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2014 San Diego Comic-Con schedule highlights
…Dillon, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Carla Gugino, and Terrance Howard. Can’t have a Comic Con without a panel on Game of Thrones, can you? Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Natalie Dormer,… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. I was given a Kermit puppet by Jim Henson and encouraged to make my own 8mm puppet films, which I still have. Moving… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Sherman brothers’-composed Bedknobs And Broomsticks that Walt had optioned should Mary Poppins not go ahead, and a continuation of the Herbie series and the silly but fun Dean Jones and… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…in 2014. From Fish Hooks creator Noah Z. Jones, the traditionally animated series gives the seven dwarfs a contemporary makeover and places them into the world of Jollywood, where they… |
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Bird to fly with Incredibles sequel?
…of sequels that shouldn’t have been made. Jaws 2, for instance, didn’t benefit humanity in any way. The ones that work, like the second Mad Max and Indiana Jones –… |
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The WB holiday slate
…of Boris Karloff as the narrator and the Grinch, the playful rhymes of Dr. Seuss, and direction from animation legend Chuck Jones, \\How The Grinch Stole Christmas\\ is must-see Christmas… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…the balloon (an ongoing Indiana Jones-style lift that plays throughout). Other parts are more predictable: fireworks shooting right for us will play to 3D’s strengths like it or not, but… |
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2014 Emmy Award nominees announced
…Christopher Lance, David Beedon, Adam Stern, Jared Jones • COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey — The Immortals — Rainer Gombos, Addie Manis, Natasha Francis, Luke McDonald, Sam Edwards, Michael Maher, Dominic… |
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Ben Burtt moves to Pixar
The Post-Standard, via Coming Soon, indicates that Ben Burtt, sound designer for all the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, has moved to Pixar Animation Studios. Though the Star Wars… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle was first published in 1986. Though it was not all that recognized at the time, it grew in stature over the years and was given a… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…ironic in that the movie was pitched at one point as “Indiana Jones on Mars”. It isn’t quite that exciting, but there are some nice touches: the editing early on… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…The Pixie Hollow Games, Jake And The Neverland Pirates, Beauty And The Beast’s Enchanted Christmas, Lady And The Tramp, the next Indiana Jones-light styled TreasureBuddies (when will it ever end!?),… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…Collections couldn’t continue to four or five volumes. There’s at least another two to be had in the remainder of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, after which Chuck Jones took over the… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
…like every other kid growing up, but I continued enjoying them as I grew older. I received a copy of Chuck Jones’s autobiography Chuck Amuck when I was still at… |
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American Dog cast
…John Cusack, Russell Crowe, Bernie Mac, Kirsten Dunst, Kathy Najimy, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Hugh Grant, Woody Harrelson, Philip Baker Hall and Sarah Jessica Parker are all included in… |
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Were-Rabbit hops away with ten Annies
…an Animated Television Production Jeff Dana – Zula Patrol “Case of the Missing Rings” – Zula USA LLC Thomas Chase Jones – The Batman “The Laughing Bat” – Warner Bros…. |
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Don't forget the shorts
Cartoon Brew has pointed out an article from yesterday by Roger Ebert extolling the virtues of the animated short with particular attention given to Chuck Jones’ achievements. Larry Loc, ASIFA-Hollywood’s… |
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Bambi II cast discloses plot hints
…as such: Alexander Gould (Bambi), Patrick Stewart (The Great Prince of the Forest), Brendon Baerg (Thumper), Nicky Jones (Flower), Kristen Chenoweth (Faline), Anthony Ghannam (Ronno), Keith Ferguson (Owl), Idina Menzel… |
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Pirates 3 title; Enchanted in production
…start for the next Harry Potter, with director David Yates, Indiana Jones 4 from “mid 2006”, and James Cameron’s as yet unrevealed Project 880, set for shooting in Baja, Mexico,… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…a Dean Jones type, and even though the film came before the actor’s association with the Studio and he never voiced an animated creation at Disney’s, there’s more than a… |
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\\Wallace & Gromit\\ leads 2005 Annie Award nominations
…Thomas Chase Jones – The Batman “The Laughing Bat” – Warner Bros. Animation James L. Venable – Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends “Duchess of Wails” – Cartoon Network Studios Production… |
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Walt's People: Volume 2 released
…Harman, lost tapes of talks with Paul Murry, rare conversations with Al Hubbard, Volus Jones and many others that will be released in the upcoming volumes of the series. And… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…string of Merlin Jones/Medfield College mis-adventures continuing for a couple of decades. Lady And The Tramp itself was followed by a number of additional stories in printed comic book form,… |
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Katzenberg plans The Tibet Code
…to the big screen, Deadline is reporting. Described as an “Indiana Jones-style adventure,” the movie is based on a series of Chinese novels set in 9th century Tibet. “We will… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Dalmatians, crossed not with Lady And The Tramp as is often stated, but by way of Chuck Jones’ earlier UPA feature Gay Purr-ee, in which Judy Garland’s pampered feline is… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Jones specials featuring Bugs and the gang, a long series of patched together television specials and a bunch of compilation feature films. The unit had been trying to push new… |
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\\Pirate\\ ship photos online
{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/051128a.php Dark Horizons}} has pictures of the Davy Jones haunted ship from Disney’s upcoming film \\Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest\\. The film is scheduled to open in… |
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The Halloween Tree
…remains a Cartoon Network staple). The original concept was for Bradbury to work with Chuck Jones, back in 1967 when the animation director was in the midst of his popular… |
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Massive Comic-Con update
…News on production of {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20725 A Scanner Darkly}}, with a panel including (dead) auther Philip K Dick – First look at Davey Jones, the villain set for {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20747… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…Secret of the Wings — DisneyToon Studios Nicholas A. Smith, ACE, Robert Graham Jones, ACE, David Suther Brave — Pixar Animation Studios Tim Mertens Wreck-It Ralph — Walt Disney Animation… |
