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Warner Picks Up Fesser’s ‘Mortadelo and Filemon’
Warner Bros. Pictures Spain has snapped up the rights for the upcoming 3D animated feature Mortadelo and Filemon, by director Javier Fesser. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the pic will be produced by Zeta Cinema and Peliculas Pendelton and will have a 10-million euro budget. Fesser, Cristobal Ruiz and Claro [...]
The Senate Delivers Spooky Shots for ‘Dark Shadows’
London’s The Senate VFX completed 186 shots for Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s Dark Shadows—the latest Tim Burton opus which opened last week. Anton Yri, vfx supervisor, worked with vfx producer Sam Spacey to oversee six major sequences in the film. Yri was on set for the duration of first unit and [...]
Vampire Weekend Off to a Good Start
It’s going to be a “vampires vs. the superheroes” kind of a weekend. Tim Burton’s take on TV soap opera Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas, opens in the U.S. and 42 foreign markets today (Friday, May 11), but it faces stiff competition from Disney/Marvel’s The Avengers, [...]
Warner Bros. to Produce Hybrid ‘Rascal Raccoon’ Movie
One Press graphic novel Rascal Raccoon’s Raging Revenge is on its way to become a Warner Bros. live-action/CG animation hybrid movie. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Matt Fogel (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son) is attached to adapt the pic, with Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas) planning [...]
Warner Bros. Announces Date for ‘LEGO’ Movie
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s upcoming CG-animated feature based on the LEGO franchise will be released by Warner Bros. on Feb. 28, 2014. The pic, which is based on a story by Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman and Lord and Miller, will feature some of the most popular characters from [...]
Warner Bros Flies with Carell’s ‘Ravens’
After delighting fans with his voicing talents in Despicable Me and Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, actor Steve Carell plans to produce a new animated feature for Warner Bros. The actor’s Carousel Productions is working on The Tower Ravens, a movie about seven ravens who live in the Tower [...]
LAIKA to Animate New Stop-Motion Pic About Goblins
Portland’s stop-motion studio LAIKA has announced that it will produce a stop-motion animated movie based on a children’s book by Philip Reeve titled Goblins. The pic will be directed by Mark Gustafson, the animation helmer for Fantastic Mr. Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming book is set in [...]
The Sublime Madness of J.G. Quintel
The last time we chatted with J.G. Quintel, he was getting ready to launch his wonderful animated show Regular Show on Cartoon Network. Although the series has only been on the air since September of 2010, it has found a huge cult following nationwide. Cartoon Network has released the series’ [...]
DreamWorks Joins Wal-Mart’s Disc-to-Digital Service
DreamWorks Animation (Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon) has signed up with Wal-Mart Stores’ plan to help home audiences convert their DVD collections to online film libraries, the AP reports. DreamWorks head Jeffrey Katzenberg says the new “Disc to Digital” service will aid consumers in adjusting to [...]
The Case for Robert McKimson
Unlike many toonheads, I’ve long been fascinated with the cartoons of Robert McKimson. McKimson was part of the Warner Bros. animation troika in the post-war years, along with Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones, and the director behind the classic characters Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil. Yet even today, though [...]
‘LEGO Ninjago...
The season of Cartoon Network’s Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu is coming...
‘Wild Kratts’...
9 Story Entertainment has sold the first season of its popular animated...
