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Disney’s limited theatrical release has viewers reminiscing about the first time they saw the animated classic.

Disney’s Lion King 3D roared into theaters Friday, exceeding all expectations with a first-day gross of $8.8 million at the domestic box office and is now on course to gross as much as $25 million for the weekend.

Families, and especially parents who have fond memories of watching the original, are flocking to theaters to watch the film on the big screen. The 1994 Disney film, one of the most popular of all time, will have a limited 2-week run in theaters before the re-release of the film on Blu-ray and DVD on October 4.

STORY: Box Office Report: 'The Lion King' Earns $8.8 Million on Friday for $25 Million Weekend

Many moviegoers expressed their excitement with seeing the film in theaters again, even comparing it to the first time they saw the film years ago:

“Lion King in 3D. Cool to experience on big screen with my kids this time instead of my 11th grade boyfriend...” wrote Shana Killingsworth.

“AMAZING!!! I saw the original 10x in the theater - was awesome taking my son to see it on the big screen in 3D today :)” wrote Tiffany Swartz.

Other moviegoers wrote about the addition of 3D, and whether that made a difference in their moviegoing experience.

“Lion King was great of course and I actually liked the 3D. Brought back memories of my childhood,” wrote Joseph Morgan.

“Saw The Lion King 3D this morning...gosh, that's a great movie - even better in 3D! Wanted to sing out loud to all the songs in the theatre,” wrote Ghennipher.

STORY: 'The Lion King 3D:' What the Critics Are Saying

“The 3D was really wonderfully done. Not gimmicky at all. Lion King is a masterpiece that can't be ruined,” wrote Jon.

“Went and saw Lion King 3d today. Such a great film. While the 3d is definitely not needed it was actually pretty well done,” wrote Nathan Friday.

STORY: How 'The Lion King 3D' Is Different From the Original Film

“We saw The Lion King in 3D. I've never been a big lion king fan, but this version of the movie was fun!” wrote Jennifer.

Many moviegoers gushed about their satisfaction with the re-release of the Disney film:

“Just saw Lion King in 3D. It was an amazing movie. One that is a wholesome delight for the family!” wrote Robinette Cross.

“Lion King in 3D was breathtaking and made me cry the entire movie. I must see it everyday while it's in theaters!!” wrote Ruby Camarillo.

“I saw this at like 4:00 pm yesterday and i still have goosebumps,” wrote Ryan Harman.

source:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lion-king-3d-what-moviegoers-236757

Apollo 18 was America's aftermost adventure to the moon. Now, a horror-filled mockumentary is set to explain why the ability and aggregation never alternate to earth, and added importantly, why the US hasn't been aback to the moon since. And we accept the bivouac actuality for you to see.

The bivouac claims to action the "reason why we never came back." And from what we see in the about 3 minute continued trailer, the "reason" appears to circumduct about an illness, all-a-quiver camera footage and aberrant noises.

Emma Stone has gone from layperson to able on the two publishing sensations she's allowance to accompany to Hollywood this summertime and next.

Stone had not apprehend Kathryn Stockett's The Help afore auditioning for the advance role in the drama, filmed in Jackson and the Delta, about a white woman who rocks the Deep South enactment by chronicling the adamantine lives of atramentous maids in the aboriginal 1960s.

And afore earning the changeable advance in The Amazing Spider-Man, Stone knew the Marvel Comics superhero mainly from Sam Raimi's three accomplished big-screen Spidey adventures and glimpses of the web-slinger on memorabilia.

Stone has been on a abiding acceleration in Hollywood, co-starring in 2007's boyhood antic Superbad and 2009's abhorrence ball Zombieland, again absorbing audiences with her aboriginal big-screen advance in aftermost year's The Scarlet Letter aberration Easy A.

After acknowledging roles in back-to-back adventurous comedies with aftermost week's Friends With Benefits and this week's Crazy Stupid Love, additionally with scenes attempt in Mississippi, Stone's contour shoots college with the Aug. 10 admission of The Help, co-starring Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard and Octavia Spencer.

Stone said she was about to accommodated with The Help's filmmakers for the aboriginal time and gave her mom a call.

"I've got a affair tonight for The Help," Stone told her mother. "And she screamed so loud my eardrums burst. She said, 'You've got to apprehend this book! You accept to go and apprehend this book appropriate now!' My mother is, like, she fainted, she was so beside herself."

The Help is accepted to be a summertime hit apprenticed by the best-seller's changeable fans, a aberration in a division bedeviled by activity tales and comedies aimed at adolescent males.

As Gwen Stacy, the adventurous absorption for Garfield's Peter Parker in abutting July's Spider-Man reboot, Stone will be in the blubbery of a fan-boy frenzy. Yet the actuality that Peter's a skinny, afraid kid who leaps to hero cachet through the chaw of a aberrant spider makes him an idol for everyone, not aloof comic-book and activity fans, Stone said.

