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More unannounced DreamWorks animation in the pipeline: Chicken Run 2?
…tells the story of a kung fu-fighting panda who battles against a gang of snow leopard bandits that have come down from the highlands to invade the bamboo jungle. For… |
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Toy Story 3
…I like the look of if it’s going to bring real snow in to, and blow up, my home theater, Disney’s Tangled, Santa Paws (with the voice of Morgan Freeman!?),… |
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Upcoming CBS animated specials
…at 8pm ET, \\Frosty the Snowman\\ is back in his 35th anniversary broadcast. \\Frosty\\ features the unique voice of Jimmy Durante narrating. The show was produced and directed by Arthur… |
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Ratatouille
…Snow Buddies and The Pixar Short Film Collection (again anamorphic). Though all of these can be bypassed by hitting the Menu key on your remote, none of them can be… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2! Yes, Brunhilde and Michigan J. Frog included!
…She Tweet” (Sylvester/Tweety – 1952) “Gift Wrapped” (Sylvester/Tweety – 1952) “Snow Business” (Sylvester/Tweety – 1953) “You Ought to Be in Pictures” (Daffy/Porky – 1940) “Duck Soup To Nuts” (Daffy/Porky –… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
…many ways one of Pixar’s most complicated projects – the short includes scenes from all four seasons, with bright sunlight, rain and snow – Luckey and the other animators benefited… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…with the main menu being especially attractive, with snow falling down over a scene at the clubhouse, and the figures in the scene contributing some motion. The actual bonus features… |
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Scooby’s returns to live-action for TV movie
…Trap, Creepy Castle, Ask Swami Shaggy, Scooby vs. Ghosts of Pirate Beach and Attack of the Vampire Pumpkinheads. Director Brian Levant (Snow Dogs, The Flintstones), producer Brian J. Gilbert (Wrong… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…virtually every day, so that the long journey of production was re-inspired regularly. We used Disney’s fledgling effects unit in Burbank and they created the very simple snow that falls… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Volume Four
…black and white movies. Here, it’s Scooby of course, with a chance at getting a fortune and the spooky old mansion that he must slumber in. Two green phantoms scare… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…is willing to step away from. A true classic, shot in the noir black and white that would also tinge Robert Aldrich’s similar look at stardom’s light being shone elsewhere,… |
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First look at The Lorax
…Danny DeVito as the voice of the Lorax, will also include Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Betty White, and Rob Riggle playing various characters from the classic story. The article also… |
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Fifty Years With Brutus!
…black shirt and a captain’s hat. In the majority of the later theatrical films produced by Famous Studios, Bluto wore a white sailor’s uniform. Enter Brutus Let us jump ahead… |
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Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
…of over 50 years whose other films included The Roaring Twenties, White Heat and Captain Horatio Hornblower, stages the action well enough but he’s hampered by somewhat impassive performances by… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…recording a film from TCM, for example, with a plethora of logos and interruptions in effect. The fact that these Our Gang shorts were produced in black and white only… |
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Despicable Me despicably on Blu-ray and DVD!
…Pierre Coffin, featuring the Minions! Visit www.despicableme.com for the latest updates. SYNOPSIS In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house… |
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Frankenweenie 3D gets a voice cast
…on his ’80s black-and-white short about a boy named Victor who reanimates his dog after its hit by a car. Frankenweenie 3D is set for a March 9, 2012 release…. |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…sensibilities. Broken Down Film (1985, 5:42) – This one begins as a cute riff on old-style cartoons, with the appearance of an old black and white cowboy animation. Similar to… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…Superman line of comics, the whole Luthor-in-the-White House storyline came to a head in this story. The idea of Luthor in the Oval Office was far from the nuttiest concept… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…fancy 3-Disc Special Edition, a most welcome idea is to include Robert Wise’s iconic 1951 take for easy comparison. Putting up a quietly reserved black and white 50s sci-fi classic… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…a relationship that neither of them wants but which neither is willing to step away from. A true classic, shot in the noir black and white that would also tinge… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…selling point is often a Colorized version of a black and white movie, but credit to them for providing both old and new on the disc, usually with the original… |
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Toy Story 3
…voice come out of Buttercup, the white unicorn with hearts on his face (not that Jeff Garlin does a bad job). Whoopi Goldberg as an octopus named Stretch felt like… |
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A Christmas Carol: director Robert Zemeckis’ season’s greetings!
…woman in a white wedding dress or with a sheet over her head. But you read the story and the Ghost of Christmas Past has a jet of light streaming… |
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Tombstone
…films that contained the black and white good versus bad elements we expected, but with a modern moviemaking edge that added nuance and shades of ambiguity. Among these were to… |
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Ponyo
…that suited the character extremely well. Supporting roles were played by Betty White, Lily Tomlin, and Cloris Leachman (not as shrill as she was in Castle In The Sky, thank… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…white drawing that the animator and the background man could follow. AV: Can you tell me about the creation of the visual style of Cauldron, that we owe for a… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty trailer online
…1980s to early 1990s. But according to filmmakers and critics the film is no white-washed version of events. Read on to see what director Don Hahn said about the film… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…down there like Coleen Salley, a salty septuagenarian (white woman) a raconteur and full fledged “character” who influenced our writing of Mama Odie. We also met Leah Chase, a great… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…up nicely on the shelf. Changes from the first film’s DVD release include a (nicer) white keepcase as opposed to the first’s black, and a lack of any inserts or… |
