Variety on CGI toon glut
A string of CGI box office duds has proven that the magic of technology will not make lame stories and sloppy storytelling any more palatable Variety reveals:
In 2004, the average box office for an...
Pixar top brass in stock scandal?
Will Pixar director and animation messiah John Lasseter soon be wearing a sporty ankle bracelet just like Martha? Both Lassster and Ed Catmull, both of whom are huge players in the Disney's newly...
Animation shines in Hollywood’s Dark Age
In the LA Times, Patrick Goldstein covers what he calls The Dark Age:
If Hollywood had a suicide prevention hotline for despondent agents, managers and producers, the switchboard would be swamped. In the last few...
24 Minutes of A Scanner Darkly
You can watch the first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly over at IGN. Our old laptop is a little too jerky for us to watch, but it should be interesting.
Watch The Amazing Screw-On Head!
Dear God, this is cool. The SciFi Channel has put the entire first episode of Mike Mignola's THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD cartoon online. We'll let SF describe it:
In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian...
Funny potty tiger toon
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As we stagger towards next week's Rendezvous with Rama, can you really judge us for being amused by adorable Japanese potty training toons, especially those that feature singing tigers? I mean, come on,...
PIRATES booty can’t save Disney jobs
Even as it rakes in the doubloons from the record opening of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST Disney is planning major cutbacks following such flops as Stick It, Annapolis, Stay Alive and...
SPEED RACER lives
Our item on the proposed SPEED RACER film by the Wachowski Bros. (think the highway chase from MATRIX RELAODED for 150 minutes) drew a response from Art Asylum pointing to their SPEED RACER LIVES...
Adult Swim advertises SDCC
We were peacefully watching ADULT SWIM tonight when an ad for, believe it or leave, the ADULT SWIM booth and panels at the San Diego Comic-con came on. The ad consisted only of text...
Through a rotoscoping graphic novel darkly
Newsday looks at rotoscoping in light of the today's premiere of THROUGH A SCANNER DARKLY, Richard Linklatter's animated version of the Philip K. Dick novel. The piece talks to many art directors and other...
