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ParaNorman Zombie Slippers

With just two weeks till its release, expectations and hopes are high for ParaNorman, the Stop-Motion Animation Feature from the same Team which brought us Academy Award-nominated Coraline.  Upon checking my mail today, I was delighted to find these v. cute Slippers inspired by the Zombies seen in the Movie.  I can't stop wearing them and furthermore, can't wait to review it next week!

ParaNorman centers around a misunderstood Boy named Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is called upon to save his Town - under-siege by Zombies - with his abilities to communicate with the Dead.  The Film also features the Voices of Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jodelle Ferland, John Goodman and Casey Affleck.

Alliance Films releases ParaNorman in Canada on August 17, 2012.

Watch the Trailer in full below:

NEW TRAILER: "PARANORMAN"

Still from ParaNorman

"There's nothing wrong with being scared Norman, as long as you don't let it change who you are."

Blithe Hollow's Norman Babcock is often misunderstood, but when that Town is about to be overtaken by the Undead, the young Ghoul Whisperer just might be the one to save its People from a Witch's Curse.

From the same Creators as Academy Award-nominated Coraline, ParaNorman features the voice work of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Tempestt Bledsoe, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Anna Kendrick and many more.  With a rumoured budget of $60 million, we can expect to be dazzled by this  3-D Stop-Motion Animated Thriller-Comedy when it hits theatres August 17, 2012 via Alliance Films!

Watch this brand new Trailer for ParaNorman below:

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR "PARANORMAN"

ParaNorman Promo Pack

If the $124 million-earning success of 2009's Coraline is any indication of how this is going to do, expect this to be massive. Slotted for an August 17, 2012 release date, Chris Butler & Sam Fell bring us ParaNorman, a 3-D Stop-motion Animated Comedy/Thriller about a Boy named Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who has the ability to communicate with Ghosts and Zombies. With his abilities, he is called-upon to save his Town from a Curse which dates back many centuries.

ParaNorman features the voice work of Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Casey Affleck, Leslie Mann, Jodelle Ferland, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and The Cosby Show's Tempestt Bledsoe (!!!).

Our Friends at Alliance Films sent over the above cute Promo Pack for the Movie, so I decided to check it out.   One for your radars - it will be a smash.

Watch the Trailer below:

JOAQUIN PHOENIX EXPOSED. NO, LITERALLY. YES, REALLY.

So is he retired or not?  That is the question.  Actor and failed rapper Joaquin Phoenix has a documentary coming out directed by fellow actor and brother-in-law Casey Affleck called The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix.  There is a bit of controversy to whether or not this is actually a mockumentary or the real thing. 

According to LA Times, the film follows him around after his announced plans to retire from acting and ir is quite high on the scandal meter with plenty of frontal nudity and coarse language.  Apparently in one scene he is seen trying to convince Diddy (Sean Combs) to produce his rap record which goes nowhere and Ben Stiller is seen trying to persuade him to star recently-released Greenberg although he seems disinterested. 

The film also shows him being defecated upon while sleeping, calling prostitutes, snorting Cocaine and even performing intimate acts on his publicist.  This just all seems far too ridiculous to be true, regardless how eccentric Phoenix is.  I remember seeing him in person at TIFF in 2005 and literally was within arms' reach of him as shown in the photo above and he avoided all attention, as he reportedly is very media shy.  He also apparently left the gala for Walk The Line, for which he received an Oscar nomination as country music legend Johnny Cash, after walking the Red Carpet; he refuses to watch his own movies.