Category: Films (Page 75 of 85)

Check out this cool Speed Racer poster. Drag your mouse over it to see a cool 3D effect.

The fine folks over at the wonderful CGSociety have a great in-depth, behind-the-scenes feature of the hit animated movie, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, by Blue Sky Studios.

Here’s a small excerpt:

Another explanation was the need to master “squash-and-stretch” techniques that transcended the boundaries of animation physics and character performance and believability in order to capture the wonder and imagination of a Dr. Seuss story. The aim was to produce extreme looks and movements, including an effect to make their legs move so quickly that they smear on screen.

Head over to CGSociety to read the entire two page feature.

Persepolis, the Oscar-nominated animated feature, will return to 100 theaters in an English-language version on April 11. Co-written and co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, it’s based on Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel.

The English version of Persepolis features the voices of Chiara Mastroianni and her mother, Catherine Deneuve, as Marjane and Marjane’s mother. Sean Penn provides the voice of Marjane’s father; Gena Rowlands plays Marjane’s grandmother; Iggy Pop is Uncle Anouche; and Amethyste Frezignac plays young Marjane.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, distributed by 20th Century Fox and animated by Blue Sky Studios, remained the top movie for a second straight weekend with $25.1 million, bringing its 10-day total to $85.5 million.

Variety reports that Gerard Butler (300), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Jonah Hill (Superbad), Jay Baruchel (Knocked Up) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) will voice characters in DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon.

The movie is set in a mythical world and centers on a scrawny teenage Viking who must capture and subdue a wild dragon. The story is based on the book by Cressida Cowell. How to Train Your Dragon is scheduled for a domestic release on March 26, 2010.

The trilogy of live-action (yes, actual people!) John Carter of Mars movies by Pixar seem to be moving ahead. In fact, Disney has already registered the following domains, which reveal the titles of the movies:

* JOHNCARTEROFMARS-MOVIE.COM
* JOHNCARTEROFMARS-THEMOVIE.COM
* JOHNCARTEROFMARSTHEMOVIE.COM
* JOHNCARTERANDTHEGODSOFMARS.COM
* JOHNCARTERANDTHEWARLORDOFMARS.COM
* GODSOFMARS-MOVIE.COM
* GODSOFMARSMOVIE.COM
* THEGODSOFMARS-MOVIE.COM
* THEGODSOFMARSMOVIE.COM
* THEWARLORDOFMARS-MOVIE.COM
* THEWARLORDOFMARSMOVIE.COM
* WARLORDOFMARS-MOVIE.COM
* CHILDRENOFMARS.COM

It’s also interesting to note that the development of the trilogy might be put on the fast track if Disney’s Narnia series performs poorly at the box office. Rumors around Hollywood suggest that Disney might pull the plug after the third movie if the series doesn’t pull in some serious cash. If they do pull the plug it would leave a big opening in Disney’s schedule that would be filled by Pixar’s John Carter of Mars – which was originally scheduled for 2012. We’ll keep you posted on any further developments.

The folks over at RottenTomatoes had a chance to talk with Blue Sky’s VP of Creative Development, Chris Wedge and Mike Thurmeier, Senior Supervising Animator, about the film’s visual style. It’s a really interesting feature so be sure to check it out.

20th Century Fox’s animated “Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!” took the number one spot this weekend, bringing in $45.1 million, the best opening of 2008 so far.

Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, “Horton Hears a Who” is the latest film from Blue Sky Studios, the same studio that brought us Ice Age, Robots and Ice Age 2. They are currently hard at work on Ice Age 3, scheduled for release mid-2009.

With this #1 debut, Blue Sky Studios now now has four of the top six March debuts of all time.

Congratulations to everyone at Blue Sky Studios. It’s always nice to see an animated movie debut at #1.

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.

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!