtain and Dan Aykroyd trading barbs over politics. The routine itself was a spoof of a popular 60 Minutes segment pitting opposing, unyielding pundits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!...
Since both Dan Aykroyd and co-writer D.V. DeVincentis have both been my mentioned in my last two posts, my mind naturally went to this low-key rom-com cum black action comedy from 1997. This very nice bit of business features Mr. Aykroyd and John Cusack as two colleagues in the assassination biz with less than collegial [...]
Sometimes a news story falls through the cracks and, since I don’t have Lewis Black working for me, they just kind of stay there until someone points them out. In this case, the fine cinephile blogger Peter Nellhaus of the well-named Coffee, Coffee and More Coffee alerted me via Facebook that I’d missed this item [...]
Fun enough to raise the dead'. Even though much of the pre-release hype surrounding this game has focussed on other systems, that shouldn’t obscure the fact that Ghostbusters on the Wii is a very good game, worthy of as much coverage as the hi-def versions. Ghostbusters is a very different game to both the DS effort [...]
Justin Timberlake joined friends for a round of golf in LA yesterday afternoon. He's enjoying some downtime after dealing with some recent stalker drama and before he gets down to work on The Social Network , which started filming this week in Maryland . JT might have another movie project coming down the pipeline - he's apparently negotiating for a role in an upcoming animated Yogi Bear flick that's...
Another "re-working" of a classic! Warner Brothers is making a live action/CG-animated film of the "Yogi Bear" cartoon. Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake will be lending their talents to the groundbreaking film. Yawn. Seriously, Hollywood?! It's getting so pathetic now that nearly EVERY movie coming out is based on something old whether it's a cartoon, [...]
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