Blade Runner turns 25

UPDATE (27/07): Available to order from Amazon now.

And to celebrate they are releasing this on December 18.



Woohooo! WoW!!

Go here for full details and specs.

Orlando's got crabs

EDIT:> so it was for crabs!

Thanks to Film.Ick for the pic.

Ratatouille Trailer

Pirates of the Caribbean Trailer

OSCAR time

For those who have not already seen or heard the news, the Oscars were announced yesterday and the following movies were nominated.

Nominees for Best Animated Feature of the Year:
CARS (Buena Vista/Disney/Pixar) John Lasseter
HAPPY FEET (Warner Bros.) George Miller
MONSTER HOUSE (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan

Nominees for Best Animated Short Film are:
THE DANISH POET (NFB) Torill Kove
LIFTED (Buena Vista/Pixar) Gary Rydstrom
THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL (Buena Vista/Disney) Roger Allers
MAESTRO (Szimplafilm/Kedd Prod.) Géza M Toth
NO TIME FOR NUTS (20th Century Fox/Blue Sky) Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier

Nominees for Achievement in Visual Effects:
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST (Buena Vista) John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson & Allen Hall
POSEIDON (Warner Bros.) Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett & John Frazier
SUPERMAN RETURNS (Warner Bros.) Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover & Jon Thum

Randy Newman's song from CARS, "Our Town," was also nominated for Best Song.

For an in-depth look at each nominee in the animated categories, go here for the AWN showcase.

(Thanks to AWN for the lists)

Pixar's WALL-E

An image from the Disney Shareholders letter of Pixar's next project, due out 2008.
Looks a bit like Johnny Five.

Thanks to Animated News Forum

Premiere Magazine is full of it...

Thanks to Amid at Cartoon Brew for posting this.




"This film is a mishmash of pedantic narration and erratic tone (the finale's soul-sucking demon gives the death of Bambi's mom a run for the money in the childhood trauma department), and, frankly, some of the animated sequences now seem dangerously akin to screensavers. " - A.D. (Premiere Magazine)

According to Premiere magazine's "20 Most overrated movies of all time" - Fantasia made the cut.

WHAT????

Come on, please!

Get real!

(in John McEnroe's voice) You can not be serious!

And all those other dumb struck sayings. Thats a giant Capital "Double-U, Tee, Eff".

I know they put the whole discaimer up front saying everybody has their own personal tastes but I still don't see how this masterpiece can actually be considered overrated?? My opinion, its simply beautiful, those dancing mushrooms, the hippos, Mickey. Everything about Fantasia is simply without a doubt amazing stuff.
No question about it. The people that made this film were all geniuses (genii).

best VADER ever (thanks SB)

I don't normally repeat other peoples blog posts but this is too good. Check out the best VADER ever thanks to
Story Boredom

Tenacious D

EDIT: Had to take it down - SORRY!


Something fun for a change ;)


After seeing this post at AICN -
And this post - from John Kricfalusi at his blog....

I thought I would share this music video - cos its just so damn good.
I guess they are like Marmite - you either love them or you don't...

Speaking of Tenacious D - Will Michel Gondry's "Be kind Rewind" with Jack Black (see plot outline below)have any VFX in it?

Surely JB or his friend (if he works in a video store) are budding 3D animators and in the movie do their own home made effects for the remakes to the quality level of this.
Now that would be funny. I can picture Jack watching his home made FX and say "Those are frikkin awesome, Dude" as he gestures madly and does a little spin :-/

Would anybody here willingly try to make bad FX for a feature? ;)

Plot Outline: A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.

That's Got to be funny.

Pixar "Cars" Progression

If you want to know a little of the process of PIXAR's Cars then go check this out.
A 6 picture progression from Story to final picture in very basic form. Don't expect too much.


image by Stever Purcell

ASIFA Hollywood needs your help!

ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive Project - needs our support, please visit the sight and have a look around. If I can just get a few people via my blog to assist it will be a few people more than before... er yes, that makes sense.

They are doing great stuff in preserving the history of animation.

Take a look and maybe you can help out, you never know.

Animated Cartoons Roundup

Snakes on a Plane

Yes, you heard me, Snakes on a plane.
This has to be one of the coolest Titles to come out of Hollywood, what could possibly be any better than this. Snakes on a plane was apparently the working title and when they were thinking of changing it to Pacific Air Flight 121 or something like that Samuel L. Jackson said he would not work on the film unless they called it "Snakes on a Plane" - now I am sure he added an expletive somewhere between Snakes and Plane but lets just leave it at that.

I read this hilarious blog entry relating to the title of the movie, how a writer potentially brought in to fix a few corners of the script loved the title and the subsequent executive decisions that caused him to leave the movie.

Here's some spinoff merchandise no way related or connected to New Line Cinema. Damnation and Topatoco

Apple to buy Disney

Heard the other day around the net.

This does not make sense though since why would Steve Jobs sell Pixar to
then essentially buy it back again, unless he gets both companies for a
sweeter deal.

Hang on - this is starting to make sense.

Owner of company A (APPLE) sells of company B (PIXAR) to company C (DISNEY)
to negotiate a deal where owner gets on the board of Directors of Company C
to then sell both B and C back to A. Where B and C is creating huge content
to sell from A. oooh cunning little man is Steve.