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Tom Hanks is no stranger to acting with — or as — toys in the movies. He played a toy designer in the movie Big and lent his voice to one of film's most famous toys of all, Woody the cowboy from Pixar's Toy Story. So it's no surprise that he would want in on the live-action toy movies sweeping the land — Transformers, G.I. Joe, Candyland, etc. Hanks is looking to star as Major Matt Mason, Read more
The Transformers movie clearly turned out to be massively successful for the Hasbro toy company, and talk of a sequel swiftly followed the first movie's release. Then a G.I. Joe movie went into development, followed by a deal with Universal to make at least four movies based on Hasbro products, including Ouija, Candyland and Battleship, among others. Not to be outdone, rival toy company Mattel Read more
Don't be shy . . . It's time to talk sex toys! And Hysteria director Tanya Wexler is writing us a prescription for pleasure. Tanya's film — what she calls "the vibrator movie you can bring your mom to" — is in limited release and stars Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Rupert Everett. When working on a romantic comedy that centers around the invention of the vibrator, you end up with some Read more
I don't remember aliens making an appearance in my own childhood sessions with Battleship, but I suppose when you try to make a toy into a feature-length film, you're afforded a few liberties. Unfortunately, the producers of Battleship may have spent too much time finding creative ways to explode things and not enough time on a plot, ending up with underutilized actors, in a wishy-washy Read more
Even superheroes would be nowhere without their gadgets. As we gear up for the highly anticipated release of The Avengers on Friday (catch up on everything you need to know here), we're getting super(hero) excited about the futuristic, high-tech gadgets on display in this Marvel Comics extravaganza. If this movie is to be trusted, the future of technology is all about ultrathin touchscreens and Read more
Alicia Silverstone is joining Amy Heckerling's vampire comedy Vamps — News Briefs A new, longer trailer for Toy Story 3 — Vulture Calling all Hogwarts fanatics: the Wizarding World of Harry Potter website is live — MTV Movies Blog The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is being remade. Bring back Dolly! — Cinematical The Griswold Vacation reboot is going to Wally World again — /Film Alex Read more
The magic of Pixar's Oscar-winning films is in their ability to take seemingly ordinary story lines about childhood toys or a garbage-collecting robot and transform them into emotional narratives about love and life. The studio's upcoming Summer film Brave is its first foray into the familiar coming-of-age tale, this one as told through the experiences of a defiant teenage girl. Pixar's first Read more
Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise, and Katie's mom Kathleen headed out for dinner at The ABC Kitchen in Manhattan last night. Suri got to wear her pajamas for the outing on what was a warm Spring evening in NYC. The trio of ladies have been spending time together in the Big Apple this week. Suri led the way for a toy store trip yesterday and held onto Katie and grandma Kathleen's hands leaving Whole Read more
Beating the heat with a Summer movie and need some guidance on what to see? Let a Buzz editor advise you on whether you should check out this week's new releases, Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex — or skip them! Read more
As host Anne Hathaway said, this year's Academy Awards kind of were the "young and hip" Oscars. They made the effort, anyway, from the choice of hosts to skits like the auto-tuned movie montage. Making a joke about how musicals were big this year, Franco introduced the parody, which features 2010 movies like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, The Social Network, and Eclipse. Watch as Read more
