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...Penelope, directed by Mark Palansky, is a Weekly World News headline - "Aristocrat's Kid Born With Pig's Snout" - turned into a fractured fairy tale. For the film's first (and best) few minutes, we are in the storybook realm of such deformed superheroes as Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac and Edward Scissorhands. But the movie soon cozies into the princess-in-hiding genre that spawned It Happened One Night, Roman Holiday and dozens more. Penelope has been locked away at home, where her fretting, frittery parents (Catherine O'Hara and Richard T. Grant) parade a retinue of potential husbands...
...Answer: Pinocchio...
...late '90s, Coppola says, "I just wanted to find a place for myself. I didn't want to be a director who was hired: 'Here's a script, we've got Robin Williams.'" After he lost a lengthy rights battle with Warner Bros. over a Pinocchio project, Coppola says he realized, "I don't have that much time. The time has come to do the dream project, the ultimate one that I write myself that's about something really ambitious, that contributes new ideas to the language of cinema." While the Godfather movies are fan favorites, he prefers the films...
...Internet,” JT is gonna be playing King Arthur in this flick. But there’s no evidence of such a delight in this little trailer. I mean, it’s sort of good, I guess. There’s a good bit with Pinocchio. And there aren’t any cringe-worthy moments. But it’s not really “funny.” Also, the trailer (and the existence of the film, itself) seems to suggest that this series has no end in sight. “Shrek?...
...London (and an advance sale of more than $20 million in the U.S.), some have deemed the show too dark for delicate American kids. The chief culprit: a new number called Temper, Temper, in which toys in the children's bedroom come to life. The fears are silly; Pinocchio was scarier. But the concerns are rather sweet--as if the critics were inventing some bad behavior for their goody-goody friend to make sure she gets accepted into the cool kids' club...