So what was the real reason Pixar canceled Newt? Well, the animation company’s president Ed Catmull revealed in a recent article just why director Gary Rydstrom’s long-gestating animated feature never saw the light of day.

As part of a series of conversations with Fast Company to promote his new book Creativity Inc., Catmull said of the failed project, “Newt was another unlikely idea that wasn’t working. When we gave it to somebody new [Pete Docter, director of Up], he said, ‘I’ll do it, but I have another idea altogether, which I think is better.’ And we thought it was better too. That was…

Brian Tyler has officially signed on to score Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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Alan Silvestri scored the first installment in the series. Tyler had been rumored to score the sequel for several months after he was hired for both Marvel features in 2013, Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World. The composer also composed the music for the TV special Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe, which premiered on ABC last night. Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently in production and will be released on May 1, 2015 by Walt Disney Pictures.

Brian Tyler is a fine composer, but it makes me…

IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX; TSX: IMX) and The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), today announced an agreement to release several of Disney’s upcoming films in IMAX® theatres under an extension of the companies’ long-running relationship.

Under the agreement, IMAX will be part of Disney’s release strategy for its most highly-anticipated live-action tentpole films, including Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier (April 2014), Maleficent (May 2014), Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy(August 2014), and Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (May…

I’m still concerned about this film from a Biblical perspective as a Christian, but I really like what I’m seeing in this featurette. Sure they’re going to be inserting drama and reading things into the story that may or may not have happened, but what can you expect. And to a certain extent, some of that is fine.

However, I am concerned also on the level that the makers of this film are pretty much all atheists as far as I know. Why should I trust atheists to make a film about a Biblical story? But time will tell. In the meantime, check out this cool featurette about the ark itself.

It’s that time of the week again. It’s time to decide what you want to see in the theaters this weekend. I shall talk about two new films, one of which I am quite certain will be good. The other one, well, we’ll have to see. I kind of want it to be good, but I kind of don’t think it will be any good.

New This Weekend

Muppets Most Wanted — PG

I’ve been spending some time getting caught up in Muppet world. I know I’ve seen various Muppet shows and movies throughout my life, but I really only remember The Muppet Babies on Saturday mornings. So I’ve gone back and watched several movies, and…

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is currently in limbo, thanks to Disney CEO Bob Iger. Iger did a conference call on Tuesday and made it rain with news. He mentioned The Incredibles 2, Star Wars Episode VII, and also mentioned that, despite directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg  being attached, the studio has yet to green light the long-in-development fifth film in the mega-blockbuster franchise starring Johnny Depp.

And some people say there is no God.

As we might have mentioned before, our favorite office game is to sort characters into Hogwarts Houses. We are not unique in this of course—a good portion of fandom has Sorting Disease—but we like bringing the party to you, as it were.

And with Muppets Most Wanted coming out, it seemed only natural to get the crew sorted! Join us while we play the music and light the lights!

This is a lot of fun!

This is so great. This appears to be from 1999 when a series of interstitials were run on the Odessy Channel and this would be one of those. With the new Muppet film coming out this weekend, it seemed appropriate to post today.

Make sure to catch all the in jokes about voice and appearance and whatnot. Have fun!

As I have discussed before at length, I am simply the wrong audience for this film. And this trailer did not help me get excited about it. But if the last film was your thing, and you’ve been enjoying the trailers up until this point, you’re surely going to love this. For my part, it just feels like they put all the Spider-Man elements from the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films into a bag, shook it up, and pulled a few out for this film.

Eh, whatever. It’s a trailer, and you might want to watch it.

You’ll be able to see the film in theaters on May 2^nd.