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The Notable Films of 2011: Part Two
19 December 2010 2:05 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: March 23rd 2011
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence
Director: Jodie Foster
Summary: A depressed toy company CEO with a failed marriage starts to wear a beaver puppet on his hand as a form of therapy, much to the initial bemusement of his family. He soon begins talking only through the character.
Analysis: This time last year, excitement was quietly brewing for "The Beaver". Gibson's drunken tirade a few years before hand wasn't forgotten, but enough time had passed that this looked to be the year of a potential comeback for the actor.
The thriller remake "Edge of Darkness" and this were his first on screen roles in ten years, 'Beaver' is also his "Maverick" co-star Foster's return to the director's chair fifteen years after her last feature. The script topped the 2008 Black List and scored rave reviews for its blend of sophisticated humor and sad pathos, »
- Garth Franklin
The Notable Films of 2011: Part Two
19 December 2010 2:05 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: March 23rd 2011
Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence
Director: Jodie Foster
Summary: A depressed toy company CEO with a failed marriage starts to wear a beaver puppet on his hand as a form of therapy, much to the initial bemusement of his family. He soon begins talking only through the character.
Analysis: This time last year, excitement was quietly brewing for "The Beaver". Gibson's drunken tirade a few years before hand wasn't forgotten, but enough time had passed that this looked to be the year of a potential comeback for the actor.
The thriller remake "Edge of Darkness" and this were his first on screen roles in ten years, 'Beaver' is also his "Maverick" co-star Foster's return to the director's chair fifteen years after her last feature. The script topped the 2008 Black List and scored rave reviews for its blend of sophisticated humor and sad pathos, »
- Garth Franklin
Next Miyazaki Film About 60s Teens
16 December 2010 8:48 AM, PST | kidspickflicks | See recent kidspickflicks news »
Hayoa Miyazaki's next film from his Studio Ghibli will be Kokuriko-zaka kara, loosely translated: From Kokuriko Slope. Miyazaki is planning and writing the script for the anime movie set in 1963 Tokyo about a pig-tailed girl whose father is missing, her mother is working far away and she and a group of kids have to save their high school club house from being destroyed.
Miyazaki won't be directing, however: he's handing over that job to his son Goro.
Hayao Miyazaki is one of the world's greatest directors of animation, known in particular for Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. Goro Miyazaki's directorial debut was Tales from Earthsea which made $92 million at the Japanese box office.
Source: Variety »
- tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
Hayao Miyazaki to start work on Porco Rosso sequel?
8 November 2010 7:47 AM, PST | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Beloved animation house Studio Ghibli is set to announce a new production on December 15 - possibly a sequel to 1992 hit Porco Rosso. The studio behind such classics as Princess Monokoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbour Totoro already have two films on their slate, The Borrower Arrietty, and The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Although a successful studio with critics and fans, the expensive animation process has led to recent fears that Ghibli would be unable to continue producing films. This announcement seems like a clear...
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- Dan Goodswen
Miyazaki Would Like To Make Porco Rosso Sequel
23 August 2010 4:14 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Hayao Miyazaki would like to make a sequel to his 1992 film Porco Rosso, according to an interview he conducted with Cut Magazine. If your Japanese language skills aren't great, then go to nausicaa.net to read the translation.
For those who aren't that clued in on Japanese anime cinema, Porco Rosso is a Wwi veteran fighter pilot who has been cursed with the face of a pig. The film is set between the two World Wars, where Porco has become disillusioned with life and spends his time guarding ships from pirate gangs in the Adriatic Sea. The film is steeped in history; much of what happens in the film is based on fact, and if you have not yet discovered Miyazaki and his anime films, including the beautiful Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, Porco Rosso might well be a good place to start.
According to Miyazaki, the protagonist will be male this time around, »
Miyazaki's Planning A Sequel
22 August 2010 6:51 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Japanese magazine Cut talked to Hayao Miyazaki recently, and in the resulting interview (helpfully translated by Nausicaa.net and reported by AICN) he revealed that he's planning a sequel to 1992's Porco Rosso, titled Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie.The film was the story of a 1920s / 1930s fighter pilot who unfortunately had the face of a pig. He's a former World War I flyer, but in that story worked as a sort of bounty hunter, guarding ships in the Adriatic from pirates and spending his evenings hitting on a hotel owner, Gina.Miyazaki told Cut that this sequel would see him flying in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), which would seem a perfect fit. After all, Miyazaki's depiction of aerial warfare and blitzkrieg in films like Howl's Moving Castle reflects the account of survivors of that war rather well. Just one slight problem: most Italian pilots in Italy »
Good or Evil: The Sorcerer's Apprentice?
13 July 2010 8:06 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Nicolas Cage gives a crash course in magic to a young protégé in The Sorcerer's Apprentice. We've got nothing against training kids in wizardry. What concerns us is the teacher: Anyone who's followed Cage's career knows he can be a loose cannon under the most sedate of circumstances. Can we be sure his lessons are all for the cause of good?
