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Operation Kino 104: Defending The Smurfs And Offensive HumorThis week Katey and Dave have doubleheader tidbit talk about NBC and HBO's Girls, Patches defends his love of The Smurfs, and the guys get into a conversation about what makes some humor offensive. All that plus a lightning round inspired by the DVD release of Wreck-It Ralph...by Operation Kino | published: 2013-03-05 10:59:08comments
Smurfs 3 Already In DevelopmentIf you don't have kids, odds are you never saw the first Smurfs film and probably never will. If you do have kids, you might have taken them to see it out of your own nostalgia for the 80s cartoon, and of course, the constant need to entertain them with something...by Katey Rich | published: 2012-05-11 08:53:25comments
Smurfs Writers Get Called Back For The SequelI really didn't like The Smurfs. In addition to being insipid and stupid, it was, as I said in my review, "so completely lifeless it never manages to justify its own existence." That said, I do think that a studio could make a good Smurfs movie. All they would have to do is stick to what made the characters great in the first place and refuse to modernize them for a "young, hip crowd."...by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2011-08-17 23:49:12comments
Summer 2011 Winners And LosersThe biggest blockbuster movie going season of the year often has implications beyond the numbers, so here we are to break down who came out of the summer smelling like a rose, and who came out Ryan Reynolds. These are the biggest winners and losers of Summer 2011, as we see them....by Josh, Katey, Eric, Mack, Sean | published: 2011-08-12 00:44:30comments
The Smurfs 2 Already Has An August 2013 Release Date, But No Confirmed CastAmerica, you must now reap what you sowed. The Smurfs is standing tall at the box office, with $128 million worldwide after just 2 weeks in release, despite the fact that it was critically loathed and is a blatant, pandering attempt to mine the 80s for nostalgic cash...by Katey Rich | published: 2011-08-09 13:44:42comments
Weekend Box Office - Apes Rise To The TopHow many monkeys...sorry, apes...does it take to make a Planet of the Apes prequel? About $93 million worth. And that's a small price tag for a movie where a vast majority of the shots include at least one, and often dozens, of CGI chimps, gorillas or orangutans. And it's partly thanks to that relatively modest budget that Rise of the Planet of the Apes can expect to become a profitable movie this summer. The film banked a solid $54 million as the number one entry this weekend....by Scott Gwin | published: 2011-08-07 14:12:26comments
Weekend Box Office - Smurfs Showdown Against Cowboys & AliensCowboys & Aliens split the number one spot with The Smurfs in early weekend estimates. Both films banked around $36 million, but until official numbers are released on Monday the only losers are the audiences who paid to sit through either of the mediocre new releases. ...by Scott Gwin | published: 2011-07-31 19:25:32comments
Exclusive Interview: The Smurfs' Neil Patrick HarrisWho doesn’t love Neil Patrick Harris? Whether you know him as a child star on the Doogie Howser, M.D., the ridiculous drug addict in the Harold and Kumar movies, the womanizing and legen-wait for it-dary Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother or simply from his hosting duties at both the Emmys and the Tonys, the guy has proven to wide audiences time and time again that he is the epitome of awesome....by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2011-07-28 23:32:11comments
This Rotten Week: Predicting Cowboys & Aliens, Steve Carell Comedy, And Smurf ReviewsHave you spent all of your hard-earned money at the movie theater this summer? Has the box office drained your wallet? I hope not because Hollywood is nothing if not persistent. The bigwigs will get people to see anything. Aliens fighting cowboys in the Old West? Sure, put it up on screen. A cartoon about blue midgets from the 1980s? Greenlight it! ...by Doug Norrie | published: 2011-07-24 13:47:46comments
Video Interview: The Smurfs Director Raja Gosnell And Producer Jordan KernerA few weeks back I had the chance to visit Sony Pictures animation, and when I wasn't deforming Smurfs using an animation program or making Clumsy Smurf curse up a storm as he ran away from a dog, I was talking to the people responsible for bringing the long-beloved characters to the silver screen....by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2011-07-06 23:54:33comments
My Day At Sony Animation Or: How I Spent A Few Hours Torturing A SmurfAs obsessed with cartoons as I was, however, and as much time that I spent illustrating and impersonating the characters, there was an underlying truth: I really sucked at it. All of my drawings with totally out of proportion and I could hardly draw a straight line. Even Oblina from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, who is basically an upside-down black-and-white candy cane with eyes, was beyond my skills....by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2011-07-06 19:24:54comments
Video Interview: The Smurfs' Hank Azaria And Jayma MaysI can't imagine being a voice-over actor is easy. While some people dismiss it as being paid to stand in a booth and speak into a microphone, a real voice actor fully envisions their character, the world around them and the people they're interacting all while trying to deliver their lines with proper cadence. On that same note, being a live-action character interacting with animated characters can't be easy either....by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2011-07-05 21:39:54comments
The Smurfs Trailer: Stop Saying Smurf For EverythingThe two Alvin and the Chipmunks movies and Enchanted were both huge family hits, so it was probably only a matter of time before the two would collide uncomfortably in a movie trying to mimic both of them. That movie seems to be The Smurfs...by Katey Rich | published: 2011-05-25 12:40:55comments
