Saturday, August 2, 2014

First trailer For "Night at the Museum : Secret of the Tomb" - to be Released This December!

I don't know if you liked the "Night at the Museum" film series but i did ( at least the first one which i enjoyed a lot ). But if you did liked them i have a good news for you as a new film titled "Night at the Museum : Secret of the Tomb" is coming soon.

Larry - always played by Ben Stiller - leaves New York City for London on a quest to save the magic before it is gone forever, and the cat of the previous film - Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Mickey Rooney ( in what was probably his last film ), etc... - will be joined by Sir Ben Kingsley, Ricky Gervais and... Dick Van Dyke!

So, this time they all move to world famous London British Museum as you will see in the first trailer below. If we except what looks to me like a small mistake - Dinosaurs are at london's Natural History Museum and not the British Museum - the whole thing should be fun and will be released this December!

Pictures and video: copyright 20th Century Fox

Monday, April 7, 2014

Legendary Actor Mickey Rooney Dies at 93

Legendary actor Mickey Rooney died yesterday at 93. He was born in 1920 and started to play in movies in 1926 at 6 years old...and since never stopped playing as he was still playing in a movie when he died. Not only he played in 340 movies ( unbelievable! ) but he's been through, literally, all Hollywood history from the Golden Era to modern days. He played too in Disney movies ( Pete the Dragon is the most famous ) and - believe it or not - he voiced Oswald the Rabbit in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons in 1929!

On the picture below Mickey arrives at the Grand Opening of Disney California Adventure on February 7, 2001.

The "concentrate of energy" Mickey Rooney put in his roles was unbelievable. Below, a great musical sequence from Babes on Broadway ( 1941 ) directed by genius musicals director Busby Berkeley in which he played with Judy Garland - Mickey appear at 25 sec.

One more thing: although he was short - 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) - it didn't stopped him to marry at 21 with legendary actress and most beautiful woman in Hollywood at that time, Ava Gardner who was 19! Lucky man!