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Question for the Week of July 2 2012
This week, all eyes will be on Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man to see if it can outperform Marvel’s The Avengers. What is your favorite comic-book-based movie of 2012? The Avengers The Amazing Spider-Man The Dark Knight Rises Dredd
Hot Weekend for ‘Ted’, ‘Ice Age 4'
Seth MacFarlane’s raunchy R-rated talking teddy-bear movie, Ted brought in the big numbers at the U.S. box office this past weekend. The Universal release was the number-one release of the weekend, with an estimated $52.5 million opening three days. The Mark Wahlberg-starrer received a 69% rating average on Rottentomatoes.com and [...]
Pratt to Voice Hero in Lego Movie
Some of the many pieces of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s upcoming Lego movie are falling into place. According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation) has been cast as the lead voice in the animated Lego: The Piece of Resistance. According to releasing studio Warner Bros., [...]
Sony Animation Eyes ‘Kazorn & the Unicorn’ Movie
Gnomeo and Juliet and Shrek 2 director Kelly Asbury is going to have a very busy year. Not only is he writing Sony’s upcoming Pooch Café project, he is also in talks to direct Kazorn & The Unicorn, says Deadline.com. Produced by Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Russell Hollander, Kazorn [...]
Aardman’s ‘Pirates’ Set Sail on Disc
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is offering a real swashbuckling good time on DVD and Blu-ray this summer, with The Pirates! Band of Misfits set to hit shelves on August 28. The film will be available on DVD ($30.99), Blu-ray/DVD combo ($40.99) and 3D Blu-ray/DVD ($45.99) combo packs—all with UltraViolet. Based [...]
Animation Guild and AMPTP Strike a New Deal
The Animation Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers announced that they have reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. The tentative pact, which came after Local 839 IATSE reps started talks again with AMPTP earlier this week, will run from August 1, 2012 to [...]
Licensing Expo Spotlights Coming Toon Attractions
We had the chance to visit the colorful Licensing Expo in Las Vegas this week, where thousands of our favorite animated and vfx-driven brands were basking in the limelight (June 12-14). As always, fans were able to take a look at what many of the big studios and smaller indies [...]
Sony Tackles Hasbro’s ‘Tonka’
Now that the Battleship hype-fest has wound down, a new addition to the unfolding onslaught of Hasbro toy and game properties coming to the big screen is underway at Sony Pictures, who will be developing an animated flick based on Hasbro’s Tonka Trucks line. Tonka, based on the 65-year-old brand, [...]
Weekend Audiences Fall Hard for ‘Snow White’
This beauty has bite: Snow White & the Huntsman exceeded expectations by earning $56 million to land atop the box office in its opening weekend. Universal’s VFX-heavy reimagined fairy tale stars Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth also opened to a $39 million international take for a $95 million [...]
A Hot VFX Summer Sampler
We focus on some of the innovative digital effects of three of the season’s early blockbusters. Men In Black III (Sony) VFX Supervisor: Ken Ralston It’s been 10 years since Agents J and K last graced the big screen to police the alien population living among us—not so long by [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
