The actor delivers another charmer, but this story about Mary Poppins is more atrocious than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
"Uneasy wedlock". That's how Pl Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, described the two weeks she spent on the Disney lot in Burbank in 1961, during which Walt Disney attempted to prize the screen rights to her beloved creation from her vice-like grip. Those two weeks have now become a movie, Saving Mr Banks, which is directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, and brought to us by none other than Walt Disney Studios, which threw open their lot for filming, relaxed their hawk-like copyright control to allow songs from the original movie, and dug up a small woodland mammal last seen cavorting through Sleeping Beauty's forest, which clings to Emma Thompson's head throughout the entirety of the new film.
Ah, actually I'm told it's a wig. My mistake.
"Uneasy wedlock". That's how Pl Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, described the two weeks she spent on the Disney lot in Burbank in 1961, during which Walt Disney attempted to prize the screen rights to her beloved creation from her vice-like grip. Those two weeks have now become a movie, Saving Mr Banks, which is directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, and brought to us by none other than Walt Disney Studios, which threw open their lot for filming, relaxed their hawk-like copyright control to allow songs from the original movie, and dug up a small woodland mammal last seen cavorting through Sleeping Beauty's forest, which clings to Emma Thompson's head throughout the entirety of the new film.
Ah, actually I'm told it's a wig. My mistake.
- 12/13/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
Dark Horizon Pictures' reps dropped us a word about Rottenbury Drive , a new horror film they've got cookin' with Cyryl Koshyk making his directorial debut. They provided a few images from some footage that has already been shot. Here's what they sent over: The film synopsis and screenplay quickly received attention for its originality and horrifying plot that peeked the interest of various industry people (Jacek Pulanecki, Leon Melas, Kenneth C. Barrows, Dan Blanchett, Gary Barrett, Nitza, Vincent Labelle, Mark Petrie, B.J. Winslow), including actors such as: James J. Thomas ("Ice Men", "Flirting with Danger", "Blind Injustice"), Pierre Du Lat ("The Pet", "Donor" with David Carradine, "Red Ribbon"), Christie Campagna...
- 10/12/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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