In case anyone is wondering, Eddie Murphy wants to play Donkey in Shrek 5. He was promoting his new movie You People with Etalk when Shrek came up. He also questioned why Puss in Boots was given his own spin-off movies when Donkey was left out, despite being “funnier.” Check out an ex...
Read MoreAxel Foley’s bringing his old partners back into action with him. Filming is underway on the fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie, which is titled Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley (What’s with this trend of naming sequels after the main character, as if we somehow forgot who they were?), and a series of ...
Read MoreSome long-rumored movies are headed our way courtesy of a political payoff. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that, thanks to California’s Film and TV tax credits – a thank-you to limousine liberals from the politicians they helped elect, no matter how much they try to couch it in generating “bel...
Read MoreIn 2010, DreamWorks Animation completed the main Shrek film series with its fourth installment, Shrek Forever After. Shrek the Third is the only Shrek film I saw in the theater;, I saw Shrek Forever After by chance when my grandmother got us the DVD. I didn’t like the movie much, but it was st...
Read More2007 reminds me a lot of 2004 in terms of DreamWorks Animation’s cinematic output. In both years, they released a Shrek sequel in May and in the fall, a comedy featuring anthropomorphic animals starring a well-known comedian. We’ll talk about Bee Movie next time, but one big difference between t...
Read MoreConventional wisdom tells us that sequels are usually a bad idea and never as good as the original movie. Every now and again, there’s an exceptionally good sequel that shakes things up, expanding on themes and characters from the original while also exploring new ones. I’ve always considered Th...
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