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The Care Bears Movie
…running to find the others to tell them about two children who are lonely. Friend Bear and Secret Bear are then sent down to Earth on the Cloud Mobile, which… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…run for the This Is It concerts. The answer is that this is a very slick package, as one might expect given the Michael Jackson organisation’s connection, though not one… |
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Animex Student Animation Awards 2006 results
The winners and runners up for the Animex Student Animation Awards were announced at Animex Talk! on Friday 10 February 2006 by Shelley Page, European Representative for Feature Animation DreamWorks,… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…dropped. If the movie was to come in at a reasonable run time at all, then that extraneous bit of writer’s conceit would certainly have to go. …Unless it didn’t… |
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The Jungle Book arriving on Blu-ray August 30th
…Legato to discuss “The Jungle Book” and reflect on the years they devoted to the reimagining of this timeless tale. Discover how Rudyard Kipling’s original stories and the classic animated… |
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Visit Planet One
…on it: NASA. It is piloted by astronaut and ladies man, Captain Russ Baker. Russ had expected to plant the American Flag on a baron planet, only to land at… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…Yamadas are a typical Japanese family consisting of hard-working dad Takashi, his housekeeping-challenged wife Matsuko, disapproving son Noboru, noisy daughter Nonoko, and a blunt-speaking grandmother named Shige. In sitcom style,… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…sensed that and I was proud to know that I helped change that. Walter Brennan treated me like a grandson. Ruby Keller was a gentle queen. I think she just… |
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The Halloween Tree
…of Saturday morning cartoon fare we may be more accustomed to. Perhaps because it is clear that holiday specials can become perennials that can be re-run each year, producers tend… |
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The Invincible Iron Man
…Johnson’s screenplay opens with a scene taking place in China, where a ruins excavation is encountering production delays due to the interference of a gang known as the Jade Dragons…. |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…running. Fortunately, the film that would be released in 1950 was a major hit. The Charles Perrault version of Cinderella was an obvious choice. The story of Cinderella had much… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…ran from 1968 and was an instant ratings success, leading to several follow up series and spin offs. Now that initial run has been brought to disc in an Archie… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…MGM/UA Home Video gained a decent reputation for itself a number of extensive anthologies in the early 1990s, counting among them the collected works of Hugh Harmon and Rudy Ising’s… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…Geisel/Seuss’ Whoville designs and wordplay to the limited animation style that UPA would make their own. Each running just over a minute, we’re offered four samples here. Animated Theatrical Commercials… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Four
…outlaw by the Alliance. Gerrera then convinces Ezra and Sabine to join him on a mission to find further evidence of a rumoured Imperial super-weapon. Depending on how one looks… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…alternative version of why Tinkerbell becomes sick. Although these scenes only run less than a minute each, they’re a nice confirmation that the less expensive films still go through the… |
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Upcoming CBS animated specials
A holiday tradition continues this week when the CBS television network begins airing its holiday animated specials. First up is the 40th anniversary broadcast of \\Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer\\ on… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…using the hieroglyphic paintings of the palace walls, is one memorable highlight. The only disappointment with the movie was its running time. I thought the mid-section could have possibly been… |
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The WB holiday slate
…time in high definition. On Thursday, December 9 at at 8pm ET, comes \\Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer\\. Based on the song by Elmo and Patsy, the show… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…as the Rubik’s Cube), their sitting on a bench at sunset, WALL•E’s space walk with the extinguisher and his being repaired by EVE back on Earth, among others! An impressive… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…really more of a comedic, antagonistic character as opposed to the traditional “villain” that wants to rule the world and kill everyone in the process. She loathes Sebastian, which was… |
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Cool World
…makes it even harder to follow. At the “full” 101-minute version, it obviously runs a little better, but still feels loose. However, there are a rumored 40 or so minutes… |
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Incredibles 2
…time when superheroes rule the box office. Can Pixar’s return to the genre stand out in the crowd? Incredibles 2 sticks to the tried and true sequel formula of reversing… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…hard on that, even before we had the voice. We worked on run cycles, on how he might move from a quadriped to a biped, how he fights and so… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…as a ruin in an almost inaccessible part of New Zealand, building large Castle in depths of a Prague winter, to building a massive bridge over a raging river in… |
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Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
…— FX Productions Green Lantern: The Animated Series — Warner Bros. Animation Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas — Hallmark MAD — Warner Bros. Animation Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole Season 2 —… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…has its own rules. And we thought that a short film like that had more to deal with poetry than with romance or anything like that. A poem has structures,… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…than a few Looney Tunes specials – when theatrical shorts stopped being made. Created towards the tail-end of DePatie-Freleng’s run of Seuss television shows (which included The Lorax in 1972),… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…than Bugs and Daffy bickering about how Daffy’s plan to run for President and sanction Rabbit Hunting 365 days of the year is doomed to fail. It is, ultimately, a… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…to rave reviews. Critics praised Verbinski’s direction as well as the stunning visual design and intelligent dialogue. By the end of its theatrical run, Rango had collected more than $245… |
