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Comic Con 2009: Full Friday Schedule Announced

10 July 2009 7:58 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

San Diego Comic Con International has followed up the announcement of Thursday, July 23, schedule for Comic Con 2009 with the unraveling of the Friday, July 24, programming. The full schedule for the second day uncovered a slate of movies to be presented, some of which include "Sherlock Holmes", "District 9", "Shorts" and "9".

Warner Bros. will be using the day to share a look at their forthcoming feature project. Taking over Hall H from 10:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., the studio is expected to tease on "Sherlock Holmes", "Where The Wild Things Are", "The Book of Eli", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "The Box" and "Jonah Hex".

Another highlight of the day will be coming from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The studio will give out a first look at scenes from "District 9" with introduction from producer Peter Jackson. It will also hold a panel in which fans can ask questions to

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3D is Key at Comic-Con Thursday Panels

10 July 2009 9:26 AM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news

3D is makings its presence felt at Comic-Con this year with industry firsts and some of the convention's most anticipated new footage. Disney Studios is kicking off the 3D festivities on Thursday, July 23 at 11am with the first-ever 3D panel. Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and Tron are all expected to have clips screened for the first time in public, and more importantly for the studio, for the first time in digital 3D. Immediately afterward, Fox and James Cameron will unveil Avatar in sprawling Hall H to approximately 6500 lucky attendees, also in 3D. Within a couple hours Comic-Con will go from never having screened 3D footage to four films previewed in the third dimension. Disney's Comic-Con schedule also confirms that Beauty and the Beast is returning in a new 3D format on February 12, 2010, and Toy Story 1 and 2 in 3D are slated for October

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Disney Announces Comic-Con Agenda in 3D!

9 July 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | From The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news

Some exciting stuff coming from the mouse at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Among the very cool things we’re particularly excited about are the panels concerning Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and the reboot of Tron called Tron (at least for the moment). Also, Disney plans on having several guests to discuss these films, and the fact that they're all in 3D, including Robert Zemeckis, animation legends John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki, Tron reboot producers Sean Bailey and Steve Lisberger, veteran animation directors John Musker and Ron Clements and special guest director/auteur Tim Burton.

With all this, it looks to be a very interesting couple of days around the Disney booth and panels. Check out all the info from Disney’s official release:

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Comic-con Agenda Is Full Of “Firsts”

Directors Zemeckis, Burton To Take Part In First-ever 3D Panel;

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Chris Ullrich

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Disney Classic ‘Beauty And The Beast’ To Pop Off The Screen In 3D

9 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Buried in the depths of Disney’s massive San Diego Comic-Con press release today is the news that “Beauty and the Beast,” a highlight of the studio’s late-20th century renaissance, will be enhanced with 3D digital effects for a February 12, 2010 theatrical re-release. The timeless story continues to be revisited even today, with the upcoming “Beastly” offering a contemporized reimagining of the unlikely love story. Disney’s “Beast” is notably the only animated work to ever receive a Best Picture Academy Award nomination.

The press release states that “Beauty and the Beast” will be featured as part of Disney’s animation panel, which will feature special guests Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter. The duo will join animation vets Lee Unkrich, Kirk Wise, Ron Clements and John Musker in a presentation of upcoming Disney Animation releases, including the soon-to-be-3Dified “Toy Story”/”Toy Story 2,” “Toy Story 3,” “The Princess

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Tron, Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story to be featured at Comic-Con

9 July 2009 11:49 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

When you think of Comic-Con in San Diego, you don’t immediately think of Walt Disney Studios making their presence known. But that’s exactly what they are doing this year. And when you think about it, two titles in particular will fit right in to the comic crazy crowds … Tron and Alice in Wonderland. Here’s the news release from Disney.

Animation greats Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter and directors Robert Zemeckis and Tim Burton will take part in their first ever Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center July 23-24. The filmmakers will be on hand to help Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures showcase a wide-ranging roster of upcoming films, including 3D juggernauts Alice In Wonderland, Tron and Disney’S A Christmas Carol, and animated gems The Princess And The Frog, Beauty And The Beast, Ponyo and the Toy Story trilogy.

