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Happy release date
The Internet Movie Database has listed that the expected release date for Warner Brother’s Happy Feet is November 17, 2006. Directed by George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City, Mad… |
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Pixar CEO, animators invited to join Academy
…Baumane (director, writer, animator \\Five F***ing Fables\\, \\Woman\\, \\Dentist\\), Baker Bloodworth (producer \\Dinosaur\\, \\Destino\\, \\Lorenzo\\, \\One by One\\), John Hughes (executive, Rhythm & Hues, special effects studio for \\Babe\\, \\The… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Snow White and the Dwarfs gain an extra companion
The recent news that the previously shelved Dumbo II (due to story problems that apparently mirrored Babe: Pig In The City‘s plot) is back on the cards has opened the… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…Ice Age 2, and is probably looking at his second Academy Award Nomination next year. After producing the excellent partially animated film Babe and directing its sequel, Australian writer/director/producer George… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…The characters themselves become more realistic. If the Witch is obviously derived from Babe from Babes in the Woods (1932), the relative failure of The Goddess Of Spring in 1934… |
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Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray
…Panther) as Einstein, Roscoe Lee Browne (Treasure Planet, Babe) as Francis, Dom DeLuise (All Dogs Go to Heaven, History of the World: Part I) as Fagin, Natalie Gregory (Alice in… |
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First Happy Feet images
After a while out in the cold (sorry!), with little news on how the film was progressing, George (Mad Max, Babe) Miller’s first fully animated feature Happy Feet looks to… |
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May the Fourth be with you!
Sorry – just couldn’t resist! Of course the big news today is that that the long-awaited Spider-Man 3 is out in theaters…NOW! So jump out of your own home set… |
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'Shrek the First' with $122 million!
…In addition, Third currently has the third best opening of all-time, behind Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Box Office Guru further analyzes the sequel’s success…. |
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Katzenberg, Poehler talk Shrek the Third
According to Reuters via Yahoo! Movies, DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg feels confident that Shrek the Third will do well against fellow third installments Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of… |
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Pirates continues to plunder box-office booty!
…through more adventures in the coming years. Likewise, it’s been a good summer for Sony’s Spider-Man 3, with an $844m tally at last count. Both films are still playing to… |
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Robosapien to invade the big screen
Coming Soon indicates that Avi Arad, who has produced such popular Marvel pictures as the Spider-Man sequels and X-Men: The Last Stand, is now looking to bring the Wowwee Ltd…. |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…off his considerable name and past glories, which include Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and the Hulk, of course. It comes as no surprise that these heroes are the main supports in… |
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“Cracking news, Gromit!” site updates…
…added a number of catalog reviews, for the French CG feature Kaena: The Prophecy and the Sony update of Marvel’s Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, which garners better-than-average marks. Finally,… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…heralded a swelling of superhero cartoon programming to follow: Spider-Man swung around the corner just a year later for starters. It’s clear why it was a hit – the comics… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…partnership with Imageworks up as the one to watch. While their work on SFX movies Spider-Man 3 and the awful Beowulf (where for art thou, Bob Zemeckis?) continues to frustrate,… |
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Hobbits, Floyd Norman, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Moses…what a line-up!
…than Sam Raimi’s, who had also expressed an interest but who seems too tied to the Spider-Man franchise and proved, with the third film, that he’d lost (hopefully only temporarily)… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…for years to come. Sure, they have been sort of lacking in the bonus features department (It would’ve been nice if we could have gotten the Spider-Man/X-Men crossover episodes as… |
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Sun shines on Charlotte's Web
Creative Match explains the technology by visual effects software developer 2d3 that helped Rising Sun Pictures craft the famous spider in the most recent version of Charlotte’s Web. According to… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…I remember Fantastic Four and Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends being favorites. For some reason, I never really returned to the medium, and even now the animated series I try… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…franchise extensions or straight sequels. In particular, films such as Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third, Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 and Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix all… |
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Bazooka Joe heading to the big screen
…be the next big hero,” says Eisner, hoping that the character will be as big a hit as other classic comic characters, like Spider-Man and the X-Men, have been lately…. |
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Animated Beetlejuice coming to DVD
…which he shares with Jacques (a skeleton obsessed with his weight) and Ginger (a tap-dancing spider). His neighbor is a great big furry beast known only as The Monster Across… |
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Looking ahead to the long weekend
…me, not to mention the upcoming BluRay releases of Surf’s Up (which will also include ChubbChubbs shorts, including the original Oscar-winning one), the partially-animated Spider-Man Trilogy, and the Spielberg classic… |
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Kung Fu Panda leads 36th Annie Awards nominations
…Spectacular Spider-Man – Sony Pictures Television Jorge Gutierrez – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “The Good, The Bad, The Tigre” – Nickelodeon Nico Marlet Secrets of the Furious… |
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Kill Bunnies
…a spoof combining the first and second volumes of the Kill Bill saga. Interestingly, the site has listed upcoming bunny re-enactments to include Snakes on a Plane and Spider-Man 3…. |
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Kung Fu Panda wins big at 36th Annie Awards; WALL-E shut out
…Sean Galloway The Spectacular Spider-Man – Sony Pictures Television Jorge Gutierrez – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “The Good, The Bad, The Tigre” – Nickelodeon Nico Marlet Secrets… |
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UPDATED: Disney to buy Marvel — it's official
Just breaking from Market Watch is news that The Walt Disney Company will be acquiring Marvel Entertainment (the company behind such comic icons as Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America,… |
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Beetle Bailey/Hagar The Horrible/Betty Boop
…various magazines in the 1940’s. In his pre-syndication days, Beetle was named “Spider”, and was a college student. It was his second year in syndication that the newly named “Beetle”… |
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Favorite CG characters listed
…Ghost (Casper), T-Rex (Jurassic Park), Sandman (Spider-Man 3), Woody and Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story), T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Yoda (Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith), Bumblebee (Transformers),… |