Check out this new still shot and poster from Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, set for release in July, 2009. Nothing like getting the hype train rolling more than a year before the movie’s premiere. The trailer will debut with Horton Hears a Who, in theaters today.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille, has signed on to make his live-action feature directorial debut with “1906,” a co-production between Warner Bros. and Disney/Pixar. Since the film will be live-action, I think its safe to assume that Pixar will be in charge of all the special effects in the movie. And considering that the movie is set during the great 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco, I think there will be a large amount of special effects shots.
The story centers on a college student who begins to investigate the murder of his father, uncovering a web of deceit that has left the city vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco.
Check out this preview trailer for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa which is included on the BEE MOVIE DVD. Ignore the fact that Ben Stiller calls it Madagascar: The Crate Escape, as that was the old title.
On March 25th, Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors Volume One arrives on DVD, courtesy of Shout! Factory. This 4-disc set features season one of this 1985 cartoon. Click here to refresh your memory with a streaming trailer.
When a solar flare wreaks havoc on his botanical experiments, Jayce’s father is forced to flee from his accidental creations: Saw Boss and his band of ruthless mutated plant life called the Monster Minds. Now it’s up to Jayce, joined by the valiant Lightning League, to reunite with his father and combine the two halves of the magic Root amulet—the only object capable of purging the universe of Saw Boss and his army forever.
Volume 1 includes the first 33 episodes of Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors.
Comedy Central unveiled its 2008-09 development slate which includes the following animated shows:
1) An untitled Snoop Dogg animated series that will feature Snoop as a 15-year-old growing up in Long Beach, Calif., in the 1980s.
2) Gay Robot, an animated series by Reno 911’s Nick Swardson that follows the post-college life of a gay robot and his roommates. Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions is producing the pilot.
3) Gypsy Cab, an animated series about the life of a gypsy cab driver. For each episode, a well-known comedian will voice one of his passengers.
Here’s the third (not counting the International) trailer for Pixar’s upcoming movie, WALL-E. It is a bit similar to the international but there is in fact a ton of new footage included. We finally get to see a person!
The fine folks over at LatinoReview have uploaded images of the Space Chimps and Star Wars: Clone Wars posters. Check them out below and click on them to see a larger version over at LatinoReview.
DreamWorks Animation today revealed the voice cast for their upcoming animated film, Monsters vs. Aliens. The movie will star Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, a California girl who, on her wedding day, has the bad luck to be hit by a meteor, which causes her to grow to be 49 feet, 11½ inches tall. Captured by the military, she’s renamed Ginormica. Other cast members will include: Rainn Wilson, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland and… wait for it… Stephen Colbert playing the role of the President!
Monsters vs. Aliens will be released on March 27th 2009.
The Ratatouille videogame based on the Pixar film has achieved “Platinum Family Hits” status for Xbox 360 and collection and “Greatest Hits” status for PlayStation 2.
THQ originally released the game in summer 2007 across 11 different gaming systems and has since shipped nearly four million copies across all platforms worldwide.
With its new hits status, the PS2, DS and is available for $19.99 while the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PSP versions are priced at $29.99.
As always, a videogame tie-in will be released when Pixar’s newest film, WALL-E, debuts in theaters. The cover art has been revealed and can be seen below. While it’s the Xbox 360 version, I assume it will be the same for other consoles.
ComingSoon has learned today at the ShoWest exhibitors convention in Las Vegas that studios are really excited about 3D — so much that they are planning to release many of their upcoming animated films in 3D.
20th Century Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Disney’s Bolt and Pixar’s Up will all be all be released in 3D. As if that wasn’t enough 3D to make you dizzy, Disney will release 3 more, unannounced, movies in 3D. Not to be outdone by the other kids on the playground, DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming movies will all be in 3D as well.
According to Trademork, on March 3, 2008, Dreamworks Animation filed a trademark for Madagascar Escape 2 Africa in relation to “animated motion picture films for theatrical release and for distribution via television”. They also registered MadagascarEscape2Africa.com, a second hint that leads us to believe the new name will in fact be Escape 2 Africa. In case you don’t remember, the previous title was Madagascar: The Crate Escape.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opens in theaters on November 7.
Variety reports that Jill Culton, who directed Sony Pictures Animation’s first film Open Season, has signed on to direct Hotel Transylvania, which will follow the upcoming Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Michelle Murdocca is producing and Amy Jupiter is co-producing. No writers have been hired.
The story follows Simon Van Helsing, the youngest in a long line of monster hunters, who falls in love with Dracula’s daughter Mavis. They discover they are meant to be natural enemies, but try to forge peace between the monsters and humans.
Check out this 10 minute preview for the upcoming Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, animated by the same folks who brought us Ice Age.
I’m excited to see how the finished movie turned out. I won’t have to wait much longer and neither will you because Horton Hears a Who will be in theaters on March 14, 2008.
Variety reports that Happy Tree Friends and The Adventures of Big Jeff have been banned by the Russian government who deemed them too violent to air.
“Rather than argue we took them off air, although any television criminal drama in Russia is a hundred times more violent than these cartoons,” said Roman Sarkisov, general manager of the television station that aired the programs. “Mainstream viewers in Russia tend to be afraid of something they do not understand. The Russian public is not so civilized as in Europe. They are rather conservative.”
According to a bitter, and rightfully so, Sarkisov, the programs will be replaced by “childish and stupid cartoons.”
Via AWN
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