#FIRSTLOOK: “SAVING MR. BANKS” TRAILER STARRING TOM HANKS AND EMMA THOMPSON

At long last, a Trailer has arrived for Saving Mr. Banks, and if this isn’t bait for an Oscar, I don’t know what is!

Chronicling Walt Disney‘s 20-year struggle to bring Author P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins to the big screen, the Disney (I know, how meta!) Drama stars Tom Hanks as the famed Animator and Emma Thompson as Travers; John Lee Hancock directs.

Saving Mr. Banks also stars: Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, Annie Rose Buckley, Ruth Wilson, B.J. Novak, Rachel Griffiths and Kathy Baker.

See the official Synopsis below:
When Walt Disney’s Daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite Book, P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins, he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood Machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the Adaptation.

For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls-out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman Brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.

It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing Films in Cinematic History.

See the Trailer below:

Saving Mr. Banks gets a Limited Release on December 13, 2013 and a Wide Release December 20, 2013, making this a prime choice for Families this Christmas!

 

(Photo/video credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada)

#FIRSTLOOK: “EPIC” TRAILER STARRING AMANDA SEYFRIED, JOSH HUTCHERSON, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, BEYONCÉ, COLIN FARRELL AND MORE

From the Creators of Ice Age and Rio comes the star-studded Epic from 20th Century Fox. The Animated Feature follows a Teen Girl who finds herself transported into the Forest, where she joins forces with a variety of Characters to save the World. Epic features the voice work of Amanda Seyfried, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Josh Hutcherson, Judah Friedlander, Colin Farrell, Pitbull, Beyoncé, Aziz Ansari and recent double Oscar Winner, Christoph Waltz.

Epic follows a positive new wave of young Female-fronted Animated Action Adventures and the time couldn’t be better with Disney‘s Brave  just winning Animated Feature at the Oscars on Sunday night and going on to gross a massive $535-million worldwide.  Fans already are drawing visual and thematic parallels to The Spiderwick Chronicles and Avatar. And while The Hangover 3 will be catering to an R-Rated Audience, Epic offers Families an option this Victoria Day at the Movies.

Watch the Trailer in full below:

20th Century Fox releases Epic on May 24, 2013.

(Photo/video credit: 20th Century Fox)

INTRODUCING BONNY THE SHIH TZU: STAR OF “SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS”

Is she this year’s Uggie?  Bonny the Shih Tzu has only been acting since she was 10 months old (equivalent to 13 human years), but this little Lady is already stamping herself as a Star on the rise.  Bonny stars in TIFF 2012 Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award Winner Seven Psychopaths, stealing the show from her famous Co-Stars Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Gabourey Sidibe and Olga Kurylenko. The Dark Comedy has her starring as the Canine Companion to  a dangerous Criminal (Harrelson), getting kidnapped by troubled Actor and Dog Thief, Rockwell.  Before we know it, the stakes are raised and no lives are spared to get Bonny back.

Was fame written in the stars for Bonny?   The adorable tri-coloured Shih Tzu actually is a Rescue Dog, now owned by the Performing Animal Troupe, a Movie Animal Company.  She is trained currently by Claire Dore who praises her incredible focus and ability to tune things out around her.

Okay Miss Bonny, we’d like to see you tune this out!  My little Boy Billy is just smitten with you and had one question to ask:

Alliance Films releases Seven Psychopaths on October 12, 2012.

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UPDATE: It appears there is a romance looming!  Billy received this reply from Bonny on Facebook:

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