In theaters 9-9-09.
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In theaters November 13th 2009.
In theaters November 13th 2009.
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today.
Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion.
Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters.
This new deal, however, does not affect the current movie deals that Marvel has set up with Sony and Paramount. Those deals are still in effect, but once they expire, Disney hopes to be the sole distributor of any future Marvel films.
In theaters October 23, 2009.
The folks over at HitFix recently participated in a roundtable discussion with Lee Unkrich, director of next year’s Toy Story 3. The interview touches upon a variety of subjects including whether or not the visual style of Toy Story will carry over to Toy Story 3.
Unkrich responds, “We couldn’t make a “3” that looked completely different than the first two; however, as a studio and both technologically and artistically, we’ve made great strides over the last fifteen years. I mean, you look at “Ratatouille,” it’s just a gorgeous, gorgeous film. And so you want to take advantage of that, but at the same time, you want the world to feel familiar, so that was one of our big challenges at the beginning, working… luckily I had Bob Pauley who was the original production designer for the first “Toy Story”. He designed Buzz Lightyear. He’s my production designer on this film. We all worked very hard to have the world… and it’s a constant challenge to have the world feel familiar, but to take advantage of what we can do now artistically. So if you look at “Toy Story” and then “Toy Story 2,” there was a big leap in the look of the film. You know, just to be geeky, we were able to use depth of fields, which is something we couldn’t do on the first film at all. Suddenly we could use focus and depth to augment our visuals. We’ve made even more exponential leaps doing “3”. We had to rebuild everything. It’s not like these characters were sitting on a disk somewhere waiting to be used again. We had to rebuild them completely from scratch, and along the way we were able to give them more sophistication in their look and in their controls.”
Read the rest of the interview at HitFix.
Check out these four TV spots for the upcoming animated film 9, scheduled for theatrical release on 9-9-09.
In the video, supervising animator Bruce Smith discusses the character of Dr. Facilier, the villain of the film, and how voice actor Keith David influences the animators work and the character’s performance.
Via Cartoon Brew
Check out the debut trailer for James Cameron’s highly-anticipated film “AVATAR,” in theaters December 18, 2009. If the embedded versions below don’t work, view the trailer at the Apple Trailers page.
DreamWorks Animation has announced that Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill will voice characters in the upcoming “Oobermind,” set for release in fall 2010.
Ferrell replaces Robert Downey Jr. in the title role of a supervillain who imagines all his dastardly dreams coming true after defeating good-guy rival Metro Man (Pitt), only to find life quite boring without an adversary. To fill the void, Oobermind creates a new superhero, Titan (Hill), who also wants to be bad, forcing Oobermind to switch sides. Also part of the cast is Tina Fey who plays a reporter keeping track of all the superhero drama.
Oobermind joins DreamWorks Animation’s other 3D animated films “Shrek Forever After” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” both of which will also be released in 2010.
In theaters October 23, 2009
Check out this amazing Toy Story zoetrope. Don’t know what a zoetrope is? Read all about it here, after you watch the video.
Fox’s “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” has taken the international box office crown away from Pixar’s “Finding Nemo,” as it soared past the previous record of $524.9 million for an animated film’s international gross. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs now sits comfortably at the top with $551.4 million so far. The film is still playing in theaters, so expect the final total to be much higher — most likely in the $600 million range. Not to take away from Ice Age’s accomplishment, I must remind you that this total includes the higher prices of 3D/IMAX screenings.
In theaters nationwide December 11, 2009 (LA and NY on November 25)
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest movie Ponyo, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, will be in theaters August 14, 2009. It will be released on 800 screens across the country — the most for any Miyazaki film yet. It stars Noah Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin and Betty White.