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Spielberg settles Mary Poppins remake rumor
Dark Horizons points to Spielberg Films, where the rumor of Steven Spielberg hoping to shoot a Mary Poppins remake finally comes to rest. Steven Spielberg’s rep Marvin Levy responds, “I… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
Arthur Christmas is Sony Pictures Animation’s first film collaboration with Aardman, the landmark animation company best-known for their award-winning and crowd-pleasing stop-motion films Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…gone into what is generally looked on as the last of the true “golden age” animated features. Running at only 75 minutes, the movie is spread over three CAV sides,… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…independent producer in the 1960s, hitting it big with Ken Russell’s infamous Women In Love, with Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. He made his directorial debut with Watership… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…how they influenced the later show, allowing its participants (exec Jean MacCurdy, Ruth Clampett, Sherry Stoner, producer Tom Ruegger and writer Paul Dini) to express at length what the intentions… |
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Shark Tale
…the pond, however, ashamed vegetarian shark Lenny (Jack Black) runs away from home and his father (Robert De Niro) – head of the “Family” – since he feels responsible for… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…in 2,552 theaters and collected $40.9 million, achieving the record for biggest opening of an animation film. By the end of its run in spring 1995, the film had earned… |
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17 years later, The Lion King still rules
…the big screen for only two weekends, but given the massive success that its found, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if Disney were to decide to extend its run…. |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…run, Mad Magazine, and its curious mascot Alfred E. Neuman – the original “What, me worry?” kid – has become an instantly recognisable satirical American institution. Created by legendary comics… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…hoho!). Blade Runner, The Thing, Conan, Annie, Poltergeist, The Dark Crystal and countless others (including the bonkers but oddly brilliant Q: The Winged Serpent and, deservedly, the misguided Grease 2)… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…illnesses of Captains Influenza and Sorethroat. The animation is full and fluid, possibly the best looking of the titles here, which should come as no surprise given Iwerks’ reputation. Rumor… |
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Ant Bully finds TV spots, rumored cameos
Opening July 28th, The Ant Bully finds itself with three television advertisements, currently playing on the tube and You Tube: #1, #2, and #3. Meanwhile, from Wikipedia comes the rumor… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…the forthcoming feature film. They also announced that the live stage musical is scheduled to be running around March 2019. Due to time, they could only get to two fan… |
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It’s a jailbreak in reverse in the Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget trailer
The first trailer for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. Despite being a sequel to a movie… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…and the mirror, until the three accidentally run into some barrels of syrup and flower that creates an apparition so scary that it frightens the ghosts themselves! A comic riff… |
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Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition
…The nine songs are: “Unpack Your Adjectives”, “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here”, “Conjunction Junction”, “Interjections!”, “Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla”, “Verb: That’s What’s Happening”, “A Noun Is A Person, Place… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…had come on in such leaps and bounds compared to the “rubber hose” animation of less than a decade before was sadly overlooked. Set in a typically non-descript Disney-animated forest,… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…double-length episode, running just under 50 minutes. While that’s still a “special” against the regular length, bonus features are not usually counted within the feature running time, and the extras… |
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The Boxtrolls coming to Blu-Ray January 20th
…COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTORS ANTHONY STACCHI AND GRAHAM ANNABLE TECHNICAL INFORMATION –BLU-RAY 3D™ Street Date: January 20, 2015 Copyright: 2015 Universal Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Selection Numbers: 62129697 Running Time: 1… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…To Live-Action…And Back Again! Every good story has a good ending – a happy one, of course! And our following the creation of Enchanted is no exception to the rule,… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…illustrates just how large these “miniature” models were, and those with a rudimentary knowledge of animation will grasp what’s going on. The extras here cover everything from promoting the film… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…old, admittedly stale, executive-run animation department away. Long-gestating projects were canned and unneeded executives removed, but for all the good Lasseter’s arrival caused in a boosted morale and return to… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…a rudimentary knowledge of animation will grasp what’s going on. The extras here cover everything from promoting the film on Norwegian broadcast television in 1971 (15 min), to the original… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
…of interest, such as the talk show that illustrates just how large these “miniature” models were, and those with a rudimentary knowledge of animation will grasp what’s going on. The… |
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Cover artwork: Teddy Ruxpin, ALF, Little Pony, Bullwinkle, X-Men Evolution
TV Shows on DVD hosts numerous cover artwork for the following shows’ approaching DVD releases: The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, ALFTales, ALF: The Animated Series, My Little Pony, The Bullwinkle… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1–3
…in me urged a look when the show began its run on UK television early the following year. Just glancing over the back-jackets of the discs as they reveal the… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…at the 1980s Disney Studios. Berkeley Breathed is another writer not best served by animation, despite some attempts to bring his long-running Bloom Country series to the screen. A television… |
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\\Cars\\ move causes Pixar stock slump, but may help company in the long run
…up benefiting the company in the long run. Jessica Reif Cohen, an analyst with Merrill Lynch who downgraded Pixar’s rating and lowered her 2005 estimates for the company, said “We… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…funny “nuts” gag in this one that would never dare appear in any Looney Tunes cartoon. Rumors – Well, rumors are sure dangerous. Booby Traps – It doesn’t take much… |
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French judge rules against injunction for Nemo
\\{{link http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/03/12/cx_al_0312nemo.html Forbes}}\\ reports that a French judge has ruled against Franck Le Calvez, who asked the court to stop the merchandising of \\Finding Nemo\\ in France. “Even though a… |
