Forty years ago, almost to the day, Philippe Petit did the unthinkable and completed a high-wire walk between the World Trade Towers. Now arrives our first official look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming biopic The Walk, courtesy of USA Today. Petit’s incredible feat was previously brought to the screen in the Oscar-winning […]
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Interview: Ray Winstone (The Sweeney)
February 12, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo February 12, 2013 Ray Winstone is one of the most imposing hard men in cinema; the go-to geezer for esteemed directors like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Robert Zemeckis. But no one starts at the top. He’s been toiling in the industry for nearly four decades, breaking out in confronting dramas Nil […]
Continue readingFlying high – Flight review
January 28, 2013 0 Comments
Flight – Starring Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, and Don Cheadle. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis jettison their bad habits like so much frozen human waste from the back of a soaring airliner with their collaboration Flight. As one of Hollywood’s most reliable leading men, Washington had […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Flight
October 15, 2012 0 Comments
Robert Zemeckis returns from the dead-eyed darkness of motion-capture hell with Flight, a high-stakes drama starring sure-fire Academy Award contender Denzel Washington. The second feature trailer for the flick has arrived online, which puts a greater emphasis on the air-crash sequence in which Washington’s substance-abusing pilot miraculously manages to keep everyone on board alive. However, when his […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Flight
June 11, 2012 0 Comments
Check out the trailer for Robert Zemeckis‘ new film, Flight, starring Denzel Washington and John Goodman. After spending the last decade exclusively making motion-capture flicks (The Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol), Zemeckis finally returns to the world of live-action cinema with this drama about a pilot (Denzel Washington) who miraculously lands a plane under […]
Continue readingBack to the Future director Replays with time travel
May 2, 2011 0 Comments
Director Robert Zemeckis is heading back to the future, minus the DeLorean, with an adaptation of the bestselling 1987 novel Replay. Vulture reports the director behind the beloved time travel series is in talks with Warner Brothers Pictures to helm the big screen adaptation of Ken Grimwood’s novel about a time travelling 40-year-old man, Jeff […]
Continue readingDisney sinks Zemeckis’ Yellow Submarine
March 16, 2011 2 Comments
We all live in a yellow submarine … or we would have had Disney not just pulled the plug on Robert Zemeckis’ remake of the Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine. The Hollywood Reporter claims Disney made the move to shut down the project after the Zemeckis produced Mars Needs Moms bombed on its opening weekend box […]
Continue readingLesson learned – A Christmas Carol review
November 22, 2010 0 Comments
A Christmas Carol – Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Rated PG. Originally published November 5, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is technically perfect. And so it should be. The director has spent the better part of the decade refining motion-capture […]
Continue readingRobert Zemeckis remaking The Wizard of Oz?
November 18, 2010 0 Comments
UPDATE: That didn’t take long. Zemeckis has told The Wrap that reports of him directing a remake of The Wizard of Oz are “completely untrue”. Of course, that doesn’t mean another director won’t take the wheel. Anyway, here’s the original report… It is with great sadness that we report the following news. According to Deadline, […]
Continue readingLesson learned – A Christmas Carol review
November 5, 2009 1 Comment
A Christmas Carol – Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is technically perfect. And so it should be. The director has spent the better part of the decade refining motion-capture technology for this very film; […]
Continue readingRoger Rabbit sequel in the works
November 2, 2009 0 Comments
source: mtv.com Robert Zemeckis has told MTV that the original screenwriters of Who Framed Roger Rabbit are, as we speak, working on a screenplay for a sequel to the hit 1988 film. The men who gave Roger a voice almost two decades ago, Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman, have been commissioned by Zemeckis to develop […]
Continue readingA Christmas Carol trailer debut!
September 14, 2009 2 Comments
source: traileraddict.com The feature length trailer for Robert Zemeckis‘ adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale A Christmas Carol has finally debuted online. The film stars Jim Carrey as curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited on Christmas Eve by three ghosts warning him of the consequences of his wicked ways. http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/13973 Zemeckis has spent the […]
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