Film Weekly

Film Weekly




A cuddly comedy for entire family

July 16 - 22, 2008
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Jack Black's porky kung-fu panda has some entertaining moves - but he needs help with the wisecracks, says Peter Bradshaw. Some years ago, the movie writer and award-winning children's novelist SF Said was telling me about a stalled proposal to make a screen version of his book Varjak Paw, all about a kitten who survives on the mean city streets by using an occult form of feline martial arts.





Can TV shows rake in the moolah after being made into movies?

July 16 - 22, 2008
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Hollywood studios have hit on a lucrative formula: keep resurrecting popular TV shows for the big screen. But it's not always a good move, says Anna Pickard. SO no one told you it was going to be this way (clap clap clap clap), but it is, apparently: they're talking about reuniting the cast of Friends for a movie.