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Cody BanksFails in Bringing Down The House
Disney’s Steve Martin/Queen Latifah vehicle Bringing Down the House is No. 1 at the U.S. box office for a second week, despite a strong showing from MGM’s teen spy comedy Agent Cody Banks, starring Malcolm in the Middle’s Frankie Muniz. Bringing Down the House brought in an estimated $22 million [...]
Green Things Jumps Out at Cartoon Movie
Among the new projects to catch the eye of Animation Magazine at this year’s Cartoon Movie is a CG feature film in the works titled Jumping Green Things from independent Swedish producer Assorted Nuts Animation Studios. The family adventure tale about three unlikely heroes was previewed at the festival of [...]
Rats, Spy Kid Creep into Theaters
Visual effects flicks sneak into the winter film season in the form of MGM’s teen spy comedy, Agent Cody Banks, and New Line Cinema’s remake of the 1970 suspense thriller Willard. Both films open in theaters today. Featuring effects by Centropolis, The Character Shop and WTC Prods., Willard stars Crispin [...]
IDT Media Goes Where No Producer Has Gone Before
In recent years, fans of Gene Roddenberry have been treated to new sci-fi properties like the syndicated TV shows Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda. But just when it looks like the old vault has been tapped out, something else emerges from the mind of the late Star Trek creator. IDT [...]
Lupin Sneaks into Live Action
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Whitelight Ent. has acquired worldwide live-action feature film rights to the manga/anime property Lupin the Third. Created by Monkey Punch and distributed by Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., the Lupin series of comic books, video games and animated shows and features follows the adventures of a [...]
Dimension, MGM Form Grimm Partnership
Dimension Films is teaming with MGM to produce the action fantasy film Brothers Grimm. The live-action collaboration should include plenty of animated creatures and other visual effects. Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys, Time Bandits) has been tapped to direct from a script by Ehren Kruger (The Ring, Scream 3). Mosaic Media [...]
Robot a Spitting Image of Tudyk
Looks like others are following in the footsteps of Andy Serkis and Gollum (The Two Towers) . According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Alan Tudyk (A Knight’s Tale, Ice Age) has been tapped to be the animation reference to the CG character Sonny opposite Will Smith in the sci-fi action [...]
Eyeing Nemo
On Tuesday March 4, Disney offered Showest (this week’s Exhibitors’ Convention in Las Vegas) attendees a sneak peek at its much-anticipated summer release Finding Nemo. The CG-animated Pixar film, is written and directed by Andrew Stanton, and features the voice talents of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Geoffrey Rush, Brad Garrett [...]
Family Guy Creator, Farrelly Bros. Collaborate on CG Feature
Seth MacFarlane, creator and exec. producer of the Fox animated series The Family Guy, tells Animation Magazine Online that he has teamed up with the makers of Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary to produce the first R-rated computer animated feature. The Farrelly Brothers are producing and MacFarlane is taking [...]
Marvel, Fox Settle X-Men Battle
Comic book publisher Marvel and 20th Century Fox settled a lawsuit over licensing rights to the X-Men characters, Associate Press reports. Although the terms of the settlement were not released, both sides are looking forward to expanding their relationship and have “amicably resolved the dispute.” Fox produced both the 2000 [...]
Wiig and Cooper Guest Voice...
The parade of stars stopping by The Simpsons office to do guest voice stints on...
Boinx Unveils New Features of...
German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