Smurfs Trailer Provides First Look At Gargamel And Is Nothing Like The HolocaustThere’s a new, full-length trailer for The Smurfs and in addition to giving us a more in-depth look at the movie’s story, it also provides our first look at the great Hank Azaria as Gargamel. The movie seems a lot like the Chipmunks live-action films, with Neil Patrick Harris in the Jason Lee role...by Josh Tyler | published: 2011-03-10 18:36:31comments
New Smurfs Image Sadly Reminds Us That It's Still On The WayIt was all the way back in June that the first teaser trailer for The Smurfs came online and boiled my blood. Everything about it was cliched, trite and shitty - easily the worst trailer of the year ...by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2010-12-22 14:45:38comments
New Smurfs Poster Takes Over The Top Of The RockWith Yogi Bear out in theaters today, it's time to look forward to the next CGI/live-action hybrid adaptation of something from your childhood that you never asked for: The Smurfs...by Katey Rich | published: 2010-12-17 09:14:35comments
First Image Of Smurfette From The New Smurfs MovieAs bloodcurdlingly awful the trailers have been for the upcoming Yogi Bear, there are few trailer from this year that did more to crush my hopes, dreams and spirit more than the teaser for The Smurfs. Between the...by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2010-11-08 13:36:11comments
Troll Dolls Bringing Don King Hair Back To Big ScreenIf there exists an old toy or cartoon (or preferably both) lying around, some writer will come up with a way to cram it on to the big screen...by Doug Norrie | published: 2010-06-23 05:12:32comments
The Teaser Trailer For The Smurfs Will Crush Your SoulThe video couldn't be any more awful or typical if it tried. There is a dramatic voice-over, white-on-black title cards, "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc, and views of monuments around the world. Oh, and all of ...by Eric Eisenberg | published: 2010-06-16 17:32:51comments
First Look At The Live-Action SmurfsSony has released the first ever, official image from The Smurfs and right off the bat they seem to be trying to make the point that this won’t be set in a world of mushroom huts and medieval sorcery...by Josh Tyler | published: 2010-06-16 00:36:35comments
Tim Gunn Joins The Increasingly Bizarre Smurfs CastSet aside the completely insane notion that Tim Gunn could be anyone's executive assistant-- because, come on, he'd be running the joint and making it work within minutes. Why is a cosmetics company involved in the Smurfs movie?...by Katey Rich | published: 2010-05-06 09:48:20comments
Hank Azaria's Live-Action Gargamel RevealedLucky for everyone, Hank Azaria is going to be playing one of the few human characters in the film, and he wasn't just spotted by the paparazzi, but he hammed it up for the cameras right on the street corner...by Katey Rich | published: 2010-04-30 17:37:00comments
More Voices Join Smurf CastThe upcoming Smurfs movie just got a whole lot, oh I don’t know, bluer? A bevy of actors, actresses and other celebrities have already joined the voice casting roll call...by Doug Norrie | published: 2010-04-29 17:19:01comments
Paul Reubens Is Jokey SmurfThe assumption on this movie all along has pretty much been that it’s a terrible idea. But maybe it’s time to rethink that position. Take a good, long, look at that voice cast. That’s a lot of talent...by Josh Tyler | published: 2010-04-27 22:48:38comments
Smurfs Plot Revealed And Chekov Is A Clumsy SmurfSony has started production on The Smurfs and they’ve announced two more actors hired to provide voices for the film’s smurfy, little blue characters. Star Trek’s Anton Yelchin is on board to play Clumsy Smurf...by Josh Tyler | published: 2010-04-06 18:41:15comments
Sofia Vergara Plays With SmurfsRaja Gosnell's upcoming live-action/animation hybrid adaptation of the classic Belgian cartoon The Smurfs has just picked up another star to fill one of the real life roles in the film...by Will LeBlanc | published: 2010-03-29 06:18:16comments
Hank Azaria Is Gargamel In The Smurfs, Katy Perry Is Smurfette!When I first saw the trailer for Avatar, I thought it was the live action Smurfs movie. I was wrong. In reality, The Smurfs will start filming next month. Big names are coming on board to lend their voices to the productio...by Doug Norrie | published: 2010-03-17 14:15:40comments
Katy Perry, Alan Cumming And George Lopez Will Be SmurfsWhen the people behind the Smurfs movie snagged Neil Patrick Harris to play the lead human character, we all knew that casting could only go downhill from there. I mean, no matter who you pick, they're not going to top NPH...by Katey Rich | published: 2010-03-05 09:11:09comments
Neil Patrick Harris Will Be The Main Human In The SmurfsNeil Patrick Harris is going to star in Smurfs: The Movie. Now before you get all excited about Barney Stinson voicing Papa Smurf or romancing Smurfette, relax-- he'll be playing the lead human character...by Katey Rich | published: 2010-03-03 13:08:47comments
New Smurf Image Is A Big ImprovementWell this is kind of a relief. Though the upcoming Smurfs movie is sure to be awful, since they’re forcing it to fit into the Alvin & The Chipmunks mold instead of letting it be The Smurfs...by Josh Tyler | published: 2010-02-02 00:57:07comments
South Park Parodies Avatar With The SmurfsIt hasn’t even been released yet, but somehow, James Cameron’s Avatar has already forged a permanent place in our pop cultural consciouciousness. It’s place was solidified Wednesday night when Cameron’s blue alien...by Josh Tyler | published: 2009-11-12 20:38:11comments
Tron: Legacy Is Coming For ChristmasTron: Legacy has a release date. Disney has announced that they’ll release it December 17, 2010. That puts it up against newly bumped The Green Hornet and a pair of ancient cartoon to movie adaptations...by Josh Tyler | published: 2009-09-03 16:02:00comments
First CGI Smurf Smurfs His Way Into A PosterIf it’s real, then this is our first look at what a computer generated Smurf might look like. He looks as shocked as we are that this movie is happening...by Josh Tyler | published: 2009-09-01 01:59:48comments
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