Trailers From Hell: Dirty Duck

Last year Joe Dante (Looney Tunes Back In Action) established a terrific website called Trailers From Hell, featuring audio commentary by …

Saul Bass on Titles

A 35-minute collection of classic Saul Bass film titles with narration and insights by Bass himself: (via Smashing Telly)

Sullivan (of Sullivan-Bluth) passes away

The LA Times reports (with several errors) on the passing of Morris Sullivan, the man who financed the Don Bluth studio and produced An …

Year of the Fish: An Animated Feature?

As the line between live-action and animation blurs, there are more and more controversies about what qualifies as animation. Is A …

Tarsem’s The Fall

I saw an unexpectedly great live-action film last night–Tarsem’s The Fall (view the trailer here). The film’s production design is …

Advertising Kung Fu Panda

Is this bus stop ad from Norway part of the official DreamWorks marketing campaign or did they receive some assistance from the public? …

Roger Ebert Finds 3-D Films Annoying

Hurtling 3-D objects at viewers is not a substitute for quality filmmaking as last week’s weak opening of the 3-D animated pic Fly Me to …

Making Sense of Cars

Try as he might, illustrator Jake Parker couldn’t make sense of the world that Pixar created for Cars. He writes: And that leads me to …

Animated Features That Killed Studios

Over at OMGlists.com is an article on Seven Films That Killed Studios. Two on the list are animated features. There is no denying …

Mid Year Survey

For those (like me) who keep score, it’s interesting to note that as of this week Pixar’s Wall•E and Dreamwork’s Kung Fu Panda are …

Coraline preview

Everything I see from Henry Selick’s new film Coraline looks terrific. Rotten Tomatoes is posting a new, different behind-the-scenes …

Animated Features for Grown-Ups

FilmInFocus.com has a series of articles entitled “Adult Animation: A Look at How Cartoons Grew Up.” I wrote a piece for them about the …

Bad News: A Marvin Martian Movie

Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. is developing a live action/CG feature film starring Marvin the Martian. Alcon Entertainment …

Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Up

This weekend at Comic-Con, Pixar previewed footage from their next film, Up, directed by Pete Docter. They’ve also just released the …

Freaky Flickers

Oh, so you think you’ve seen bad? I don’t know who’s behind this animated feature, but they are looking for distribution. Desperately …

Wall•E and Christianity

Wall•E director Andrew Stanton talks with Christianity Today about some of the Genesis-related themes he incorporated into the …

Marketing Wall•E and Kung Fu Panda

The Movie Marketing Madness blog offers interesting in-depth analyses of the marketing campaigns supporting the recent animated features …

The Tale of Despereaux Trailer

Here is the trailer for Universal’s CG adaptation of the children’s book The Tales of Despereaux. Sam Fell (Flushed Away) is directing, …

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