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Your LOL of the Day: Nicolas Cage in 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'

Filed under: Comedy », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Disney », Family Films », DIY/Filmmaking », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels », Images »



The film following world has been rather skeptical of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which casts Jay Baruchel as the role Mickey Mouse made famous, and Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer. It's one thing if they were returning to the Goethe original (though to be fair, it doesn't differ much from the version laid out in Fantasia), but they're really just trying to go Pirates of the Caribbean with an animated short ... which might have been okay if it had been Night on Bald Mountain, which drew its inspiration from Gogol's terrifying story St. John's Eve.

But I digress. Because the point of the post is to introduce you to Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer, who is apparently ripping his look off Hugh Jackman's Gabriel Van Helsing. All that's missing is Kate Beckinsale, a crossbow, and a conditioning treatment to better copy Jackman's flowing locks. Once he gets those, my attraction to Jackman's fedora will be quenched.

The pictures come by way of JustJared, who has a series of Cage flaunting his new look while filming in a New York subway. (Magicians -- they take public transport like the rest of us!) In addition to those, Celebrity-Gossip also has some of Teresa Palmer. The only thing that has me curious about this movie is how Baruchel ends up as his apprentice. Because if I was approached by a "magician" who looked like that, I'd run screaming the other way. Check out a few images below ...

'Igor' and 'Kung Fu Panda' Both Get New Trailers

Filed under: Animation », Exhibition », The Weinstein Co. », Family Films », Dreamworks », Trailers and Clips »

Both of the upcoming animated releases that aren't Wall-E or Space Chimps got new trailers yesterday. Here's one for Igor (and here's a link to the poster we premiered a few weeks ago), and here's one for Kung Fu Panda.

Kung Fu Panda looks like it'll be just a step or two above -- *shudder* -- Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Igor, on the other hand, looks like a charmer: the premise is inherently nerdy, requiring viewers to think back to the original Frankenstein films (or at least Young Frankenstein, or Van Helsing in a pinch) to get the joke, and the trailer has a few big laughs.

The biggest upside of Kung Fu Panda coming out on June 6th: those of us who frequent AMC Theaters will no longer have to endure the Kung Fu Panda-themed pre-movie interlude exhorting viewers to shut up. I'm not sure how many more times I can listen to Jack Black tell me that he can hear me texting before I have an aneurysm. But I guess I should be grateful AMC is no longer airing that horrid Three Doors Down "Citizen Soldier" video pimping the National Guard (because no one screams "role model" to teenagers like the lead singer of Three Doors Down). That thing gave me nightmares.
 

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