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TAG FOR “Feature Film”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
July 10, 2011 3:00 pm
Here it is, the trailer for the hand drawn/CG, Mexican Top Cat movie from Illusion Studios. Don Gato y su Pandilla will open theatrically, and in 3-D (stereoscopic), in September. No word on any U.S., release. (Thanks, Mateusz Lis) 107 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Top Cat July 6, 2011 12:30 pm
In another sign of Hollywood’s slow recognition of animation as a money-making powerhouse: Paramount Pictures announced today the formation of a new in-house animation studio to create animated features, mainly (but not entirely) in conjunction with its Nickelodeon Movies unit. Their goal is one feature per year. Paramount has been releasing Dreamworks Animation films for the last several years, but that arrangement is said to be ending. Warner Bros. is a potential distributor for Dreamworks post-2012. Disney, which is distributing Dreamworks live action movies, will never touch the Dreamworks Animation films. Paramount has been releasing Nickelodeon Movies animated features – as well as films spawned by other Viacom Networks, MTV (Beavis and Butt-head) and Comedy Central (South Park) – for years now. The success of ILM/Nick’s Rango this past spring, and the potential of the forthcoming Spielberg/ Jackson Tintin movie has spurred this new division. Longtime readers of this site know that Paramount has long ties with animation, going back to 48 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Paramount Pictures July 4, 2011 12:05 am
Angel Vitamina is a personal project of animator Diego De Rose and a small team of independent animators in Argentina. This is the second time I’ve posted about this film’s progress (I posted an shorter teaser trailer here in 2009). De Rose has just debut a second, longer trailer – now five minutes, though the first two minutes is a talky set up – and has expanded his website and production blog. I wish them luck in getting this film finished! 25 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Angel Vitamina, Diego De Rose July 1, 2011 5:07 am
From the “better late than never” department comes this box office report from last weekend. I thought I might as well post it since this week’s debut of Transformers 3 will knock Cars 2 from the top spot. Pixar’s latest effort debuted last weekend in the lead position with $66.1 million, topping the original Cars opening weekend of $60.1 million, but trailing it in terms of attendance. The number that caught my eye though was its dismal 3-D performance. As with Kung Fu Panda 2, the majority of audiences chose to watch the flat version, with only 40% paying a 3-D premium. Compare that to 60% who saw Toy Story 3 in 3-D and a 52% 3-D share for Up. Even with the higher debut, Box Office Mojo predicts that Cars 2 won’t reach the original film’s $244 million domestic gross, not that it’ll make much of a difference to the smiling execs at Disney. The film is also tracking to do considerably better overseas than the original Cars. In one other bit of box office news, earlier this week Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil finally passed the $10 million mark in the US after 62 days of release. Combine that with earnings of $3.6 million from overseas and it’s grossed a grand total of $13.6 million. 56 Comments » posted in 3-D, CGI, Feature Film, Pixar, Cars 2, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil June 28, 2011 5:40 pm
We normally don’t post live-action trailers on Cartoon Brew, but there are exceptions to every rule, and Brad Bird is always an exception. Watch the trailer for his film Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol at MissionImpossible.com. 61 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Brad Bird, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol June 22, 2011 12:00 pm
Here’s the visually intriguing trailer for Henry Waltz, a feature film in development by Emil Goodman, an animation director in Budapest, Hungary. We’ve previously posted his mixed-media silhouette Beat Dis music video in 2008. 7 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Emil Goodman, Henry Waltz June 21, 2011 11:25 am
This is looking better and better to me.
(Thanks to Ed Austin and Ed Himmel) 72 Comments » posted in Feature Film, dreamworks, Puss in Boots June 15, 2011 10:54 am
A trailer (en français) for Bibo Bergeron’s long-gestating CG feature Un Monstre à Paris has popped up on the website Catsuka. Bergeron, a veteran animator who co-directed the DreamWorks features Shark Tale and The Road to El Dorado, made the film at his French studio Bibo Films. Un Monstre à Paris opens wide in France in October. (via Sketchcrawl Twitter) |
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