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Disneynature: Earth
…those original films running sporadically on TV for years afterwards. At the turn of the millennium, a short run of Disney’s New True Life Adventures all but came and went… |
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Rurouni Kenshin In Live Action
Anime News Network has some news briefs on the new live-action Rurouni Kenshin film that will hit Japanese theater August 25. They have a nice film poster and the full… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…television interviews. The movie supposedly had a $100 million marketing spend, but where that money went is anyone’s guess: some rumors persist that the film’s 3D conversion was nothing more… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…the gangsters, Chuckie Sol, makes a run for it. He is confronted by a mysterious cloaked figure who tells him ‘[his] angel of death awaits.’ Chuckie tries to run over… |
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Grandma Got Run Over by a lawsuit; Goofy employee sues Disney
TMZ has obtained information that the Fred Rappoport Company, one of the producers behind the animated Christmas special Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, is suing Elmo Shropshire, singer… |
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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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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…couldn’t wait to see what he came up with next. Unfortunately, Beowulf, here released in a Director’s Cut that adds scant minutes to the running time but reinstates violent and… |
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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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First Sponge on the Run trailer released
Paramount has released the first trailer for the recently renamed third SpongeBob movie: Sponge on the Run. The film will be released in May 2020. “This Memorial Day weekend, SpongeBob… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…instant classic! Stephen Chiodo Animated Views: What are the origins of the movie? The spark? Stephen Chiodo: We always loved Rankin & Bass specials, the holiday specials like Rudolph The… |
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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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Rumble’s first trailer steps into the ring
“In a world where monsters are global wrestling superstars, one unlikely champion is stepping into the ring.” Watch the official trailer for Paramount, WWE, and Reel FX’s Rumble, coming to… |
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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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A quick 2D Expo report: Debunking a Pixar rumor and more
…the way of animation-related news, we did learn from Jim Capobianco of Pixar that there is no truth to the rumor that Pixar will be trying their hand (pun intended)… |
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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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SpongeBob is hunting for Gary in new Sponge on the Run trailer
The full trailer for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is now online, and can be viewed in the player above. The film was originally set for theatrical release… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…aggravated proclamations of its animators and heavily dropped rumors that director Wes Anderson was hardly to be seen on the “set” of this stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic… |
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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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Thundarr The Barbarian: The Complete Series
…too shabby. Thundarr was produced by the Ruby-Spears studio, which was helmed by the two men recognized as the creators of Scooby-Doo at Hanna-Barbera, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Ruby… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…of the factory that supplies every one of Wile E Coyote’s Road Runner contraptions) is found murdered. The bunny goes on the run, turning to down-on-his-luck gumshoe Eddie Valiant, known… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…first short (running 12:19 minutes) may be familiar to some, having actually been included in the Platinum Edition of the Snow White set. Asked to create a promotional featurette on… |
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Pixar and Princess rule our latest updates!
…prime time network TV so it’s never anywhere near being R-rated!), then The Prisoner is hard to escape your gaze from! Keep your eyes peeled for more superheroics from Ruby… |
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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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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…done to that degree. And, of course, one of the main proponents was Russell Means. Now, I do have a funny story about Russell. When he came in to actually… |
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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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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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Madagascar 3 rules the box office
Despite months of hype, Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus ultimately wasn’t enough to top a bunch of wise-cracking zoo animals. Box Office Mojo is reporting that Madagascar 3 ruled the… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…properly mentioned in a single article. Among the more notable were Richard Williams [right], the Oscar-winning master animator behind The Pink Panther and Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Russi Taylor, the… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…animatics (filmed storyboards, with soundtrack) for each episode. These are not complete episodes, only scenes from them, running about a minute or less. The first disc runs a couple of… |
