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Illumination a boon to Universal’s bottom line
…The Lorax), each has been an unqualified hit, especially when their relatively small budgets are taken into account. Illumination has a $75 million budget target. Combined the slate so far… |
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DC Nation Block – Week 1
…small animated segments that pop up between commercials and the feature presentations. Warners Brothers Animation produced the shorts in various styles with well-known superheroes from previous DC shows and others… |
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Happy Feet Two
…scenes supplements, but there is a decent enough package of small nuggets that offer some value. While I’d have again welcomed a commentary track from co-writer and director George Miller,… |
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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…Park’s award-winning claymation pair Wallace and Gromit return to the small screen, broadcasting from their self-built TV station and casting their eyes across the globe to discover a variety of… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…When the gang arrives at the small town hosting the vampire festival, we learn that Daphne and Velma have rather romanticized views of vampires, inspired by those sparkling ones from… |
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Iron Man Anime
…the mecha battles, but in truth that is only a small part of the stories. There are actually far more dialog than fight scenes, and we get to see much… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…with her. Despite her father’s warnings, and with no small amount of her own uncertainty, Arrietty slowly encourages the friendship, gradually working over the next few days towards speaking face-to-face… |
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Paperman gets buzz
…what the fates have in store for him. Created by a small, innovative team working at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Paperman pushes the animation medium in an exciting new direction.”… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…that is no small achievement! Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board? Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted DreamWorks Animation June 8, 2012 85 minutes Rated PG directed by Eric… |
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Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell
…time I was small, but when I was a teenager I was cast in the film If You Knew Susie. It was a musical comedy and I was working with… |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
…big screen vs. a small one; no matter how large TVs get or how sharp their displays (and they are sharp!), the experience of sitting in a public space, with… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…when solider Carter is repeatedly captured wonderfully assists the humor of each moment, and Samantha Morton as a sympathetically friendly Thark makes her mark in a relatively small role and… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…became a supporter and once I did that, that led me to do Your Friend the Rat, which was the first time I got to work with a small chamber… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…couple of times along the way. More enticing is a small six-minute-plus selection of Deleted Scenes, again intro’d by Metcalf, although in practice these only amount to little more than… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…think it’s like anything in pop culture. We’ve grown because the generation’s grown. It used to be an underground thing for a smaller group, that group grows up, they get… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…small screen, but a plus is that that they appear to help pay towards digital restorations: the full-length featurette compilation The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh will turn up… |
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Mia And The Migoo
…Vincent van Gogh and the types of local artwork that one might find in a small outdoor market on a tropical land. Even the figures follow a similar approach, with… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…character montage images and, if I’m not mistaken, they were last seen in small roles in the Looney Tunes movies Space Jam and Back In Action, so they’re very much… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…and sizes of drums large and small – you name it. They were all played by Los Angeles session musicians. AV: How did you choose those instruments ? BB: I… |
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Secret Of The Wings Composer Joel McNeely gives wings to Tinkerbell’s latest adventure!
…a composer, McNeely hatched a plan. He used his small savings to hire a studio and create a demo tape. Orchestra members were each paid $25 and a lottery ticket… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…what Walt was hoping for, too: a terrific success both on the screen and in merchandising, a perennial title that kept on bringing healthy returns and going in no small… |
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Secret Of The Wings
…hair. It’s a small thing, but it brings much more believability to the visuals, which have always been otherwise rich and lovingly textured in this series. I couldn’t say that… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…a bit more of a cost-conscious approach in mind: there’s still a 28-page collection of notes and imagery from Beck, but this time it’s in the form of a smaller… |
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An author named Charles Solomon about a boy named Charlie Brown…
…the strip as a small child, but I don’t remember beginning to read it or discovering it. Peanuts was always there. During high school, I began buying the books, and… |
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The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show: The Complete Animated Series
…day to walk on the beach instead of rushing around a theme park. There are pleasures in simple observations, and in small stories; not every journey has to be full… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…a smaller, less elaborate packaging as opposed to the initial volume’s “ultimate” (but, ultimately, redundantly overdone) collector’s set, the Looney Tunes gang win out again this year. It’s true that… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…“There are so many variables in play to get a movie made,” he explains. “You only control your small part of that film. In my case, it’s writing the screenplay… |
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Escape from Escape From Planet Earth
A relatively small animated film is causing a big stink in the courts according to The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Tony Leech and film producer Brian Inerfeld, two of the people… |
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Batman – The Dark Knight Returns: Parts 1 And 2
…well as those associated with the movie version. Another Blu-ray exclusive is the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Digital Comic, which really just gives a small taste of the source… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…had worked for The Lion King, a small phenomenon all over again when it got a surprisingly successful 3D makeover a couple of years ago ahead of its latest home… |
