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A Japanese superhero whose backside fires bullets. Cool
16 November 2009 1:43 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Are we ready for Astro Boy? He's a cute little robot with rocket boots, spiky black hair and – winningly – the ability to shoot bullets out of his backside. January sees the UK release of the animated Hollywood film Astro Boy, an all-star production, with voices coming from Donald Sutherland, Nicolas Cage, Charlize Theron and Bill Nighy. Their names are all over the movie's website. But where's the name of Astro Boy's creator, Osamu Tezuka? You'd need a magnifying glass to find any mention.
In her lavish new book The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Helen McCarthy acknowledges that her subject is not exactly well known in the west. The first chapter is titled: "Osamu Who?" The fact that the question needs to be asked is indicative of the enduring bafflement with which we regard Japanese pop culture. And the Japanese are not nearly as insular as »
- Sam Leith
Time Out’s Top 50 Animated Movies of All Time Curated by Terry Gilliam
7 October 2009 9:20 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Time Out London has published a list of the 50 greatest animated feature films of all time curated by Terry Gilliam . I'm not sure if this means that Gilliam hand picked the titles on the list, or if the filmmaker was simply commenting on the list created by the TimeOut editors. Either way, you can find a listing of the top 20 entries below: 1. My Neighbour Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki 2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) David Hand 3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979) Chuck Jones and Phil Monroe 4. Fantasia (1940) 5. Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter 6. Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki 7. Yellow Submarine (1968) George Dunning 8. Belleville Rendez-vouz (2003) Sylvain Chomet 9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) Trey Parker 10. Robin Hood (1973) Wolfgang Reitherman 11. Bambi (1942) David Hand 12. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Isao Takahata 13. Dumbo (1941) Ben Sharpsteen 14. Gandahar (1988) René Laloux 15. The Iron Giant ... »
- Peter Sciretta
Marge Champion Goes Back with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
5 October 2009 2:27 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The character model for Snow White talks about working on the first Disney feature film and much more
When Marge Champion was in her teens, she did some work for an animation studio's first feature film, which is now a modern classic. The 90-year-old Champion was the character movement model for Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which makes its Blu-ray debut and kicks off Disney's new Diamond Collection Blu-ray/DVD line on October 6. I had the honor of speaking with Champion over the phone about her work on the film and this fantastic new Blu-ray release, and here's what she had to say.
Everyone I've talked to that's worked for Disney has had a fairly interesting story about how they first started working there, so can you tell us how you first became involved with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and maybe your first impressions of Walt Disney? »
classical movies are music to cinema’s ears
28 September 2009 7:43 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
No, not classic movies: classical movies. September is Classical Music Month, the origin of which probably ties in to the whole “back to school, back to seriousness” idea. Which is sort of silly, actually: just because classical music is has stood the test of time doesn’t mean it has to be solemn. In fact, for most of us under 60, our first exposure to classical music came before we ever knew what “classical music” meant, perhaps in the Bugs Bunny cartoons we slurped up with our Cheerios on Saturday mornings. The most famous of which is probably the best, and one still beloved because of its musical parodying: In 1957’s “What’s Opera, Doc?” Bugs and Elmer Fudd send up Wagnerian opera in gloriously comic style; the short has long been a favorite of fans and critics alike, and is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon in the National Film Registry. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
D23: Cage talks Sorcerer
11 September 2009 10:10 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
[Ed. note: Jenna Busch is at Disney's D23 conference and is filing reports throughout the weekend.] Wondering what new and exciting hair style Nic Cage is going to be sporting in years to come? Look no further than the footage from the upcoming live action film, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. We got a glimpse of his long scraggly locks (blond this time) as master sorcerer Balthazar, who has taken on a student. The film is based on the Mickey Mouse chapter of Fantasia, one of the coolest films... »
- Jenna Busch
Film: Review:Walt & El Grupo
10 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Walt Disney was in dire straits in 1941. The success of the Mickey Mouse cartoons and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in the ’30s gave Disney the resources to build a studio and to make the more ambitious features Pinocchio and Fantasia. But both of those movies were box-office disappointments, and just when Disney was planning to enact some economies and save his dream, his animators—some of whom had worked alongside him for more than a decade—went on strike. While all this was going on, the Roosevelt administration asked Disney to participate in the “Good Neighbor” program ... »
Toy Story's Buzz and Woody named top animated movie characters
22 July 2009 4:22 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Tom and Jerry, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Itchy and Scratchy – animations have long tickled our funny bones with mismatched duos and it is one such clashing couple that have been named the two most beloved movie cartoon characters of all time – Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story movies. The pair of playthings both belong to youngster Andy, but are polar opposites. Woody, a basic pull-string wooden cowboy voiced by Tom Hanks has his roots in 1950s puppet show Woody’s Round-Up and is neurotic and insecure, while Buzz, voiced by Tim Allen is a product of the space-age, an astronaut with electronic lights, noises and bags of self-confidence. And yet they share the spoils in this new online poll from film website Moviefone.com with Woody beating Buzz to the top honour. Wanna know where your favourite charted? Click over for more.