But that's a concern with most magic makers — there's always the danger that good intentions will warp into something truly horrible. Where does Balthazar Black land on our "honorable to downright despicable" wizard scale?
see Movie Wizards: From Benevolent to Malevolent
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Nicolas Cage | The Craft | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Fantasia | The Illusionist | Warlock | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | The Princess Bride | Howl's Moving Castle | The Prestige | The Witches of Eastwick »
- reelz reelz
Trailer for the Hayao Miyazaki Produced Animated Film The Borrower Arrietty
3 July 2010 8:44 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Hayao Miyazaki has written and produced a new animated film based on Mary Norton's fantasy novel The Borrowers, through his Studio Ghibli animation house. Directing the film is Hiromasa Yonebayashi who worked as a key animator on a few Miyazaki's animated classics which include Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. He is 36 years old and apparently he's the youngest feature director in Studio Ghibli history.
The film is called The Borrower Arrietty, and here's a description of the plot.
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
I love the style and design of the movie. It's right in line with the other classic Miyazaki films, there is no doubt he's had a very heavy »
- Venkman
Eiff 2010: Mai Mai Miracle review
27 June 2010 5:21 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
A Japanese animated feature marketed on its link with Hayao Miyazaki, Carl finds Mai Mai Miracle showing faint glimmers of Studio Ghibli’s magic…
When the name Hayao Miyazaki is thrown around in a film's synopsis, the reader's ears should prick up and listen, as the man is responsible for some of the best animated films of the past decade, with Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke being just three of my personal favourites.
But when the name is given in the way this one was, you need to hear it with at least a little scepticism. Mai Mai Miracle's director Sunao Katabuchi was the assistant director to Miyazaki on Kiki's Delivery Service, and, as such, can have the man's name dropped into anything he touches from then on.
And it's no surprise, as Sunao Katabuchi's style is quite close to that of Miyazaki's, even if it »
Prof. Layton Developer Reveals Trailer for Ni No Kuni
24 June 2010 5:15 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Level-5, developers of the Professor Layton Nintendo DS series, teamed with Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle) to create the upcoming PS3/Nintendo DS RPG, Ni No Kuni (The Another World in English). The trailer embedded below for the Playstation 3 version, which was just released into the wild today, shows off the title's beautiful visuals and a bit of the gameplay.
The games plot, according to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, revolves around a 13-year old named Oliver, whom you play as. After his mother passes away, a doll she had given to Oliver springs to life and confesses that he’s a fairy named Shizuku. Shizuku offers a book to your character that grants him the ability to travel to a parallel reality where he may be able to bring his mother back to life.
Ni No Kuni will be published in Japan next year. Here’s »
- Wejo
New Teaser From Studio Ghibli's Arrietty!
10 June 2010 9:35 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Anything new from famed animation house Studio Ghibli is a cause for celebration, even more so when the new material is a new feature marking the directorial debut of one of Miyazaki's key animators based on an award winning and much loved book.
The film is Karigurashi No Arrietty - The Borrower Arrietty in English - directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the key animator on Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away and Ponyo. Based on Mary Norton's The Borrowers the story revolves around a family of tiny, but otherwise normal, people who live hidden in the house of normal sized people, surviving by 'borrowing' lost and discarded items that they can use themselves.
Slated for a late summer release a new teaser for this has just arrived. So what do you think? Is it another classic or another Cat Returns for Ghibli?
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Five Names Make A "Spider-Man" Shortlist
27 May 2010 1:04 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
A few months ago all the speculative casting about Marvel's "Captain America" film came to a head when a shortlist of four final contenders for the titular role emerged online.
Today, a similar thing has happened for Sony's upcoming planned reboot of the "Spider-Man" franchise. Director Marc Webb has been meeting and reading actors quietly for several months and though the the studio is still on the lookout, the shortlist of candidates that will likely submit to a screen test shortly has come down to five names which Heat Vision seem to have uncovered:
1. Jamie Bell
The 24-year-old British actor and best known name on the list, Bell rose to fame as the title character in “Billy Elliot”.
He followed that up with classic literary adaptations like "Nicholas Nickleby” and the upcoming “Jane Eyre”, Hollywood actioneers like Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” and Doug Liman's "Jumper", indie dramas "The Chumscrubber »
- Garth Franklin
Modern Maestros: Hayao Miyazaki
23 April 2010 5:37 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, continuing my series on great contemporary directors. Even after finishing my triple play on Pixar's team I find myself still not finished with the world of animation. This week I feature an auteur at whose feet even the Pixar guys admittedly worship.
Maestro: Hayao Miyazaki
Known For: animated films, usually about children intersecting with the world of fantasy, and learning something in the process.
Influences:According to Miyazaki himself, authors Ursula K. Le Guin, Moebius, Roald Dahl, and of course, classic Japanese mythology.
Masterpieces: My Neighbor Toro and Spirited Away
Disasters: some of his films have been released in horribly edited American versions, though that's surely not his fault.
Better than you remember: Some of his lesser works tend to be under-appreciated despite being delightful in their own right. I'm thinking Porco Rosso here.
