Don’t you even dare call it a “kid’s movie.” Animation has been around for a while now, starting with silent experiments such as Gertie the Dinosaur, followed by the more traditional Disney fare such as Snow White or Cinderella, and becoming more modern with another round of Disney hits like The Lion King or Beauty …
There is a sense in watching Kingdom of the Crystal Skull play out that Spielberg’s lack of enthusiasm carried on into pre-production and then filming itself. One final, brutal visit to the editing suite before the film’s release would have fixed much of the damage and created a final product that, while hardly a classic, would not have infuriated to such a degree.
There’s a long, storied history of Hollywood films being turned into Broadway musicals, none quite so much as animated classics such as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. One of the more recent Hollywood-to-Broadway transplants is none other than DreamWorks Animation’s 2001 hit Shrek, which was turned into Shrek the Musical. For those of us who weren’t …
The Croods Directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders Written by Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco USA, 2013 The Croods is unmistakably a DreamWorks Animation film, something fitting with their recent output. The company has been churning out decent, if unmemorable animated films when not delivering pop-culture-heavy Shrek-like stories. And this new movie, about a …
The Croods Written and directed by Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco USA, 2013 2010’s How to Train Your Dragon is arguably Dreamworks Animation’s creative high point to date, and was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the team behind Lilo & Stitch, one of the best hand-drawn animations from Disney since their 90s …
Monsters, Inc. Directed by Pete Docter Written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson Starring Billy Crystal, John Goodman, James Coburn, Steve Buscemi Here’s a question that has nagged at me for the last few years: what, really, is the difference between a film made by Pixar Animation Studios and a film made by DreamWorks Animation? …
The partnership between Paramount and DreamWorks Animation is getting more confusing by the day. The contract is set to expire on December 31, 2012, and although Paramount offered a one-year extension to DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg has declined. So Paramount decided to go in a different direction, and is launching their own animation division, titled …
First Posted on FilmBusters on 05/18/10 So it has been ten weeks and the HBO mini-series The Pacific has drawn to a close. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts on the production now that I have had the opportunity to watch it in its entirety. In broad strokes, I have to …
The 37th Annual Annie Awards which recognizes the year’s best animated features, television productions, commercials, short subjects and outstanding individual achievements in the field of animation saw Pixar’s Up win Best Animated Film and Best Directing in a Feature. The Oscar contender beat out some heavy competition including Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Secret …
Like vampires, zombies are gaining currency in Hollywood. According to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks is in negotiations with writer-producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek reboot, Transformers) to adapt a live action feature of James Farr’s XOMBIE, the sci-fi/horror adventure that began life as an online flash-animated series and has now expanded into a …