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Woody And Buzz Are Most Beloved Cartoon Characters
21 July 2009 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Toy Story's Woody and Buzz Lightyear are the best animated movie characters of all time, according to a new online poll.
Editors of film website Moviefone.com have named the pair - voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen - at the top of a list of the most beloved cartoon creations, including Micky Mouse and Dumbo.
The top 10 is as follows:
1. Sheriff Woody - Toy Story
2. Buzz Lightyear - Toy Story
3. Mickey Mouse - Fantasia
4. Cruella de Vil - 101 Dalmations
5. Genie - Aladdin
6. Nemo - Finding Nemo
7. Donkey - Shrek
8. Thumper - Bambi
10. Queen - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. »
John Landis on Michael Jackson & An American Werewolf...
29 June 2009 12:43 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
After the passing of Michael Jackson last week, Tom DeFeo aka "The Godfather of Fangoria" (our owner & president) asked me to post a copy of our Screamography episode featuring John Landis. With last night's news that Dimension might be remaking An American Werewolf In London, the episode certainly seems hauntingly timely.
Presented below is the full, 54-minute episode of Fangoria's Screamography: John Landis, along with a text transcript featuring Landis on Jackson.The segment on An American Werewolf begins around the 23 minute mark, with the segment on Thriller beginning around 37.
Fangoria Screamography - John Landis
Transcript: The Making Of Michael Jackson's Thriller (at 37:00 in the video):
Narrator: Landis' next project was for the small screen and starred The King of Pop...
John Landis: Thriller cost about $600,000 which at the time was huge because the average rock video cost between $50K and $100K, and we made one for $600K. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Bellucci Is Enchanting In The Sorcerer's Apprentice
22 June 2009 4:10 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
New photos of actress Monica "Brotherhood Of The Wolf" Bellucci, reveal her as the witch 'Veronica' in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the upcoming Disney adventure, directed by Jon Turteltaub, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, starring actors Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. The live action feature is a re-imagining of the famed Sorcerer's Apprentice segment in Disney's animated Fantasia, which in turn is based on the late 1890's symphonic poem by composer Paul Dukas and the 1797 Johann Wolfgang Goethe ballad. Premise of the new film follows average college student (Baruchel) reluctantly recruited to work for a sorcerer (Cage), who gives him a crash course in the art/science of magic to prepare him for a battle against the forces of darkness in modern Manhattan. Cage's sorcerer is named 'Balthazar Blake', Teresa Palmer is the love interest of Baruchel's character, Alfred "Doc Ock" Molina plays evil magician 'Horvath' and Toby Kebbell is celebrity illusionist 'Drake Stone. »
Trip Out on ‘Fantasia’
21 June 2009 12:22 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Every week, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: Fantasia (1940) In 1938, Walt Disney made the incredibly foolish decision to try to increase the waning popularity of Mickey Mouse instead of making a commercial viable short cartoon. Of course, I'm sure at the time like the two would go hand in hand, but ultimately Disney and his team created a short called "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" that ran two minutes longer than the average cartoon and cost $125,000 to produce (Disney had only ever made as much as $60,000 from a short). Realizing that there was no way to turn a profit on the endeavor, a very clever solution was set into motion. They would make "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" part of a much larger feature film, releasing it on the heels of the massive Snow White success. That »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
First Look at The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
19 June 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
I haven’t been really keeping tabs on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the upcoming film from director John Turteltaub and his National Treasure bud, Nicholas Cage. The first set photos from Tsa recently hit the net and I gotta say, they are not exactly thrilling me. In fact, as I write this, I don’t even know why I’m bothering to write this but I already started typing so here we go…
These first photos from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice mainly show Nic Cage and co-star Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded) doing the wizard-in-love thang. See for yourself:
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Did you see that hair on Nic Cage??? Wtf???
In an age where filmmakers can use CGI to create everything from realistic transforming robots to tear-inducing animated dramas, you think Somebody in a CGI F/X department Somewhere would’ve been tasked with providing »
- Kofi Outlaw
Shia Says Spielberg Has "Cracked" Indy 5
16 June 2009 12:23 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Ah, the sequel no one is clamoring for has reared its head again. To be fair, some people enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and with worldwide gross receipts totaling nearly $800 million, the only question that remained was when Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Harrison Ford would be ready to give it another go. (Our own poll last year suggested that it was time to retire the franchise.) Reportedly, Lucas favored the idea of continuing with old Indiana Jones as the lead character rather than handing things over to young Mutt Williams, played by Shia Labeouf. Research was being conducted to find an artifact that the movie could be based on.
