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Details on DreamWorks’ Turbo
…win the Indianapolis 500 like his hero, five-time champion Guy Gagne. When one day imbued with amazing speed by a freak accident, he embarks on his quest”. The film stars… |
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Fox Animation Buys Rights To The Hero’s Guide To Saving Your Kingdom
…Backwards and fractured fairytales are always an animation staple these days. the Hero’s Guide To Saving Your Kingdom may raise the standard level for quality storytelling that way Shrek did…. |
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Home On The Range
…Slim and gain the reward money…yep, you got it – exactly the $750 needed to save Pearl’s Patch Of Heaven farm! And so they set out, up against a mysterious… |
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DreamWorks Gives Paramount the Boot, Makes New Deal with Fox
…for Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, and Madagascar has signed a new deal with Fox after talks with Paramount went south. Paramount did not want to lower it’s cutback and it… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…animation. After that, I went on doing some CG. I worked a little bit on Monsters Vs. Aliens for like two months. Then I moved to Shrek 4 – I… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
Walt Disney Pictures (2009-2011), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 6 2012), 2 discs, 50 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio, Rated TV-G, Retail: $20 Storyboard:… |
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Shane Acker Joins Beasts Of Burden Pack
…Cool News considers Acker to be an upgrade from the previously named director Andrew Adamson (Shrek). They are also interested in how Reel FX will handle the supernatural elements since… |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…and his internet animation series, The World of Stainboy (2000). Burton is currently remaking Frankenweenie as a full length animated feature. Bruce Timm forever changed the world of TV adventure… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…knowing, but it turns out to be more along the lines of Shrek: a movie that wanted to spoof a genre but ultimately found itself wanting to be included in… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…was pure adventure of a gloriously old-fashioned time, with strong hints of Walt’s own Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, brought bang up to date… |
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Hoodwinked DVD details
…INCLUDE DELETED SCENES, A MUSIC VIDEO, A “HOW TO MAKE AN ANIMATED FILM” FEATURETTE AND MORE! “The Funniest Animated Movie since Shrek!” – Shawn Edwards (Fox-TV) SANTA MONICA – Behind… |
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The Lion King Tenth Anniversary Reunion
…Dreamworks’ Shrek 2, an achievement of which he can be justly proud. Kimba the White Lion During the Q&A segment, a question was posed asking if there was any truth… |
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CityWalk Summer Block Party
Universal CityWalk will be screening classic movies on a gigantic outdoor screen every Thursday night this summer. Animated offerings include Blue Sky’s Ice Age: The Meltdown and DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek… |
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Animated aspect of 35th annual Key Art Awards
…nominations), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (3 nominations), The Incredibles (2 nominations), Madagascar (1 nomination), Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin – The Untold Story (1 nomination), and Shrek 2 (1 nomination)…. |
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Films look for both inner child and adult
…child or adult, depending on how old the viewer is. Animated examples in the piece include Chicken Little, Shrek 2, The Incredibles, The Ant Bully, Cars, and Over the Hedge…. |
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Weinstein Co. to tell Unstable Fables
…Destined for direct-to-DVD release, the films will feature screenplays overseen by Roger S. H. Schulman (Shrek). The first stories up for an irreverent representation include Goldilocks, The Three Little Pigs,… |
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The formula for the winning Hedge
Over the Hedge director Tim Johnson learned a few tricks from a big, green ogre. The Toronto Sun reports that the Shrek movies have set the standard for DreamWorks animation… |
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DWA short First Flight takes off
…artists. Over 80 artists from every corner of the studio jumped on board in-between their other projects to work on this film, which makes it even more special.” First Flight… |
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DreamWorks buys a farm, a Punk Farm
…are thrilled that the project has landed at DreamWorks — and my five-year-old son couldn’t be more excited that his dad is working with the studio behind ‘Shrek.’” Jim Hecht… |
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Friday Estimates for the Ogre and the Cat…
…the Friday estimates put Garfield in third with $8 million, while Shrek 2 has fallen to the fifth spot, taking in $7,645,000. Prisoner of Azkaban remains in first with $11,210,000…. |
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Crunch Toons discontinued
The difference between {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}} and “other animation news websites” is that, instead of reporting the news of Shrek 2‘s box office achievements or the award winning films… |
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New DreamWorks Animation website
Check out the newly redesigned dreamworksanimation.com for: * information on their films, including Over the Hedge, Shrek the Third, all the way to the Madagascar sequel coming in Fall 2008;… |
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English French in Narnia; director Adamson interviewed
…Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. In related news, the Sydney Morning Herald talks to Narnia‘s director {{link http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3572710&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general Andrew Adamson}}, who is currently out on the promotional… |
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Game Developer's Conference to discuss games of film properties
…on licensed film properties. For details on this exciting event, please click “More.” For Immediate Release Contact: Olivier Mouroux omouroux@dreamworks.com Doug Cooper, Visual Effects Supervisor and 10 year veteran of… |
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Madagascar teams up with other films in 2-for-1 deals
Beginning March 28, one may buy DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar with either Chicken Run, Shrek 2, or Shark Tale, getting two DVDs for the price of one. The sets are already… |
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Harvard School of Public Health studies ‘G’ rated films
…Thompson, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, the report found at least one act of violence per film, while 60% of the movies observed contained characters… |
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\\Hoodwinked\\ top of the box office
…amount that more than doubles the output of any past year – …\\Hoodwinked\\ cost less than $20 million to make, and, though the pop culture riff on Little Red Riding… |
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Animated movies found among poll of greatest family films
Courant.com points to a British television poll which lists the greatest family flicks of all time. Animated movies chosen in the poll include: Shrek (#2), Mary Poppins (#3), Toy Story… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
On Thursday, July 20th, over 100,000 comic and film fans united for a single purpose: San Diego’s Comic-Con International 2006. This year, largely represented before the “Con-verts” was a cornucopia… |
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Jungle beat for Vanguard
Variety reports that Vanguard Animation’s John H. Williams, who brought William Steig’s Shrek to DreamWorks, has obtained the rights to The Zabajaba Jungle from the author’s estate. Published in 1991,… |