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Beauty & the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition coming to Blu-ray this year
…and how they find inspiration for their own films. And watch as they pay tribute to the film’s award-winning music score and the man who has inspired them all—Alan Menken…. |
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The Jungle Book arriving on Blu-ray August 30th
…live-action epic adventure based on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless stories, inspired by Disney’s classic 1967 animated film and centered on Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family… |
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The Secret Life of Pets
…earn the audience’s affection. This ties in with a second major problem with the film — the whole first half was rushed. Everything was going too fast. We never got… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…McGoohan was able to dictate the rules. Running from 1964 until 1967 and, stealing a page from Walt’s handbook to put out a two-part adventure as a feature spin-off, Koroshi… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
In the beginning… On Friday, May 26, a film premiere was held for both animation lovers and sports fans. It was the day that Disney/Pixar’s latest computer animated venture, Cars,… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…most animated showdown in film history – and I haven’t even mentioned the Indians yet! The film has a suitably epic feel and the panoramic views of the stunning old… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…were a perfect match of Burton-meets-Dahl, drawing but not being a slave to Quentin Blake’s somewhat iconic drawings. The resulting film, emerging some three years later, captures Dahl on film… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…never seen Walt Disney’s debut in the feature-animation field, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, the film that also formed the template for over 70 years of such films to… |
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Vision Film Festival Call for Entries
…Ridge SW VA Film Office Art Director: Vision Film Festival www.blueridgeswvafilm.org President: Curtis Turner Inc. Curtis Turner Museum www.curtisturnermuseum.com 540-520-3171c, 540-774-1441h, VISION FILM FESTIVAL P.O. Box 20588 Roanoke, VA 24018… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…film could still succeed. “This movie deserved to get made, because it had a great premise. Filmmaking is chemistry – with all the different people involved, sometimes you’ve just got… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…founder Russ Soloman’s Dad’s drugstore to being a worldwide brand itself, and the film pretty much never lets up a very zippy and fun pace from the outset. There’s also… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…since she was a young girl, she has always been a fan of Disney films and art, and remembers fondly pausing her copy of The Little Mermaid to draw her… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…entrenched in the production of the film and, before I knew it, I was designing all the characters. Originally, I thought, like other films that I worked on, I would… |
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Like a Bolt out of the Blu! Plus The Odd Couple!
…of today’s computer animated confections: well crafted but slightly formulaic good clean fun without wishing to break any new ground. For those fans of the film who find the disc… |
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Pixar unveils upcoming film Luca
Walt Disney Studios has announced details on an upcoming Pixar film titled Luca. “Directed by Enrico Casarosa & produced by Andrea Warren, the film will introduce a boy named Luca… |
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Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence and Shrek 2 to compete at Cannes
…for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. This is the first time ever that this honor has been extended to an animé film, and only the… |
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Smallfoot
…thought about the film prior to this scene. Was the first half of the film sickeningly sweet and clichéd as a plot device setting up this scene? Maybe! And if… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
…that has been the most beloved and consistently the most acclaimed since the first film was released in 2010. The films are among the elite animated titles, boasting some of… |
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THE 76th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – Nemo wins, Rings is King and Krumpet amazes!
…predictable surprises (Harvie Krumpet, anyone?), and a clean sweep for Peter Jackson and “the one film to rule them all”, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King,… |
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Delgo
…seen any stills or video, and really did not know a lot about it’s long history. I say this because since seeing the film I’ve learned the filmmakers documented a… |
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Pixar's \\Tin Toy\\ and WB's \\One Froggy Evening\\ added to the National Film Registry
John Lasseter’s groundbreaking short film \\Tin Toy\\ and Warner Brothers’ \\One Froggy Evening\\, the short that gave birth to Michigan J. Frog, have been added to the {{link http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html National… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…one is quite whimsical compared to the other film that they are doing, Walking With Buddha, which is directed by my producers on this film, Allen Yamashita and Oric Scott… |
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Flushed Away
…seedy rats of the underworld. They’re all after a valuable ruby, with which Rita wants to set herself up for life. When Roddy proves the ruby is a fake but… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…also clear that the filmmakers were out to make a much “meaner” film but had some of their ideas pulled back, which possibly explains the neither here nor there tone… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…original creators of the film? RG: Brad Bird, the director of the film, and John Lasseter came and we brainstormed the storyboard with them because of course Brad created this… |
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The cell phone is in charge in independent animated short film Like and Follow
…ones–we directed each other.” Of course, for independent filmmakers, getting their work seen is a huge job in itself. “In total we played at 160 festivals and garnered 30 film… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…that time and so we did films like Jack And Old Mac, Noah’s Ark and Symposium On Popular Songs. Bill had done a lot of films and was a very… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…didn’t have any experience, so all of us were sort of floundering with that, and it shows in the film, of course. Toward the end of the film I didn’t… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
…it, according to me at least, the best animated film of the last half decade! So did the usual sequel letdown happen with The Second Part? Could the filmmakers get… |
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Website takes First Flight
…Year), and the Seattle International Film Festival. First Flight is currently playing at the Vancouver International Film Festival and will next be seen at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival…. |
