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The new animated Star Wars Rebels series will premiere in the fall of 2104 as a...
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Take ‘Rango,’ Third ‘Robot Chicken: Star Wars’ For a Spin
Lizards, toys and classic toons come home on video this week, highlighted by the release of the hit feature film Rango. Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring the voice of Johnny Depp, Rango (Paramount, $30.99 DVD, $40.99 Blu-ray and DVD) arrives with plenty of bonus features, including an alternate ending, [...]
‘LEGO Star Wars’ Animated Special to Air July 22 on CN
LEGO and Star Wars have long clicked well in the toy stores and — more recently — the world of video games, so it should be no surprise that they’re teaming up for an animated special. Titled LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace, the all-new computer-animated half-hour special will premiere [...]
D23 Expo Sneaks Peek at 3D ‘Lion King’
Fans attending Disney’s second D23 Expo this August in Anaheim will have a chance to seen an exclusive advance screening of The Lion King in 3D. The Aug. 20 screening in Disney Digital 3D will be the first chance for the public to see the new 3D version of the 1994 [...]
‘Phantom Menace’ Kicks Off 3D ‘Star Wars’ Re-releases on Feb. 10, 2012
Get ready to experience a new dimension of The Force. Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox have announced a Feb. 10, 2012, release date for the stereoscopic 3D version of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. The 3D conversion on the film is being handled by ILM. Phantom Menace [...]
All Six ‘Star Wars’ Films Coming to Blu-ray
The Force is finally with Blu-ray. Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment made lots of Star Wars fans happy Thursday by announcing plans to release all six films in the saga on high-def Blu-ray disc for the first time. Fans can choose from a three-disc Prequel Trilogy set, a [...]
VFX model-making pioneer Grant McCune dies
Grant McCune, a pioneer in model-making for visual effects who won an Oscar for his work on the original Star Wars, has died at the age of 67. McCune crafted models for many of the big feature films of the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as on television projects [...]
‘Family Guy’ Springs Jedi ‘Trap’; ‘Futurama Vol. 5′ Arrives
It’s a battle of the sci-fi funny bones this week in home entertainment, as Seth MacFarlane and company parody Return of the Jedi while the most-recent volume of Matt Groening’s Futurama also takes off. In Family Guy: It’s a Trap! (Fox, $22.98 DVD, $29.99 Blu-ray), the circle is completed as [...]
Animated People: Leslie Iwerks
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … visual effects were really cheesy and dull. That is, until George Lucas came along and created a group of experts known as Industrial Light & Magic to pull off a little movie called Star Wars. It’s now been 35 [...]
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...