"Batman's great, but this isn't a affluent guy architecture a suit. And Superman's great, but this isn't an untouchable guy like we've never apparent afore on this planet," Stone said. "This is addition you could go to academy with and assignment with, that all of sudden, one day is able to action off all-powerful villains. It's appealing incredible. I get it now. I absolutely do."

As abundant as we all adulation Guillermo del Toro, somebody needs to admonish him that he can’t be complex with EVERY accessible Hollywood movie.

The most recent activity set to advance the artistic talents of the Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker is a fresh adjustment of Beauty and the Beast, as is actuality co-conceived by Denise Di Novi, the ambassador of aboriginal Tim Burton titles like Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Ed Wood. Suffice it to say, she and del Toro are assuredly planning a darker circuit on the acclaimed bogie tale. 

According to Coming Soon, Emma Watson is set to banderole the film, which would be her aboriginal post-Harry Potter starring role in a fantasy brand piece. She will abutting arise in the actual ball My Week with Marilyn after this year, and is additionally onboard for the coming-of-age atypical adaptation, The Perks of Actuality a Wallflower. 

Beauty and the Beast is aloof the most recent activity featuring del Toro in some array of “creative consultant” or ambassador role – it joins two awfully altered titles due to hit theaters after this year (Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Puss in Boots), as able-bodied as in-development projects like Rise of the Guardians and the Jim Henson Company’s call of Pinocchio. Additionally del Toro will absolutely hop in the director’s bench afresh for the accessible Pacific Rim. 

While the aboriginal Beauty and the Beast news doesn’t accommodate itself to absolutely as aberrant or askance a bogie account “re-telling” as Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio atypical – abnormally in commendations to anniversary of these titles’ corresponding acclaimed Disney activated analogue – it’s still decidedly beneath airy than your boilerplate children’s story. In the easily of del Toro, of course, it should be alike darker (not to mention, potentially cool).

The Charlestown adjacency of Boston is acclaimed for churning out a aerial cardinal of armed robbers, bearing afterwards generation. These robbers never leave their Charlestown activity on their own volition, the adjacency area there is an accepted cipher to assure that lifestyle. Such robbers accommodate accompany Doug MacRay, James Coughlin, Albert 'Gloansy' Magloan and Desmond Elden. Doug and James in accurate amusement anniversary added like family, as the Coughlins accept realistically been as such to Doug back Doug's mother ran off and Doug's father, Stephen MacRay, was beatific to prison. James' distinct mother sister, the benumbed out Krista Coughlin, and Doug accept a accidental animal relationship. The aggregation backpack out a mostly acknowledged coffer robbery, but due to affairs booty the coffer manager, Claire Keesey, earnest for a abbreviate aeon afore absolution her physically unharmed. They acquisition out that Claire lives in Charlestown.

Cowboys and Aliens has been a hell of a big breach for the admirable Olivia Wilde.



It's one of the better movies to be appear in the prime of the summer, and she's arena adverse Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, who at atomic one analyzer feels has put in his best achievement in years

And on Deadline, several admirers acquaint on the site's Cowboys and Aliens coverage, "Olivia Wilde will be a cine star," and "The Katherine Ross of her generation." 

 

So afterwards a big hit like this, and additionally accepting above beatnik cred from actuality in Tron: Legacy (as able-bodied as actuality a articulation in the Tron video game), the abutting career footfall is crucial, and she's currently up for a coveted role, but not coveted in the Meryl Streep affectionate of way.

A address has alike that Wilde is up to comedy the infamous, OG porn star, Linda Lovelace, who starred in the aboriginal blockbuster X-rated movie, Deep Throat. 

As the documentary, Inside Deep Throat, has stated, Deep Throat was attempt in six canicule for $25,000, and it reportedly fabricated over $600 million. (Other letters put it added in the $100 actor range, but maybe it's fabricated added with home video and DVD.) 

It was put out by a mob endemic company, Bryanston, endemic by ancestors who went by the moniker "The Piranha Brothers," and Lovelace would after affirmation she was affected into it all by her svengali husband/manager Chuck Traynor.

This account was initially ambagious because there's been added than one Linda Lovelace cine in the works. Kate Hudson was slated to comedy her afore it was offered to Wilde, James Franco was offered the Chuck Traynor role, and Malin Akerman is additionally starring in addition biopic of the porn legend, Inferno, and Akerman took over for Lindsay Lohan in the role. (Matt Dillon will comedy Chuck Traynor, and Sammy Davis Jr., who admired X rated flicks and knew Lovelace well, will be represented in the blur as well.) 

There was additionally a musical, Lovelace: The Rock Opera, created by Charlotte Caffey of The Go-Gos, and Anna Waronker, babe of above Warner/Reprise presiedent Lenny Waronker.

Wilde told E!Online, "It would be a amazing honor. It's such a air-conditioned role. She was a alluring woman – with area she came from to Deep Throat to again alive with Gloria Steinem and Nora Ephron. It's absolutely fascinating."

Still, she added, "I'm actuality actual accurate about my abutting activity back I'm now in a position area I can be absolutely captious – acknowledge God, finally."