Tag "Sony Animation"

Avast! Aardman’s ‘Pirates’ to Attack Theaters This Friday!

April 26, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

With The Pirates! Band of Misfits Peter Lord and his team have outdone themselves with another delightful, beautifully crafted animated movie. We’ve all seen stop-motion family pictures, Hugh Grant comedies and pirate adventures on the big screen before, but nothing has quite prepared us for the spectacular concoction that is [...]

Universal’s ‘The Lorax’ Expected to Top the Charts

March 1, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

How the team at Illumination Entertainment put a shiny new 3-D polish on Dr. Seuss’ cautionary, environmentally themed The Lorax. More than 40 years after Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) wrote and illustrated his powerful children’s classic The Lorax, the alarming environmental message of the book is more urgent than ever [...]

‘Cloudy 2′ Gets Directors

December 14, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

Sony Animation has tapped Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs artists Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn to direct the studio’s sequel to the popular CG film, Variety reports. The project is still in development and has no yet received an official greenlight. The first film (2009), which was based on [...]

Real Numbers Push ‘Smurfs’ to No. 2 Spot

August 2, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Although on Monday, studios were projecting that Universal/DreamWorks’ Cowboys & Aliens and Sony Animation’s The Smurfs where sharing the Number One Spot at the box office this past weekend, the real numbers painted a different picture. According to Monday afternoon’s actual figures the little blue guys managed to bring in [...]

Mighty ‘Smurfs’ Ties with ‘Cowboys & Aliens’

August 1, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Sony’s 3-D feature hybrid The Smurfs proved to be a much stronger contender than expected this past weekend, bringing in $36.2 million and tying with DreamWorks/Universal’s Western/sci-fi pic Cowboys & Aliens at the domestic box office. Since the race was too close to call, the final winner will have to [...]

Open Season: To Russia With Love

January 14, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Boog the Bear gets a taste of life in a Russian circus in the next installment of Sony’s Open Season saga. Boog, Elliot, Giselle and the rest of the popular animals from Sony Animation’s 2006 feature Open Season are back for more exotic adventures in a new movie that’s out [...]