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McKenzie talks Muppet sequel

Collider has posted a video interview with Bret McKenzie, one half of Flight of the Conchords, a Middle Earth elf, and the Oscar winning song writer of The Muppets. While…

Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen

…years, many, if not most, animated films have begun as screenplays—the first Disney feature to have one was 101 Dalmatians. If the story already has a beginning, middle and end…

Lasseter’s Disney and Pixar tug-of-war

The Hollywood Reporter looks at the “Tricky Tug-of-War” John Lasseter is in the middle of in running both Disney Animation and Pixar. “Borrowing a page from Pixar, Lasseter is hands-on…

Animation Addicts Podcast #64: The Lord of the Rings – So Many Miniskirts

Middle Early! Roll credits.” • Would you want to see Bakshi finish and do The Return of the King? • We rate it! • Mail bag and bloopers! • Use…

The Pirate Fairy

…be enjoying these, a few years past the first one coming out. Out of the five made so far, only the middle entry was fairly weak, with the rest all…

Planes: Fire And Rescue opens

Disney’s Planes: Fire And Rescue opens today in 3,826 theatres, according to Box Office Mojo. The critics are split almost down the middle, with the film getting a 47% rating…

Big Hero 6

…is mostly emotionless, the growth needs to come from Hiro. A nicely done bit of dark storytelling in the middle of the film finally gave us a glimpse of that,…

Princess Mononoke

middle of it all, trying to make sense of the war. The brilliance of Princess Mononoke is that there are not really any heroes and villains. Anyone seeing this film…

Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast

…most cases with the stories too). Legend Of The Neverbeast falls into the middle of the pack, being not truly great but also no where near bad. The story is…

A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!

…While the narrative was a bit hit and miss to me, it was still pretty good. The beginning was fun, the middle seemed to drag a bit, and then there…

Elstree 1976

…believe was the cast and crew wrap-party for that film, then simply known as “Chapter II“… Making full use of the soundstage space, the swamp sat in the middle of…

The Jungle Book

…film was the peak in the middle of the movie, where its two showstopping numbers, The Bare Necessities and I Wan’na Be Like You come almost on top of each…

Kubo And The Two Strings

…worthy of repeat viewings where it will only get better each time out. It’s true that the structure could be seen as too episodic – the middle of the film…

The Red Turtle

…the island are always in evidence, and the 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track places you right in the middle of it. Oftentimes, it is the subtle sound of the wind…

Cars 3 opens

…“Cars 3 has an unexpectedly poignant story to go with its dazzling animation, suggesting Pixar’s most middle-of-the-road franchise may have a surprising amount of tread left”. It should do better…

Cars 3

…the chassis from Cars and changes the body a bit. We start out with racing. Then Lightning McQueen hits the road and ends up in the middle of nowhere —…

Of Rabbits and Ducks: a chat with composer Dominic Lewis

…I wanted to go more orchestral and Will wanted to stay more in the song world, and then we kind of met in the middle! AV: Can you tell me…

Sora and company explore the world of Frozen in Kingdom Hearts III E3 trailer

…and the world of Frozen, interacting with Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and more in the middle of the film’s narrative. The trailer also reveals some additional surprises, both exciting and…

Captain Marvel blasts off as Dragon stays in the sky

…Brie Larson actioner fell somewhere in the middle, and currently has the 19th best opening weekend of all time if estimates hold up. As is always the case with Marvel,…

The Blazing Dragons of Monty Python’s Terry Jones

…huge thing they are today and we were in the middle of production and didn’t have time to become involved.” Strobel added that she hadn’t heard about the video game…

The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn

…designed after Danny. And when Tim thinks Nanny is evil, he uses Danny’s “redrum” finger. We’re a bunch of middle-aged men in their 40s with our own culture, our own…

Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd

…the sense that I wouldn’t say that they’re Canadian, I couldn’t say they’re American-based or English-based or Middle-Eastern or South American. They are able to turn their hand to all…

AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.

…different show, and we were in the middle of nowhere in the north of England, and the only thing we could do every night was either go to the Chinese…

Go big with the teaser for Clifford the Big Red Dog

…he was voiced by the late John Ritter. When middleschooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never…

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines battle for survival in final trailer

…when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope! Directed by Michael Rianda (Gravity Falls), produced by Oscar winners Phil Lord…

“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs

…bit too much into electric piano than they had envisioned. AV: What about “Let’s Keep It Going”, which parodies Malcolm in the Middle? DM: Actually, for that one and The…

Friendship has malfunctions in the Ron’s Gone Wrong trailer

…20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation’s Ron’s Gone Wrong is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middleschooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to…

Inside Job

…show’s lore. There’s a combination of the familiar and spinning to the conspiracies each episode highlights, from the JFK assassination to the moon landing and beyond. In finding that middle

Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto

…in the middle of covid. I feel happy that I was given so much support and also was able to finish it in that context. In the end, I’m so…

The Lord of the Rings: The Power of the Rings trailer teases epic scope

…re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to…