Zemeckis, Burton, Miyazaki and Lasseter will take part in industry panels.

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Disney Announces Comic-Con Schedule — First Ever 3D Panel

9 July 2009 10:40 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news

Walt Disney Studios has finally announced their schedule for the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International. Full details after the jump. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Comic-con Agenda Is Full Of “Firsts”Directors Zemeckis, Burton To Take Part In First-ever 3D Panel;Animation Legends Miyazaki & Lasseter To Anchor Animation Panel Studio to Showcase Key Titles—Ponyo, Toy Story & Toy Story 2 Double Feature, Disney’S A Christmas Carol, The Princess And The Frog, Beauty And The Beast, Alice In Wonderland, Toy Story 3 and Tron Burbank, Calif. (July 9 , 2009) — Animation greats Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter and directors Robert Zemeckis and Tim Burton will take part in their first ever Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center July 23-24. The filmmakers will be on hand to help Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures showcase a wide-ranging roster of upcoming films, including 3D juggernauts Alice In Wonderland, Tron and Disney’S A Christmas Carol, and

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Disney Makes Comic-Con Plans

9 July 2009 10:06 AM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

Miyazaki, Zemeckis, Lasseter Will Present in San Diego.

By Wrap Staff

 For Immediate Release

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Comic-con Agenda Is Full Of “Firsts”

Directors Zemeckis, Burton To Take Part In First-ever 3D Panel;

Animation Legends Miyazaki & Lasseter To Anchor Animation Panel

Studio to Showcase Key Titles—Ponyo, Toy Story & Toy Story 2 Double Feature, Disney’S A Christmas Carol, The Princess And The Frog, Beauty And The Beast, Alice In Wonderland, Toy Story 3 and Tron

Burbank, Calif. (July 9 , 2009) — Animation greats Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter and director...

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Blowing Candles Out For Action Heroes And Oscar Winners In This Week’s Birthday Bash

6 July 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Just as everyone has an opinion, a favorite meal and a nose — albeit a fake one at times — so too does everyone have a birthday. Even celebrities. Here at Birthday Bash, it’s my mission to salute the fine actors, filmmakers and other Hollywood heroes that are celebrating their special day this week. After all, it’s cheaper than mailing a cake.

This week’s Birthday Bash is highlighted by an iconic action star, a recent comic book hero and one of the most reputable actors of our time.

Sylvester Stallone (July 6): When you’re thinking of the greatest action heroes in cinema history, it’s hard not to place Sylvester Stallone toward the top of the list. Stallone’s lengthy film career includes iconic turns as prizefighter Rocky Balboa and Ptsd-suffering John Rambo, two roles that the actor resurrected in recent years with a surprising amount of success.

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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: July 5th, 2009

5 July 2009 6:21 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

This week:

Revenge of The Fallen meets Dawn of the Dinosaurs; it’ll take 6 years to see the last Airbender; Adams looks on as Batman fights Marky Mark; George Clooney leaves Warner Bros; The Green Hornet is delayed and Tony Scott, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are stoppable.

 

Box Office

Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen and Ice Age 3-D: Dawn of the Dinosaurs fought it out over the weekend to see who would get the top spot. The fight was so close that it’ll take final numbers on Monday to see who the box office champion is. Both films should bank about $43 million over the July 4th weekend. Tranformers 2’s total currently stands at just under $300 million. Public Enemies should bank about $25 million from Friday to Monday giving the Johnny Depp starrer a pretty decent $40 million over five days. The Michael Mann film appears to have

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Niall Browne

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If film critics can issue Top 10 lists, why not Oscar?

