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Pixar's \\Tin Toy\\ and WB's \\One Froggy Evening\\ added to the National Film Registry
…by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones, premiered on December 31, 1955. It is expected to surface again on the next DVD collection of WB shorts, later in 2004…. |
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“Daffy Duck For President”
Toon Zone reports that in celebration of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Two DVD, Warner Bros. held a “Daffy Duck For President” press conference and campaign rally at the… |
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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…a wonderful Chuck Jones-like teaser for \\Ratatouie\\ and the sentimental and funny \\One Man’s Band\\. Then on comes an incredibly loud, jarring and in some ways scary lengthy opening sequence… |
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Grinch still mean, after fifty years
…retrospective traces the evolution of the drawings, describes Dr Seuss’ collaboration with Chuck Jones on the successful TV cartoon that followed the book and surveys the sequels and foreign-language translations…. |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…Wundersamen Abenteuer Von Herbert Hase Im Trickfilm Land has to be a favorite – and some early Chuck Jones contributions), Stills, and Publicity, with some really great alternate poster artwork… |
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Home On The Range
…getting folks to shut up shop and move out, while Odel moves in and buys up the land – and the stock – at cut price rates! With Pearl’s farm… |
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WB DVD: more Animaniacs, and The Phantom Tollbooth!
…treatment for its 20th anniversary next year, and Chuck Jones’ 1970 live-action/animation combination The Phantom Tollbooth is on the way, for either later this year or early next. Explaining the… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…click like Jackman and Elijah Wood does as Mumble, and to be honest I was hoping that there was a reason that his parents were Marilyn and Elvis knock-offs, but… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…best gunslinging cartoons), and this Easter special from 1977 is one of the best of the bunch. Until Chuck Jones returned to reclaim some kind of part ownership over the… |
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The Halloween Tree
…Archive’s more recent editions, but it’s a minor gripe and the artwork on the sleeve and the disc itself is colorful and descriptive enough. Ink And Paint: Apparently newly remastered,… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…their vision and locked on to it and, for good or bad, stuck to their guns and went down blazing. Titan AE and Treasure Planet did animation in space (and… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…to commit to this three-and-a-half year endeavor. AV: From what I understand, you developed this idea with illustrator David Shannon. GV: David Shannon, John Carls and I had breakfast once,… |
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The Muppets
…rips away the condemned tape, and the Theater, although dusty and in ruins, still holds the old magic, the echoes of Jim’s Kermit and intros to Veterinarian’s Hospital and Pigs… |
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Pixar artist and Facebook try to reinvent the smiley
Pixar story illustrator Matt Jones is working with Facebook to basically reinvent the smiley, according to Buzzfeed. “Facebook was canny enough to realize that traditional emoticons are quite bland. At… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…Over Session and Terry Gilliam Voice Over Session clips have Pythons Jones and Palin delivering their lines in the first, and Gilliam (in clean and foul versions) having fun behind… |
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Finally a Jim Henson biography!
After many years of speculation and waiting, Muppet fans can finally get to know the man underneath Kermit the Frog. Brian Jay Jones has written Jim Henson: The Biography, the… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…many twists and turns which see deals done between various parties on both sides, characters double, triple and quadruple cross each other and pretty much all have underlying plans that… |
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Up’s Pete Docter and Michael Giacchino to intro the Academy’s Oscar Concert celebration of film music
PRESS RELEASE THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION PRESENT THE OSCAR® CONCERT One-Night-Only Celebration of the History of Film Music in Honor… |
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More on Seinfeld's \\Bee Movie\\
…buzzing with bees”. Jeffrey Katzenberg said, “Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most brilliant and unique comic minds of our time… We were delighted when he came to us with… |
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New Superman short "funniest movie this year"
The {{link http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/#film5 Internet Movie Database}} is reporting that “New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick has reviewed a five-minute ‘movie’ starring Jerry Seinfeld and has extolled it as ‘the… |
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CINEME 2004 Official Winners
…land with little shelter from the midday heat. Their desperation is heightened by the strange and continuous disappearance of the coveted shade… Best First Film The Monkey and the Bananas… |
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Bee Movie DVD extras revealed
…Two-Disc Special Edition and standard single-disc versions. Extras on Two-Disc Special Edition will include Jerry Seinfeld & Filmmaker Commentary, TV Juniors – Hilarious “behind the scenes” segments with Jerry Seinfeld… |
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Pirates of the Caribbean ride enhancements inspired by movie franchise
…ably played in the film version by Geoffrey Rush, and Davy Jones, will be added to the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney theme park rides in California and Florida. The… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…the feature FernGully, and supervisor of effects for such films as Scooby-Doo and Garfield), and Darrell Rooney, mostly known for directing direct-to-video sequels to The Lion King, Lady And The… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…Elton and Tim’s songs help tell the story with humor and heart while Hans’ brilliant score and arrangements (along with Lebo M’s choral work) gave it its scale, drama, and… |
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The BFG
…dubs and subs also optional. Final Cut: The BFG strangely has the anti-Spielberg of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull at play. The story, director and producing… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…chance to see it. This one was directed by Bill Melendez and Larry Leichliter. The Trailers on this release include those for the Peanuts Holiday Collection, Scooby-Doo And The Goblin… |
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…and preparing the table, and Snoopy and Woodstock dressing as pilgrims (in a scene cut from some re-broadcasts but seen in full here). Linus, as usual, gets to sound the… |
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2014 San Diego Comic-Con schedule highlights
…from his documentary I Know That Voice didn’t make it in. He will be joined by veteran voice director Andrea Romano and superstar voice actors Fred Tatasciore, Rob Paulsen, and… |
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Big Hero 6
…Marvel movies) and X-Men and Fantastic Four at Fox, Marvel and Disney are now beginning to move away from the more established characters and starting to really investigate those additional… |
