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Stronger Than Spinach
…more on spinach. The animation was also drabber. And yet, there were other qualities that, Bierly contends, made them extremely appealing in their own right. Aside from some increased violence,… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard BD/DVD in May
…features on this release will include, “Worthy: The Making of Thor: Tales of Asgard” featurette, audio commentaries, “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” Bonus Episode from the new hit TV series…. |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…hacker Kevin Flynn who, ousted from his proper seat as the head of a large hardware/software computer company Encom, fights from the outside to prove current company chief Ed Dillinger… |
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Pixar announces two new films
The news keeps rolling in from the D23 Expo, with the latest info being about two new Pixar films in the works. Each come from one of the writers/directors of… |
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Family Guy Season 10 Clips Premiere in Theaters
…Fever,” fan favorite episode “Road to the Multiverse,” and a twenty-two minute “History of the World” that explains the creation of Earth. Collider.com has full details on the times and… |
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Gnomeo director Kelly Asbury gets “pooched” to Sony Pictures Animation
…be dogs – comparing notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into… |
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Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!
…and the Tramp’s co-writer Sonny Burke] was a versatile artist, as talented in popular and jazz music as in cinema. Her introduction to films resulted from being the Benny Goodman… |
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Avatar: The Legend of Korra
…was designed in a style inspired by Japanese anime and also borrowed elements from Asian cultures, such as martial arts and Buddhism principles. It proved that young and older audiences… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…reality playground of QuestWorld. Aside from that CGI land, stories are initially fairly down-to-Earth, with frequent sci-fi elements; but as the end of the season approaches, things get a bit… |
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Shazzan: The Complete Series
…the brother and sister move from place to place, getting into various forms of trouble, and naturally get bailed out by their genie. The stories generally start out fun, presenting… |
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Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur details emerge
LA Times shares details on Pixar’s upcoming prehistoric adventure The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Bob Peterson, in The Good Dinosaur, “an asteroid never hit the Earth and dinosaurs still roam.”… |
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91
…CNN. While his animation-related credentials are few, filmmakers and artists from around the world have taken to Twitter to credit Bradbury as a primary inspiration. Bradbury worked with the 1964… |
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DreamWorks announces Happy Smekday!
…late 2014, and will star Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons and Grammy Award winner Rihanna. “In Happy Smekday! an alien race invades Earth and uses it as a hideout from… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…from The Little Mermaid to The Princess And The Frog, who reveals all about the film’s early development and, in particular, Peopleitis: The Deleted Song (4:41). Even from this brief… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…each line has been individually colored, and if there’s any film (perhaps apart from Pinocchio) from the Walt-era library that looks like it could have been created with the Studio’s… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…from successful elements from Disney’s past. It’s very much a film of two parts; not quite two halves, since the split doesn’t seem to be equal. There are a variety… |
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Monsters University festivities at Disney World
…Epcot’s Spaceship Earth as part of the park’s Monstrous Summer All-Nighter. In another vid, Lange walks viewers through the Monsters University display at Hollywood Studios, revealing concept artwork and maquettes…. |
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B.O.O. logo revealed
…must use every trick in their arsenal to defeat his powerful ghost army and save Earth from a ghostly fate.” Check out Beck’s site for more cast and crew information…. |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…wrong. Next is the Animatic For The Unaired Pilot (7:33), as well as the Animatic For The Power (11:15). The Original Pencil Tests From Saerom (0:38) are from the pilot,… |
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Now Playing: Pacific Rim and more
…gun and sword wielding mobsters and ninjas rather than mutants. While it’s an interesting take, the more down to earth villains combined with the loss of Wolverine’s regenerative abilities make… |
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McKenzie talks Muppet sequel
Collider has posted a video interview with Bret McKenzie, one half of Flight of the Conchords, a Middle Earth elf, and the Oscar winning song writer of The Muppets. While… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…original film proposal, but it was Goro who handled the storyboards and direction. The improvement over Tales From Earthsea, is remarkable. In From Up On Poppy Hill, the plot is… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…to be actually starts four years earlier than that. Let’s Get It Started… From the time fifteen year old Olivier Mouroux made his first trip from his home in France… |
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Laika announces new feature Kubo and the Two Strings
…a spirit from the past catches up with him to enforce an age-old vendetta. Suddenly on the run from gods and monsters, Kubo’s chance for survival rests on finding the… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…fairly hard to come by on the internet, but from what I gather, Gladiators of Rome is a 2012 animated movie from Italy (with the English translation of its original… |
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Big Hero 6
…format that Sony tried to plug in the 1970s! I also felt he resembled some weird pod-like things from the awful Will Smith dud from last summer, After Earth, although… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…best years. However, Disney’s biggest rival from the old days was closing down. 1942 was the year that Max and Dave Fleischer saw their studio get taken away from them…. |
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Strange Magic
…the names behind the scenes; perhaps not so much from post-prequels and Crystal Skull-bothering Lucas, but certainly from Rydstrom and co-screenwriter Irene Mecchi (with input from “story consultant” Brenda Chapman),… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…and just be creative, without the pressures of running a show and an empire. He stayed with the series, however, still contributing as writer and storyboard artist. Ward’s pal from… |
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Dinotrux
…more plot holes than the Cars movies do. Where on earth did these dinosaur/construction vehicle hybrids come from? Are the “ore” rocks that they eat made out of gasoline? If… |