In the UK to promote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Labeouf talked to the BBC and revealed that he had spoken recently with Spielberg about another Indiana Jones movie: "Steven just said he cracked a »
- Peter Martin
20 Greatest Classic Disney Villains
11 June 2009 2:50 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The saying goes that the hero of your story is only as great as your villain, On podcast #124 I made a bold statement that the key difference between classic Disney movies and Pixar films is their villains. I love Pixar films, but in my mind classic Disney movies like The Jungle Book and The Lion King are still superior films, principally because they all have the missing ingredient Pixar lacks; iconic, classic and memorable villains. Pixar films are anything but weak, some credit must go towards the heroic characters who inspire courage, hope and charm their ways into our hears, but the same can't be said about the Pixar characters whose job it is to create havoc and fear with their malicious deeds. Whether you love or hate Disney, it cannot be denied that they have come up with some greatest on screen villains in movie-making history. Here is my »
- Ricky
Bellucci Signs on to 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'
15 May 2009 1:40 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Monica Bellucci has joined Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel, starring in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the story of a young man who is left to look after a magic workshop when his master leaves him in charge. The broom does the majority of his chores until one day said broom takes off for a life of its own.
Bellucci will play the love interest in the film; Baruchel the apprentice, while Cage plays the Sorcerer.
The film takes its cues from the classic Goethe and Paul Dukas-inspired Mickey Mouse segment of the classic 1940's film, Fantasia. Sorcerer's Apprentice is due to come out July 16, 2010, which means it will go head-to-head with Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
Cage is coming fresh off a run that no one would envy—Knowing, Bangkok Dangerous, Ghost Rider. And while Adaptation demonstrated that he can be good, the actor seems entirely determined to reverse his fortunes. »
Monica Bellucci Falls in Love With Nic Cage
15 May 2009 1:17 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Monica Bellucci has been added to the cast of the already filming The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a film which takes its cues from the classic Goethe and Paul Dukas-inspired Mickey Mouse portion of Fantasia. She joins Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer, Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell in the film being directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) for Walt Disney Pictures. The live-action feature centers on an apprentice (Baruchel) who is left to tend to a magic workshop when his sorcerer master, Balthazar Blake (Cage), leaves it in his hands. The apprentice gets a broomstick to do his chores for him, but things get out of control when the broom develops a mind of its own. Bellucci will play Veronica, a sorceress and the long-lost love of Balthazar. Disney has already set a July 16, 2010 release date for the film which currently has it going head-to-head with Christopher Nolan's Inception. »
- Brad Brevet
Smash-Up Occurs on Set of Nicolas Cage Movie
5 May 2009 3:40 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
A New York chase sequence for Nicolas Cage's latest film got out of hand - literally - when a car being driven by a stuntman skidded out of control and crashed into a Times Square restaurant, injuring two pedestrians in its path. The injuries, a hurt foot and a bumped head, were deemed to be minor after being checked out at a hospital, the New York Post reports. The stunt driver was unharmed. The movie, titled The Sorcerer's Apprentice, is based on the classic Mickey Mouse sequence in Walt Disney's 1940 Fantasia - itself based on a poem by Goethe »
- Stephen M. Silverman
Images emerge from Jerry & John's Sorcerer's Apprentice
27 March 2009 11:25 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
So production has literally just begun but already images have begun to leak from Jerry Bruckheimer's latest production - Sorcerer's Apprentice - based on Disney's Fantasia story.
The photos, which feature Nicholas Cage, show that the sorcerer has been given a modern twist, as he sports a black hat and leather trench coat.
The film, which also stars Jay Baruchel is being directed by Jon Turteltaub is due out in 2010.
I'm not sure whether the modern twist will work or not in this case, the unfortunate truth is that so many people have the classic image of Mickey Mouse sporting red robes ingrained into their minds and this may just be a bit too far from the source material.
On the other hand, many classic tales have been given the modern twist with some success, so naturally this film has the potential to follow suit.
Either way it's here, »
- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)
Your Lol of the Day: Nicolas Cage in 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice'
27 March 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The film following world has been rather skeptical of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which casts Jay Baruchel as the role Mickey Mouse made famous, and Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer. It's one thing if they were returning to the Goethe original (though to be fair, it doesn't differ much from the version laid out in Fantasia), but they're really just trying to go Pirates of the Caribbean with an animated short ... which might have been okay if it had been Night on Bald Mountain, which drew its inspiration from Gogol's terrifying story St. John's Eve.
But I digress. Because the point of the post is to introduce you to Nicolas Cage as the sorcerer, who is apparently ripping his look off Hugh Jackman's Gabriel Van Helsing. All that's missing is Kate Beckinsale, a crossbow, and a conditioning treatment to better copy Jackman's flowing locks. Once he gets those, my »
- Elisabeth Rappe
First Look at Nic Cage in 'The Sorceror's Apprentice'
27 March 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
What we have here is a perfect example of why we shouldn't judge a film too harshly before we actually see, which should tell you enough about my opinion of this first look at Nicolas Cage in The Sorceror's Apprentice from Just Jared. The Walt Disney film reunites Cage with his National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub and takes its cues from the classic Goethe and Paul Dukas-inspired Mickey Mouse portion of Fantasia, the live-action feature centers on an apprentice who is left to tend to a magic workshop when his sorcerer master (Cage) leaves it in his hands. The apprentice gets a broomstick to do his chores for him, but things get out of control when the broom develops a mind of its own. Along with Cage, Jay Baruchel plays the part of the apprentice and Teresa Palmer and Alfred Molina are also part of the cast. The Sorceror's »
- Brad Brevet
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