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Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
…all. You see, Ben seems to hate Zemeckis’ motion capture efforts (at least when applied to realistic visuals). He admitted to appreciating many aspects of Beowulf, but ultimately felt it… |
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Shrek the Third fun facts
…making of Shrek the Third. •It takes approximately 20,000 man weeks, or a million man hours, to animate an entire movie – and this film is no exception! •Over 130,000… |
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“Behind The Tatamis” with Kung Fu Panda‘s Directors!
…today, who had both the ability to create lush musical landscapes, wanted to work together. So, there is a huge, majestic, epic quality to Hans’ music and John’s exciting and… |
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Beowulf action figures unveiled
Thanks to a licensing agreement with Paramount Licensing Inc., McFarlane Toys has crafted four action figures inspired by Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming motion-captured epic Beowulf. Spawn.com showcases the lineup, which includes… |
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Kids' WB! acquires Skunk Fu!
…stork as a child and has to learn the ways of Kung Fu in order to defend the animals of the valley from an evil mountain dragon and his hench-monkeys…. |
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Spyro animated feature announced
Variety reports that Spyro the Dragon, the fiery purple star of Sierra Entertainment and Vivendi Game’s popular video game franchise, is headed to the big screen to star in his… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh/Spookable Pooh
…however, wants to tell a not-so-scary story. As he tries to tell his not-so-scary story, Tigger interrupts many times to add some suspense and fright into the story. Initially Piglet… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
…Teachers Are People, Two Weeks Vacation, How to Be a Detective 1953 – Father’s Day Off, For Whom the Bulls Toil, Father’s Week End, How to Dance, How to Sleep… |
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Space Ace coming to Blu-ray, Artwork revealed
DVDactive reveals the cover artwork for the upcoming Blu-ray release of Space Ace, the classic 1984 lasergame directed by Don Bluth and successor to Dragon’s Lair. The game has been… |
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Rhythm & Hues opens new facility in India
…two Indian facilities at Hyderabad and Mumbai now sport a total of about 250 employees, and more expansion is planned. R&H’s India facilities are teaming with its California HQ on… |
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Positive early buzz from Cannes on Kung Fu Panda
…himself and emerged the gifted Dragon Warrior in this gem of an animated film (…) that’ll have its world premiere in Cannes on Thursday.” Expect a press stunt tomorrow to… |
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Casting now complete on Shrek the Musical
…DreamWorks’ first Broadway musical Shrek the Musical, with Cry-Baby‘s Chester Gregory II as Donkey, Avenue Q Tony nominee John Tartaglia as Pinocchio, Tony winner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Young… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…is on the way home! The player must match up the packing crates to the first ten toys ready to be flown back to the store so that the Gourd… |
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Seven films compete for Effects Oscar nods
…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 Dragon Emperor…. |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
2007 will be looked back upon as the year that HD video discs really took off. Yes, the total numbers are miniscule when compared to standard-def DVD. And yes, the… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…shot show a little improvement. To show it all would take too long. That’s called a montage. Kung Fu Panda is the story of Po, an out of shape, overweight,… |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
There still seems to be a lot of fallout from the announcement on Monday that Disney is to purchase the Marvel Entertainment group to acquire their vast stable of characters,… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…the remaining contents into decades from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. There is much greatness here, starting with a spectacular (albeit too brief) Pilot Cartoon Of John Carter Of Mars,… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…at NBC, to order The New Archie /Sabrina Hour for NBC in 1977. Ratings were low, however, and the show was split in November into The Bang Shang Lollapalooza Show… |
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Wacky Races: The Complete Series
…Takamoto and Jerry Eisenberg, voice artist Janet Waldo, and current cartoon creators like Paul Dini to dissect the show. It’s a grand little tribute to the show, even if it’s… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…time, it evolved into an adult rock and roll fantasy. (The blend of tones is regrettably evident in the final product.) A crew of over 200 toiled on the film,… |
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Flash Gordon: The Complete Series
…work together to battle against Ming in his efforts to subjugate the Earth. It was a high concept show, and the first episode does show some promise. I shall look… |
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Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series
…the show. The Prime Sentinel tried to expand the show’s mythology a bit, as they actually go out into space to save the head Sentinel and meet other young champions…. |
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Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo
…on people (like myself), one could begin to appreciate the often surprisingly good animation and the fun stories. The show’s tone did not always seem to be consistent, though, as… |
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The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
…yet available to Filmation due to the concurrent Batman live action show, though Filmation would create their own Adventures Of Batman And Robin show in 1968.) Interstitials also appeared on… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…this show to be a worthy follow-up to the original version of Scooby-Doo. Based on your feelings for that show, you can take that statement as you wish. As someone… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…with toy-maker Mattel who had come up with the toys to go along with the show. Rumor has it that Mattel had created toys for Arnold Schwarzenneger’s Conan The Barbarian… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…he’s about to become king, right? AD: Yeah, and he’s trying to lead him to go to the elephant graveyard and he says, “Oops! I’ve said too much.” The acting… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
Once you have a story, you have to find a studio to produce it. In other words, you have to find your champion to support your project. And that’s when,… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…us together. We came to sort of an agreement about how big the orchestra would be and what it would contain. And I told him certain things to be aware… |
