Film ON AIR

In today’s episode (above the blog):

• Bedtime Stories featuring Adam Sandler
• Rebecca Mader and George Clooney in Men Who Stare at Goats
• Twilight, again!
• Seth Rogen on cancer
• Eric Bana in Armored
• Defiance with Daniel Craig
• Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
• And Soul Men with Bernie Mac

‘Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa’ is completing its cast. No, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ isn’t the only animation DreamWorks is releasing this year. And this one might even be bigger. We already saw how they signed a deal with IMAX to release the movie worldwide, but more deals are in the making. Bernie Mac and Alec Baldwin just signed for two of the voices. They join Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and David Schwimmer.

I didn’t actually know this, but ‘Madagascar’ was a wild success in 2005. It made just under $200 million in the US, but topped that with $340 million overseas. A $533 worldwide gross certainly justifies the sequel (from a business standpoint), which will hit theaters November 7.