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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.
October 23, 2009 7:30 pm
Flying into 3,014 U.S. theaters this weekend, the kiddie-skewing Astro Boy movie could gross anywhere from $10 million to… who knows? If you’ve screened it, tell us what you thought. The comments section below is open only to those who have actually seen the film. UPDATE: The actual opening weekend box office gross for Astro Boy was $6.7 million. 28 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Talkback 
October 22, 2009 12:05 am
This trailer has been out for a while, but I just have to ask: Does anyone in Hollywood have the cajones to tell Zemeckis to just STOP? Robert Zemeckis has made several of my all-time favorite films, but this motion-capture madness must end. He’s doing Yellow Submarine next. Are any of our readers looking forward to this Christmas Carol? Does anyone think it looks good? 151 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Robert Zemeckis
October 13, 2009 3:00 am
…you have no excuse. You can watch it this coming Saturday October 17th, if you have a satellitte dish, on LINK TV, DIRECTV Channel 375 and DISH Network Channel 9410 at 7:30am Eastern/4:30am Pacific. Or you can watch Sita Sings the Blues in its entirety right now on LINK TV’s website. Or check Nina Paley’s page for downloads, festival screenings and future broadcast playdates. (Thanks, Lee Burack) 9 Comments » posted in Feature Film
October 4, 2009 1:00 pm
Animator David Nethery pointed me toward this intriguing 2D animated feature coming from Denmark, The Apple & the Worm, directed by Anders Morgenthaler (Princess). It was apparently made totally paperless, drawn on Wacom Cintiq tablets, using TVP Animation software. If any of our bilingual readers can translate the trailer’s introductory dialogue, please send us a comment. The poster and still images are posted here and a very good article about the film and the director is up at Denmark Film Institute. 14 Comments » posted in Feature Film
September 28, 2009 5:54 am
Last weekend, Sony’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs surprised everybody by grossing $24.6 million and staying atop the North American box office for a second week in a row. More impressively, the film declined only 19% from its opening weekend, putting it behind just Taken and Coraline for the smallest drop of any new movie in 2009. A number of artists who worked on the film have been posting stuff from it on their blogs. Here are a few links: Pete Oswald, character design: Post 1, Post 2 Armand Serrano, visual development: Post 1, Post 2 Kris Pearn, storyboard – Post Chris Mitchell, visual development – Post Dave Gibson, animator – Post Jeremy Bernstein, animator – Post Or if all this clicking is too much, just pick up a copy of The Art and Making of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs . 17 Comments » posted in Feature Film
September 27, 2009 12:30 pm
This is an absolutely beautiful teaser trailer for a proposed feature by a group of Argentine animators. Diego De Rose and his grupo at Wujoco Animation sent us the trailer along with this introduction: WUJOCO was formed by a team of professional animation artists who were determined to fuse their skill in the craft, as well as their experience in the trade, in order to produce original content of their own. So far, I would like to introduce you to an animated feature film project we are working on, whose title is Angel Vitamina. The character designs and a short storyline can be found at angelvitamina.com. I’m certainly rooting for Wujoco to finish the film. 21 Comments » posted in Feature Film
September 24, 2009 12:00 pm
In case you were wondering what happened to a U.S. release of Adam Elliot’s clay animated feature Mary And Max… The film was finally picked up for US distribution by Sundance Selects, a video-on-demand service that’s an adjunct to the Sundance Channel and the Sundance Film Festival. The film will be available to purchase and view on cable and satellite systems beginning October 14th. If you have a hankering to see the film on the big screen, the way it was designed to be seen, it starts tomorrow at the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino for an Oscar qualifying one week run. It will screen Mary and Max will also screen Wednesday October 14th, 7pm, as the opening selection at the Ottawa ‘09 International Film Festival. (Thanks, Eric Graf) 16 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Stop Motion
September 18, 2009 12:45 am
Saw Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs last night – and it’s hilarious. It’s 3 for 3 (or 4 for 4 if you count Monster House) for Sony Pictures Animation. Phil Lord and Chris Miller made a real “cartoon”, loaded with laughs and filled eye candy (the 2D end credits are especially gorgeous). See it in a theatre this weekend! The 3D effects are outstanding, and the directors really fill the wide-screen with all sorts of Kurtzman/Elder “chicken fat”. I loved it. How about you? If you’ve seen it (and only if you’ve seen it), post your opinion here in our comments section. |
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