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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…that there’s really great characters. You know I’m an enthusiast and a participant in independent films like Wes Anderson’s. I do a lot of things in those categories, but I… |
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Andrew Stanton discusses John Carter’s box office
…is exactly the same as the ennui you have when it’s a bomb,” he said. “You’ve spent every waking moment thinking about its birth, worrying about it, raising it. It’s… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…that make it possibly the best I’ve yet seen in a DreamWorks movie. In fact, the whole film is impressive visually, from the scale of the Monte Carlo chase to… |
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Disney Historian J.B. Kaufman on the greatest Snow White books of all!
…would be the most common answer, and it’s true enough and I don’t dispute it. But to me it’s even more important to consider the stature of the film itself… |
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From Paris to home video: A Monster finally arrives!
…Copy. Originally premiering in its native France in the summer of 2011, A Monster In Paris enjoyed a healthy European release tour as well as limited engagements in the US…. |
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Live Action Toy Story Movie
…match up with the audio track. With close to 2 million hits, the video is an Internet sensation. Pixar has not made an official comment, but Lee Unkrich was impressed…. |
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Indie filmmaker shoots horror movie inside Disney parks
…a cast and crew spent several days filming inside the Disney parks and hotels without permission, with the result being the horror fantasy Escape From Tomorrowland. The movie is about… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…on Dragon. How To Train Your Dragon was really my true introduction to all things CG. That was my crash course in CG. It changed my feelings about The Croods…. |
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Turbo
…was the movie?” “It was good! I’m definitely buying that when it comes out on DVD.”) Then there are “good” movies — because there is nothing really objectionable about them,… |
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McKenzie talks Muppet sequel
…are in the new film and which characters sing some of them, ideas not used in the films, how a song comes together, and how his relationship with Disney is…. |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
…the dialog was layered in as it was polished, is what I think made it so powerful. I often still do that when I storyboard a sequence — I play… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…Geisel, Hayward and Martino adapted Horton into a critically acclaimed blockbuster, released in 2008. “I really wanted to keep it close to the original material and have it be in… |
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Saving Mr. Banks roundup
Saving Mr. Banks opens next week in the United States, but it’s already made its debut overseas. The Mirror has photos from the premiere, including some of the stars of… |
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Big Hero 6
…want to live in, the world itself actually does look lived in. The character designs were also impressive: each unique and interesting while still working well together. This is one… |
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Princess Mononoke
…the dead god, a ball of iron. It seems that it was the iron that drove the boar mad and transformed it into a demon. It will be up to… |
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Strange Magic
…a poster image slapped on to the front of a sleeve shoved in to a cheap, no frills DVD case, without any slipcover or inserts. Which is about right. Ink… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…in the Battle of Yavin. Piloting the X-Wing is much different than piloting flying vehicles not just in previous Infinity entries, but also in video games in general. The shop… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…this is probably as good as it gets. There is no out of place slang, or technology, or references. Like the TV specials before it, it has a timeless quality… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…made, and well told film. The problem with the movie, if you can fairly call it that, is that it feels like it was made for children. Again, there is… |
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Elstree 1976
…Base on Hoth were stretched around its outer edge, hence the curve you see in the film. I’m not sure it was real ice, but it certainly was slippery going… |
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The Secret Life of Pets
…then Max and the neighborhood pets. Very early on in both films the newcomer is introduced. Buzz crash lands on Andy’s bed and Duke is introduced into Katie’s home. It’s… |
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Press Release: Sony Pictures Imageworks announces key new hires
…and animation artists. Grady has spent 23 years in the Visual Effects and Post-production industry in Vancouver, where her career grew alongside the expanding film production business in the city…. |
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Sausage Party
…a lie. The story is bare bones, and is mainly there just to drive the jokes. And in that regard you could say it was fairly successful. However, it seems… |
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Animated short Borrowed Time makes its online debut
…qualifiers and was just named Best Short by the Spark Animation Festival “for its beautiful visuals in service of telling an emotional story.” Borrowed Time from Borrowed Time on Vimeo…. |
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2016 Los Angeles Comic Con Exclusive
…I did accomplish the key things I wanted to do and managed to get in a few surprises along the way. It can turn into the most hectic convention if… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…indeed: Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, Scar in The Lion King, the title character in Hercules, Lilo in Lilo… |
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New Minions short to be shown with The Grinch?
…Black, it will presumably take place during the time the Minions spent in prison during Despicable Me 3. It is currently unknown if this short will also play in the… |
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Dora the Explorer grows up in first poster for The Lost City of Gold
…(her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a ragtag group of teens on a live-action adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization…. |
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Get wild with the first trailer for the live-action Dora and the Lost City of Gold
…Dora is being sent to reunite with her cousin Diego and attend high school in the United States. However, they and some friends find themselves back in the jungle to… |
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Netflix announces cast for Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated musical Pinocchio
…rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro’s Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations. The film is directed… |