5 July 2009 3:55 AM, PDT | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news

I think it's hilarious reading all the blog rants against the Oscars' decision to expand the best-picture list to 10, written by the same film critics who issue their own Top 10 lists every year. I cheer Oscar's decision. As the telecast confronts declining Nielsen numbers, this is a great antidote since it will draw in more viewers rooting for their flicks to win. Oscar's Top 10 list will probably include lots of popcorn pix snubbed in the past like "The Dark Knight" and comedies like "Borat." Also, animated gems like "Toy Story" that were so neglected previously that the academy had to create a separate race for them eight years ago. Will that category be eliminated ahead? Maybe, in a few years, if "Up" and other worthy entries get in. As things stood up till recently, if socko comedies like "Tropic Thunder" and musicals like "Dreamgirls" and "Sweeney Todd" continued to get skunked,

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Movie Review: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

1 July 2009 1:19 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

The gang and one new addition in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Photo: 20th Century Fox Animation has blown-up since the advent of computer-animation. From my count, in 1995 we saw Toy Story, the first feature film released to use only computer-generated imagery, hit theaters and that same year it was accompanied domestically by only two other major animated films, Balto and Pocahontas. In 2008 there were no less than twelve animated releases and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs makes the fourth major animated release of 2009 in a year that looks to continue the trend. I mention this only because the imagination appears to have evaporated entirely from the majority of these pictures with Pixar and your occasional independent release actually hitting on something unique and worth falling over. There is nothing wrong with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, but there was certainly nothing new or exciting about it.

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Toy Story 3 Themes More Grown Up

29 June 2009 11:07 AM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news

The price of admission to Up a few weeks ago was worth every penny when the Toy Story 3 trailer cued up. At my screening the crowd went nuts when realizing Buzz, Woody and pals were coming back. Everyone loves Toy Story. Sci-Fi Wire recently sat down with one of Toy Story 3's animators Angus MacLane to discuss the film's heavily guarded motifs and themes. As the original Toy Story's audience has matured, so will the third entry's stories to tell. "I feel like we've grown up making these movies, and each of the films represents where the filmmakers were at the time of making the films," MacLane said. "Certainly we're approaching this film 10 years later, so I think we're sort of coming at it from the standpoint of [Andy] has grown up, and we've grown up with these toys, and we have a reverence for them, but we

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Secrets of 'Toy Story 3' Teased

28 June 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

While "Toy Story 3" teaser trailer outed previously didn't give any idea what to expect from the Disney/Pixar animation, animator Angus MacLane opens up about a few details of the third "Toy Story" movie. In an exclusive interview with Sci Fi Wire in Burbank, California, the director of short film "Burn-e" shared that the approach of the film will be coming from "the standpoint of [Andy] has grown up".

Though the movie's basic idea is that Andy has become an adult, MacLane furthermore noted that Andy's room will still be included in the film. "I can tell you Andy's room is in the movie. That's about all I can say," he said, not mentioning in details whether the room will be Andy's room people are familiar with or it will have a new setup.

Additionally, he also discussed about the new characters. "Oh, I've had a lot of fun with new characters,

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Pixar Promises a Mature and Classy 'Toy Story 3'

28 June 2009 4:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

When Toy Story 3 was announced to the wider world thanks to that little teaser before Up, a lot of people groaned. I don't know of a single person who hates either of the Toy Story films, and I don't think it's too mushy to say that they hold a pretty special place in everybody's heart. You don't want to see that watered down and exploited.

Thankfully, it's Pixar at the helm rather than sequel-squeezing Disney, and they assure everyone that the third installment will actually bring closure to the series. SciFi Wire caught up with animator Angus MacLane at the Saturn Awards (he was responsible for Burn-e, and has been with Pixar since Toy Story 2 where he created the crazy Buzz clone), and he spilled a few secrets on the newest adventures of Buzz and Woody. To the surprise of no one that saw Up, their final installment will be a bittersweet one.

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‘Revenge Of The Fallen’ Franchises: Five Sequels That Don’t Suck

25 June 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

by John Constantine

I hear the same complaint every summer: why are there so many sequels!? Don’t these movie-maker people have any original ideas? How about some new movies already? Look, everyone. Sequels are awesome. We’ve known this about popular fiction since popular fiction was invented. Long before Optimus Prime rolled out in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” creators and audiences have been itching to return to their favorite characters and stories.

