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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…Cinderella often stops off on many tangents, either to make time for the mice to retrieve something of importance from pesky housecat Lucifer or to fit in one of the… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…Corpse Bride as a lighting cameraman. This successful collaboration prompted DoP Pete Kozachik ASC (James And The Giant Peach, Nightmare Before Christmas) to invite him to Portland, Oregon to be… |
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The Halloween Tree
…continually resistant to any substantial attempt to remake it. Rod Steiger was The Illustrated Man three years later, but only three of the book’s fifteen-plus stories were picked and the… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…for its Oscar nomination). This was one of the film’s many production hiccups since originating at the Studio during the 1950s, when Pete’s Dragon was one of the many stories… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
In the ’90s, a “Dream Team” of superstars assembled for one of the biggest basketball games of all time. It featured few professional basketball players, however, as many of the… |
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Ghibli adds two new films to their upcoming slate
…upcoming slate, reports Collider. The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu), the new film by Hayao Miyazaki centers on Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero Fighter used by Japanese pilots… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…a coincidence, to me, that his box-office fortunes took a tumble after too many characters came off as being essentially the same one in many a Stiller comedy). More lazily,… |
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Ultimate Avengers 2 panel at the Con
…Worldwide Fan Premiere of Ultimate Avengers 2 and Q&A panel with voice talent Panel Participants include: Marc Worden — Iron Man Fred Tatasciore — The Hulk Grey DeLisle – Wasp… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: July 14-16, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest with $62,345,264, averaging $15,084 over 4,133 theaters ($258,364,766; 2nd week) 4. Superman Returns with $12,288,317, averaging $3,263… |
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El Capitan animation happenings
Originally slated to run through August 4 the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest engagement at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre has been extended to September 4 with the whole… |
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New Frozen Cast Members
Jonathan Groff will voice the Extreme Mountain Man in Disney’s new animated film Frozen. Groff’s character teams up with Anna, voiced by Kristen Bell, who plans to free her kingdom… |
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Superman Vs. The Elite
…first examines the media’s pundit-fueled portrayal of Superman and his ideology, followed by a somewhat trippy credits sequence utilizing footage from old Superman cartoons. The movie then confronts Superman’s “square,”… |
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Pirates at the El Cap: Part I
…Man’s Chest. The film was originally scheduled for a four week run but due to the enthusiasm of the movie-going public its run length was doubled. Both the theater and… |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Sweepstakes
…Witch and the Wardrobe and the coinciding sweepstakes,” said Patti VanDerGang, manager of consumer promotions for Starz Entertainment. “We look forward to bringing the land of Narnia to life for… |
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And the Oscar Presented By The Muppets Goes To…
…some karate chops from the Pig and Kermit will quickly make amends for his “mistake.” There still isn’t any word if Man or Muppet from the The Muppets will be… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…Connor is a perfect genetic clone of the Man of Steel. The Young Justice team and some Justice League members think of him as Superman’s son, but the older Kryptonian… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…of Randy Newman’s Song Demos, a terrific 17:30 compilation of alternate, deleted and final songs, including both versions of Plastic Spaceman and its eventual transition to the quite wonderfully melancholic… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…filler than anything. After all, how many times can you watch an unoriginal chase scene? An early Chuck Jones short “The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse Jones” (1964) follows. The story goes… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…The Sweatbox Review: With the almost concurrent debut for the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection on Blu-ray, I’m sure many must be wondering what Warner Home Video’s thinking is behind their… |
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Pirates at the El Cap: Part IV
Following is the final set of photographs taken at the El Capitan Theatre during the eight week engagement of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The film finishes its… |
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2011 Academy Award Nominations Announced
…animated films that were expected to be nominated. Tintin did score a nomination for composer John Williams in the Best Musical Score category. And Man or Muppet from The Muppets… |
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Animation at Sundance
…animation were represented the themes were more consistent with the bottom line being the “mixed bag of animated shorts was unusually focused on death and the universe’s indifference to man”…. |
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Katherine Heigel the Newest Muppet Star, Plus No Muppet Song at Oscars?
Without much word from The Henson Company in the recent months, they have made some noise that Katherine Heigel might be the newest human to team up with the famous… |
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Real Steel
…Sugar Ray Leonard: Cornerman’s Champ (6:19) looks at the film’s boxing consultant’s contributions to the realistic fighting styles displayed by the robots, as well as the way he and Jackman… |
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Transformers 4 confirmed
…an Amazing Spider-Man style reboot. Fans will have to wait a while to find out what’s in store, however, as the film’s not set to hit theaters until June 29th,… |
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Rango wins Academy Award
…Bret McKenzie’s Man or Muppet from The Muppets took the prize for Best Original Song. A full list of winners is available at Oscars.org. Quotes from the Academy Award winners… |
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Disney unveils Frozen
…Kristen Anderson-Lopez. As for the story, a “prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, so Anna must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, on the grandest of journeys… |
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Glen Keane leaves Disney
Veteran Disney animator Glen Keane is leaving the company that he’s called home for many years, THR is reporting. The man who worked on such Disney movies as The Little… |
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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
Aardman Animation for the BBC (2010), Lionsgate (March 13 2012), single disc, 174 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $14.99 Storyboard: Nick… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…I loved them. We actually met, many years later, the woman who sculpted them. She was a doll artist; she was a friend of Susan’s and also of Kent Melton… |
