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88th Annual Academy Awards nominations announced
…Was There – Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura The nominations for Best Animated Short are: Bear Story – Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala Prologue – Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…We wanted the visuals and the music to really tell our story. It’s no mere reproduction of the original Disney movies. It’s a brand new interpretation, with a new sensibility,… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…$30.99 Storyboard: When Elliot finds out that Boog believes the scary stories he’s been telling around the campfire every night are true, he decides that the only way to help… |
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Ratchet & Clank
…of anything else for the audience to latch onto other than gameplay. In this film however, the look of the characters, their nature, the storytelling style, the humor, and even… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
…back story that explains this world and the characters. I’m not saying everything works in the build up to the battle. But for the most part the writers have done… |
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Only Yesterday
…Storyboard: While on her way to visit in-laws in the country, a young woman reflects on her past, and whether her life path has been as she intended. Flashbacks show… |
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
…plot and soon-to-be daughter-in-law of Regis, to safely secure the future of Lucis. Each entry in the Final Fantasy video games have been praised for their immersive storytelling. The thing… |
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The BFG stomping home in December
…friendship; it’s a story about loyalty and protecting your friends; and it’s a story that shows that even a little girl can help a big giant solve his biggest problems.”… |
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The Lego Batman Movie
…squarely their way. The action is fun and frenetic — maybe too fast and furious sometimes, but that’s a problem I can live with. Storywise, the plot is a bit… |
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Legend Quest
…a big box office hit, so much so that it was one of the most successful films in the history of Mexican cinema. It garnered the attention of Ánima Estudios,… |
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Miss Hokusai
Production I.G (2015), Universal Studios Home Video/GKids (March 7, 2017), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 90 mins, 1.78:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated PG-13, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: A series… |
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Sing
…PG, Retail: $34.98 Storyboard: In a world filled with animals, a showman koala quickly comes up with the idea of staging a song contest in order to keep his struggling… |
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The Boss Baby
…before it. I won’t get into any more of the story since, as I mentioned already, it is aimed squarely at kids so not much to dig into. But I… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…voting process for the 90th Academy Awards®. Among them is Robin Joseph’s intriguing Fox & The Whale, which tells the story of a curious fox that goes in search of… |
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The Grinch
…he goes about his life. A very fun addition to the story is a Who named Bricklebaum who is so over the top jolly that he believes he and the… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
…the most beautiful visuals and emotionally strong storytelling that contend favorably with the likes of Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli. So it’s understandable that the series concluding with the third… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
…that same emotional punch in a followup when we already know the twist about the toys and the real world? In short, is everything still awesome? Things pick up exactly… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…what I did then; because I had the help of the whole industry helping me on these things. It’s quite a story. AV: When the Puppetoon Movie first came out,… |
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Pixar unveils upcoming film Luca
…in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, the original animated feature is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…figure out how to tell that story musically, be true to the directors’ vision, embrace the Colombian culture and rhythms and still tell a Hollywood story. So, you don’t have… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
…plot, some irritating characters, and a too-easily-wrapped-up ending… that your kids will probably really enjoy. As much as I usually harp on story being the most important aspect of a… |
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Despicable Me 4
…Lucy has a storyline with the kids. The Minions have a storyline. And the villain has a storyline. Only one of Gru’s storylines and the villain storyline ever cross paths… |
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\\Slinky – The Movie\\?
Creating a new cartoon and basing it on a popular toy has almost always been a safe bet. But {{link http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=1807 Animation Magazine}} has a report that may be taking… |
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Kronk the philanthropist
…New Groove and Take Home a New Disney Toy As Part of The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys For Tots Campaign MARINA DEL REY, Calif– The holidays came early this… |
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Cars helps Mattel score strong quarterly earnings
Along with Barbie, Bratz and Tickle Me Elmo, toy cars inspired by Disney’s Pixar’s Cars brought big bucks to Mattel, says The Los Angeles Times. On Monday, the El Segundo-based… |
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Etch A Sketch puts on Squarepants
The Etch A Sketch is becoming more animated this Holiday season, records NashuaTelegraph.com. The classic toy is getting a makeover, decorated with characters such as Spongebob Squarepants and Dora the… |
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Robosapien to invade the big screen
…toy Robosapien to the big screen. “The toy industry is my first love,” explained Arad. “And Robosapien has intrigued me since he was introduced. He has all the right elements… |
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Details emerge on Open Season sequel
…rest of the woodland creatures launch a full-scale rescue mission for their sausage-shaped friend and soon find themselves in enemy camp: the world of the pets. Led by a toy… |
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Two New DreamWorks Films: Rise of the Guardians and The Croods
Animated films usually coincide with large toy lines, especially if they come from one of the major animation studios. DreamWorks premiered images from two of their upcoming films, Rise of… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…PG, Retail: $36.99 Storyboard: Once each year, the grotesque Bergens–miserable creatures who don’t know how to sing or dance–feast on the fun-loving Trolls. The reason? Eating a Troll is the… |
