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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…joint-development projects, or does Aardman have carte blanche to deliver them elsewhere? And what about Cleese’s professional ties with DreamWorks and their Shrek franchise? As with any relationship breakup, there… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…interviews with the producer, stars, and visual effects artists • Commentary tracks for season one episodes Attack of the Dragonship and The Disappearing Man with executive producer Lou Scheimer, and… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…dress she certainly needed support!) in DreamGirls, and Best Actor and Actress Forest Whitaker for The Last King Of Scotland and Helen Mirren for The Queen respectively – all dead… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…Groovie Goolies warrants some special attention, with a terrific array of features that are as surprising as they are welcome and unexpected. The menus are decent, video intro and still-frame… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…or edited very well. As animated films become nothing more than feature-length special effects, it seems we’re entering a new era where live-action directors can enter the animation arena and… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…would be remembered, as with the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker,… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…the most adult of the Pirates movies, with hangings, people getting shot in the head and sword deaths aplenty, all apparently within the PG-13 guidelines, but surely pushing an R… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…up amusing anecdotes and jokes, and speaking candidly about the genesis of the show, guest voices and impersonations (including several lapses into character!), changes made to episodes in production, and… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…idea among themselves. Characters and shows were often adaptations of comic book series, other animated properties, collaborations with toy companies, or misguided “sequels” to popular family movies. And so it… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…including dramatic live-action, musicals, animation (including, of course, Zemeckis’ Roger Rabbit pal Richard Williams’ version and Disney’s own Mickey-take) and even an all-around applauded Muppets movie. Now rubber face Carrey… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…with the classic Animal Farm and even pioneered computer animated films before Disney or LucasFilm’s pre-Pixar unit. Vivien Halas and Paul Wells’ book is filled with an absolute wealth of… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…as this. While the script punches in all the required elements, and there are some good vocal performances, the animation is painfully amateur at times, trying its best to hide… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…London Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita are a happy couple, living in Regent’s Park with their human “pets” Anita and Roger Radcliff. When Anita’s old schoolmate Cruella de Vil learns that… |
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Our Enchanted celebrations continue!
Welcome to a very special week here at Animated News & Views! We’re celebrating the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Disney’s wonderfully charming Enchanted here with a series of exclusive… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…was developed within the Hanna-Barbera studio and outsourced to Collingwood’s own production company and overseas, though pleasingly again the quality level is easily above and beyond the kind of routine… |
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More Nightmares, plus is The Chosen One worth choosing?
…since, which has seen a continued collaboration with director Henry Selick and a fair amount of dabbling at Pixar on some of their most successful projects. Jeremie’s discussion with Mike… |
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Is Ariel's Beginning worth going back for…?
…morning. It’s never easy when one has to criticise any project, and less so when it it understood that these films are ultimately made with the right intentions and by… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…WALL•E arrives on the ship and we meet the Captain earlier on. With a full soundmix using elements from the score and sound effects, and together with Andrew Stanton’s introductions… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…they assembled. The scripting is credited to directors Bill and Joe themselves, who also produced with Alex Lovy and wrote with Looney Tunes’ Warren Foster (who, it’s said, brought another… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…on Wilder, and it’s a predictably scholarly track, though actually very fun and informative, revealing many facts about the production, alternate scenes and the character’s relationships. More, perhaps, of an… |
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Spider-Man 3
…and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker, capped by a third part that goes back to… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…the most adult of the Pirates movies, with hangings, people getting shot in the head and sword deaths aplenty, all apparently within the PG-13 guidelines, but surely pushing an R… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…Blu-ray Disc is available to order now from Amazon.com Our thanks go to Klay Hall and Sean Lurie, and to Kevin McGuiness at Disney, and Dre and Mac at Click!… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…other backgrounds that are available, all with characters and scenes from the feature. The backgrounds are good, and the theme pack is not that bad, although it does not include… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…Smallville. Produced at Ruby-Spears Productions right next door to Hanna-Barbera Studios, and animated in Japan and Korea at Toei Animation and Dai Won Animation, the series benefited by a stellar… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…to just before John Byrne and Marv Wolfman reinvented him in 1986, and the various animated series like Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Fantastic Four and little odds and… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…more broad. As a child, film and animation were actually much more accessible to me and much easier to research, so my earliest Disney studies were Walt and Studio biographical,… |
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Prep & Landing
…writing and story, Prep & Landing also features superior animation and visual style. Directors Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton have created a CG animated film that feels warm and dark… |
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Spidey Vs…?
The Hollywood Reporter announces that the fourth Spider-Man movie under Sam Raimi has hit another stumbling block after the director and the producing studio Sony couldn’t agree on which villains… |
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Will Avatar sink Titanic?
…of mouth and buzz about potential Oscar nominations. Currently standing at $430 million, Avatar would have to make about $170 million more in order to best Titanic’s $600 million gross…. |
