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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…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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Pirates continues to plunder box-office booty!
…grosses worldwide to date. Apart from other notable records, At World’s End has become only the 24th film in movie history to have grossed more than $400 million overseas, but… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
Columbia Pictures Television (January 26 1994), Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment (January 27 2004), 3 disc set, 520 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Surround, Not Rated, Retail: $49.95… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
…many from just $5.99: • A.I. – Artificial Intelligence: 2-Disc Special Edition – $5.99 • Minority Report: Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition – $6.99 • Popeye (1980 live-action movie): Widescreen –… |
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TMNT
…a cold slice of pizza. I was impressed by the technical abilities on show in the awesome foursome’s original trek to cinemas, 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, thanks to the… |
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WALL-E looks cute!
A quick end of week message to point out my mid-week posted review for the 1925 and 1960 versions of The Lost World, a great little package that is well… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…The Crocadero, Scrap Happy Daffy and Wholly Smoke). 15×4 = 60 Tuneful encounters! The Sweatbox Review: As sure as clockwork, Warner Brothers have delivered another wonderful collection of 60 classic… |
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Weekend wrap-up…
…the third spot over bigger hits Bee Movie and The Simpsons Movie. Any argument that Shrek The Third should have been in the running hasn’t been raised by anybody… Ratatouille… |
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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… |
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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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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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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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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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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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How the Grinch (and an ogre) Stole Christmas
…Grinch Stole Christmas will recieve its annual TV airing. Following this will be the not as beloved but still ratings friendly Shrek the Halls, the DreamWorks animated special from 2007…. |
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Madagascar Penguins land own DVD feature
…English 5.1 Surround, English 2.0 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 2.0 Surround and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Running 120 minutes, the DVD features all-new, never-before-seen missions as well… |
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The Princess and the Frog DVD and Blu-ray in March
…her Debut In A Rollicking Musical Adventure From The Creators Of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. Critically-Acclaimed Animated Feature The Princess And The Frog Premieres March 16, 2010 on Blu-ray… |
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Deadwood‘s McShane set for Blackbeard
From western to pirate villain: British actor Ian McShane, who has also provided voices for Shrek The Third, Kung Fu Panda and Coraline, will step into Edward Teach’s shoes to… |
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How To Train Your Dragon
…the studio. With the Shrek franchise closing this year, DreamWorks may have found a cast people care enough about to center their company branding behind. Two years ago, Kung Fu… |
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DreamWorks’ Dragon dominates
…has brought in $178 million domestically and $355 million worldwide. Mojo says, “At its current pace, Dragon will vie with Kung Fu Panda to become DreamWorks Animation’s highest-grossing non-Shrek movie”…. |
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Hollywood Reporter roundup: Peanuts and Dragon 2
…acquire UFS’ 80% share, with the remaining 20% retained by the Charles Schulz family. With $180m in box-office grosses so far, DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced How To Train Your… |
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Toy Story 3 claims box office victory
…of 2007’s Shrek the Third. Many are now expecting the film to have a shot at beating Finding Nemo, which is currently the studio’s highest grossing movie to date with… |
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First look at Puss in Boots
DreamWorks Animation has just revealed the first official image from their upcoming movie Puss in Boots. The Shrek spin-off starring one of the franchise’s most popular characters will find its… |
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How to Train Your Dragon beats Kung Fu Panda
…Kung Fu Panda’s final box office take with a gross of $215 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. It is now the studio’s highest grossing non-Shrek film of all time…. |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens TV series in the works
…site also has news regarding the studio’s other plans for television, including confirmation that a Shrek Halloween special is currently in production, along with a Kung Fu Panda holiday special…. |
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Toy Story 3 Top-Grossing Animated Film of All-Time
…now the highest-grossing animated film of all time. The final film in the Toy Story series has grossed US$920 million worldwide, surpassing Shrek 2‘s total worldwide gross of US$919.8 million…. |
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New project for DreamWorks Animation: Imaginary Enemies
…friends of children–fed up with being blamed for their misdeeds–looking for revenge when their kids have grown up. Mike Mitchell of Sky High and Shrek Forever After fame is working… |
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Specs on How To Train Your Dragon
…20 animated feature films, including the franchise properties of Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. DreamWorks Animation’s next feature film is Megamind, scheduled to be… |
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Megamind
…Shrek franchise followed in May. That may have marked the first time in a decade that the studio released back to back in-house movies that were both good. (OK, I’ll… |
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15 films going up for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars
…The Illusionist Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Megamind My Dog Tulip Shrek Forever After Summer Wars Tangled Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Toy Story 3… |
