Trailer and Poster for Fox's 'Ramona and Beezus'
Any Cleary fans in the audience?
It seems a bit odd to have this article posted immediately following Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's lingerie commercial, but I guess that's what happens when you cover all corners of the movie world and not just the fanboy aspect. As a matter of fact, I traditionally don't cover the more childish affairs, and while I am not interested in seeing Fox's Ramona and Beezus, it brought me back to my childhood when I read a lot of Beverly Cleary's books, though I am not sure I read the Ramona ones… after all, I was a big tough guy. I couldn't be caught reading the girlie ones, I stuck with Ralph the mouse, Henry and his faithful dog Ribsy.
Then again, maybe I did read the Ramona ones. I do remember her as a character, not as distinctly as I remember Henry, Ribsy and Ralph, but I do remember Ramona Quimby, or at least her existence. Am I alone on this or did more of you read the Cleary stories when you were younger? I think I was like five or six when I was reading them, but I can't be sure.
The new film stars Joey King as Ramona and Selena Gomez ("Hannah Montana") as Beezus and I believe is simply based on the Ramona books by Cleary and not specifically the "Ramona and Beezus" entry. It's due in theaters on July 23 so I guess if you have a little girl in the family this is likely where you'll be in the third weekend of July.
The trailer is directly below and I have added the first images and poster here.
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Awww, I want to see this! I love Ramona!–she was my favorite Cleary creation. And the movie looks innocuous enough. It looks like they have that wedding between her aunt and that guy, which I remember fondly from the books.
Sandra Oh and Josh Duhamel are definite pluses. Oh because she's a great actress, Duhamel because he's hot (it seems weird to be looking forward to a kid's movie for sexy actors).
i hate that i know this but selena is from wizards of waverly place……
It is funny that Brad attributed Selena Gomez as from Hannah Montana, when her current claim to fame is her Disney series Wizards Of Waverly Place (now shooting it's final season). But he is actually correct because Selena first came to be known from a couple of very popular Hannah Montana episodes she was in.
Ramona and Beezus looks to me to be a one and done effort. With lot's of family options currently, and competion in it's second weekend for both very young audiences and teenage audiences, it should have tough sledding. Some fans of the books are also upset about the miscasting in terms of age appropiateness, and the mishmash approach when it came to being faithful to the source material.
You can expect an couple of hundred thousand Selenastans (members of the Selena nation) to come to this movie opening weekend if they are not too busy cutting themselves. The Disney stars were all one big happy family until Selena made some questionalble social decisions, IMO. Now there is some antagonism to her which could also keep some kids home. (And me)
Selena is only making $65,000 to make this film, unless it hits unspecified gross revenue targets which would up her compensation to $250,000 to $1,000,000 more. This is very unlikely, though, and it basically is in the contract to justly compensate her if the film becomes a breakout hit. Disney did the same when Miley Cyrus did the voice for Penny in the movie Bolt. Miley was paid $10,000 per day for five days for her voice work, with an extra $175,000 if Bolt hit $125 million domestically, with increases for every $25 million after that. Unfortunately, Bolt made $114 million, so it didn't trigger a higher pay rate, though Miley did make money from the Bolt theme song, which she co-produced with Jeffrey Steele, a successful Nashville songwriter and friend of her family. So Selena will probably fail to hit her higher earnings target as well. If the movie is somehow sequel level successful, though, her contract will give her $1 million for a sequel, and $2.5 million for a third movie. This compensation information is from court documents.