
The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
Getting back on track today after time and circumstance prevented postings earlier this week, we now present you with parts three and four of the production notes for Pixar’s The Incredibles. These segments discuss the voice casting and the visual design for the movie. Parts five and six will be presented tomorrow to complete the […] |
Cars Teaser Will Premiere with The Incredibles
A teaser trailer for what likely will be the final Disney/Pixar computer-animated comedy will be featured before their latest collaboration, The Incredibles, opening Friday. Hoping to parlay the public’s growing appetite for auto racing, Cars features the voices of track aficionado Paul Newman, who continues to compete at age 79, and NASCAR great Richard Petty. […] |
X and I CG feature from India
The 90-minute CG movie X and I will be produced at the Bangalore-based Paprikaas Animation Studios (Pas) under the direction of Stanislao Pasqualini, an Italian director who has handled action movies. According to Pas president Srini R. Raghavan, the movie would be a major milestone for the nascent Indian animation industry. “We are doing the […] |
Review: Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas
Coming Soon reviews Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas, the computer animated sequel to 1999’s Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas. Giving the film a score of 8/10 and its extras a score of 7/10, the website concludes, “Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas is worth checking out not only for the computer animation but the fun Disney […] |
First negative review for The Incredibles emerges
As more reviews appear at Rotten Tomatoes, the first negative review for The Incredibles has finally arrived, thanks to The Village Voice. Nonetheless, an overwhelming majority of reviews for the film have been positive, including a new review from Quint at Ain’t It Cool News. |
Interview: The Batman's Rino Romano
CJAD speaks with Rino Romano, who voices the Caped Crusader in The Batman, airing every Saturday on Kids’ WB. |
Interview: Incredibles producer John Walker; Incredible midnight screenings announced
Latino Review has an interview with The Incredibles producer John Walker. Meanwhile, Superhero Hype! has the poster announcing The Incredibles midnight screenings this Thursday. |
Marvel sues Disney over hero licensing deals
Reuters reports that three months after suing The Walt Disney Co. in a dispute over royalties, Marvel Enterprises Inc. wants to strip the Magic Kingdom of its licensing deals for lucrative Marvel superheroes. In a new lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles federal court, Marvel asks a judge to declare that Disney never legally […] |
Pride Is Sweeps "Loser" at NBC
Zap2It has an article about NBC’s foreboding move to exclude Father of the Pride from its November sweeps slate. “A sweeps hiatus is rarely good news for any show, but it could be particularly dire for Father of the Pride since episodes of animated shows take so much longer to complete than live-action series. NBC […] |
Animation careers on the line
“Despite [the] CGI gold rush, animators’ salaries are generally down from a decade ago, and the employment picture is not too rosy,” states Variety, via Yahoo! News, in the article ‘Toonsters wait for big payoff’. The article is definitely recommended for those considering a career in animation. |
SpongeBob vs. Mr. Incredible
In what the article describes as “animation style wars”, The New York Daily News compares the animation techniques and styles used for The Incredibles and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. |
Polar Express clips now online
MTV.com and Yahoo! Movies now feature scenes from The Polar Express. In related news, The Chicago-Sun Times takes a peek at the making of the film. The Polar Express will open in theaters on Wednesday, November 10, 2004. |
Incredible interview with director Bird; New commercial and pics
Latino Review interviews Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles. Meanwhile, Superhero Hype has the eighth television spot for the film, entitled ‘Do the Incredible’, along with a batch of new pics. |
Update on Muppets Wizard of Oz
In the article “A Very Muppet-y Monday Mélange”, Jim Hill Media speaks on the production of The Muppets Wizard of Oz, referring to its filming and the importance of its television ratings. The Muppets Wizard of Oz will debut on ABC in May. |
Save Disney at Halloween
Just a quick mention that if you’re looking for some more Halloween goodness on the web, Roy Disney and Stanley Gold’s Save Disney site has a Halloween theme at the moment and links to several interesting articles about the Haunted Mansion, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, and more. |
Watch Daffy Duck for President online
Before the Looney Tunes Golden Collection – Vol. 2 DVD comes out in stores on Tuesday, one can see one of its bonus features, the highly anticipated new short Daffy Duck for President, now at Yahoo! Movies. Thanks to Dan “Atomic” Fox for pointing this out. |
More original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in '05?
