Gnomeo and Juliet, ladies and gentlemen

I give up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_5nEAM7yw

James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are the title characters, and Jason Statham, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith and Patrick Stewart round out the voice cast.

Oh man, this has been in the works for AGES

I give up.

Apr 2 2003

ROCKET PICTURES ANNOUNCEMENT - Gnomeo And Juliet Animated Feature

This retelling of Shakespeare's classic is being made by Rocket Pictures in collaboration with Disney. Kate Winslet (as Juliet) and Dame Judi Dench (as Juliet's nurse) are reported to have signed on as voice actors. Sir Elton John and Sir Tim Rice are co-writing the score.

Looks like it was worth the wait!

I never wished I could pay $13 to see Elton John play an Elton-John-styled garden gnome in 3D but I guess that wish came true anyway.

Elton had a vision of CGI gnomes singing his hits and damn if he was going to let the Pixarification of Disney keep it from coming true!

Bounced from Disney to Miramax back to Touchstone...is the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot of shitty children's movies?

Fucking hell, at what point during teh "creative process" could the committee have possibly thought that what this needed was a bullet-time fight? Was there not even one voice to suggest that gag might have seen better days?

better days being like, y'know, EIGHT YEARS AGO.

If my scan of their wikipedia page is correct, I think this is the first animated movie released under the Touchstone imprint since Nightmare Before Christmas, which was re-released as a full on Disney film.

Wow. Just wow.

Walt Disney Pictures decided to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner because they thought Nightmare would be "too dark and scary for kids". Selick remembered, "Their biggest fear, and why it was kind of a stepchild project, was they were afraid of their core audience hating the film and not coming. It wasn't too dark, too scary. Kids love to get scared. In fact, I don't think it's too scary at all. Even little, little kids, as young as three, a lot of them love that film and respond well to it. To help market the film "it was released as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas," Burton explained. "But it turned more into more of a brand-name thing, it turned into something else, which I'm not quite sure about."

Around the release of the film, Touchstone president David Hoberman quoted, "I hope Nightmare goes out and makes a fortune. If it does, great. If it doesn't, that doesn't negate the validity of the process. The budget was less than any Disney blockbuster so it doesn't have to earn Aladdin-sized grosses to satisfy us."

Since I'm guessing Gnomeo & Juliet isn't "too scary," I'm guessing Mickey just doesn't want his name anywhere near the fucker.

http://www.danieltrbovic.com/blurwork/gnomeo.jpg

;_;

He has a beard drawn on top of his beard.

http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2006/03/28/1760.aspx

from 2006:

Insiders say a well-known Pixar executive asked last week at a meeting: "Why are we making this?" After a long silence (SFX: crickets), the exec said "Well, we're not."

lol, the whole sad history

http://www.suite101.com/content/disney-still-producing-gnomeo-and-juliet-a196975

Rocket Pictures had originally pitched this "loose and edgy" adaptation for Walt Disney Feature Animation sometime in early 2000. However, when Pixar co-founders John Lasseter and Ed Catmull took over the leadership role at Disney Animation in May of 2006, they took one look at the script and promptly consigned it to the circular filing system.

At that point, the recently-installed Miramax president Daniel Battsek – who had followed the project while at Buena Vista International – persuaded Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook to revive it at his division, which had been founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein before getting bought by the Mouse House in 1993.

Unfortunately for Miramax and Battsek, the studio's recent output was less-than-stellar: with occasional hits like No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood overshadowed by bombs like Everybody's Fine, Blindness and Smart People.

On October 3, 2009, Disney announced that they were slashing Miramax's film schedule to 3 films per year and that the studio's operations were being folded into Disney's Burbank offices. Disney also announced that Battsek was resigning as Miramax president, effective as of January of 2010. He then shifted companies to become President of National Geographic Films, starting in March of 2010.

Gnomeo and Juliet is scheduled for a February 11, 2011 release date.

i prefer tromeo and juliet

I lol'ed at the goldfish and a few other jokes, but groaned at the "fungi" gag.

And of course it's in 3D.

Watch out for the sequel, 'Twelfth Night'...

That series of pictures Abbott just posted makes me angry enough to stab a kitten.

It's like if Guy Fieri was a gnome with one extra beard.

Daniel Battsek

xpost -- Sadly I assume there's slashfic about that very idea.

Ned....
why?

guy fieri slashfic

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TS: Feb releases vs Aug releases

this looks terrible, but i wouldn't be surprised if it made 150M. kids films get by merely by being inoffensive diversions, which is sometimes all an exhausted parent needs. i succumbed to this, too; saw my share of shrek 2s and so forth. one of my law partners actually watches the shrek films without his children. i tell him he's crazy.

Yeah for every Shrek though there's some POS like Doogle or Igor that gets justifiably ignored.

Oops I mean Doogal.

Probably the worst of all was Delgo:
Budget $40 million
Gross revenue $694,782

delgo, you say?

wow

* Freddie Prinze Jr. as Delgo
* Jennifer Love Hewitt as Kyla
* Anne Bancroft as Sedessa
* Chris Kattan as Filo
* Val Kilmer as Bogardus
* Malcolm McDowell as Raius
* Louis Gossett, Jr. as King Zahn
* Michael Clarke Duncan as Elder Marley
* Eric Idle as Spig
* Kelly Ripa as Kurrin
* Burt Reynolds as Delgo's Father
* Brad Abrell as Spog
* Sally Kellerman as the Narrator
* Mary Matilyn Mouser as Baby Delgo
* David Heyer as Talusi
* John Vernon as Judge Nohrin

http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/delgo01.jpg

^^^how could this have failed???

Oh man, sorry about giant Delgo.

I'm going to have nightmares now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48PRAS5Xl0

oh ffs. delgo cast needs a poll

tho who am i kidding, "Val Kilmer as Bogardus" would be a landslide

Freddie Prinze Jr. as Delgo

sad. i liked this guy's dad.

Delgo Senior?

lol

http://www.moah.org/news/2008_11/images/music_notes.gif

chico . . . don't be discouraged. the man, he ain't so hard, to understand.

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/16751/filename_4_2.jpg

They could have just painted him green and saved money on the CGI budget.

Like the glasses there, Elton:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0147e1ebf713970b-600wi

The critics rave.

I am seeing this in an hour. god help me.

Survive.

better than I expected, still not "good"

I asked my 2 year-old nephew if he wanted to go see Gnomeo & Juliet, and his reply was "no, that's for babies."

TWO YEARS OLD and he can already distinguish good from crap.

haha

tbh this doesn't look significantly more garbage than Shrek and those movies made a mint, so i don't think it's THAT crazy that this got the greenlight

it was tho

my kids both liked it? I got out of going

no, it's better than any shrek film, by far. it has it's moments. the worst thing about it is the lighting, frankly; it's so bright.

Actually making money, sorta

the wait is gnover

Oh god, "Hall Pass", saw the preview.

Lots of blokes going "I don't think so".

Not in the trailer, in the audience watching it.

You'll gnome a good thing when you see it

The Imp-est

The Taming of the Grue

The Meerkat of Venice

Poochie of Athens

as you shrike it

Titus Andronicustos

apparently it's pronounced "guh-nomeo"? what the hell?

Probably the worst of all was Delgo:
Budget $40 million
Gross revenue $694,782

― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:45 PM (9 months ago)

I have NEVER heard of this.

that's because the only people who have heard of it are people who talk about how hilariously unsuccessful it was