…ultimate Nick gaming adventure. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas – CAPCOM – PS2 This action game is based on Henry Selick’s stop–motion movie masterpiece. Players slip into the role…

Over at {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17618 Ain’t It Cool News}}, Scott Essman takes an extremely informative and interesting interview with 84 year old stop–motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen, promoting his autobiography, An…

…stop–motion feature from Tim Burton, and produced at Will Vinton Studios in Oregon, The Corpse Bride is tenatively slated for October 2005. The template of the story is based on…

Stop–motion animator Marc Spess has “finally got around to putting up a site” for his short film {{link http://www.zombie-pirates.com/ Zombie Pirates}}, started two years ago with a friend. Images, storyboards,…

Variety reports that Johnny Depp will provide the lead voice in Warner Brothers’ The Corpse Bride, Tim Burton’s stop–motion animated film. With Michael Johnson directing and Allison Abbateand co-producing, The…

…(i.e., Claymation, stop–motion, etc.); Special Effects (Visual Effects Animation); Media (TV commercial animation); Music (Animated Music Videos & Best Score in an Animated Project); Television (Specials and Series); Web Animation…

{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=117410 Toon Zone}} has a great article up about a half-hour stop–motion animated Korean film, Doggy Poo, which turns out to be a surprisingly tender, gentle and profound story…

Fay Wray, one of the first actresses to star with an on-screen animated co-star, the stop–motion special effect King Kong, has died at her Manhattan home this past Sunday. A…

…The means of animation to be used in the film are unknown at the time, but one could expect it to use stop–motion animation given Selick and Vinton’s track record….

…the green screen is electronically replaced with background, costumes and assorted props that fit the skit — all created by a variety of animation techniques, including hand-drawn, stop–motion and computer-generated….

Variety is reporting that Wes Anderson (Rushmore) and Revolution Studios will turn Roald Dahl’s book The Fantastic Mr. Fox into a stop–motion film. The book tells the story of a…

Dark Horizons forwards an article from Now Playing Magazine, reporting legendary stop–motion animator Ray Harryhausen’s thoughts on Peter Jackson’s upcoming remake of King Kong, scheduled to open December 14th. “‘There…

The {{link http://www.mymovies.net/news/news_listing.asp?filmid=4198&week=true&sec=news My Movies}} website reports that legendary stop–motion animator Ray Harryhausen has been coaxed out of retirement to guide director Rob Cohen’s latest project: The 8th Voyage Of…

…stop–motion animated feature very much in the same vein as The Nightmare Before Christmas. Spoiler worriers might want to know that the article features several scene descriptions, but these are…

…9, while Corpse Bride writer Pamela Pettler will write the screenplay for the project. The computer animated 9 is expected to have a ‘stylized quality’ that will impersonate stop–motion animation….

The {{link http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/JulAug05/julaug05_bride.html Editor’s Guild website}} talks to editor Jonathan Lucas about the grounbreaking work he has completed on Tim Burton’s stop–motion animated fantasy The Corpse Bride….

As expected, Warner Home Video will release the immortal 1933 adventure King Kong, featuring iconic stop–motion effects by Willis O’Brien, to coincide with the release of the new version coming…

…Venice Film Festival. Regarding the film’s praised style and usage of stop–motion animation, Burton stated, “We feel so lucky, with computers and all taking over, to be able to do…

…character posters for Corpse Bride, featuring Victor Van Dort, the title character, and a ‘bone-a fide’ pooch. Lastly, reviews for the stop–motion flick are already coming in at Rotten Tomatoes,…

…stop–motion animated film grossed approximately $16.1 million, averaging $4,417 per theater. Studio research indicates that 68% of sales were from families and 85% categorized the critically acclaimed Curse of the…

Falling only 27%, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit dropped to second place this weekend, with $11.7 million. Thus far, the stop–motion flick has gathered $33.2 million. Coming…

Time Out Film shares a brief Q&A session with Tim Burton, who provides his thoughts on working with stop–motion animation and Corpse Bride….

…notes a bit about the Corpse Bride DVD, promising, “There should be some surprises for the hardcore stop–motion geeks to obsess over. Animation tests, character development, that sort of stuff.”…

…million this weekend. Currently, the stop–motion flick has taken in around $50.7 million domestically. For info on how the live-action releases fared over the weekend, be sure to check out…

…date, the Warner Bros. stop–motion film has accumulated a domestic tally of $52,829,776. Box Office Mojo offers this info and more, also dealing with the live-action side of the box…

With NBC5.com’s @ The Movies, Ray Harryhausen, the master of stop–motion animation special effects, shares his thoughts on the recently released Harryhausen Gift Set, which features the films 20 Million…

…difficult it was to use stop–motion animation in the 1933 masterpiece King Kong may find their questions answered in the film’s Collector’s Edition DVD, with its “best making-of documentary,” RKO…

…Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. The stop–motion film won 10 awards, sweeping every feature film category and winning an award in every category it was nominated in. Photos at ASIFA-Hollywood…

Celebrating Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, the Tribeca Cinemas Gallery and Warner Home Video present a Stop–Motion Animation and Artwork Exhibit. Offering free admission, the event lasts until Monday, February 20,…

SFGate.com surveys The Art of Ray Harryhausen, a new book from stop–motion animation master Ray Harryhausen and friend Tony Dalton. The 230-paged album presents “memories, anecdotes and pictures” from the…