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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mighty at box office
…big money shot in the trailers to get folks excited, and while Owen Wilson and Danny DeVito are favorites with audiences, they aren’t going to be able to open a… |
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Jamie Foxx wants to return to life in final Soul trailer
…float onto Disney+ on Christmas Day. What is it that makes you…YOU? This Christmas only on Disney+, Pixar Animation Studios’ all-new feature film Soul introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie… |
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Elemental
…they realize they’re accidentally in love; Branch finally putting aside his fears and revealing his true colors to Poppy. In Elemental, my synopsis would be “Wade and Ember are in… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…target for a heist. Darvis and Kilgore enlist the aid of half-elven sorcerer Simon Aumar and tiefling druid Doric. But in the background is Sofina, a red wizard setting a… |
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The 2022 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken sinks deeper as film doesn’t see holiday boost
…against a Pixar release (Elemental) and a critically adored superhero movie (Across the Spider-Verse) for its target demographic. Why not save it for mid-July, when there are no major animated… |
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Kingdom Hearts IV announced as part of franchise’s 20th anniversary
…the third game regarded as the finale to what series director Tetsuya Nomura has dubbed “The Dark Seeker Saga”, the fourth game will see Sora and company embark on a… |
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Marvel news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…(@Disney) December 11, 2020 Additional cast include Vera Farmiga, Fra Free, and newcomer Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez with episodes directed by Rhys Thomas and directing duo Bert and Bertie…. |
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The 2020 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…of action music, but also – and most of all, should I say – in his layering of emotion. Because Bolt is not only a comedy or an action, animated… |
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The 2021 AV Readers’ Choice Poll
Critics, the Academy, Hollywood guilds, and even the Animated Views staff will tell you what they think. But now it’s your turn to be the critic! What was the the… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…what it doesn’t tell us, and what the underlying truths are…all of them kept mysterious and under wraps, and the teasing as to what it all meant boosted by writer-director-star… |
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Character designs for upcoming Spawn series revealed
…and has since Spawn #32, as well as a more comic-oriented Clown, reminiscent of Greg Capullo’s art from the popular Spawn Bible, a one-shot comic, explaining the origins of Spawn…. |
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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…required to conceive, produce, direct, animate, assemble, publish, and distribute an animated film. The tips and techniques in this book are timeless, applicable whether you want to make a traditionally… |
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\\Dungeons & Dragons\\ coming to DVD
…full stats, magic items and a brand new adventure. The adventure is a prelude to the episode “The Dragon’s Graveyard” and is designed to bridge the gap between the game… |
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[UPDATED!] The Ten Commandments CG
…screenplay by Ed Naha and features the voice talents of Ben Kingsley as the narrator, Elliott Gould as God, Christian Slater as Moses and Alfred Molina as Ramses. Update! The… |
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Ten Commandments in CGI
According to Animation World Network American Cinema Int’l will be releasing an animated version of The Ten Commandments, the story of Moses leading his people out of Egyptian bondage and… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…pop classic Yellow Submarine is about to be touched…by Robert Zemeckis and his infernal motion capture of all things. Industry bible Variety has announced that Disney has been hard at… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…Barbera was a great cartoonist and gag man, as well as a natural with character design and body language; and Hanna was an excellent director who had a true gift… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One
…I could see) has an adopted son named Kshin, a younger boy he assumedly met somewhere in Asia during his globetrotting adventures. No show like this can survive without an… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. Aside from Scooby and Dynomutt segments, there were 2 Laff-A-Lympics segments that featured a large assortment of Hanna-Barbera characters engaged in a track and field competition (Scooby Doo… |
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Armageddon
…this type. With such an event coming as something as a shock to NASA, there isn’t a team available at such short notice that can navigate themselves towards the asteroid,… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…at youngsters. To Walk A Mile offers another clichéd story, this time about a boy named Mark who is ashamed that his father refuses to fight. Naturally, there is a… |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…something about a Christmas special that gives it an advantage over anything else. And this is certainly one of the greatest ever. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…as well. Lynne Naylor did some of the female designs, and comic artists Kevin Nowlan and Mike Mignola made contributions as well, along with artists at the studio. There is… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…an amphibian-like creature that sucks the energy from his victims, and Scorpia, who is a woman of half-human and half-scorpion parts. What is interesting about the villains on this show,… |
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The Star
…Perry and Oprah Winfrey as camels, Aidy Bryant as a sheep, and Ving Rhames and Gabriel Iglesias as dogs also all do fine jobs in their roles as well. This… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…his adventures as a World War One flying ace, atop his Sopwith Camel. Somehow, the animation makes it all work, with Snoopy’s doghouse being shot down in enemy territory, and… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…are being reviewed as extras here. First up are excerpts from an archived audio interview with Rudy Ising, a Laugh-O-Gram Studio animator (and later MGM director with Hugh Harman), conducted… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…however, this is not a true criticism, since the focus is clearly on Disney and his associates, many of which are profiled at points during the documentary. And this amounts… |
