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Mickey quits…
…vampish smokers of atmospheric films like Renaissance, which I screened last night and should have a review up for later today, and whatever would become of such intense and brilliant… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…Slumdog Millionaire comes to DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray ($39.98) from Fox on March 31, with featurettes, deleted scenes, commentaries and, on the BD, a digital copy, music video and short… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…and Pumbaa return in style, in a comedy tailored directly to the strengths of their characters and vocalists, with Lane and Sabella playing along gamely and having as much fun,… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
Wow! Despite some times when running a fully-fledged animation news, reviews and interviews site came dangerously close to unbalancing our own personal lives and “real work” (whatever that is!) and,… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…now-standard amateur-level menus (with sub-Danny Elfman Pee Wee music) complete with hideously simplistic and sometimes nonsensical icons and trailers for a bunch of Scooby-Doo, Tom & Jerry and Dr Seuss… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…as The Netherlands and England. After beginning to make films for Holland’s Philips Radio, he relocated to Holland, first setting up a studio in a garage, then later a butcher… |
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Early glimpse of A Looney Tunes Christmas
…Christmas will go directly to video this Holiday season. TAG Blog likewise observes that DTV features for Justice League, Tom & Jerry, and Superman are on the way as well…. |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
…and those from the acquired libraries of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Hanna-Barbera, and the Fleischer Brothers. This three-disc set collects 41 of the most celebrated cartoons of their time, including 15 award… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…to work on screen in their own way and not crowd each other. Throw in Tom Cruise as a passionately loathsome studio boss, and Matthew McConaughey as Stiller’s agent, and… |
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Invitation to "Experiential Narrative in Games and Film"
…such speakers as Jonathan Ackley, Tom DeSanto, John Gaeta, David Goyer, David Jaffe, Richard Taylor and Habib Zargarpour, the event will explore the interaction filmmakers and game designers may enact… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…on screen in their own way and not crowd each other. Throw in Tom Cruise as a passionately loathsome studio boss, and Matthew McConaughey as Stiller’s agent, and Tropic Thunder… |
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Toy Story: full 10th Anniversary DVD details
…Design (art galleries and character “turn arounds”) – Set Design (art galleries and rendered set tour) – Color and Lighting Design (Video and Art Gallery) Story Highlight Featurettes Storyboard Pitch… |
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11 Animated Movies Eligible for Oscar
…the animation category because it uses a brand new technique called performance capture, for which Tom Hanks and costars acted out their roles in live action, while technicians later converted… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…and stiffly stilted. And, for me, it’s such a shame that the chiefest proponent for this technology is one of my favorite directors: Robert Zemeckis. I Wanna Hold Your Hand,… |
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Short Film Has Tall Implications
…dialogue and is set to music, features such Dali surrealism as melting clocks, a character covered in eyeballs and ants crawling out of a hand, transforming into Frenchmen riding bicycles…. |
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The Polar Express arrives online!
…special effects filled film next November. Directed by the amazing Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Back To The Future), and starring Tom Hanks (the Toy Stories, Cast… |
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A Survivor joins Pirates
According to Dark Horizons, in an interview with the Bob and Tom AM radio show, Rupert Boneham, the tank top-wearing, black-bearded, gentle giant from Survivor: Pearl Islands, was given the… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…I directed in California, and the CG Roger looked great. Tom Bancroft animated Roger by hand and they pulled and pushed the model to match his animation, and it just… |
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Weekend events
…Sito as ASIFA-Hollywood reunites the makers of Walt Disney Pictures’ Aladdin with anecdotes, behind the scenes secrets, and much more!” Currently scheduled to appear are Tom Sito, Eric Goldberg, Andreas… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…be my favorite He-Man episode, and I have to hand it to Bob Forward and Leslie Wilson who wrote a great script, the animators, and Gwen Wetzler the director who… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…anymore. When you get up like Rocky and fix raw eggs and stuff, and keep on trying and sending out your portfolio for the 100th time, you’re still making an… |
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Early preview of Disney's \\Meet the Robinsons\\
…the Robinsons\\ features a voice cast that includes Angela Bassett, Kelly Ripa, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Adam West, Tom Kenny and Ethan Sandler. Danny Elfman does the score and singers… |
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The Lion King Tenth Anniversary Reunion
…number of people who worked on the film and honored the regal animated feature as a benchmark in animation, one that successfully combined comedy and drama, action and song, and… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…liberty and freedom of Etheria. There is even a complexity in the nature of the universes. On He-Man, technology and magic worked hand-in-hand in the battle between good and evil…. |
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Polar Express: an animated oil painting
…the warmth, immediacy and subtleties of a human performance,” says director Robert Zemeckis. “When Tom (Hanks) and I were thinking about how we could do this book as a movie,… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…over by writers Tom Sims and Ralph Stein, while artwork was done by Charles H. “Doc” Winner, and later by Segar’s own assistants, Bela Zaboly and Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf. Sagendorf’s… |
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The Lion King to roar again for crew reunion
…Katzenberg, directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, co-writer Irene Mecchi, and animator Andreas Deja), the ASIFA-Hollywood sponsored evening is planned to be held at the Glendale Public Library on Monday… |
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Hero High: The Complete Series
…Interviews (50:30 total!), shown in letterboxed widescreen and starring the commentary participants as well as writers Tom Ruegger and Bobby London, and artists Michael Swanigan and Darrel McNeil. The reminiscing… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…Americana? I was absolutely enchanted and delighted. The boys, played by Tim Considine and Tommy Kirk, were both splendid young actors and went on to have solid careers at the… |
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2010 Oscar nominations, Up up for Best Picture
…Mr. Fox (20th Century Fox), Wes Anderson • The Princess and the Frog (Walt Disney), John Musker and Ron Clements • The Secret of Kells (GKIDS), Tomm Moore • Up… |
