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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…14. In animation, The Smurfs: Smurfy Tales Volume 2 collects five more episodes on DVD (August 18, $14.97), and Plastic Man: The Complete Collection will be a four-disc set containing… |
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Aeon Flux: The Complete Collection
…much about Aeon Flux the woman as it is about ideas. And that is why the series has not dated, as it might have if it was only about groundbreaking… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…the Jonny Quest franchise, adding a rock man to the otherwise human group of characters for a thirteen episode run of 1986’s The New Adventures Of Jonny Quest, which ran… |
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Steve Carell to voice Despicable
Variety reports that Steve Carell will voice the title character in Universal’s Despicable Me, an upcoming 3D animated film about a deplorable man Groo who masterminds the mother of all… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…could actually SAVE the world? That’s the question DreamWorks Animation is presently asking through Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman’s Monsters vs. Aliens. In this irreverent modern day action comedy reinventing… |
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Mary and Max to open Sundance Film Festival
The 25th Sundance Film Festival will open with Adam Elliot’s clay-animated feature Mary and Max on January 15, reports Variety. Featuring the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette,… |
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Kung Fu Panda leads 36th Annie Awards nominations
…Walt Disney Animation Studios Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation $9.99 – Sherman Pictures/Lama Films WALL-E – Pixar Animation Studios Waltz With Bashir – Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films… |
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Waltz with Bashir wins IDA award
Variety reports that Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir tied with Man on Wire for Distinguished Feature honors at the International Documentary Association Awards on friday. Based on the haunting dreamscapes… |
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Animated Views roundup: Despereaux contest, Delgo review and more!
…on such recent titles as The Man Called Flintstone, Kung Fu Panda, all three of this year’s Walt Disney Treasures, The Clone Wars, Popeye The Sailor Volume 3, WALL•E and… |
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Ari Folman video interview, clips from Waltz with Bashir
COLLIDER has posted an exclusive video interview with Ari Folman, the man behind the acclaimed animated feature Waltz with Bashir, wherein he talks about his film, life and upcoming projects…. |
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Max Fleischer's Superman DVD in April
…feature all 17 theatrical shorts totalling 170 minutes, spread over two discs. Extras will include two retrospective featurettes, “The Man, The Myth Superman”, and “First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series.”… |
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Seven films compete for Effects Oscar nods
…Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Iron Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mummy: Tomb of the… |
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2009 Oscar Nominations, WALL-E up for six awards
…nominations went to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, and Iron Man. Tell us your thoughts on the Oscar nominations in the Animated News & Views Forum…. |
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Max and Mary trailer; clips
…44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. Mary and Max features the voices of stars such as Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…who use the crosswalk, Batman & Robin play the word game, Aquaman does a magic trick, and Superman congratulates a youth on not taking drugs. 2. Superman and Aquaman get… |
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Kung Fu Panda wins big at 36th Annie Awards; WALL-E shut out
…Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D’ici, Razor Films Tatia Rosenthal 9.99 – Sherman Pictures/ Lama Films John Stevenson & Mark Osborne Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation Andrew Stanton… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…his haunting performance as The Joker in The Dark Knight and legendary comedian Jerry Lewis putting in the Old Hollywood career achievement appearance, while man of the evening Jackman held… |
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Britain’s Biggest Red Carpet Rolled Out To Celebrate The BAFTA Awards 2009
…Millionaire taking away many of the prizes it was nominated for, including Music Score (beating such other entries as WALL-E and The Dark Knight), Sound Design (against WALL-E, Dark Knight… |
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Monsters vs Aliens
…next outing. “A good script? Turns out you don’t need one!” It is Susan’s wedding day and she is getting married to the man of her dreams. The fact that… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…to the classic 1960s man on the run series The Fugitive, here rebooted as a robot on the run and set in the Batman Begins universe (its main character being… |
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X-Men animated DVD volumes details released
…Us Part (Part 1) Till Death Do Us Part (Part 2) Whatever It Takes VOLUME 2 Disc 1: Red Dawn Repo Man X-Ternally Yours Time Fugitives (Part 1) Time Fugitives… |
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Paul & The Dragon
…imaginative young man whose escape into a fantasy world of his creation is threatened by a hugely grumpy old dragon, thus generating evident parallels between his situation back in the… |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
…behind the camera on The Great Muppet Caper in 1981 and progressing in style and substance to The Dark Crystal a year later. Henson’s right had man (quite literally, since… |
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That Magnificent Ken Annakin!
…the fondly remembered British comedy Miranda, with Glynis Johns, and the successful film series The Huggetts, but soon he was working for Disney, which led to Third Man On The… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…further comments on the disc at the end of this post. Back soon, when we fly “up, up and away” with the Man Of Steel in Max Fleischer’s Superman, so… |
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DreamWorks announces upcoming slate
…Bunny), Tooth (the Tooth Fairy), and Sandy (the Sandman) – must band together to stop an ancient spirit called Pitch (the Boogeyman) from plunging the world into eternal darkness. Puss… |
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Drawn Together: Season One
…see?) Many— just— wrong— things happen, including questionable cameos by some classic cartoon (and video game) characters. The “Bizarro Captain Hero” stuff was funny, though. Also: Spanky Hamm turns Ling… |
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Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume One
…canine everyman is joined by a smooth-talking bear and a cat-and-mouse act to form Hanna-Barbera’s very first half-hour cartoon show. The Sweatbox Review: As much as I have enjoyed all… |
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Rumored Rumblings: Pixar's Up chasing windmills?
…may be a re-telling of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic 17th century story Don Quixote. Variety wrote in the summer of 2007 that Up was “about a 70-year-old man who teams… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…of many episodes. Although shows like Batman: TAS undoubtedly influenced the design of the show, Weisman actually cited another Disney cartoon as one of his main inspirations, Gummi Bears. He… |