A second trailer for Age of Ultron was just released! Unfortunately it is severely lacking in any form of substantial new footage. We do see a little more of what is most likely the battle with Baron Von Struckers forces in the beginning of the… Read More »Avengers: Age of Ultron – Trailer 2
Congratulations to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, over the weekend it surpassed Maleficent to become the second highest grossing movie of the year at the worldwide box office. It’s total is now an impressive $765.1 at the global box office. The only film Guardians lags… Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy Takes Top Spot at 2014 Global Box Office
Disney will cap off an amazing 2014 at the box office with a Christmas Day opening of “Into the Woods.” But you won’t have to wait quite that long to get the official sound track for the movie. It will be released on December 16th.… Read More »Disney’s “Into the Woods” Soundtrack Available to Order
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” opens at the end of the very bad day mentioned in the title and quickly introduces you to the main characters. You’re then transported back about 36 hours to the previous day, where the fun… Read More »Review: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
I was invited to an Orlando screening of Disney’s next film “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day;” I was expecting something silly, but it turned out to be much more than that. It gently taught real life lessons, possessed great heart,… Read More »Disney’s Alexander… Very Bad Day Movie Premiere
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” was originally published in 1972 and has won many honors and recognitions over the years. It has sold over two million copies and entered the nightly book reading routines of countless families around the world.… Read More »Author Introduces New Clip from Disney’s “Alexander” movie
Ladies and gentlemen of the books, check your course listings, for instead of Chemistry you could be earning credit for studying the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Right now you have to be a student at the University of Baltimore, but if you are look for “Media Genres: Media Marvels” at registration, you and your fellow classmates will soon be exploring Marvel’s modern movie legacy together. The course is believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
According to the press release for the course, “you will scrutinize the intricately plotted world of Marvel films—the Iron Man, Thor and Captain America series, characters from the Avengers, and now the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which is widely expected to be the highest grossing film of 2014 [and] examine how Marvel’s series of interconnected films and television shows, plus related media and comic book sources and Joseph Campbell’s monomyth of the “hero’s journey,” offer important insights into modern culture.”
“One thing we’ll do is dive into the impact of the Guardians of the Galaxy film, which proved two things: Mainstream movie audiences are not remotely tired of superhero movies; and Marvel Studios can now release a sci-fi adventure that actually features talking trees and raccoons,” said course instructor Arnold T. Blumberg, D.C.D. ’04, an adjunct faculty member in UB’s Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences. “It’s not that they’re getting away with it—they’ve created a universe in which fans completely accept these developments, and they’re ready for even more.”
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Disney has a good record with movies based on a real life adventure. Their next film in the genre will be “The Finest Hours” which is based on a 1952 rescue during a heavy storm of more than 30 sailors by a few brave Coast… Read More »Disney’s “The Finest Hours” set to begin production on location in Massachusetts