Anthropomorphism is, by definition, the attribution of human characteristics to other animals (a definition which can also extend to other non-living things, such as plants, objects, spirits and even organizations). Though nearly all creative mediums have delved into the personification of animals - be it in literary stories such as Watership Down or in filmmaking with Pixar's A Bug's Life - video games have always taken a certain pleasure in granting players the chance to play as walking, talking animal characters.
If you're unaware as to the fact that there's a Jumanji remake in the works, a property that Columbia plan to “try and reimagine and update for the present," despite the fact that it was only made in 1995, this movie has found its writer in Stranger Than Fiction's Zack Helm, who apparently knows a lot about cultural shifts between '95 and 2012, and can help this generation's children to understand why people are just sitting there instead of reading stuff on tablets..
With Django Unchained on the brink of the horizon, it's likely that Quentin Tarantino has started thinking about the next genre he might like to put through his idiosyncratic blender - and there's been a few hints to suggest it might be something along the lines of a 1930s gangster flick. That's according to a recent talk that occurred after the first UK screening of Django Unchained, anyway, in which the director mentioned that it's a genre he's definitely interested in.
Now that patience is a thing of the past, with fans incapable of waiting for actual footage without reading a description of said footage first, the latest previews of Thor: The Dark World - which premiered in Italy earlier this week - have resulted in a passage of text which describes exactly what somebody with an incredible memory saw. This is crucially tied to the coming trailer, apparently, which is said to contain a lot of what you can read below:
Now that Pan's Labyrinth has been a film for long enough, thank-you very much, it's time for the Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning Spanish Civil War fantasy to take its chances within the confines of another medium - and thankfully it's not going to be a rap album, but a fully-fledged Broadway musical. And they said all that violence wouldn't work on stage!
Oh, man, Japan. Yes, Japan remains a source of bewildered amusement for peering western eyes. Sure, a lot of what we think about Japan is probably a load of old hyperbole, but it's not just the neon lights, dinner-serving robots, and school girls that throw about the peace sign like it's the actual law that makes Japan seem so at odds with western civilisation... it's the strange and otherworldly practices that the country seems to embrace as if they're, like, normal.
Talk of Ghostbusters 3 has been clogging up the internet ever since some genius decided that it might make a funny movie one day, so much so that the whole project seems like a joke you've heard so many times that it's not funny anymore and you want to punch the person telling you it in the face repeatedly until they stop telling you about Ghostbusters 3.
In what absolutely must be the result on an extreme act of combined patriotism, citizens of the UK have rallied together - presumably waving bottles of Heineken and wearing Omega watches - to make Sam Mendes' Skyfall the country's biggest film of all-time: the 23rd James Bond flick reached the record £94 million mark in an amazing 14 days. That means that James Cameron's Avatar falls into 2nd place, causing the director to stop exactly what he was doing at the time and whisper, "Something's wrong" - especially since it took his own film 11 months to reach those kinds of figures in UK.
Now that the first reviews for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have hit the web, a large chunk of criticism has fallen on Peter Jackson's decision to shoot Middle-Earth in the extremely-realistic 48FPS format (that's double the frame rate that regular films run on). With many critics saying that 48FPS makes the CGI look unrealistic, and the film itself like a TV movie, Jackson has taken the opportunity to tell you why you're wrong, mostly blaming it people over 20. How dare you be over 20!
Despite their decade-long struggle to get a film made out of Cervantes' Don Quixote - a book whose scope and length has reduced many a patient reader to sobs and tears - Johnny Depp is apparently moving on without Terry Gilliam for an adaptation with Disney, presumably because he secretly wants Tim Burton to get involved instead. Yes, Depp's own production company has partnered with the House of Mouse for a "modern-re-imagining" of the classic tale, a classic tale that absolutely get the treatment it deserves through the hiring of Hot Tub Time Machine's Steve Pink as screenwriter.
