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The Book of Life
…have a big battle to end the movie, a bad guy is mustered, but he barely figures in the rest of the film and so the audience really doesn’t care… |
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Maleficent
…Christmas with the Disneyfied screen version of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale satire Into The Woods) and making Maleficent almost as big a hit. So, sure the movie has made a lot… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…that movie, it was nevertheless huge, and even in our post-Frozen era still holds the record for biggest opening weekend for an animated movie of all time. It made sense… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #84: Best of 2014
…the Animation Addicts podcast. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9489499380.mp3 Highlights • Looking back at 2014. What were some of our favorite moments and movies? • Time to announce the winners of the 2014 Rotoscopers… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…like a cult movie, and Blade Runner definitely is a cult movie, and as you say, Watership Down is obviously becoming that way now…they wouldn’t be putting money into releasing… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…and the emotional reaction that resulted. Patel noted that his dad had not seen a movie in possibly forty years. The behind-the-scenes material was great, showcasing the stages of development…. |
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Turbo: F.A.S.T.
…to be, it couldn’t hold its own during what proved to be a very competitive summer movie season for family audiences, going against films like Monsters University, Despicable Me 2… |
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Miles From Tomorrowland: Let’s Rocket!
…Born in China and Aladdin on Blu-ray automatically play when the disc starts, with an additional promo for Disney Movie Rewards being included when Sneak Peeks are selected from the… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…movies was shown to the public for the very first time. Enjoy! D23 Expo 2015 is in the books. Let me tell you, it was an amazing experience. Arguably one… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…Pixar’s original movie Inside Out, he took us to the most extraordinary location of all — inside the mind. Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…made, and well told film. The problem with the movie, if you can fairly call it that, is that it feels like it was made for children. Again, there is… |
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Alice Through The Looking Glass
…If anything, the disappointing returns can probably be attributed to Disney waiting too long to release a follow-up, combined with the fact that releasing any movie over the busy Memorial… |
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Finding Dory
…in the years since, seven and twelve years after Nemo did it. Adjusted for inflation, the movie is still Pixar’s biggest box office winner. An incredible twelve of the studio’s… |
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Ice Age: Collision Course
…But this mess barely felt connected to those. Things that made those movies so good have been tossed, ignored, or taken to extremes, without the current writers bothering to understand… |
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Sausage Party
…just a small piece of the film. Most of the movie is focused on skewering everything people care about! This movie is equal parts irreverent, pornographic, sacrilegious, and bigoted. Some… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…can safely pinpoint my number one film as Superman: The Movie, my love of all things Disney has always been greater in a general sense. But how to pick a… |
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Despicable Me 3
…exactly what it’s missing. As you can probably tell from the plot summary, the movie is certainly busy. In fact, there’s so much going on that it’s sometimes at risk… |
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Wonder Park’s $16 million opening beats expectations, but did it ride high enough?
Paramount and Nickelodeon’s Wonder Park finally reached movie screens this weekend after a bumpy and troubled production, earning an estimated $16 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. That’s well above… |
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Endgame drops the hammer with $350 million opening weekend, $1.2 billion worldwide
Avengers, assemble. Sometimes, it’s hard to know what words to use when a movie breaks box office records, but in the case of Avengers: Endgame, we can simply call what… |
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Godzilla: King Of The Monsters
…the movie is “bad,” because it isn’t. And I have no issue whatsoever when Godzilla films get a little ridiculous, because that’s part of their charm (particularly when it comes… |
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Spider-Man swings high over holiday weekend
…From Home served as the first Marvel movie to arrive since Endgame opened in April, and anyone trying to write Spidey off as a “disappointment” because it didn’t pull in… |
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The Lion King is still in the top five after nine weeks of release
You probably saw the movie months ago, but The Lion King is still hanging around at the box office, maintaining a spot in the top five according to Box Office… |
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Frozen II lets it go to record-breaking $350 million global opening
Queen Elsa reigned supreme as Frozen II enjoyed the biggest global opening ever for an animated movie, The Numbers is reporting. With a worldwide premiere of $350 million, it beat… |
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Frozen II beats original’s stateside gross; Star Wars still hot, Spies fly steady
…stop its momentum, Frozen II is almost certainly going to surpass the original’s $1.274 billion global tally to become the biggest animated movie of all time. The only question is… |
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Onward
…way they and we weren’t expecting), we’re genuinely happy for them. Of the four saving throws required to not fall into the usual buddies-on-a-journey movie traps, the most important may… |
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Universal announces Trolls World Tour will be available on demand in April
…it’s set to open in cinemas. That means that the DreamWorks Animation sequel will be available to rent on April 10th, with customers having the movie available to them for… |
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Glen Keane’s Over the Moon: Meet Fei-Fei and her creators
There’s magic in movies, but there’s also magic in their making. And right now, magic is being made with Glen Keane’s upcoming new masterpiece, Over The Moon, an exhilarating musical… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…instant classic! Stephen Chiodo Animated Views: What are the origins of the movie? The spark? Stephen Chiodo: We always loved Rankin & Bass specials, the holiday specials like Rudolph The… |
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SpongeBob is hunting for Gary in new Sponge on the Run trailer
The full trailer for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is now online, and can be viewed in the player above. The film was originally set for theatrical release… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…for, with Whedon’s edition serving as a breezy, fun extravaganza which intentionally or not played like a nostalgia-fueled tribute to superhero movies of the 90s. “One misses the days of… |
