Recap: Another Pixar Original / Simpsons Sequel / Box Office Results
Emeryville, Springfield, the box office... Some stuff happened...Tucked away in an interview was a significant update on Pixar...Do you remember when their president Jim Morris said last year that four...
View ArticleRecap: DreamWorks Goes Spooky / The Book of Legos / 'Loving Vincent'
Haunts, Lego bricks, and Vincent van Gogh...So, the big news comes first... DreamWorks Animation will be collaborating with the horror movie hit-makers at Blumhouse Productions!Of course, Jason Blum's...
View ArticleRecap: Paramount Updates and Disney Streaming
Two big studios and their big plans... Paramount Animation is still slowly bubbling to the surface...The mountain distributor had actually been kind of behind on the whole animation game, though for a...
View ArticleRecap: Ghibli Returns / 'Duck Duck Goose' / Box Office Results
Miyazaki returns, feathered pictures, and squirrel mishaps... We animation fans can rejoice over this first bit of news...Studio Ghibli is reopening to do Hayao Miyazaki's next feature film. Miyazaki...
View ArticleRecap: 'Peter Rabbit' / 'Pets 2' / Porky Pig
Bunnies, dogs, and pigs... It's an animal recap! And each news story's subject begins with a "P"... Letter of the day, perhaps.First up... A trailer for Sony's Peter RabbitĀ has surfaced from the...
View ArticleRecap: Mizchief / Weekend Box Office Report
Weinstein and the weekend... Those are today's topics!So... Mizchief.What in the world is Mizchief?It's not the title of an upcoming animated release, it's the title of a new animation "label" that our...
View ArticleRecap: 'Zootopia' Sequel / Olaf Options / 'The Star' Moves
Two Disney Animation bits, and something concerning Sony Animation...Rumblings out there imply that Walt Disney Animation Studios is going to make a sequel to a recent smash...ZootopiaĀ Sequel...
View ArticleRecap: Box Office Results / Original Force Shift / J. J. Abrams' Flamingos
I'm a week late, due to the relative lack of feature news here and there, but...Last weekend's box office...(Belated) Weekend Box Office ReportWell, to the shock of no one, The Weinstein Company's...
View ArticleRecap: Weekend Box Office / Door Gods / Oriental DreamWorks
The slowest weekend has hit us, and a four-day no less... The results are a bit interesting.Few of the movies dropped hard, like, at all... Some movies... Rose.In fourth place is Leap!, which went up...
View ArticleRecap: 'Early Man' Trailer / Olaf Songs / Box Office
Cavemen, cold settings, and the coin...First Full Trailer for Early ManĀ DebutsAt long last... A full trailer for Aardman's upcoming plasticine-mation film is here!It looks a lot different from what I...
View ArticleRecap: 'Coco' Poster, Full Trailer, and Disney Updates...
The next round of marketing for Pixar's newest original film CocoĀ has begun!The poster... I love it...Except for Miguel's pose. Ya know, just to remind the audiences that this kiddie flick is gonna...
View ArticleRecap: 'Coco' Songs / 'Lego' Sequel / 'Croods 2'
Coco, Lego, Croods... CLC kinda day...Three Coco Songs Debut...Completely absent from the newest trailer, the songs from Pixar's newest original Coco have been revealed through small samples...The...
View ArticleRecap: Weekend Box Office / DreamWorks Update / Locksmith Locked
Box office, and big updates for feature animation. Ho boy!The weekend box office was the usual humdrum.Leap!Ā continues to leg it up, falling 11% stateside and collecting $18 million to date, just about...
View ArticleTrailer Recap: 'Isle of Dogs' / 'Ferdinand' / 'Peter Rabbit'
Three animated/family movie trailers... All in time for the release of The Lego Ninjago Movie! Though one of them isn't meant to be played before Lego Ninjago...First off, a trailer for Wes Anderson's...
View ArticleAnimated Movie Duos and the Box Office
Starters... Here's a complete list of mainstream animated movies (including hybrids and Sony Animation's live-action/CG titles) that are currently set to open very close to each other...10/06/2017 - My...
View ArticleReview: 'The Lego Ninjago Movie'
We're back to the bricks with The Lego Ninjago Movie. How does it stack up?Spoilers Ahead...Going in, I knew next to absolutely nothing about Lego's toyline of the same name. Just a few details: It's...
View ArticleRecap: Weekend Box Office / 'Teen Titans Go!' / 'Clifford' Movie
Box office, big trouble, big red dogs...To the shock of some, The Lego Ninjago Movie didn't open so hot at the box office...Weekend Box Office ReportBut really... Was it ever destined to be a big...
View ArticleReview: 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'
While not animated, you could argue that Kingsman: The Secret ServiceĀ and its recently-released sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle, are amped up live-action cartoons.Spoiler Warning...Given a general...
View ArticleRecap: Oriental DreamWorks Lives / Sonic Hits the Mountain / Box Office Results
Just the moon, the Middle Kingdom, and the box office...The China-based arm of DreamWorks Animation may not be cut off after all...Oriental DreamWorks Unveils New SlateLaunched with big Chinese...
View ArticleRecap: 'Bob's Burgers' Movie / 'Trolls 2' Moves / New 'Star' Trailer
20th Century Fox continues to fatten up its animation slate...Now in development is a film based on the hit FOX animated series Bob's Burgers. Running a good six years already, Bob's BurgersĀ has been...
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