The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, starring Ben Barnes and Liam Neeson, opened at the top of the US box office this weekend, taking an estimated $24.5M, but failed to meet many analysts’ predictions. It’s poor opening weekend means it has a long way to go to break-even and reclaim the [...]
The Family Have Taken Charge Of Cinema
December 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As has been widely reported, Harry Potter made a massive impact at the box office in the last few weeks, and continues to do so. Success was inevitable, and the level of success predictable. Harry Potter is one of the most popular book series of all time, appealing to fans both young and old. All [...]
Megamind Video Interview – Will Ferrell
December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today sees the release of Dreamworks’ new animation, Megamind. We’ve only heard good things about it and you can read our review of the movie here. We also got to chat with one of the founders of Dreamworks, Jeffrey Katzenberg who talked to us about the movie & 3D Cinema and about his Studio. Megamind [...]
Megamind Video Interview: Director Tom McGrath
December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today sees the release of Dreamworks’ new animation, Megamind. We’ve only heard good things about it and you can read our review of the movie here. We also got to chat with one of the founders of Dreamworks, Jeffrey Katzenberg who talked to us about the movie & 3D Cinema and about his Studio. Megamind [...]
Interview with Jeffrey Katzenberg on Megamind, DreamWorks & 3D Cinema
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I had the great pleasure of seizing a few minutes of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s time yesterday and being the ‘K’ in DreamWorks SKG as well as the Chief Executive busy out promoting the prolific studio’s newest, bluest 3D animated hero Megamind before his UK debut, I am sure you can imagine how little of these precious [...]
Megamind Review
December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Coming six years after Pixar’s tale of those domesticated defenders of good, The Incredibles, DreamWorks Animation pulls on the spandex and attaches the long flowing cape to deliver a superhero spoof with a difference in the form of Megamind. The twist in the tale here is the story focuses instead on the devious villain, and [...]
Win Megamind Goodies
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
DreamWorks Animations’ Megamind (Cert PG) launches into cinemas this Friday and we’ve got lovely goodies to give away. We’ve got 2 Electric Skateboards and 5 Light Up Umbrellas, perfect for the seasonal weather, to give away. Two lucky winners will get a skateboard and an umbrella and the following three runners up will get an [...]
End Of Year Box Office Bang?
November 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last winter saw some unseasonably big box office numbers. Big budget disaster movie 2012 made over $700 million worldwide. Twilight: New Moon matched it. However, it was the Christmas period that was the big surprise. Sherlock Holmes surprised everyone with a great opening and long legs. I need not, of course, mention Avatar, the highest [...]
Megamind is Still Tops at the US Box Office but Denzil Isn’t Too Far Behind
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Megamind has managed to hold its position on the top spot at the American box office for the second week running. It made an estimated $30.1 million this week, bringing the total to nearly $90 million ($89,757,000). It’s been a great year for the studio so far, having scored a huge money-making hat trick with [...]
Megamind does Mega Business at The US Box Office
November 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Yet another computer-animated kids film has brought in the big bucks at the US box office this past weekend. The Will Ferrell/Brad Pitt starring Megamind has brought in an estimated $47.7 million. Although not quite up there with Toy Story 3’s incredible $110 million opening, this is still an impressive feat considering it’s both a [...]
Another New Megamind Poster Arrives!
November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With less than a month until it reaches our screens, the publicity machine for Megamind is really starting to crank into high gear. You can see all of the clips, trailers, posters and concept art here. Today, courtesy of IMP Awards, we have another poster, this time featuring a baby with a gun and a [...]
New Megamind Concept Art
November 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dreamworks Animation (via the official Megamind Facebook page) have released a couple of rather nice bits of concept art to accompany the movie which comes out in the UK Friday 3rd December. This art shows, the villain / goodie (watch the trailer to find out more) played by Will Ferrell and Metro Man voiced by [...]
Two New Megamind Clips
October 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here are two clips of new DreamWorks animated film Megamind (courtesy of Shockya.com). The film features the vocal talents of Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill, and is directed by Madagascar’s Tom McGrath. Here’s the synopsis: Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever known…and the least successful. Over the years, he [...]
Watch the First Five Minutes of Megamind (From Anywhere)
October 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So it would seem that the US get to see the first five minutes of Megamind but nowhere else! No fair I hear you cry. We agree! So we have scoured the internet to come across some fan-dangled website called YouTube which has the first 5 minutes of footage recorded from when Nikelodeon first aired [...]
Two New International Posters for Megamind
October 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We seem to have had an almost absurd volume of posters for the upcoming Megamind. We’ve kept you up to speed with it all (see here) and although this flies in the face of our “Final Megamind Poster” post of a few weeks ago, here are two more international posters for your viewing pleasure. This [...]
French Poster for Megamind
October 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ecranlarge (via IMPA) have released a brand new french poster for Megamind. The movie has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath. We got to release some new posters for the movie a few weeks ago which you can see here. The first [...]
Final Megamind Poster Released
September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So, after all the other posters have had their day in the sun Dreamworks Animation have tweeted the final Megamind poster to the world. The film features a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath. Before enjoying the one why not kill a minute [...]
Four New Megamind Posters
September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dreamworks Animation have unveiled four new UK posters for their upcoming animated film Megamind. Directed by Tom McGrath, Megamind features an impressive voice-cast, including Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey and David Cross. Megamind centers on a super-villian (Ferrell) who, after killing his good-guy nemesis, Metro Man (Pitt), becomes bored since there is [...]
An Awesome Third Trailer Released for Megamind
September 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
All this week, we’ve had the UK’s very first look at a collection of character posters for Dreamwork’s new movie, Megamind. The movie has a voice cast which includes Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and is directed by Tom McGrath. You can see the first two posters which feature Megamind (Will Ferrell) [...]
