Walrus Films

This Must Be the Place

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:50:23 +0000

This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father’s tormentor, a Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the United States.

Mirror Mirror

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:15:30 +0000

Mirror Mirror is a comedy fantasy film based on Snow White directed by Tarsem Singh and stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts and Armie Hammer, about a wicked enchantress who schemes for control of a spirited orphan's throne and the attention of a charming prince.

Titanic

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:08:48 +0000

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, Gloria Stuart as Old Rose, and Billy Zane as Rose’s fiancé, Cal Hockley. Jack and Rose are members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.

StreetDance 2

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:26:01 +0000

StreetDance 2 is the sequel to box office smash StreetDance 3D which was released on 21 May 2010. The film will be released in RealD 3D, XpanD 3D, and Dolby 3D with Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini returning to directing. Britain’s Got Talent stars George Sampson and Flawless return to the fold along with phenomenal Hip-hop dancer Sofia Boutella (backing dancer for Madonna and face of Nike) and Falk Hentschel. The cast also features world-famous b-boys such as Lilou, Niek, and Yaman.

The film is a production of Vertigo Films in association with BBC Films.

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:53:42 +0000

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, known internationally as The Pirates! Band of Misfits, is a 3-D stop-motion animated film produced by Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Peter Lord, the director of Chicken Run. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and was released on 28 March 2012, in UK, and is scheduled for 27 April 2012, in US. The Pirates! features the voices of Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant.

The film is based on the first two books from Gideon Defoe’s The Pirates! series, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists and The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling. It is Aardman Animations’ first stop-motion clay animated feature to be released in Digital 3D and their first film since Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit to contain such high levels of “on-the-nose” humour.

Wrath of the Titans

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Wrath of the Titans is a 2012 American fantasy film and sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans. The film stars Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy, Édgar Ramírez, Toby Kebbell, Danny Huston, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson with Jonathan Liebesman directing a screenplay by Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson. Wrath of the Titans takes place a decade after the events of the first film as the gods lose control over the imprisoned Titans and Perseus is called once again, this time to rescue his father Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind.

Talk of a sequel began with the release of Clash of the Titans in March 2010. Scribes Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson were hired in June 2010 and director Jonathan Liebesman was brought on-board in August 2010. The majority of the casting took place between January and February 2011. Principal photography began in London in March 2011. The film was converted to 3D in post-production. Wrath of the Titans was released in 2D and 3D on March 30, 2012 in the United States.

Happy Feet Two

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:53:15 +0000

Happy Feet Two is a 2011 American-Australian 3D computer-animated family musical film directed by George Miller, who co-directed the original film Happy Feet. The film is a sequel to Happy Feet and features Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia reprising their roles from the first. Pink, Common and Richard Carter replaced Brittany Murphy, Fat Joe and Steve Irwin as Gloria, Seymour and Bryan the beachmaster, respectively. The original cast is joined by new characters voiced by Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Sofía Vergara. Dr. D Studios in Sydney, Australia produced the film, which premiered in North American theaters on November 18, 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. The film was released with a Looney Tunes short called I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat starring Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird.

The Thing

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:36:08 +0000

The Thing is a 2011 science fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. It is a prequel to the 1982 film of the same name by John Carpenter, the plot ending immediately before the start of the plot for that film. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. They are part of a team of Norwegian and American scientists who discover an alien buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, realizing too late that it is still alive, consuming and replicating the team members.

Puss in Boots

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:58:08 +0000

Puss in Boots is a 2011 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, directed by Chris Miller (who directed Shrek the Third in 2007), executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, and written by Brian Lynch, with screenplay by Tom Wheeler. It stars Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris. The film was released in theaters on October 28, 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.

The film is a spinoff prequel to the Shrek franchise, and it follows the character Puss in Boots on his adventures before his first appearance in Shrek 2 in 2004. Accompanied by his sidekicks, Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Softpaws, Puss is pitted against Jack and Jill, two murderous outlaws in ownership of legendary magical beans which lead to great fortune. The film opened to very positive reviews and became a success at the box office with a gross of over $539 million. It was also nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

The Awakening

The Walrus — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:39:31 +0000

The Awakening is a 2011 British horror film directed by Nick Murphy, starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, and Imelda Stauntonabout a published author on supernatural hoaxes who works with the police to expose charlatans and debunk supernatural phenomenon.