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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…releasing two similarly aiming films within weeks of each other helped either film’s chances, but Disney’s marketing seems to be out of sorts of late, following the departure of long… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…films in context. He also lets us in on a few hitherto kept secrets such as the fact that, due to Walt having no knowledge in making live-action films, filmmakers… |
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Monster House: Widescreen Edition
…used to make the film, and no actors appear in the flesh onscreen, this film is a product of motion capture technology, that filmmaking tool that was used with a… |
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Anomalisa
…film keeps for its setting), in which the cast (also retained for the film) read the script on stage, accompanied by Foley sound effects and a live music score, by… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…library of his personal recordings for use in the film. Almost all the final sound design in the film was built from Tim’s raw files. He was so supportive and… |
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Big Hero 6
…the film takes its cue from a little-known and limited Marvel comics run, the Studio hasn’t gone the easy way and plastered the Marvel logo on the title, or even… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…somewhere less demanding. Many do stay, of course, enabling Studio Ghibli to put out great film after great film. Not all have been classics, of course, but overall Ghibli has… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…was in the late 1968. We did quite a number of songs for it ’cause, you know, a film finds its way. An animated film at Disney was not a… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…Animation of Korea carry off this action film reasonably well. With a more likeable protagonist, I could have liked this film a great deal. Instead, it is merely a good… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…(possibly because early promotional material suggests they’ve been sent to prison), with Gru taking the spotlight for what is technically supposed to be his film series. The Despicable Me flicks… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…We did video-type footage for the sports broadcast, with lines running across it. Then, of course, even the most pristine stuff we did still had a little bit of ‘film… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do what the film was doing on stage. I would say probably the last third of the film is basically an extremely cleverly done… |
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Su and Mo poke "crude, rude and lewd" fun at the Film Festival experience
…tells the story of Su and Mo, the world’s only lap-dancing wrestler/animators. Dancing at ClubHippendale’s has finally provided the boys with enough tip money to fund their independent film. After… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…film’s Original Prologue runs six minutes, offering an erudite view of our solar system and space travel, all reportedly factual. There is little animation here, relying instead on NASA footage,… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…Underground Film Festival in New York, the Boston International Film Festival and at the South Beach Int’l Animation Film Festival. With very special thanks to Lorraine Feather and George Griffin…. |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…Oscar! Song Of The South’s follow-up film, So Dear To My Heart (1949), featured even more live-action, and has often been named as Walt’s most favorite, personal film. With the… |
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Whisper Of The Heart
…type of animated film, one that feels more like an “indie” film than a major studio release. As such, it holds a special place in the Ghibli filmography, and is… |
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The Great Polar Bear Adventure
…company Media Headquarters in partnership with CBC Television, Discovery Kids, and France 3. The footage in the film is all taken from documentary film footage of polar bears living and… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…relation do you see between your personal work and your film work? Are they connected or clearly separated? LN: I find that my personal work and film work are always… |
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Happily N’Ever After
…words, instead of telling a story they want to tell the filmmakers decided to copy other popular films so their film can make some money. Worse than the uninspired story… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…fewer than eighteen high-definition short films, plus surprising extras. The eighteen films include mostly Paramount subjects, under the Madcap Models banner, with a few rare European films inserted into the… |
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Heidi’s Song
…of Mouse’s monopoly. The likes of some of Ralph Bakshi’s pictures and such films as Watership Down demonstrated that other producers could equally release animated films and compete with the… |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…a Disney storyman, what makes this story so good? FN: A great film story grabs me right away. When producer, Ralph Guggenheim brought this film idea down to Disney in… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…humor, violent images and language), Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: The Aqua Teen Hunger Force swing into big screen action…and that’s it. The Sweatbox Review: The first, generally unwritten rule about television… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…film. Released earlier this year, it can’t just be said that it’s the passage of time that might have dampened audiences’ enthusiasm for the film: it is, in a word,… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…their films were done under their Universal Studios contract, but they were also allowed to make one independent film per year. Two of these were color films distributed by Warner… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…let go of her past. Sunset Boulevard is also a filmmaker’s film…it crackles with barbed dialogue aimed at the Hollywood Studios, and is even set on the Paramount backlot, where… |
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Ponyo
…When choosing how the view the film, there are two options in addition to watching the film by itself. You may choose to first view an Introduction (3:20) that largely… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…original films and Pixar in general. We didn’t want to be known as the guys who ruined some of the most popular franchises in animation history. And yes, the fact… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…The film was made with IMAX 3D in mind. How did that affect your process? JB: No differently than any other tool in the filmmaking arsenal. You can look at… |
