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Is Shrek 5 on the way?
…is reporting that DreamWorks Animation honcho Jeffery Katzenberg is hinting at a continuation of the franchise. “We like to let them have a little bit of time to rest,” he… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…Japan, with a selection of his best and most important shorts (it was the first time that I got to see his debut in The Wise Little Hen, or the… |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…error of his ways … with a little help from her friends! • Voice of the Islands – An in-depth look at how Pacific Island people and cultures inspired the… |
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Fox and the Hound 25th Anniversary Edition DVD coming
…The information arrives from an advertisement inside the Chicken Little DVD. More screencaps and scans from the Chicken Little DVD are also available at the MadonnaDownload forums [free registration required]…. |
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Justice League: War
…writers over the past twenty-five years. Watching Shazam embarrass himself by his childish behavior is not all that appealing, and even a little creepy, particularly when he sheepishly asks Wonder… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…think he did a great job. Max Charles’ Sherman was a little too childlike for my taste, but was otherwise fine. Ariel Winter was perfect as his bullying nemesis Penny…. |
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Maleficent
…think I noted one soundbite), so it’s disappointing but hardly surprising that he isn’t on hand to introduce the cuts here (title cards provide a little info and these moments… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Howard Ashman and Alan Menken at the time of their work on Little Shop Of Horrors. At that time, Dan concluded our interview saying: “Art direction-wise, we are still in… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…isn’t really all that confusing, until you add in The Monarch, who is trying to do a little destroying of his own at the Venture compound, all the while thinking… |
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The Secret Life Of Pets
…Storyboard: Little pooch Max has a very bad day when he tries to oust new playmate Duke from his cosy home in this amusing, if not entirely original, diverting pet… |
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Academy lists songs eligible for Oscar
…from animated films: “\\Great Big World\\” from \\Hookwinked\\ “\\One Little Slip\\” from \\Chicken Little\\ “\\Remains of the Day\\” from \\Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride\\ “\\Shine\\” from \\Robots\\ “\\Shoulder to Shoulder\\” from… |
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Minions
…I hadn’t seen already. Minions is definitely in the Despicable Me camp — great performances, always musically interesting, somewhat entertaining, sometimes funny, a little bit of heart, but with a… |
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Despicable Me 2
…Pixar, a sequel is a given, is expected, and is looked forward to. After adopting the three little girls in the first film and giving up a life of crime… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…by Hanna-Barbera legends Daws Butler and Don Messick. Then there were the Stone Age gags, of course. In The Flintstones, drivers propel cars using their feet, housewives vacuum with little… |
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Disney releases full specs for upcoming Treasures tins: fans in for a real treat!
…Wise Dwarfs, The Spirit of ’43, Chicken Little and The Winged Scourge – all titles legendary to many Disney fans but unseen until now. Finally, Mickey 2 will include the… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…never really felt I got to know an obviously extraordinary man. And that, sadly, is the honest truth. Is This Thing Loaded? Now this is a little more like it:… |
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Cheech Marin in \\Cars\\, talks about story
…of the town.” He described the film as a “story about a little stock car racer…on his way to the big event and he breaks down in this little town… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…young author’s seemingly “odd stories”. Miss Potter is also uniquely sprinkled with subtle, lovely little bits of animation; a wink from Peter Rabbit here, a flurry from Jemima Puddleduck there,… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
…himself is given so little to do that he seems more like a “me too” character, who does nothing but nod in agreement with other more useful characters. Another story… |
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New Disney DVD news
…3rd: The Black Hole, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Oliver Twist, Unidentified Flying Oddball, The Watcher In The Woods, The Shaggy DA, Paradise, Darby O’Gill And The Little People and… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…out and I went to Cal Arts for up to three years. I worked a little bit off and on during my third year, then I left Cal Arts and… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…fair stack of them, it was obvious that they might be informative to others on a larger scale. That said, the book idea became a little more pressing when I… |
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Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles
…The Sweatbox Review: There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? It’s the anticipation of the upcoming Star Wars movie. It’s a little hard to believe that The Force… |
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Report from the Incredibles screening with Brad Bird
…Incredibles was already complete when he went to see Spiderman 2 and then was a little nervous that people would think he was ripping off Spiderman 2’s “superhero-that’s-saving-the-train-that’s-about-to-fall-off-the-tracks” sequence When… |
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Disney new release Tuesday: It's a Small World of Fun
…turns the tables on him. A Cowboy Needs A Horse A little boy dreams of being a big cowboy and going on adventures way out west. Grievance of a Starmaker… |
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Tarzan's Broadway debut review
…human Jane (Jenn Gambatese), a little more wit and subtlety would have been nice. Josh Strickland, a former American Idol finalist, is a perfectly acceptable Tarzan, and his lithe physique,… |
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Lucky tries to ride for the first time in new Spirit Untamed clip
…Lucky is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy little town. She has a change of heart when she meets Spirit, a wild Mustang who shares her independent streak, and befriends two… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…human world was the more standard Pixar style, leaning towards naturalistic. We struggled a little to find this style at first, assuming that we really needed to contrast it with… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…that Scandinavians are a little confused about where famous people come from – that’s a bit of an in-joke. But I think that’s also kind of an international joke. For… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…pitched an idea about an earthquake hitting Gotham City, which became a huge crossover and gave me the opportunity to do a little bit of writing within that arc, for… |
