Archives for March, 2007
Brad Bird at WonderCon
Watch Brad Bird’s entire WonderCon Ratatouille presentation:
Source: Slashfilm
Toy Story 3 set for 2010 release
Millions cried today when Disney announced that Toy Story 3 won’t be released until 2010. Three long years of waiting to see what Woody and Buzz are up to. At least we’ll have other upcoming Pixar films such as Ratatouille, Wall-E to ease the pain of waiting.
Disney also confirmed that Tom Hanks and Tim Allen will be back for the starring roles. If you’ve been keeping up with the Toy Story 3 news, you might remember that both Tom and Tim had said they would not voice the characters if Pixar wasn’t involved. Disney, at one point, had started work on Toy Story 3 without Pixar. Now that Disney owns Pixar, the rightful studio has taken over development.
Nick announces new shows, renews others.
Nickelodeon has announced it is adding three new animated series to its 2008 schedule: The Umizumiz, Bubble Guppies and Making Fiends. Nick also announced new episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, and Dora the Explorer.
“Our goal is always to give preschoolers, kids and tweens the very best programming in television, and to combine fresh new creative ideas with enduring hits that kids love,” said Tom Ascheim, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nickelodeon Television. “SpongeBob is number-one with kids and Dora is tops with preschoolers, so we’re going to give them more, as well as new episodes of their favorite live-action and animated shows. And we are very excited about the new shows that will be joining the lineup this year.”
Jason Lee cast as Chipmunks dad
It was announced recently that “My Name Is Earl” star Jason Lee will play the role of David Seville in the upcoming live-action/animated “Alvin and the Chipmunks” film, set for release on December 14 release through Fox.
Ross Bagdasarian Jr., son of the “Chipmunks” creator, will produce, along with his wife, Janice Karman. Tim Hill (”Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties”) will direct and Fox Animation will take care of the hard part.
Source: Yahoo
DreamWorks announces Tintin movie
DreamWorks has reportedly committed to making at least one film featuring Tintin, although it has not yet been decided which of the 24 comic books will be adapted for the project.
NICK RODWELL, head of Herge Studios, said “If movie number one works, we will continue.” Tintin first appeared in a Belgian children’s newspaper in 1929. It went on to become a comic book series and an animated TV show.
Disney greenlights The Frog Princess
Disney has officially green lit The Frog Princess, the company’s first 2D film since Home on the Range.
The Frog Princess will be released in 2009 and is written by the great John Musker & Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules). The all-star duo will also direct. If that wasn’t enough, Randy Newman will handle the score.
Source: AWN
Doomsday first PG-13 animated Superman movie
Warner Bros. Animation will release a new Superman movie titled SUPERMAN DOOMSDAY on September 18th. The direct to DVD movie will be the first PG-13 rated animated SUPERMAN film .
Adam Baldwin will voice Superman, Anne Heche will voice Lois Lane and James Marsters will voice Lex Luthor.
SUPERMAN DOOMSDAY is based on DC Comics’ THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN, quite possibly one of the best known comics ever.
Source: AWN
What’s New Scooby-Doo debuts on DVD
Warner Home Video has released the complete first season of What’s New Scooby-Doo? on DVD for a reasonable $19.98.
The set includes all 13 episodes from the first season along with a bonus Valentine’s Day episode.
“We are delighted to offer the entire premiere season of WHAT’S NEW SCOOBY-DOO? on DVD together for the first time,” commented Dorinda Marticorena, WHV vp, Kids and Sports Marketing. “The SCOOBY-DOO franchise continues to be popular among consumers of all ages. We’ve had great success with the 10 previous volumes of this series, and we felt the timing was right to release a season set. We think families everywhere will love to watch the spooks, scares and mysteries unravel on this entertaining DVD.”
Source: AWN
Peter Pan ads on Tomatoes
Apparently Disney really wants to sell a ton of Peter Pan DVDs. A reader over at the Consumerist sent in an image of a Peter Pan sticker ad on a tomato. The sticker reads “Now on 2-disc DVD Disney’s Peter Pan.” - Whatever works I guess… even if it doesn’t make much sense. Unless they’re going after moms all over the country in hopes that they’ll drive to the nearest retailer and pick up Peter Pan for their kids.
South Park in HD and uncensored
Beginning tomorrow, fans of South Park are going to experience the first-ever high definition episode “Good Times With Weapons.” COMEDY CENTRAL has partnered with Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 owners the HD episode free for two weeks. The episode will be available via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Best Buy will also offer free HD-DVDs of the “Good Times With Weapons” episode with the purchase of any Xbox 360 console or HD-DVD drive from March 20 through April 3.
The 11th season of South Park kicks-off on Wednesday, March 7. For the first time ever, the newest episodes from Season 11 will be available uncensored on Xbox LIVE beginning March 13.
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