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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!

…(March 20 2012) Blu-ray plus DVD, 103 mins plus supplements, $50 The Muppets have always been treated as almost-animated ’round these parts, and Jason Segel’s warm, nostalgic, celebrational, Muppetational reboot…

Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology

…Back To The Drawing Board? NOTE: This final score takes into account the various cuts and varied quality of the movies themselves, from Superman: The Movie’s undoubted 10/10, to Superman…

The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)

…animated movies since The Rescuers Down Under (of course, that depends on whether or not you count Fantasia 2000 and 2011’s barely talked about Winnie The Pooh as “sequels,” which…

Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition

movies by Murnau, by Fritz Lang, and the shorts and the feature animation movies by Walt Disney. It’s really incredible and it was a surprise for me too. But Robin…

Animated Views: A Retrospective

…named simply “Animated Movies”. From there I felt a responsibility to keep Animated Movies up to date with fun daily news, insights on the industry, and trivia on past films….

Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset

…ITC chairman Lew Grade about making a theatrical feature. United Artists, it turned out, was interested in distributing such a film, and Grade authorized a budget of 250,000 pounds. The…

Disney announces ten animated films through 2012

The Walt Disney Studios unveiled an ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through the year 2012 at a…

MoviePass – Does It Work?

…an update on how it works in actual usage. Just to recap, for a flat $30-40 monthly fee (based on your home location) MoviePass allows you to see one movie…

The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over

…fans never thought would actually happen. Just as notable in many ways was Disney reclaiming their mantle as the powerhouse of animated movies. With Tangled making a healthy $200 million…

Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris

…those two movies help you? BB: On various levels. Sure, doors open more easily once you’ve made a $360 million grossing movie. Professionally, having the opportunity to work with leading…

AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.

…bringing to this film other than a slight hint of 20,000 Leagues-era Peter Lorre to it? Rand: Well, basically, that’s the Don Bluth character that inserts itself into the film….

Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!

…movie, it’s just from one point of view, and you’re coming up with enough stuff to fill an hour or two instead of 10 or 20 hours. And video game…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

Golden Harvest/New Line Cinema/Imagi Studios/Weinstein Company (1990, 1991, 1992, 2007), New Line/Warner Home Video (August 11 2009), 4 disc set, 364 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 1.78:1 – 2.40:1…

The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!

…Cauldron. Born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa, Ron Clements traces his interest in animation to his first viewing of Pinocchio at the age of 10. As a teenager, he…

Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up

…was a matter of, ‘Well, we’ll just run our course, and hopefully there’ll all very different movies.’ A good thing is that people like penguins! AV: Regarding those penguin movies,…

2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!

…worst major studio animated movies in decades. The filmmakers seemed to have taken the things that made some of the previous movies so good and then completely tossed them out…

Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…eight-minute cartoon called A Monkey’s Tale for a Buddhist cultural center outside of Hong Kong. The Ngong Ping Village attraction (Ngong Ping 360 as they are officially calling it) was…

Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg

…to go to the movies and you would see trailers and that’s it, and that’s one thing that separated going to the movies from TV. Now you’re seeing blowups of…

Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7

…Facebook: Facebook.com/DisneyMoana Website: Movies.Disney.com/Moana Twitter: Twitter.com/DisneyAnimation Instagram: Instagram.com/DisneyAnimation ABOUT DISNEY MOVIES ANYWHERE (DMA): Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA) is an engaging and family-friendly cloud-based digital movie service that makes it easy…

Ratchet & Clank

…30 movies scored 45% or better on Rotten Tomatoes. And only a third of them crossed the $100 million mark. Just five made it to $200 million. So whether this…

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies gets a poster, trailer tease

The first poster for Teen Titans Go! To the Movies has been revealed, along with a trailer tease for the film. The full trailer debuts online tomorrow and is expected…

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition

…Blu-ray Discs, keep your eye on the counter, and we’re off… 0:00:00 = Spielberg maintained that he wanted this Indy adventure to match the original trilogy, banning CGI from the…

Annie nominations for 2011 films announced

…Animated Features tops 10 this year and include: A Cat in Paris, Arthur Christmas, Arrugas, Cars 2, Chico & Rita, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss In Boots, Rango, Rio and…

Big Hero 6

…When Superman Returned, he was little more than the same kind of cartoon that Kirk Alyn morphed into for the flying scenes in his serial outings over 50 years before,…

Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World

…you take into account the studio that produced it; but DisneyToon Studios has produced some good quality pieces: A Goofy Movie, Winnie the Pooh movies, and several movies that launched…

Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions

…plus for the 3D experience, and three of Ken’s Dating Tips (1:30), to the brilliantly executed Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear Commercial (:30) and Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear Japanese Commercial (:30) that both run like…

Katzenberg on the "single greatest fiction" of animated movies

…industry becoming too crowded, due to the variety of animated features being produced. According to Katzenberg, the “single greatest fiction” concerning animated movies is that the market may become oversaturated….

Batman: Under The Red Hood

Warner Bros. (2010), Warner Home Video (July 27, 2010), 1 disc, 75 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated PG-13, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: A new vigilante arrives…

The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!

…4 10. Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 27 2009) 2 discs, 76 mins plus supplements, $40 Being that direct-to-video movies are made especially for…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…these days. First of all you have to kill on the opening weekend or your movie’s dead. It’s like opening a show on Broadway now, except it costs $150, $200…