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Panda directors discuss kung fu
…a broad audience. But we saw it as a great opportunity. We wanted to make as real a kung fu movie as we could while also making a funny movie.”… |
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Wall•E worldwide premiere and early buzz
…“That’s why you go to the movies: to see something different. I spend four years on these movies. I don’t want to do them twice.” John Lasseter added, “Every Pixar… |
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Fly Me To The Moon producer interview
…and released only in 3-D. It’s a great little G-rated movie, pure G, as G as any movie you’ll ever see. Great cast, with Tim Curry and Nicolette Sheridan and… |
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No new scenes for Toy Story 3D re-releases
…next year. Jim Morris, producer of Wall-e, adds, “We’re not changing a thing in the movies. We’re doing it that completely preserves the original movie in terms of everything about… |
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Monsters vs Aliens trailer online
…DreamWorks’ Monsters vs Aliens is the studio’s first movie produced using 3D technology. Directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon, the movie is slated for a March 27, 2009 release…. |
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Batman, WALL-E, Simpsons winners at PCA
…won for Favorite Animated Comedy. The Dark Knight was the big winner picking up five trophies: Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, Favorite Cast, Favorite On Screen Match-up, and Favorite Superhero…. |
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Bolt, Lilo, Stitch…plus their creators!
…next film, a canine road movie that went under the name American Dog. Of course, the movie changed dramatically under new Disney honcho John Lasseter and eventually emerged – sans… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…though this movie did disregard some of the continuity of the original show by showing Jonny’s mother. In some ways, it presented a “re-imagined” origin for the characters, but it… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight soars into stores in July
Warner Home Video has formally announced their next animated project to come out of the Warner Premiere line of direct-to-video movies. The mythological hero Wonder Woman has her own movie… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…the book, and knew it had been considered by many to be unfilmable. With its dense layers of plot, literary devices, and graphic storytelling tricks, there would have to be… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Volume Two: Bump in the Night
…is filming a monster movie. The movie features a costumed actor playing an Ape Man, but when what seems to be the real Ape Man begins to terrorize the set,… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…a healthy dosage of classic clips. Produced in collaboration with Turner Classic Movies, Jones’ career has been more than well documented in numerous other well respected documentaries, so that this… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…to have been thin on the ground. As well as a couple of sample titles that we were sent by the Studio, my comments also take in four films that… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…their previous TV shows had been successful, they all had featured the types of antics seen on movie screens for decades. A move to prime time needed a fresh idea… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…is rather plain— nice, but plain. I would have suggested that the image of each scene appear on a movie screen, in an old-style movie theater. Oh, well. Maybe they… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…region from which the folktale originated. The result is a movie with a Victorian outlook and an eastern European visual— sort of like an old horror movie, now that I… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…movie series was spawned, whose success in turn led to spin-off television series, the first of which also got its own movies. Along the way, there were also countless magazines,… |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…movie, it makes an even bigger difference. The animation was actually farmed out to Topcraft in Japan, a studio that has brought along many talented artists, but the low budget… |
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Justice League: New Frontier
…I bought a Blu-ray player in order to be able to appreciate movies in both formats. I have no regrets, as I already am well stocked with movies in both… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
…Cultural icons of the 1970s highlight another great season of Jim Henson’s Muppets. The Sweatbox Review: The second season may have been the absolute greatest in terms of old-time star… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…that I did not even notice the quality of the prints. I should note that some of the original titles have been replaced, and one (The Cat’s Out) has been… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…did you become involved with Danny Phantom? BB: One of my good friends, Shannon Tindle, had been doing early development on Danny Phantom. He left to go work on The… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…from the director, artists, animators and production team. The perfect artistic companion to a film that pushes the limits of animation. Animated Views: Tim, you’ve been involved with a great… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…been beautifully restored, it’s a spectacular difference from past releases. Sound-wise, again, there’s a clarity in the sound that has been restored that we’ve never had. In other words, all… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…no more Cinderella III or Bambi II (unfortunately). With the recent release of The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning, the end of an era has been sounded and marked by the… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…animators, and who happened to work on some of the key scenes of the movie, like WALL•E’s day at work, the red laser chase, WALL•E showing EVE his stuff (such… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…AV: The subject has already been widely treated in the past. What was your position regarding that? ST: If it had been 100% up to me, I wouldn’t have chosen…. |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…beginning the movie with some live footage of the hands of the pianist? Why? GG: I’ve always been interested in the contrast between documentary cinema (real time and space) and… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…using the hieroglyphic paintings of the palace walls, is one memorable highlight. The only disappointment with the movie was its running time. I thought the mid-section could have possibly been… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…shorts, complete with front and end title cards, and presented un-cut in their entirety. Intercut between home-movie footage of the animators in action (and playing a few pranks along the… |
