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Sparks fly at box office thanks to Shazam!
April got off to a strong start at the box office thanks to Shazam!, which opened to $53 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The latest DC superhero movie exceeded… |
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Missing Link goes missing at the box office
…states, making it the second-highest grossing stop-motion animated film ever, behind only 2000’s Chicken Run. In Coraline’s case, though, Laika had the benefit of producing a movie similar to The… |
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Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance
…be to see all the art that Ken had created for that movie. And when I first saw Mel Shaw’s concept sketches for The Black Cauldron in the various articles… |
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Abominable opens to $20 million
…the states. Sure, the trailers were fine at selling another film in that vein (complete with beautiful animation), but they never treated the movie like an “event,” nor was TV… |
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Sonic the Hedgehog speeds into the record books with best video game opening ever
…pretty well for Sonic the Hedgehog. If current estimates hold up, it enjoyed the best opening weekend ever for a movie based off a video game with a take of… |
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Virus scare stops Onward in its tracks
…likely to become the first Pixar movie to not cross the $100 million mark, and even the so-called “bomb” The Good Dinosaur was able to do that. In light of… |
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Poster for The Croods: A New Age confirms Thanksgiving release date
…was announced shortly after the release of the first movie in 2013, with Chris Sanders set to return as director. Then it got cancelled by Universal after they acquired DreamWorks… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…who writes for an entertainment site, this has been inconvenient to say the least! But it has made my enjoyment of movies go up considerably. But I may have just… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…meet him and check out the material.” So, I went up there at Pixar and saw everything they had and I became so excited to score that movie. AV: Did… |
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Go to infinity and beyond with the Lightyear trailer
…exciting visuals, and a robot cat, but notably does not clarify if the movie is going to theaters or straight to Disney+. Regardless of where it lands, Lightyear blasts off… |
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Minions rise at box office in record-breaking fashion
…for an animated movie since 2019’s Frozen II. It’s worth noting that only a week ago, Minions was tracking for a premiere of $65-$75 million. The actual figures ended up… |
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Elemental
Pixar’s latest film goes back to a well they’ve mined in every decade that they’ve been making movies: “what if some inanimate thing were alive?” In the 1990s, their very… |
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Indiana Jones meets underwhelming box office destiny; Ruby Gillman drowns
…audiences with its lavish CinemaCon presentation before it too fizzled financially. That movie, unlike Destiny, also had to overcome a number of its own hurdles, including star Ezra Miller creating… |
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Dog Man
…movie needs 2,000 or so words to be discussed properly, and Dog Man is one such example. And that’s not a bad thing! This is breezy, non-demanding entertainment which should… |
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Minions & Monsters trailer sends the Minions to Hollywood
In case you missed it, the first trailer for Minions & Monsters launched on Sunday, and you can check it out in the player above. Somewhat surprisingly, the movie will… |
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Comedy Central to air "Kid Notorius" tonight
The LA Times reports the new animated series in which self-mythologizing movie producer Robert Evans lends his voice to an animated version of himself, will premiere tonight at 10:30. Evans,… |
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\\Finding Nemo\\, a Disney/Pixar/Sony film?
According to the Internet Movie Database: “In a report likely to raise eyebrows among those following the current contract-renewal talks between Pixar and Disney, an online entertainment trade publication in… |
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Brother Bear Not Necessarily Cold and Prickly
…of traditional, hand-drawn animation by seeing Brother Bear in the theaters. The whole industry will be watching to see how good this movie does. We all know that there’s room… |
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"Executive changes to \\Brother Bear\\" report false?
…the movie would be much easier to pull off in Anaheim”. However, according to reports at Jim Hill Media, there is no such ‘Grizzly Peak’-like mountain featured in the movie…. |
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Home On The Range and Teacher's Pet trailers!
…{{link http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/homeontherange/main.html teaser site}}, priming audiences to “Bust A Moo – April 2”, featuring a full trailer for the movie! This new look at the film is very different from… |
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CG Midsummer Dream from Spain
Spanish international sales company Lumina Films has acquired overseas sales rights outside Spain to the Spanish 3D animated feature film Midsummer Dream. The movie is produced by Galicia-based Dygra Films,… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean sets sail for DVD voyage!
Okay, let the bad pirate/ship puns begin: this summer’s surprise Disney blockbuster {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JM5E/qid=1069876840/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-1902555-2863210?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl}} hits the shiny movie disc format… |
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Dead Leaves Trailer now online
Japanese studio Production IG is co-producing with Manga Video a new movie, Dead Leaves. The feature, slated to be released next January, is helmed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and based on… |
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Timon and Pumbaa's Interquel Page Update
Just a quick heads up that Disney’s official page for The Lion King 1½ has just updated with the sound working now, text clips from movie critics praising the movie… |
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Tokyo Godfathers trailer
The new movie by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress) that has been nominated for the Academy Awards as Best Animated Picture is a touching story of three Tokyo homeless… |
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Scooby 2 online at Apple – Spider-Man to come!
It’s been floating around the web for a couple of weeks, but today {{link http://www.apple.com/trailers/ Apple Movie Trailers}} posted a hi-res QuickTime version of the teaser for {{link http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/scooby_doo_2/ Scooby… |
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Memories on DVD
Katsuhiro Otomo’s three part movie Memories is coming to the US thanks to Sony/Columbia. Based on the manga of the same name, Memories collects three fascinating science fiction stories from… |
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Spaghetti, Pizza and… Animation
…of Pizza) has the answer. The movie, produced by Lanterna Magica narrates how, in 1700, a Neapolitan minstrel with the dream of becoming a chef invented the extraordinary recipe. The… |
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\\SpongeBob SquarePants\\ trailer online
The first teaser trailer for the \\SpongeBob SquarePants\\ movie is now online at {{link http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/spongebobsquarepantsmovie/ Apple’s Quicktime Movie Trailer site}}…. |
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AnimationHQ to host chat with Neil Ross
…Movie\\; and Bonecrusher, Crosshairs, Hook, Point Blank, Sixshot, Slag, and Springer in \\Transformers\\ and \\Transformers: The Movie\\. Head to {{link http://animationhq.net/v2/features/events.htm this page}} at AnimationHQ for info on how to… |
