Category: Films (Page 73 of 85)

Check out these new images from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. View the rest at USA Today.

Animated movies can do everything live action movies can do — make us laugh, make us cry, make us go agape at the sheer wonder of it all.

Check out Moviefone’s Top 25 Animated Movies and see if you don’t agree.

The folks over at DailyCamera have posted an enjoyable article featuring Jack Black, voice of the lead character in DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Kung Fu Panda.

Here’s an excerpt:

For “Kung Fu Panda,” DreamWorks Animation boss Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted the real Black — his own voice, his own personality. Pitching the story to Black, Katzenberg even had some raw animation of the character prepared with dialogue borrowed from “High Fidelity,” Black said.

“It was a fun experience not hiding behind a character voice this time. When you do the character voice, that can be fun and it can inform the character, but you also get distracted by that, and this way, I could just focus on what was funny in the scene,” Black said.

Read the entire article.

Eve, WALL-E’s love interest, marks the first design collaboration between Apple and Pixar. A call from Andrew Stanton to Steve Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple designer, spending a day consulting on the Eve prototype.

“I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous,” Andrew Stanton, Wall-E’s director, told Fortune. “The more I started describing it, the more I realized I was pretty much describing the Apple playbook for design.”

Read the entire article at Fortune.

Movieweb recently interviewed Kathy Najimy, voice of Peggy on King of the Hill, and one of the questions was about her role in Pixar’s upcoming WALL-E.

What can you tell me about WALL-E? Who do you play?

Kathy Najimy: I play a character named Mary and I actually haven’t seen the movie. I’m seeing it on the 20th. I was so honored to do it. When my agent called and said Pixar, I said yes right away. I know there are not a lot of characters. I think there are 5 human characters. It’s a combination and a little tiny bit of live-action. It’s really, very ahead of its time. I can’t wait.

Head on over to Movieweb to read the entire interview.

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. A full size WALL-E robot was spotted in Los Angeles and boy am I jealous I wasn’t the one who shot this. I would have loved to see this in person.