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A Scanner Darkly
…America’s most respected and adapted sci-fi authors. Having seen good Dick movies that were nonetheless weak adaptations (Blade Runner, Minority Report) and cheesy Dick movies that were also weak adaptations… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…characters from their original cartoon appearances and how they’ve been reversion for the movie. Better is The Dancing Dog (5:30), which elaborates on how Scoob was inserted into the disco… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…Joe would’ve been more of a “smash.” Nobody thought about Joe passing away because he’d always been around, we all knew he was going to make it past a hundred;… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…Blu-ray in 2010. Ink And Paint: Walt’s triumphant feature debut has certainly been a film that’s been returned to several times over the years. In 1987, the Disney Company celebrated… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…as it is a pastiche of the war movies (Apocalypse Now, Platoon, etc) it spoofs, even going as far as to present a bunch of fake commercials and movie trailers… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…Walt performing Pinocchio than to watch the movie. AD: I remember Roy saying that, yeah. Must’ve been amazing, those story meetings, him getting up and acting out characters. Must’ve been… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…been great to have had a picture-in-picture track throughout the movie (see the What’s Missing? comments below), but as something of a token gesture in this regard, a Storyboard To… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…Avenger’s: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon. Drawing on the advertising for the live-action movie, Marvel Animation produced Thor: Tales of Asgard a direct to video movie meant to rouse younger fans’… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…at Filton College. Whilst studying he was also working evenings at an arts cinema which meant watching a lot of movies. Some of them over and over again. This experience,… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…movies. The story issues are not helped by having to start the movie hopping between Africa/Kenya and back in New York, replaying the first movie plot in seven seconds, and… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…but who has been promising me discs that, some of which, I have been waiting on since April 2016 — and no, that’s not a typo! All the best for… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…instead of a human and…presto! That is this movie. The Sweatbox Review: I’m not sure if its because John Musker and Ron Clements’ take on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…animated movies are fully planned and edited BEFORE the are actually put into production. In effect, we make the movie twice: once as a story reel and once as the… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…because the very talented Rodrigo and Gabriela were also involved in the project. In a movie like this, soloistic writing becomes important. It’s a very character-driven movie. You really do… |
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Senior Technical Director Michael Muir mixes art and science in Smurfs 2
…compositing, after all the animation and lighting have been been done, the shots are rendered and the images are headed over to a compositor. The compositor then takes those images… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…things to do. Rounding the disc out are the Studio’s standard catch of Sneak Peeks, here including the new Disneynature Born In China movie and the usual Disney Channel, Movie… |
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\\The Three Musketeers\\ director campaigns for theatrical release
…my movie on the \\Lion King 1 1/2\\ DVD.) Sadly, because of misguided management, this movie is scheduled to skip a theatrical release on the big screen and go straight… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
David Couchariere is originally from Belgium, he’s been a 3D character animator for DreamWorks Animation for over five years now, where he worked on How To Train Your Dragon, Madagascar… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…held by the Brizzi Brothers and was about to produce films such as Duck Tales and Goofy Movie. I am myself rather a fan of the classic movies than of… |
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Frankenweenie
…the beefier fold-over trays (nice, though, that the movie retains its proper title and not “Frankenweenie 3D”). Inside there’s a Rewards code and a random promo for “spooky” pistachios (!?),… |
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Strange Magic
…throwback success of star Ron Howard in television’s Happy Days and the movie smash Grease. Lucas also had a hit around this time, of course, with a little movie called… |
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Playmobil: The Movie tickets will only cost $5 for all showtimes at many theaters
…to get people to show up for a movie which has been tracking very poorly, following extended financial trouble and the film having to find a new distributor at the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #48: Interview with Steve Hickner
…pro” and has done nearly every job in animation. He is most notably known for co-directing The Prince of Egypt and Bee Movie. This interview discusses his new book, his… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…for an Annie award, animation’s highest honor in America, for his work on DreamWorks Animation’s film Bee Movie, voiced and produced by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. His continued long-term working relationship… |
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The new Lego Movie 2 trailer builds on the jokes from the first film
…Movie 2: The Second Part, reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…Movie Club exclusives worth trying to nab when it makes the Rewards list, from Donald In Mathmagic Land, the Duck Tales movie and Richard Todd-starring adventures of old, to such… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…he certainly supervised the vocal recordings, but while his thumbprints may not show up on the characters’ animation itself, his fingers are all over the rest of the movie, from… |
