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Disney, Trance writer to make live-action Beauty & the Beast
Disney has hired Joe Ahearne (Danny Boyle’s upcoming Trance) to script The Beast, a live-action 3D adaptation of Beauty & the Beast. But audiences should expect a film far different… |
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Win a Monster in Paris Blu-ray 3D combo pack – Winners announced!
…now closed. The winners are: Joe Nocera, Steubenville, OH David O’Connor, Carson City, NV About A Monster in Paris Directed and written by Bibo Bergeron (Shark Tale), A Monster in… |
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Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris
…performances in the movies The Girl on the Bridge and Café de Flore, while tearing up the international music charts with hit singles including Joe le taxi, Be My Baby,… |
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Reel FX aims for quality film slate with no “turkeys”
…Hasbro’s G.I. Joe titles and the Open Season sequels to producing its first theatrical feature, Free Birds. With voice acting by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler, the film… |
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Ray Harryhausen RIP
…the supervision of George Pal (on his Puppetoon series) and original King Kong animator Willis O’Brien on the 1949 edition of the similarly themed Mighty Joe Young, Harryhausen soon became… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…accurately captured in the film. Scoring Miyazaki (7:19) is a nice interview with Miyazaki’s composer Joe Hisaishi. The Original Japanese Trailer (1:49) is here as well, plus Behind The Microphone… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…cartoons for Joe Barbera at Hanna-Barbera. He worked with Steven Spielberg on Amblin Entertainment’s Casper, as a key pose animator. He even landed a job on Bakshi’s 1992 directorial effort… |
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Now Playing: The World’s End and more
…the original film so great is missing from this one. The first film took the superhero genre and subverted it by turning average Joe’s into average wannabe heroes trying to… |
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Help! …It’s The Hair Bear Bunch!: The Complete Series
…the soundtrack, naturally, is the fine voice work by Daws Butler, Paul Winchell, John Stephenson, and Joe E. Ross. Final Cut: I don’t know how many people even remember this… |
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Gollum creator Letteri talks evolution of computer animation
With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug now in theatres, Joe Letteri, the Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, writes for the journal Nature about the evolution of computer animation…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #58: Cats Don’t Dance – It’s Big & Loud!
…Little Steven Spielberg • Yzma and Kronk are recycled • We Rate It! • Emails from Mike, Andrew Chee, Kynan, Alex Hatch, Mark, Joe T. • And of course… bloopers!… |
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Son Of Batman
…there. The story has been somewhat reconceived by James Robinson and screenwriter Joe R. Lansdale, to include Slade Wilson, the assassin known as Deathstroke. It is Deathstroke who sets the… |
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2014 Emmy Award nominees announced
…Vidal, Ryan Tudhope, Ergin Kuke • Game Of Thrones — The Children — Joe Bauer, Joern Grosshans, Steve Kullback, Adam Chazen, Eric Carney, Sabrina Gerhardt, Matthew Rouleau, Thomas H. Schelesny,… |
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2014 San Diego Comic-Con schedule highlights
…the upcoming Disney DX series Star Wars Rebels. FRIDAY Evangeline Lilly returns to talk about her children’s book she brought last year, The Squickerwonkers. Joe Johnston will be on hand… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…80s nostalgia that I would swear I had one of these as a kid! My only worry is that, having proven his GI Joe styled credentials and seemingly off to… |
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Maleficent
…be found in the likes of My Favorite Martian or a straight remake of Ray Harryhausen’s Mighty Joe Young – not a bad film in itself but one that still… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…Japanese documentary called The Scenery In Ghibli. We are given a charming city-by-city tour of Sweden, primarily Stockholm, where the inspirations behind Kiki become clear. Joe Hisaishi is featured in… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…then footage of orchestral recording sessions with composer Joe Hisaishi, studio meetings, footage of what Ghibli’s legal man does, and more. Digest Short Film (2:13) is simply a selection of… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…case a 1947 story treatment by legendary Studio veteran Joe Grant. Along with John Henry (its American Legends DVD issue aside), director Mike Gabriel’s completion of Grant’s idea – visualised… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…freezing cold by now. I would not respect myself as a historian, however, if I did not follow every trail. I did, and thanks to my good friend Joe Campana,… |
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Only Yesterday
…the kind of music Joe Hisaishi would compose for Studio Ghibli. But what’s fascinating about the music is its absence. I found in a lot of key scenes the music… |
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The Iron Giant: Signature Edition finally coming to Blu-ray in September
…all-new scenes. When “The Iron Giant” arrived in theaters, it was hailed as an “instant classic” (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal). “Imagine E.T. as a towering metal man, that’s… |
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Captain America: Civil War
…is thrilling and exciting to watch. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo clearly understand how to visualize the film in such a way that audiences are engrossed with what is happening… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…Event. Present for the panel were Alicyn Packard (Jibanyan), Joey D’Auria (Whisper), and Melissa Hutchison (Komasan). After a late start to ensure kids were seated or positioned comfortably, they opened… |
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Watch the first teaser trailer of Smurfs: The Lost Village
…Shrek 2), it features the voice talents of Demi Lovato as Smurfette, Rainn Wilson as Gargamel, Joe Manganiello as Hefty, Jack McBrayer as Clumsy, and Mandy Patinkin as Papa Smurf…. |
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The BFG stomping home in December
…designer and four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri from Weta Digital, the visual effects company founded by Peter Jackson, as senior visual effects supervisor. DISC SPECIFICATIONS: Product SKUs: Digital HD/SD, Blu-ray… |
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VIEW Conference 2017: an interview with director Maria Elena Gutierrez
…you organizing, from masterclasses to presentations? MEG: We have an absolutely incredible group of speakers. Four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri, the senior visual effects supervisor at Weta Digital, will give… |
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Aardman launches online hub for original animated comedy
…a new series from Rich Webber (Purple & Brown, DC Nations) and original series and shorts from directors Dan Bins & Ian Pinder, Dave McKenna, Joe Wood & Ollie Magee,… |
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90th Academy Awards nominees announced
…Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist In addition, Remember Me from Coco was nominated for Best Original Song (Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez)…. |
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Up’s Pete Docter and Michael Giacchino to intro the Academy’s Oscar Concert celebration of film music
…Robin Hood — Luis Bacalov, Il Postino — Tan Dun, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Sound of Courage: — Terence Blanchard, Malcolm X, Terence Blanchard, trumpet — Joe Hisaishi, Spirited… |
