Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have come up with that's a spicy meatball of an idea for their Lego movie now titled Lego: The Piece of Resistance. They will be adding Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) and Superman (maybe voiced by Channing Tatum if he can fit it into his busy shooting schedule). The bickering dynamic duo are featured in the trailer snippet even though the main story revolves around Emmett (Chris Pratt) an "instruction worker" in the Lego world who has zero creative skills and can only build from the provided manual and his quest to prevent an evil tyrant from gluing the world together. Other Justice League of America superheroes, including Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, make micro-cameos. Despite what the end title cards say, this Lego masterpiece doesn't bow until early 2014.
The first trailer for 20th Century Fox's animation group's Epic features a teenage girl magically transported into a micro world that is in civil war between good and evil forest creatures. Directed by Chris Wedge (Ice Age), the film features the voices of Beyonce Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried and Johnny Knoxville. Epicopens in 3D on May 24th, 2013.
Tim Burton productions Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter both underwhelmed at the box office. Burton's Frankenweenie hopefully will avoid giving the master of macabre the dreaded dud hat trick. Frankenweenie takes Burton back to his first short films roots with this re-imagined expansion of his own first demon seed- a gothic-meets-suburbia tale of young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) and his beloved, suddenly deceased pet pooch, Sparky. Frankenweenie opens wide October 17th.
