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Universal’s ‘The Lorax’ Expected to Top the Charts
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 [...]
Universal’s Spider-Man Attraction Gets Animation Upgrade
Universal Orlando Resort is adding major visual enhancements to its Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man attraction. The popular ride will soon feature all-new 4K digital high definition animation – one of the highest HD resolutions available – and upgrades to the sets, audio and lighting systems, as well as new music [...]
Dobbs Says ‘Arrietty,’ ‘Lorax’ are Liberal Propaganda
Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs is accusing animated movies such as Disney/Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arrietty and Universal/Illumination’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax of trying to indoctrinate children with liberal messages. The conservative commentator called the two animated features “insidious nonsense from Hollywood” and proclaimed that “Hollywood is once [...]
‘Arrietty’ Has an $8 Million Weekend
Although The Secret World of Arrietty landed on the No. 8 Spot at the box-office chart for the long President’s Day weekend, the very well-reviewed Disney release of the Studio Ghibli movie managed to bring in about $8.102 million domestically from 1522 theaters. The No. 1 title for the weekend was [...]
Al Pacino to Voice New ‘Despicable Me’ Villain
Universal/Illumination’s sequel to Despicable Me just added more star power to its voice lineup. Deadline reported that master thespian Al Pacino has signed to play the new villain in Despicable Me 2. The film, which is slated to come out on July 3, 2013, will feature Pacino as the Gru’s [...]
‘Sammy’s Adventures’ Swims to U.S. Shores
Director Ben Stassen’s 2010 CG-animated feature A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures arrives in the U.S. on DVD this week. The Studio Canal movie, which was originally titled Around the World in 50 Years is the Belgian director’s follow-up to his 2008 3-D movie Fly Me to the Moon, which played [...]
Animator Dan Mills dies at 80
We are sad to report that animator and layout artist Dan Mills, whose credits include He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Family Guy died earlier this month at the age of 80. Mills, who worked for Disney, Snowball, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Hyperion, Universal and Fox Animation, began his career [...]
15 Pics Make the First VFX Oscar List
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected for consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 84th Academy Awards: The films are listed below in alphabetical order, followed by releasing studio in the U.S. In early January, the members of the [...]
‘X-Men’ Director Singer on Board for ‘Munsters’
The TV world has already been furrowing its brows in puzzlement over how NBC’s planned one-hour-drama reboot of 1960s slapstick The Munsters is going to turn out, but now The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that a nearly finalized deal will bring on board director/producer/writer Bryan Singer of X-Men film franchise [...]
NBC to Produce New Henson Co. Sitcom
Now that audiences are eating up everything Muppet-relate in anticipation of this week’s movie opening, The Hollywood Reporter announces that NBC has ordered a script for The New Nabors, a single-camera comedy featuring Jim Henson’s puppets. The show will centers on the comic adventures of a family in Palm Springs [...]
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