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Pirates 5 facing severe budget cuts?
…that producer Jerry Bruckheimer may lose his final cut privileges on the film. Many people, of course, will find it odd that Disney would use the box office returns of… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
…wheel, but it still manages a new trick or two in presenting a story that is contemporary and yet still classic Scoob. This is a tale that combines today’s talent… |
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Muppets Most Wanted to feature six or seven songs
Fans of 2011’s The Muppets should be happy to know that songwriter Bret McKenzie–who won an Oscar for the song Man or Muppet–is back to write more songs for the… |
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Full Disney D23 panel recap; Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! to be shown before Frozen
…Story OF TERROR!” From director Angus MacLane and producer Galyn Susman, “Toy Story OF TERROR!” premieres on ABC Oct. 16, 2013. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen,” directed by Chris Buck… |
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96th Oscar nominations announced
…– Elemental – Nimona – Robot Dreams – Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse Best Animated Short – Letter to a Pig – Ninety-Five Senses – Our Uniform – Pachyderme – War… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Pooh featurette, Tigger Too, kept the animation staff ticking over, but many of the other shorter subjects (Dad, Can I Borrow The Car?, Man, Monsters And Mysteries, etc) featured only… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…beloved moments in many peoples’ lives. And I was pretty much expecting the same to be true of this new Peter Pan feature as I headed to a theater to… |
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Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Pete Travers talks “wonderfood” VFX in Cloudy 2
…on Hollow Man, which went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. His credits include Zathura, The Aviator, The Haunted Mansion, The Matrix Reloaded, The Lord… |
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Animated Spidey on DVD tomorrow
Comics2Film reports that the new animated Spider-Man series is coming to DVD tomorrow. Produced by Mainframe Entertainment, the series uses cel shaded CG to bring to life our favourite web… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
…Duke (1947, Duke Ellington), Rhapsody In Wood (1947, Woody Herman) and The Sky Princess (1941). Also added are hand-drawn animated discoveries from Europe: The Old Woman Who Lived In A… |
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Tim Burton Talks Corpse Bride and Possible Nightmare Sequel
…Burton also speaks about The Corpse Bride, a stop-motion animated movie that he is producing, based on the Eastern European folk tale about a man who unknowingly marries a dead… |
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Thor mighty at box office with best opening in series to date
…attention to the numbers. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, despite some trying to paint it as a financial failure because it didn’t make as much money as Spider-Man:… |
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Critical Role assembles an ensemble voice cast for The Legend of Vox Machina
…(Game of Thrones), Max Mittelman (One-Punch Man), Darin De Paul (Final Fantasy XV), Anjali Bhimani (Overwatch), Stacey Raymond (New Amsterdam), rapper Bobby Hall aka Logic, and Mason Alexander Park (Cowboy… |
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The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards animated nominations
…Friends Forever” • SpongeBob SquarePants , “Fear Of A Krabby Patty/Shell Of A Man” Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More) • Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real •… |
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Tons of movie updates
…apart from being linked to the Superman feature, is also {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040527c.php attached to The Fantastic Four}} film, while Jake Gyllenhaal is {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040528b.php up for the Man Of Steel}}… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part I – Intro
…altogether human. The Incredibles follows the adventures of a family of former superheroes rediscovering the true source of their powers—in one another. Once one of the world’s top masked crimefighters,… |
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Could it be? Indeed! Brandon Routh is Superman!
Latino Review has the full press release from Warner Bros. on the casting of young TV star Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel. “[Director Bryan] Singer commented on his… |
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Johnny Depp to be Lex Luthor?! No, wait…
Dark Horizons has a couple of interesting scoops; they had previously posted that Johnny Depp was under serious consideration to play Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor in the 2006 Superman film,… |
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Forbes announces top-earning fictional characters
…$5.8 billion this year; the remaining 9 include Winnie the Pooh, Spongebob Squarepants, Spider-Man, and Pokemon. Harry Potter is the only character in the list who has never been animated…. |
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies gets a poster, trailer tease
…dream. But when the group is radically misdirected by a seriously Super-Villain and his maniacal plan to take over the Earth, things really go awry. The team finds their friendship… |
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All Too Superhuman
“Poor man – he’s addicted to heroism.” Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine gives a glowing review of Pixar’s latest film, The Incredibles; included, however, is a neat photo essay, as… |
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The trailer for the final season of She-Ra & the Princesses of Power is here
…has two separate He-Man projects in the works, so lovers of Masters of the Universe still have a lot to be excited about. She-Ra returns to the streaming service this… |
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Press release: Daws Butler: Character's Actor
…life of the man whom many consider to be the greatest voice actor of the 20th Century. The book features personal reminisces by Daws”s colleagues as well. Daws Butler: Character’s… |
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"But it's a really good movie, Your Honor:" Lion King DVD theft
Fayette County, Georgia’s The Citizen Online reports that a 35-yr. old man recently pled guilty to the theft of three copies of The Lion King DVDs and was sentenced to… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Three
…season feels very much like a bridge between eras. The second season had left the crew of the Ghost rather scarred, both physically and emotionally. The Jedi Kanan was blinded,… |
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An Incredibles super-feature!!
…methods of fighting villainous goons, and extensive profiles of each character. In related news, Norn Iron Man has posted the Japanese trailer via the Animation Nation boards. It reveals a… |
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New Trailer for Popeye's Voyage
DVD Toons has a new trailer for the direct to video CG feature Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy. Billy West lends his voice to the world-famous sailor man and… |
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The Best of the 2010s
…existence, Disney underwent a resurgence, winning it three times starting with the release of Frozen in 2013. Sony landed commercial and critical praise after Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse swung into… |
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Sony’s Morbius trailer connects it to the MCU
Sony launched the trailer for Morbius today, and you can check it out in the player above. The vampire character–who is sometimes Spider-Man’s enemy, other times his friend in the… |
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New Shrek 3 plot details
“The Joe Man” at Dark Horizons indicates that Shrek 3 will be written by Jon Zack (Out Cold, The Perfect Score). In the film, “Shrek and Fiona are King and… |
