5 Men in a Limo
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Too bad the sound is a bit wonky in this clip. Almost defeats the purpose. It's the trailer for the Hollywood Reporter Key Art awards, given to movie trailers. (Trivia: In our own...
300 trailer on line
Check it out quick,because it's up on some Greek website we can't even read.
The footage is toned down a bit from what we saw at Comic-con -- no topless women and decapitated heads...
PERSEPOLIS stills on line
Sony Pictures Classics has up some still from the PERSEPOLIS animated film which is due out in 2007. Creator Marjane Satrapi wrote the script and co-directed along with Vincent Paronnaud. The film is being...
Nelson on REX MUNDI
Yesterday we reported the unbelieveably thrilling news that Johnny Depp may star in a comic book movie and today the websites are all over REX MUNDI creator Arvid Nelson including this interveiw at ...
Johnny Depp to star in REX MUNDI?
An article on screenwriter Jim Uhls in the LA Times lets out a bunch of news about the potential movie adaptation of REX MUNDI by Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson. It seems JOHNNY DEPP...
Linkage 9/18
Joe Illidge looks at HEROES and wonders about the racial message the program is sending.
Busy, busy Mike Catron has video from the opening of the "Masters of american Comics" exhibit at the Jewish Museum....
CATACOMBS trailer
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While the lesson to be learned in the marriage of Hollywood and Toontown is that directors make comics writers, the obverse is also beginning to be true, as comical types like Sam Kieth,...
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that is not all that's been going on in Anime-land this...
Sony Pictures enter CGI glut
Speaking of CGI, earlier this week, the LA Times thoroughly examined Sony Pictures' new animation unit, and their debut production OPEN SEASON, based on the cartoons of IN THE BLEACHER'S Steve Moore. It's just...
Who Buried Roger Rabbit?
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? is a film still fondly remembered by some. Melding animation and live action back when it was hard, the Robert Zemeckis-directed movie also had fine performances by a cult-friendly cast...
‘Untitled Mike Judge Comedy’
This is a bit far afield for us, but here on Cartoon Friday, we're giving Mike Judge a pass because he's definitely part of the Cartoon Mafia. Judge is the autuer behind Beavis and...