Just look at Cervantes. The guy created the modern novel. His “Don Quixote” was the 17th century equivalent to the summer blockbuster. Know what the guy did ten years after writing it? He wrote part two! Continuing adventures are coded into the very DNA of modern entertainment. The only problem is that they rarely live up to their predecessors. Here are the five movie sequels that not only met expectations, but exceeded them.

Aliens

In film,

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Close-Up on Hollywood's Creature Teacher

24 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news

Visual-effects guru Alex Alvarez builds the film industry's hottest new talents, one geek at a time.

Alex Alvarez puts down his coffee and lights up a cigarette.

He noodles out The Exorcist theme on the piano in his living room. Then he turns to his collection of Star Wars figures. "They were mine when I was 5," he says proudly. Now they belong to his son, Griffin. "I was obsessed with Star Wars," he adds. "The impact it had on my generation's imagination was rather staggering."

Rather. For a guy with some of the most powerful connections in the movie business, Alvarez, founder of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, in Hollywood, is an unapologetic geek. His baggy army-green pants are hiked up by a black quasi-military belt with three rows of grommets. He shares his Los Feliz home in L.A. with a collection of latex monsters with bulging eyes and antennae.

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Sr Picks: Pixar Makes a Little Girl’s Dying Wish Come True

20 June 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

When the world seems full of doom and gloom, there are always those special people that step up and make you feel good about life. When I hear stories about these heroes, I feel compelled to share them. Not long ago, I wrote about such a thing happening when Somchai Yoosabai, a Bangkok firefighter, single-handedly saved a young autistic boy with the help of his Spider-Man costume.

Today, we have another story of people doing something special for someone out of the goodness of their hearts.

 

Colby Curtin, a 10-year old girl described as fun, active and mature for her age, was diagnosed with a rare vascular cancer nearly three years ago and since then she has been fighting strong against it. For the last month or so however, her condition got worse and she would not live for long.

After seeing previews for Up attached to Monsters vs. Aliens,

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Salute Your Shorts: Pixar, Part 2 - The Other Years

18 June 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.

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Read part one of this column.

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Pixar wouldn’t create another short film until 1997 due to its focus on developing economic solvency through commercials and, ultimately, Toy Story. But in a move that’s completely unique in the industry today, after its success with a full-length feature, the studio went back to producing shorts, which have appeared before every one of their features since then, even when they didn’t have a new short to show off (not to mention a large number being produced with no theatrical distribution whatsoever). Lasseter and the rest of Pixar recognized the importance directing these films had on their own artistic and technological development and continued using them as a training ground for staff. Incidentally, this

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Are These the 10 Best Recut Trailers?

16 June 2009 8:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

What has the combination of YouTube and inexpensive editing software wrought? For one thing, the opportunity for fans to fashion their own movie trailers, recutting footage to honor or, more commonly, ridicule well-known films. The practice has become so commonplace that online video sites are now jam-packed with fan-made, recut trailers that should never have left the privacy of their creator's computer. To help sort out the good from the bad (and the ugly), our friends at Urlesque have compiled a list of "The 10 Best Recut Movie Trailers."

They date the phenomenon back to 2006 and the recut trailer for The Shining, transforming Stanley Kubrick's horror picture into a "fuzzy, family-friendly comedy replete with a Peter Gabriel song to give the whole thing some 'extra polish.'" Their Top 10 includes one that goes the opposite direction, from family-friendly comedy to horror picture (Toy Story), as well as a couple that

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In My Opinion: Ranking Pixar's First Ten Films

15 June 2009 3:54 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Ranking Pixar's First Ten Films I wanted to post this list the same week Pixar's Up hit theaters, but I didn't want to put it together before rewatching a few of the Pixar films I hadn't watched for some time. Most notably was Monsters, Inc., which I had only seen once and definitely needed to revisit. I also rewatched Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Cars and Finding Nemo. Yeah, it's been all Pixar all the time for the past week around my house and I'm not complaining. Now, let's see how things worked out... A Bug's Life (1998) I rewatched this one when Disney released it on Blu-ray last month and I while I still like this film I was surprised at how simple the story is considering how much more elaborate Pixar storytelling has gotten. A Bug's Life is a cute little movie with cute characters and

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