Eric Shirey is the founder of Rondo Award nominated movie news websites like MovieGeekFeed.com. His work's been featured on Yahoo!, DC Comics, StarWars.com, and other national websites.
The great thing about living in a major metropolitan area is that movie studios target the area as a heavy promotional market. The Dallas / Fort Worth, TX Metroplex always seems to figure into the aggressive advertising campaigns for big-budget franchise films. One such tour is "The Amazing Spider-Man Secrets Unmasked" Truck Tour, which made a stop in Grand Prairie this past weekend.
Marvel might rule the live-action comic book movie arena, but when it comes to direct-to-DVD animated action DC takes the trophy. They consistently pump out great versions of different story arcs comic book fans have wanted to see in motion for decades. DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Premiere bring us the latest animated addition to their movie collection with Superman vs. The Elite.
Disney and Studio Ghibli banded together again to bring The Secret World of Arrietty to U.S. audiences a few months back. This animated masterpiece was critically acclaimed and captured the hearts of audiences internationally when it came out in theaters. Those who didn't see it get another chance now that it's released on Blu-ray and DVD.
Disney's Phineas and Ferb is one of those animated shows that immediately caught on with not only children, but teens and parents. As an adult watching the show, much of the attraction is due to the adventures of Perry the Platypus as he battles Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Fans of all ages can now enjoy the character's antics whenever they want with the DVD release of Phineas and Ferb: The Perry Files.
With G.I. Joe: Retaliation getting pushed back until next March, fans are trying to find other ways to satisfy their hunger for the franchise. Shout Factory is doing their very best to comply with the release of not one but two animated collections of different G.I. Joe TV shows. We get something old and something newer.
I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan. I read the abridged adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles as a kid and was immediately addicted. I was then introduced to Basil Rathbone's movie version of the sleuth. Over the years, I've read a few of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories and loved them all. Unlike many Sherlockians, I had no problem with Robert Downey Jr. playing the character. I thoroughly enjoyed his unique, physically fit, and active exploits in Guy Ritchie's first Sherlock Holmes film.
What do you do when you release a movie and the co-star's character makes just as much of an impact on viewers as the main actor? Obviously you find a way to exploit the situation by coming up with another project to put that actor and character into. That's exactly what producers of "The Fugitive" did with Tommy Lee Jones' law enforcer, Sam Gerard.
You can’t keep a good thing down. 14 years after their last public debacle, the Ewing family is returning to the primetime limelight in the resurrected “Dallas.” The show officially went off the air in 1991 after 13 seasons, a miniseries, and a TV-movie. TV-movies reunited the Ewings in 1996 and 1998, proving that fans couldn’t get enough drama from Texas’ first family of oil. Now they’re back again and they’ve dragged the kids into it.