Jon Favreau
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It’s Time to Turn The Page and Meet Your New ‘Jungle Book’ Cast
Walt Disney Productions It’s about to be, well, a jungle out there (sorry) as both Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. are hellbent on giving…
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Christopher Walken in Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ May Be the Next Great Jazz Orangutan
Walt Disney/Richard Cartwright The Jungle Book is seriously crushing the casting game right now. This morning, Deadline revealed that two new actors have come aboard the…
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How Jon Favreau Made ‘Chef’ His Own Flavor of Ice Cream
Open Road Films If someone said in 2001, “I bet this Jon Favreau guy ‐ the star, writer, and director of Made — is going to help turn…
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‘Chef’ Review: Jon Favreau Cooks Up Something Sweet With a Curious Side of Bitter
Editor’s note: Our review of Chef originally ran during this year’s SXSW film festival, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in theaters.…
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‘Chef’ Trailer: This Movie Is About Cooking, Okay? Not Hollywood, Definitely Not Hollywood
Open Road “Be an artist on your own time! It’s my restaurant!” Metaphors are cool, okay? Similes and parallels and references are awesome literary devices…
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Where Are Superhero Movies Finding All These New and Unknown Elements?
Like many readers of this site, I love comic books. I grew up reading them, so when Hollywood finally started to really get superhero movies…
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Jon Favreau in Talks to Direct Live-Action ‘Jungle Book,’ A Movie That Doesn’t Need to Be Made
Over the summer, it was announced that Disney would be opening their vault and re-introducing the world to one of its most beloved classics, The…
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NBC’s ‘Revolution’ Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype
The dialogue in NBC’s less than revolutionary new adventure series Revolution is filled with pointless obfuscations. “It’s all going to turn off,” warns Ben Matheson…
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Open Casting Call for ‘Jersey Boys’ Lists Singing Ability as “A Plus”
While it’s certainly not a requirement that the stars of musicals can actually sing, it does add a nice level of verisimilitude to the proceedings.…