DVD Toons reports a curt message they received about the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series from Lion’s Gate recently, after having sent an inquiry on what to expect for upcoming DVDs; “As for TMNT, expect to see another DVD Spring 2005.” Obviously no other specs are known at this point, but it’s good […] |
Ultimate Disney's early review of The Incredibles
Ultimate Disney’s webmaster was lucky enough to attend an early screening of The Incredibles, and has posted his first impressions of the film, as well as the forerunning Cars teaser and Boundin’ short, in this (very positive) early review. |
Revolution & Anderson Are Fantastic
Variety is reporting that Wes Anderson (Rushmore) and Revolution Studios will turn Roald Dahl’s book The Fantastic Mr. Fox into a stop-motion film. The book tells the story of a fox who finds him and his family targeted for death by three farmers who are tired of sharing their chickens with the critter. Anderson will […] |
Michel Gagné brings us the Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppet Show!
Renowned artist and special effects animator Michel Gagné has just announced on his site that a new series of 10 two-minute animated shorts is in the works. Dubbed the Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppet Show, Gagné plans to bring the shorts to life using “a combination of softwares such as Flash, After Effects, Photoshop, Maya as […] |
Kidman Gets Flushed Away
Coming Soon is reporting that Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge) is in talks to provide her voice in the upcoming Aardman Animation/DreamWorks claymation comedy Flushed Away. If she accepts the role, Kidman would play “a street-smart sewer rat named Rita”. Flushed Away is about an upper-class British rat named Roddy (Hugh Jackman) who gets flushed down […] |
Scene Progression from Incredibles
The AOL/Moviefone website has a little feature that shows the progression of one scene from The Incredibles from pen and paper concept art to a completed computer-generated image. |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 review!
While the extras lack the wow factor of those packed in with last year’s first volume of Looney Tunes cartoons, Volume 2 could be even better overall thanks to the inclusion of some bona fide all-time classics, sums up {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/344 DVD Toons in their review}}, the first to appear online for the set out […] |
AICN reviews The Incredibles and The Polar Express…
Ain’t It Cool News has received even more ecstatic reviews of the highly anticipated new Pixar film, The Incredibles. Included amongst the 4 opinions is a description of the teaser for Pixar’s next film Cars, coming in November of 2005. On a similar note, the site’s own Capone has an overall fairly positive review of […] |
The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
Next up in our series of excerpts from the production notes for Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles is a segment that tells about the genesis of the story, Brad Bird’s story pitch to Pixar creative VP John Lasseter, and a glimpse at the technologically groundreaking aspects of the production of the film. |
Disney, Chabon retelling Snow
The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting article about the possibility of a live-action martial arts film based on Snow White, with a script by Michael Chabon. As they summarize it, “Snow and the Seven will be set in 1880s British colonial China and will have fantasy and martial arts elements, with the ‘seven’ being Shaolin […] |
Mary Poppins bonus features screenshots…
Ultimate Disney has compiled 13 stills of bonus features from the upcoming 40th Anniversary Edition of Mary Poppins, arriving in stores December 14th. Featured are photos from the original Gala World Premier, as well as concept art from the deleted song “Chimpanzoo”. |
Pics of the Wonka factory hit the net…
Ain’t It Cool News has several sneaked images of the upcoming Tim Burton take on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, including a peek at Willy Wonka’s factory set and the Wonka delivery trucks, as well as a set for what is speculated to be Charlie’s rundown neighborhood. Charlie‘s expected to hit theatres next […] |
Studio Ghibli Region 1 DVD release updates…
Bad news, and potential good news concerning the Region 1 (U.S. and Canada) releases for several Studio Ghibli films, a good handful of which are classic Hayao Miyazaki titles. The bad news is Buena Vista seems to have mysteriously moved back the much-anticipated 3-film Miyazaki wave (consisting of My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, and Nausicaä […] |