Awards: An Oscar in the states and a Golden Bear at Berlinale and lots more »
- Robert
Geek shows and movies on UK TV in the coming week
1 April 2010 11:07 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Doctor Who! Ashes To Ashes! Jonathan Creek! The Pacific! More Doctor Who! How's this for a terrific week for films and shows on UK TV?
We're all sat, antsy, pouring over stills and looping seconds' worth of trailers and preview snippets heralding the new Doctor into our lives.
The build up of anticipation continues and whether the offering up of alternate, past Who Doctors makes the ever-shortening wait for the new any less stinging, or eases the itch a bit, is a personal matter. But, we'll take all the Who we can get, thank you.
The Doctor-ful weekend starts today, and we think it must be the most Who-filled Easter we've seen. We'll get right to the schedules of all things Time Lordish, and the other great programmes guaranteed to make you smile, laugh - or get that puzzled expression that looks so good on you - over the next few days. »
Ponyo – Blu-Ray Review
24 March 2010 11:33 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
Now that Miyazaki is getting the sort of attention he deserves, he comes along with the least Miyazakian film yet. Ponyo, while a visual treat filled with the hallmarks that make the picture unmistakably his, is geared toward a younger-than-usual crowd, and lowers the bar on the level of complexity that is also something of Miyazaki trademark. None of this is a fault, but it should be noted for those who may approach it with Spirited Away, or Howl's Moving Castle in mind. Billed as "inspired by The Little Mermaid," Ponyo is an instant celebration of the worldwide diversity of storytellers, because no one bred of American culture would spin this tale out of that source. Sosuke, a young lad of five, find a beautiful goldfish, names her Ponyo, and decides to take her home. This will confuse some just while staring at the poster, because even at her fishiest »
- Marc Eastman
Movie Review: Animated Oscar Nominated Short Films (2010)
22 February 2010 1:06 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Lady and the Reaper, Logorama, A Matter of Loaf and Death, French Roast and Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty Short Films International and Magnolia Pictures are currently screening this year's Oscar nominated live-action and animated shorts in theaters prior to the March 7, 2010 Oscar presentation. For theater listings and times check out Shorts HD.com. Below are the reviews for the five Oscar-nominated animated short films along with production videos and full versions of all five short films.
You can get my reviews of the five nominated live-action shorts right here.
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty Ireland / 6:06 minutes
Nicky Phelan's Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty serves as its own piece of revisionist story-telling as Granny O'Grimm sets down to tell her granddaughter the age old tale of "Sleeping Beauty" only to lose herself along the way in fits of rage and jealousy as the plot twists and turns. The animation is pretty good, »
- Brad Brevet
Teaser Trailer: Studio Ghibli’s Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers)
8 February 2010 1:30 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Twitch has posted a short teaser trailer for the upcoming animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli titled Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers). Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who served as a key animator on Hayao Miyazaki's classics Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away, makes his directorial debut. And at 36-years-old, Yonebayashi becomes the youngest person to have directed a film for Studio Ghibli. The film is adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, a novel Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata had considered developing into an animated film for the past 40 years. Here is the official plot synopsis from IMDb: 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. It is also worth noting a bit of trivia: The story is »
- Peter Sciretta
[TV] The Prominent Animators of Our Era
8 February 2010 8:58 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Animation has always had a hall of heroes. From the early days when cartooning was little more than static images on a page with little word blurbs to today’s modern era of high-quality animation with the likes of Hayao Miyazaki and Pixar, each generation has its highest echelons to which all others strive to equal. Forty to fifty years ago the men to beat included Mel Blanc, Walt Disney, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Needless to say there are new illustrators on the throne and it’s fair to speculate that they’ll leave as long a lasting impression as the greats who came before. Like in the past, don't be surprised if a large share of the animating bests come from television, it does seem to be the medium where it thrives most.
The Simpsons, the longest running cartoon series of all-time and, even more impressively, »
- Lex Walker
Studio Ghibli's Next is 'Karigurashi No Arrietty' and Here's a Teaser
8 February 2010 5:03 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Thanks to Twitch I was alerted to a brief teaser trailer for Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers), the upcoming animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli featuring the directorial debut of Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Of course, this isn't a typical kind of feature for me to cover, but it hit at the right time and on top of that anyone that's seen Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away has already seen Yonebayashi's work as he served as a member of the animation department on all three.
This new feature centers on 14-year-old Arrietty Clock and the rest of the Clock family who live in peaceful anonymity as Borrowers. They make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. Miyazaki wrote the screenplay based on Mary Norton's novel of the same name, »
- Brad Brevet
First Teaser For Studio Ghibli's Karigurashi No Arrietty
7 February 2010 9:54 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Any time Japan's famed animation house Studio Ghibli releases a new film it is a big event and this is no exception.
Adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Karigurashi No Arrietty is the directorial debut of Hiromasa Yonebayashi - a key animator on a number of earlier Ghibli works including Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. But why talk about it when you can look at it? The first teaser has arrived and it is gorgeous!
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