Walt Disney Pictures 2009 Preview

[GreenScar]

Which movies from Disney look good to you?

Feb 13 - Confessions of a Shopaholic



Directed By: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen, Julie Hagerty, Krysten Ritter, Robert Stanton, Christine Ebersole, Clea Lewis, Wendie Malick, Stephanie March

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood (ISLA FISHER) is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping—a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can’t quite get her foot in the door—until ironically, she snags a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine published by the same company. As her dreams are finally coming true, she goes to ever more hilarious and extreme efforts to keep her past from ruining her future.

Feb 27 - Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

Directed By: Bruce Hendricks
Starring: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift

The JONAS BROTHERS head to the big screen—in Disney Digital 3-D™—in a high-energy Walt Disney Pictures rockumentary feature film event from director Bruce Hendricks (Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert). The film blends excerpts from the Brothers’ red-hot Burning Up concert tour, including guest performances from Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, off-the-wall segments, a never-before-heard song (”Love Is On Its Way”), swarming fans and a lot of JB-style humor—giving fans never-before-seen insights into the lives of KEVIN, JOE and NICK.

March 13 - Race to Witch Mountain



Directed By: Andy Fickman
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, Alexander Ludwig, Tom Everett Scott, Christopher Marquette, Cheech Marin and Garry Marshall

For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It is called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver (DWAYNE JOHNSON) finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can’t explain. When they discover that the only chance to save the world lies in unraveling the secrets of Witch Mountain, the race begins, as the government, mobsters and even extraterrestrials try to stop them. RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN is a fun and thrilling adventure featuring incredible special effects.

April 10 - Hannah Montana: The Movie

Directed By: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Margo Martindale, Jason Earles, Peter Gunn, Melora Hardin, Mitchel Musso, Lucas Till, Barry Bostwick, Moises Arias,
Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, with Vanessa Williams and Billy Ray Cyrus

Walt Disney Pictures takes the Disney Channel phenom to the big screen in a feature film extravaganza. Miley Stewart (MILEY CYRUS) struggles to juggle school, friends and her secret pop-star persona; when Hannah Montana’s soaring popularity threatens to take over her life—she just might let it. So her father (BILLY RAY CYRUS) takes the teen home to Crowley Corners, Tenn., for a dose of reality, kicking off an adventure filled with the kind of fun, laughter and romance even Hannah Montana couldn’t imagine.

April 22 - Earth



Directed By: Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield
Starring: James Earl Jones (narrator)

The first film in the Disneynature series, earth, narrated by JAMES EARL JONES, tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we all call home. earth combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet’s wildest and most elusive creatures. Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, the acclaimed creative team behind the Emmy Award®-winning Planet Earth, combine forces again to bring this epic adventure to the big screen, beginning Earth Day, April 22, 2009.

May 29 - Up



Directed By: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Starring: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, Jordan Nagai

From Disney•Pixar comes Up, a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. From the Academy Award®-nominated director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.), Disney•Pixar’s Up invites you on a hilarious journey into a lost world, with the least likely duo on Earth. Up will be presented in Disney Digital 3-D™ in select theaters.

June 12 - The Proposal



Directed By: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Akerman, Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Denis O’Hare and Betty White

When high-powered book editor Margaret (SANDRA BULLOCK) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (RYAN REYNOLDS), who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (MARY STEENBURGEN, CRAIG T. NELSON, BETTY WHITE) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

July 24 - G-Force

Directed By: Hoyt Yeatman
Starring: Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, with the voices of Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3-D film to the big screen with G-FORCE, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of SAM ROCKWELL), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of TRACY MORGAN), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of PENELOPE CRUZ), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a starnosed mole, Speckles (voice of NICOLAS CAGE), the computer and information specialist.

TBA Summer 2009 - When in Rome



Directed By: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Will Arnett, Alexis Dziena, Jon Heder, Dax Shepard, Kate Micucci, Bobby Moynihan, with Danny DeVito and Anjelica Huston

An ambitious young New Yorker (KRISTEN BELL), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a foolish fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate (DANNY DEVITO), a street magician (JON HEDER), an adoring painter (WILL ARNETT) and a self-admiring model (DAX SHEPARD). But when a charming reporter (JOSH DUHAMEL) pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?

Sep 25 - Surrogates



Directed By: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames

FBI agents (BRUCE WILLIS and RADHA MITCHELL) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves—fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles—enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?

Oct 2 - Toy Story 3-D



Directed By: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Erik von Detten, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey

They’re toys, they talk—at least when people aren’t around—and they’re back…celebrating the return of the Toy Story franchise—in Disney Digital 3-D™ this time! TOY STORY, the film that started it all, takes moviegoers back to that fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys— Woody (voice of TOM HANKS), the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear (voice of TIM ALLEN), the fearless space ranger. The comically-mismatched duo eventually learn to put aside their differences when circumstances separate them from their owner Andy and they find themselves on a hilarious adventurefilled mission where the only way they can survive is to form an uneasy alliance.

