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Dark Knight Has Stellar DVD Debut
Warner Bros. The Dark Knight quickly became the top-grossing film of 2008, and is set to become the best’selling home video release of the year even quicker. Warner Home Video announced that film sold more than 13.5 million copies worldwide in its first week at retail. By the end of [...]
Bolt, WALL’E, Madagascar Songs on Oscar List
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released a list of 49 tunes eligible for consideration in the Best Original Song category of the 81st annual Academy Awards. The lineup includes two songs from Disney’s Bolt and one each from Disney/Pixar’s WALL’E and DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar: Escape 2 [...]
Cheech and Chong Make Smokin’ Animated Debut
Bob and Doug McKenzie aren’t the only classic comedy duo getting animated. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, who built an empire on pot humor in the ’70s and ’80s, will return in Cheech and Chong’s Smokin’ Animated Movie. Independent licensee, producer and DVD label Big Vision Ent. and animation production [...]
Universal Backs Bakugan Movie
Universal Pictures and Stuber Prods. have signed a deal with children’s entertainment company Spin Master Ltd. to produce a feature film based on the popular strategic game and anime series Bakugan Battle Brawlers. A hot seller this holiday season, Bakugan Battle Brawlers is a collectible game featuring marble-like balls that [...]
Judge Pushes Back Watchmen Trial
The trailers have already hit the web and the graphic displays have been draped in movie theaters across the country, but the fate of Warner Bros.’ Watchmen still lies in the hands of a jury in Los Angels. Daily Variety reports that the judge presiding over the case has moved [...]
Orphanage Founder to Direct Priest
Priest from Tokyo Pop is one of the latest graphic novels to travel the road to the big screen, and it now has a visual effects expert in the director’s chair. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Charles Stewart, co-founder of vfx studio The Orphanage, has been hired to helm [...]
Delgo Sets Box-Office Record
While the scrappy determination that led independent animation house Fathom Studios to bring an animated feature to the big screen is admirable, the box-office results were not so commendable. It turns out that Delgo bares the distinction of having the worst wide opening in box-office history. Over the weekend, it [...]
Sony Animation, Gotham Ink Pic Deal
Los Angeles-based talent management and production firm The Gotham Group has signed a first-look production deal with Sony Pictures Animation. Led by founder and CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Gotham represents some of the industry’s top directors, writers, authors, actors, illustrators, publishing houses and comic-book companies. Its access to movie source material [...]
Latest Mummy Unravels on DVD
With more than 1.2 billion earned at the box office worldwide, Universal’s The Mummy franchise will surely spin off more CG-laden sequels. In the meantime, fans of action, adventure and visual effects can pick up The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The flick is [...]
Goldilocks, Mermaid, Transformers on Disc
The new CG-animated movie Goldilocks & the 3 Bears Show from the Jim Henson Co., Genius Products and The Weinstein Co. brings family-friendly enchantment to home video this week. Also on order for the tykes is The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea Special Edition for the girls and [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
