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Madagascar seeks help from Madagascar
…tourist brochures as the film enters theaters next month. Meanwhile, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly told analyists last month that Madagascar has performed better with test audiences than Shrek. Madagascar… |
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Animated winners at the 18th annual Kids Choice Awards
…‘Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie,’ and Shrek 2 for ‘Favorite Video Game’. The official site for the Kids Choice Awards has a full list of winners, pics, and videos…. |
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"Ogre"-whelmed with triplets
Like the dancing baby from Ally McBeal, Shrek and Fiona’s offspring groove just as much but are a lot greener: http://www.ogrebabies.com/… |
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Interview with Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews talks to Coming Soon! about Shrek 2, Princess Diaries 2, and the upcoming 40th anniversary DVD edition of Mary Poppins…. |
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The Wild
…CGI pictures that had become so popular. First up was an agreement with Shrek co-producer John H Williams’ own Vanguard Animation, resulting in the enjoyably entertaining but critically derided World… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…White. This 40-minute retrospective is similar to the 50-minute version from the 1993 LaserDisc box set, replacing Corey Burton’s narration with “tour guide” Angela Lansbury. Animation historian John Canemaker draws… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…(Lion King, Pocahontas, Roger Rabbit, Aladdin, Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000), DreamWorks (Prince Of Egypt, Antz, Spirit, Shrek) and Warners (Osmosis Jones, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Son Of The Mask) and is… |
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Why Pixar's films are more "Disney" than Disney's…
…sums it up the best. “[My] prediction: These films will be ’emotional.’ They will be ‘relevant,’ They will imitate Shrek’s sarcasm. They will have wall-to-wall smartass dialogue. They will be… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…essentially setting up the tone for his performances in the Shrek films) is Eddie Murphy, who here is bags of fun, and not nearly half as annoying as Donkey could… |
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Home On The Range
…the $750 needed to save Pearl’s Patch Of Heaven farm! And so they set out, up against a mysterious bounty hunter, Rico, and Buck, a crazy horse from the Sheriff’s… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…of the opening minutes of Walt’s 1940 masterpiece (though how he’d take to his film being warped the way it is here – stylistically and humorously – one can only… |
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The Lion King 1½
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 10 2004), 2 discs, 77 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The “untold tale” of… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Purr-ee in 1962. In this time of using star names to sell a film (Brad Pitt is Sinbad! Mike Myers is Shrek! Eddie Murphy is a Donkey! Well, not quite,… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…to come in, help them finish it and hopefully raise the bar 10% – 20% to make it presentable as a theatrical release. AV: Whereas the original movie focused on… |
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DreamWorks promo pics
{{link http://animation.dreamworksfansite.com/shrek2/ DreamWorks Fansite}} has pics of some promotional material from \\Shrek 2\\ and \\SharkTale\\. |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…of looking at story and how to tell a story. On Enchanted, as opposed to something like Shrek which has a very cynical look at fairytale, we both have a… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…meals, and gratuitous bonus checks of $100,000. Some of it was a bit tiresome, like the paraphernalia perks that came with each project (“Great, another hat”), but on the whole… |
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Don't forget – it's Oscar Night!
At 6:00pm Central Time, on both ABC SD and HDTV, Barbara Walters will be doing her yearly inteview show and one of actors will be the big green guy himself:… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
To whom it may concern, particularly younger readers: Many of the reports and videos linked in this report contain mild to strong language. On Thursday, July 20th 2006, over 100,000… |
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The Animatrix
…movements, martial art techniques, and fashion used in the movie have been imitated in everything from Shrek to Scary Movie to countless television shows. It really has become an integral… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…years computer animated movies have been exclusive to the Disney/Pixar collaborations, but lately all studios have been joining the revolution with last year’s Shrek by Dreamworks leading the way along… |
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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
…Shrek The Third was the only HD DVD-exclusive title out there, compared to the Blu-ray exclusive Disney and Pixar movies, plus the dual format release of a few titles from… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
Golden Harvest/New Line Cinema/Imagi Studios/Weinstein Company (1990, 1991, 1992, 2007), New Line/Warner Home Video (August 11 2009), 4 disc set, 364 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 1.78:1 – 2.40:1… |
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Chicken Little
…the lines of Shrek, or if it’s trying to be good clean Disney fun. Being a CGI movie, we get ample amounts of comedy, pop-culture references (whenever else are you… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks (September 29 2006), Sony Home Entertainment (January 30 1007), single disc, 86 mins plus supplements including limited-time Amazon-exclusive bonus DVD of The ChubbChubbs, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen,… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
…feature (mentioned above in Cars). A Scanner Darkly • released on Blu-ray and HD DVD in 2007 • same features as DVD. Shrek the Third • released on… |
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Curious George update
…well-known monkey as “the company’s Mickey Mouse,” as it will appear on everything from water bottles to the studio’s letterhead. The budget for Curious George is somewhere near $40 million,… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…was a good film in here but was as if DreamWorks had actually skipped a second film and delivered us the Shrek The Third of Madagascar movies. The story issues… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…film: songwriter Jeanine Tesori (also of the upcoming Shrek: The Musical and Glen Keane’s Rapunzel) and composer James Dooley, formerly a collaborator with Hans Zimmer on many major motion picture… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…that Shrek The Halls release at the moment, but we’ll be sure to let you know what we can when we can, and Warners have now confirmed November 4 as… |
