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200 Shrek fans have remade the film, and the results are surreal
200 Shrek fans across the internet have banded together to produce a “remake” of the Oscar-winning film, and the results are bizarre to say the least. The film–titled Shrek Retold–uses… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…influence, score or produce the music for all the DreamWorks animated films and their biggest live-action feature films. The filmmakers were very careful to try and represent the many religious… |
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Life, the Universe, Everything…and Box Office!
…known the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. But in a ‘delightfully improbably coincidence’, the film has taken £4.2m in its opening weekend. The film version of… |
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Christian Slater To Voice Title Role In Exodus’ CGI-Animated Film Igor
Christian Slater has signed on to lend his voice for the title character Igor in Exodus Film Group’s CGI-animated short film “Igor: Unholy Frijoles” which will precede the feature length… |
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Turbo
…an imagined apparition of his hero is right from Ratatouille. During the first thirty minutes of the film these similarities almost overshadow the rest of the story. Luckily, the film… |
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Tokyo Film Fest gets 30 minutes of Tron: Legacy
…Legacy at the Tokyo International Film Festival, which runs October 23-31. The film is set to be released in Japan and the US on December 17. THR Asia has more…. |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…but not really noteworthy. The only exception was Hal Holbrook as Mayday, the old and rundown firetruck. Of all the characters in the film, his was the only one that… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #69: Princess Mononoke – Go Away
…animated film ever and it feels like it. • Major themes in the film: curses, humans vs. nature, hatred. • The ending is a bit rushed and hard to swallow…. |
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Escape From Planet Earth
We here at Animated Views were some of the earliest advocates for Hoodwinked — a low budget film that based on the trailers looked to be a disaster with its… |
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Oscar noms for 2018 movies announced
…– Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson Mirai – Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito Ralph… |
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Finding Dory swimming onto Blu-ray in November
…the filmmakers’ search for the best way to introduce Dory’s backstory and to connect this new film to “Finding Nemo.” –Tank Gang (Digital exclusive) – After a close encounter with… |
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\\King of the Hill\\'s Etan Cohen to continue on show, creator Mike Judge to direct live-action film
…comedy film \\3001\\, written by Cohen and \\King of the Hill\\ creator Mike Judge, is about to begin production. “Judge will direct the film, about a regular guy who wakes… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…idea for the film was that it would be very much in the kind of the Golden Age, if you will, of the films from the 40s and 50s, the… |
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A Christmas Carol: director Robert Zemeckis’ season’s greetings!
…that the novel has been catnip to filmmakers as long as films have been made, and there have been literally dozens of cinematic adaptations of the story, including Disney’s touching… |
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Trolls
…almost defiantly non-cynical, a film in which all of the characters–with the exception of the villains–are ultimately sympathetic. Even the supposedly nasty Bergens, who wish to gobble up the film’s… |
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A low-profile comic-to-film adaptation?! Apparently so…
…wait to see if the comic sells well enough before considering a film adaptation. Or they may, of course, go gung-ho on the project and film it in any case…. |
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Storks
…a accomplish a goal. We’ve seen a bunch of that lately in animated films. But here the writers avoid the biggest pitfall those other films fell victim to. Instead of… |
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BAFTA animation and FX nominees
…Of Belleville) and Spirited Away as Film Not In The English Language, while the Short Animated Film shortlist sees nominations for Dad’s Dead, Dear Sweet Emma, Jojo In The Stars,… |
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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…during the film’s theatrical run. The full set of outtakes can also be found on the second disc. Is This Thing Loaded? The second (bonus) disc begins with an introduction… |
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The Bear with a Thousand Faces: Film Force Illuminates Brother Bear
…film. It also dignifies the roles of the fraternal moose pair, Rutt and Tuke, by showing that they are more than mere comic relief but also serve as a parallel… |
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Stiller to play with DreamWorks' Mind
…together at DreamWorks working on the epic film, The Prince of Egypt. Hood and Jefferson continued at the studio, contributing to a variety of animated films such as: The Road… |
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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…to publishers. Although successful in those pursuits, he kept an interest in filmmaking and signed a 1915 agreement with Jack Cohn (future co-founder of Columbia Pictures) at the Universal Film… |
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Cast, crew talk Enchanted; film's opening previewed
…Enchanted, with the film’s cast and crew lending their thoughts about the highly anticipated November picture. Meanwhile, Jim Hill Media provides a sneak peek at the film’s animated opening sequences…. |
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Penguins to get film, more DreamWorks news from Comic-con
DreamWorks had plenty of announcements to make at their Comic-con panel and Entertainment Weekly has the scoops. The Penguins of Madagascar will be getting their own feature film slated for… |
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Python's Gilliam honored, Gulliver's details, plus new discs!
How great to hear that former Monty Python animator, director and star Terry Gilliam will be honored at this Sunday’s BAFTA film awards at London’s Royal Opera House in the… |
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Belleville wins World Cinema Award!
…debate over which film would be the first to receive this new international award for outstanding foreign language film. There’s another chance for UK viewers to catch the good-natured discussion,… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…films between 1938 and 1941, making his film debut in Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938), playing the son of the Son of Frankenstein (1939) and providing the voice of young Bambi… |
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Regal Cinemas Free Family Film Festival
From now until the end of August Regal Cinemas is holding its annual summertime Family Film Festival. “Selected G & PG movies start at 10AM each Tuesday and Wednesday during… |
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DreamWorks employee makes film while off the clock
…a lot of film festivals. Now I’m learning that process. Right now I got into DragonCon in Atlanta. I also got into one in Rhode Island, the International Film Festival… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…after college he found work as a runner in a production company where he became particularly interested in the challenges and inspirations of committing visual stories to film. After absolving… |
