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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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DreamWorks Animation income falls 45%
Variety reports that DreamWorks Animation’s latest earnings are reflecting the current revenue dips being experienced by most of the motion picture studios. Added concern for the Broadway musical Shrek and… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…cover up what they’ve done to the town. A few years ago I read an article by screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean) where he was talking… |
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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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Kung Fu Panda
…lot of tickets and DVDs. But classics these films were not. In 2004, the first DWA film that I actually liked a little bit came out — Shrek 2. The… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…score that pushes all the buttons his Media Ventures partners Hans Zimmer, John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams have pushed in projects as diverse as The Road To El Dorado, Shrek… |
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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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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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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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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…the CFQ Trailer Park on Thursday morning. Furthermore, a shirt transfer for Shrek The Third, as well as a trading card promo, were given, lending a look at the project’s… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…don’t need you anymore.” When CGI films like Shrek and Ice Age from competing studios performed well at the box office, Disney execs strangely assumed that Disney films must be… |
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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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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…movie: how much of a parody of Disney is it? How do you make it different from Shrek? How dark can the elements be? And I think that just took… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…decades of animated films to follow, even being spoofed as recently as in rival studio DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise. Fittingly, the “one that started it all” is the first in line… |
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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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The Lion King 1½
…with their biggest traditional animated franchise, or whether the whole endeavour smacked of sheer desperation in trying to keep up with the Shrek crowd, and the new trend of having… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…were true… In this time where practically all animation seems to be about self-parody (the Shrek series, The Lion King 1½, many of the Disney sequels), Teacher’s Pet scores big… |
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Home On The Range
…partnership with Pixar and the rise of PDI/DreamWorks, their biggest rival. With these two new kids on the block, providing the whiz-bang fireworks of Toy Story and Shrek, no wonder… |
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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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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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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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Something for the weekend…?
…readers. Get your names in quick! The big news today is that Pixar’s Ratatouille site got an update and that the Shrek 3 trailer has just gone online, so be… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…those who enjoy Lawrence’s stuff, but Kutcher may as well have been Eddie Murphy (Lawrence’s Life co-star), since the whole Boog/Elliot dynamic feels so closely modelled on the Shrek/Donkey double… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…stolen – Monty Python’s Eric Idle, who complained (wrongly) against a gag used in Shrek The Third would be much better off finding the many sub-Python rip-offs here instead. Everything… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…as “Puss And Boots” in the pre-film notes) plays with the fairy tale formula as well as anything that the likes of Shrek might boast about, and the Laugh-O-Grams themselves… |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…concerned in the slightest about Shrek 3, nor clashing with their own sure to be blockbuster third Pirates outing for Jack Sparrow and co, but putting out a quirky family… |
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Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?
…$4.3m weekend takings). Josh has also updated the DVD Deals section with a fun little related item: your own Shrek computer! Naturally, being “partners”, the hardware for this DreamWorks-inspired PC… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…joint-development projects, or does Aardman have carte blanche to deliver them elsewhere? And what about Cleese’s professional ties with DreamWorks and their Shrek franchise? As with any relationship breakup, there… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…franchise extensions or straight sequels. In particular, films such as Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third, Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 and Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix all… |
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Flushed Away Giveaway – Winners Announced!
…games and previews for Bee Movie, Shrek The Third and Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, plus much more! Flushed Away (Widescreen Edition) is available to buy from Amazon.com… |
