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"How many cats can wear boots? Honestly!" — Shrek, Shrek 2 I know many people love Donkey in the Shrek movies, but my heart belongs to Puss in Boots, "the feline assassin/swordsman" voiced hilariously by Antonio Banderas. So this news delights me: There's a Puss in Boots movie spinoff in the works, and it just got TV writer Tom Wheeler to do the script. No plot details yet, but I don't care. I Read more
Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek may be the focus of this week's animated release, Puss in Boots, but their feline characters spend much of the movie being upstaged by an egg. It's because that egg is Zach Galifianakis — the comedian voices Humpty Dumpty in the Shrek spin-off. I caught up with Galifianakis recently to talk about the great experience he had working on the film, why it made him Read more
In news that will surprise no one, Breaking Dawn Part 1 easily won the top spot at the box office with $139.5 million. The huge sum just barely missed out on making it the biggest Twilight opening ever; that honor still belongs to New Moon, which made $142.7 million in 2009. Breaking Dawn Part 1's opening is still impressive; it's the second-biggest opening weekend in the vampire series, and the Read more
Three-dimensional fantasy trumped comedy at the box office this weekend, as Immortals took home the crown with $32 million. Jack and Jill didn't prove itself as another hit for Adam Sandler; the new comedy took second with $26 million, just narrowly beating out Puss in Boots by $500,000. Tower Heist fell to fourth place in its second weekend, with $13.2 million. J. Edgar debuted in fifth with Read more
New comedy releases weren't enough to knock Puss in Boots out of the first spot at the box office — the animated comedy starring Antonio Banderas's voice as a sword-wielding cat dominated the weekend with $33 million. The Ben Stiller-led Tower Heist came in second with $25.1 million, while a fellow new comedy release, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, followed in third place with $13.1 Read more
Animated cats earned box office glory this weekend, as the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots came in first with a $34 million haul in its first week of release for the biggest Halloween weekend opening ever. It beat last weekend's box office winner, Paranormal Activity 3, which came in second with $18.5 million. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried's futuristic thriller In Time, which was also new Read more
Antonio Banderas reprises his feline character Puss in Boots in this week's animated release, a spinoff of the Shrek franchise. This time, he gets a love interest in the form of Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek). I recently sat down with the leading actors, who chatted about the fact that they still manage to have chemistry as cartoons, how this isn't the first time they've played onscreen love Read more
The Adventures of Tintin is the Golden Globe winner for best animated movie! It beat out Puss in Boots, Cars 2, Arthur Christmas, and Rango. How do you feel about this win? Read more
Antonio Banderas is one of the many male leads in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, which hits theaters this Friday on Jan. 20. Unlike in real life, for much of the movie Antonio sports a big beard. He revealed how he and Steven came to include the facial hair in the film, and also spoke about the variety of roles he's played over the last 12 months including his part in this picture, Puss in Boots, Read more
Well, folks, we're finally getting into the heavy hitters of award season, as the 2012 Golden Globe nominees were announced this morning. As expected, award season darlings The Artist and The Descendants led the way with five nods apiece, but there are plenty of surprises here, too. George Clooney is going to have a big night, as his The Ides of March scored four nods, including one for him as a Read more
