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A peek of what’s to come in the Clone Wars universe
Star Wars: The Clone Wars may have been cancelled by Disney, but fans will still have some stuff to look forward to…although when and where still has yet to be… |
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Walking With Dinosaurs gets a first trailer
A first trailer for Walking With Dinosaurs is now online and can be viewed over at MSN. The preview–which will no doubt remind many of Disney’s Dinosaur–shows off the movie’s… |
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DreamWorks posts solid earnings for first quarter
…video. Thus far, The Croods has collected almost $480 million worldwide, well on its way to beating Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful as the No. 1 movie released during… |
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Uh-oh: more Happy Feet? …and: excited about this year's TV pickups?
…stereoscopic 3D release. Following Disney and DreamWorks’ move into this presentation method, I must question exactly what 3D brings to the movies. Does it add any depth? Possibly, but it… |
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Jack Sparrow's Pirates in space?
…just might keep the franchise – Disney’s biggest – afloat. Interesting too that Depp and Rush are the only recurring major cast members (I’m going to go ahead and assume… |
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Floyd Norman revisits Huck’s Landing
At his insightful blog, veteran Disney animator Floyd Norman recalls working on the cancelled Huck’s Landing, which was to be loosely based on Mark Twain’s classic character Huck Finn. As… |
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Frozen preview pulled
Our friends The Rotoscopers got a look at a preview video for Disney’s Frozen before the Mouse House had it pulled offline. Luckily they have screencaps so you can still… |
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Mickey quits…
…you want to watch a Walt Disney Treasure From The Vault – in “less enlightened times”. So while I’m all for not seeing the kids light up in Narnia, or… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…originally ran and spooks the pants off the compressed look of Disney’s over-packed television sets such as Duck Tales. Cleanup has evidently been done to help the image appear slightly… |
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Weekend Roundup! Plus The Tick is back!
…big screen in a major motion picture? • Contest Corner – win giveaway copies of Disney’s Darkwing Duck Volume 2 and Warner’s 300, but hurry: both end next Tuesday at… |
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Rotoscopers YouTube: The Art of The Croods and Q&A Part 2
Morgan and Chelsea check out the book The Art of The Croods. Then they finish up their Q&A series with questions about Disney problems and favorite films, and the story… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #36: Howl’s Moving Castle – Beast’s Moving Batcave
…shallowly on this Miyazaki film! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3398563670.mp3 Highlights: • Jurassic Park mini review by Mason • News: Finding Dory, Monsters University Alumni Letter, Disney’s Frozen Soundtrack leaked? and Elsa concept art… |
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Planes Takes Flight video focuses on visuals, musical score
Walt Disney Studios has released the dialogue-free “music video” Planes Takes Flight, to help build buzz for this summer’s Cars spin-off. For two and a half minutes, the video shows… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…the short animation category, I’m very happy to see Disney’s The Little Matchgirl in the running, even if it won’t win. Matchgirl will battle it out against hopefuls The Danish… |
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George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series
…Sunday morning runs). While many younger people might know George only from his popular Disney film with Brendan Fraser, slightly older fans know that he appeared on one of the… |
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Mad Monster Party
…big screen, they were, of course, overshadowed by the big Disney releases, but did continue to offer alternative family entertainment with Willie McBean And His Magic Machine (1965), The Wacky… |
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The Muppets return, with icons of the Seventies
…catch The Incredible Hulk, which is currently scoring a “72” on the Tomatometer! Then remember that another classic Popeye set comes out next week, as well as two more Disney… |
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Reviews return, with the final season of The Batman
…that our review of the final season of Teen Titans is also coming soon. Likewise, we will be catching up on other releases from Warner, Disney, and others in the… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…Louis Prima (known to cartoon fans now for voicing King Louie in Disney’s 1967 adaptation of The Jungle Book). Otherwise, the song stops the progression of the movie absolutely cold…. |
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2006: A Year In Review
…in English sync by the former staff of Disney’s Paris animation studio. Finding American distribution seems to be the main challenge facing foreign animated features. Even major studios like as… |
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Clone Wars wins first Emmys
…– Jason Park, Background Designer: Transformers: Prime – Arato Kato, Character Animator: Transformers: Prime – Kirk Van Wormer, Storyboard Artist: Transformers: Prime – Robert Kline, Storyboard Artist: Disney Minnie’s Bow-Toons… |
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Lego Movie movie trailer coming soon
It appears Disney’s Frozen isn’t the only highly anticipated animated feature with a teaser trailer on the way. A tweet by ComingSoon.net suggests the teaser for The Lego Movie could… |
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Planes goes Canadian with new poster
Despite announcing Planes: Fire & Rescue yesterday, Disney still has the first Planes movie to promote. With that said, a brand-new poster for the Cars spin-off is now online, at… |
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Frozen teaser trailer to arrive next week
“Your summer is about to get a bit cooler…” reads a tweet from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Twitter feed. Indeed, the studio is finally releasing a trailer for Frozen next… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue coming July 18, 2014
Folks who enjoy DisneyToons’ Planes this August won’t have to wait long for a sequel. Disney has scheduled Planes: Fire & Rescue for July 18 next year. The announcement isn’t… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series
…Kathy Lawrence), who also collaborated on Muppet Babies and more recently on X-Men: Evolution, and Karl Geurs, who during his long career became most known for his work at Disney… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…Disney, DreamWorks, Blur and Blue Sky, all had really strong films. I felt for sure that they would have to nominate at least two or three of those. Then, among… |
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Who will win this summer’s “animation war”?
…DreamWorks’ Turbo, Sony’s Smurfs 2 and DisneyToons’ Planes. But is there enough interest from families to go around? The piece also looks at a growing rivalry between Disney/Pixar and Fox/DreamWorks,… |
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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle
…his generosity, time and kind help, and to Tim Sovay. All onset pictures, blueprints, CAD drawing and visuals by Jason Knox-Johnston, Art Director. All material ©Disney/Walden Media. All rights reserved…. |
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Animated look at MU animation process
Disney Insider is giving fans a chance to get a behind the scenes look at the making of Monsters University and Pixar’s six-step progressive animation process, showing one scene from… |