Disney•Pixar’s TOY STORY kicks off a Disney Digital 3-D™ Toy Story celebration, which includes Toy Story 2, opening Feb. 12, 2010, and culminates in a brand new adventure starring Buzz and Woody: Toy Story 3—in theaters June 18, 2010.

Nov 6 - Disney's Christmas Carol

Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes, Fionnula Flanagan

DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event.

Ebenezer Scrooge (JIM CARREY) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (GARY OLDMAN) and his cheery nephew (COLIN FIRTH). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it’s too late.

Nov 26 - Old Dogs



Directed By: Walt Becker
Starring: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Seth Green, Ella Bleu Travolta, Lori Loughlin and Matt Dillon

Two best friends—one unlucky-in-love divorcee (ROBIN WILLIAMS) and the other a fun-loving bachelor (JOHN TRAVOLTA)—have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of six-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kidsavvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins (newcomers ELLA BLEU TRAVOLTA and CONNER RAYBURN), leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what’s really important in life.

Christmas 2009 - The Princess and the Frog



Directed By: Ron Clements, John Musker
Starring: Anika Noni Rose, John Goodman, Keith David, Jim Cummings, Jenifer Lewis

Walt Disney Animation Studios presents the musical THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, an animated comedy set in the great city of New Orleans. From the creators of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana (ANIKA NONI ROSE), a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered team of John Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar®-winning composer Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc., Cars, Toy Story).

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[redboxcar]

Wooowwww, Disney does not disappoint. I would literally watch almost every single one of these. I think I'm most anticipating Up, earth, and Toy Story 3. But again, Disney doesn't disappoint. I'm excited for a good year.

[masoud90]

Princess & The Frog =)
Toy Story 3
Up
Confessions of a Shopoholic
These are the movies from Disney that I am looking forward to this year - well except for Toy Story 3 which will come in 2010.

[assydingo]

Most of these are at least maybes for me.

I like the Jonas Brothers yet Demi and Taylor Swift are way better. Wish it was there movie.

And Hannah Montana is a must. I love Miley and have never got to see her in theater before! =]

[darkpoet25]

I wouldn't mind seeing Return To Witch Mountain. I saw the original as a kid and wouldn't mind seeing how the remake is, especially with Carla Gugino and The Rock in it. I have to wonder why they chose the sequal and not the original to remake. Up looks like another winner for Pixar.

[GreenScar]

it's Toy Story 1 in 3D this year

[Penitus]

Wow a 2-D animation film from Disney that's not a straight to DVD version of The Little Mermaid part 6:Ariel Wipes Her Fish Butt. Neat.

[Ferris]

The Proposal and The Princess and the Frog for me!

[quexos]

I know Disney owns Pixar but I feel that money shouldn't buy talent like that. So for Me, "Up" is a Pixar thing, not a Disney one, even if technically and legally it belongs to Disney.

[bajor27]

I'll probably see everything on that list eventually except for the Jonas brothers and maybe Earth. I was excited for Earth originally, but from all the prieviews it looks like it's just using fottage from Planet Earth so there is no point.

Most excited for Up though

[dvd_mazter]

UP!... Another brilliant movie from Pixar by the looks of it. Disney line-up doesn't really interest me too much this year (other than UP of course) but I might check out Surrogate and Toy Story 3D.

[Red Hood]

Sandra looks hot.

[icecream]

Disney just make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside Up, Toy Story 3-D, and Earth are the ones I'm digging here.

[Maximus]

Confessions of a Shopaholic. Will definitely watch. Isla Fisher is sooooo hot!

[assydingo]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Confessions of a Shopaholic. Will definitely watch. Isla Fisher is sooooo hot!

This is true. I love her in Hot Rod, Wedding Crasers, and Definitely, Maybe.

[Crim122]

Up
Toy Story 3D
Princess and The Frog

Confessions of a Shopaholic will be seen 5 times in one week by our roommate so I wont need to see it, nor would I anyways

[PreciseDisarray]

Originally Posted by quexos

I know Disney owns Pixar but I feel that money shouldn't buy talent like that. So for Me, "Up" is a Pixar thing, not a Disney one, even if technically and legally it belongs to Disney.

I hear ya! I tend to differentiate Disney from Pixar even though it is now, "Disney Pixar"; alas, I'll see anything with Pixar/Disney Pixar. So I really look forward to Toy Story and Up!

I'd really see any of the movies listed here, some are more my style than others, but nothing sounds bad at all. Earth will be a priority to see for sure. With James Earl Jones' voice, I am sure to mutter, "Simba, you deliberately disobeyed me."

[khoops7]

I'll definitely be seeing Up and Toy Story 3

[Marquoz]

Screw all of them but Surrogates. Bruce Willis is GOD compared to Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, and the rest of those Disney pop people. Of course I'll have to see them anyway because my son watches Disney entirely too much. Also UP, Toy Story 3D comes in second place behind Bruce for me, I can watch those! Then I guess I might drag myself to the Ryan Reynolds movie, he's good for a few laughs. Didn't notice Old Dogs with Robin Williams, so I guess tack that on too.

[anomynous]

That is not Toy Story 3 guys