Star Interview

  Bryan Singer left Twentieth Century Fox’s X-Men: The Last Stand just before production began so he could direct Superman Returns for Warner Bros., and what came of X-Men 3 was something critics and fans didn’t find as praiseworthy as its predecessors. The studio, with the help of X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner, brought Singer back to helm a quasi-reboot/prequel in X-Men: First Class after X-Men Origins: Wolverine was also poorly received (critically), but he had to take a producer ........

Q: Why did you decide to set the film in the Amazon?A: “I didn’t want to repeat myself. That is why I decided to go for a place that’s very far from Rio, and in a way, very foreign, even to Brazilians. Amazingly enough, the Amazon is not very well known by our own people, so it's a mystery for Brazilians as much as it is for everyone else. I was born in Brazil; I go back all the time, but I had never been to the Amazon, until I decided to make a movie about it. I went there and I was amaze ........

Some of you may have watched the cartoons as kids, but now this brainy dog and his boy are back to entertain a whole new generation of curious kids. Watch our interview with director Rob Minkoff to find out why he felt so intimidated by this project. Segments of Peabody's Improbable History first appeared in the 1950s and early 1960s as part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Now, Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell), the beagle and his adopted human son, Sherman (Max Charles), have a 3D movie of their own. ........

Q: How does your remake of RoboCop differ from the original?A : It’s set in 2028 and robots are actively operating and patrolling overseas, so this has contemporary overtones, what with drone warfare and so on. In the film, America is a ‘robophobic’ nation. So the OmniCorp Corporation, headed up by Michael Keaton’s character, is actively looking to place a man inside a machine. Which is ultimately what happens to our central character Murphy, played by Joel Kinnaman."Q: Have you focused ........

Q ; To begin with, can you talk about your original pitch meeting with John Lasseter and how you got him to sign off on making Frozen?Chris Buck: Well, we pitched three or four ideas to John, but this was the one that he just really jumped onto. The icy snowy world was just something he’d never seen before in an entire Disney feature. Then the magical part of the story itself about The Snow Queen character was something that just spoke to him, even though it went through many iterations of tha ........