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Latest How to Train Your Dragon Movie Trailer Hangs on Dreamworks’ Dubious Animation Legacy
29 December 2009 2:11 PM, PST
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I can understand Pixar trading on the legacy of the Toy Story films, Monsters Inc. and so on - even Cars, which I know many critics aren't so kind on - but Dreamworks Animation trying to draw hype out of their back catalogue? Admittedly they've put the weight on the more successful Shrek and Madagascar franchises, as well as the actually-rather-good Kung Fu Panda, and not such cine-excrement as Shark Tale or Bee Movie, but isn't the consensus that the Dreamworks branding on a toon is best taken as a warning, not an encouragement?
Ah well. They're proud anyway, and so they've stitched together a few legacy clips and a self-aggrandising voice over of spurious exaltation for the top of the new How to Train Your Dragon trailer, which you can see after the break. It seems to be a leak, and not an official release so catch it while
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- Brendon Connelly
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DreamWorks and Thq ink deal
2 December 2009 1:47 PM, PST
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DreamWorks Animation has inked a deal with video games firm Thq. Variety reports that the partnership is an effort by DreamWorks to move beyond movies and TV into gaming. The contract will see Thq produce games exclusively based on DreamWorks properties, including Kung Fu Panda, The Kaboom of Doom, Puss 'n Boots and the TV series The Penguins of Madagascar. The studio's current deal with rival games company Activision, who has already produced titles Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda and the Shrek series, (more)
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- By Aaron Broverman
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'Avatar,' Woody Allen And A Tweet From Prison In Today's Twitter-Wood
24 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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If you read Twitter-Wood for the pictures, you picked a good day to stop by, because I've got a veritable Twitter slideshow set up for you today, starting with a Woody Allen jazz performance and including but not limited to Emmy Rossum in a turkey hat and Shakira hobnobbing with Larry King.
You may or may not have known that "Pulp Fiction" writer Roger Avary was currently serving time at Ventura County Jail in California. His tweets from inside recently came to my attention, such today's where he introduces a new neighbor. Check those posts out after the jump along with Richard Kelly's question about "Avatar," Dane Cook's problem with Adam Lambert and Michael Showalter's feelings about "Bad Lieutenant." It's all in the Twitter Report for November 24, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@gregmottola just a monday night in nyc (or bourbon street) http://yfrog.com/1dg2pj
-Greg Mottola,
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- Brian Warmoth
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'New Moon' Reactions, Oprah And Birthdays For Larry King And P. Diddy In Today's Twitter-Wood
20 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST
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Oprah's announcement that her show may end its 25-season run in 2011 was almost enough to unseat "New Moon" as the top trending topic of the Twitter-Wood feed today. Kevin Nealon and Wil Wheaton both had a opinions on her possible bow out of syndication, while Eli Roth and Kevin Smith helped keep "Twilight" alive in Twitter conversation.
Two big names celebrated birthdays last night in very public fashion, as P. Diddy entertained a few folks on my follow list and Larry King got a little rowdy in my pick for Twitter Pic of the Day. Check that out after the jump along with Jeremy Piven's Calgary Flames trip and Danny DeVito's wholesome moment with Carrie Fisher. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter-Wood report for November 20, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@kingsthings http://twitpic.com/q94op - Who is that masked man? @RyanSeacrest with Don Johnson at my b-day party.
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- Brian Warmoth
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Chris Rock Gets Animated for Merry Madagascar
12 November 2009 12:14 PM, PST
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The comedian talks about his voice work for the new animated TV special
Comedian Chris Rock has been making us laugh for years and years through his amazing stand-up comedy along with his film and television roles. Rock is now revisiting the popular animated character of Marty that he played in the Madagascar films with a new animated holiday special, Merry Madagascar, which premieres on Wednesday, November 18 at 8 Pm Et on NBC. Rock recently held a conference call to discuss this new special, and here's what he had to say.
So it seems like nowadays a lot more adult content comedians are jumping into family projects. What for you is the appeal in doing a crossover like this?
Chris Rock: I mean, well I'm obviously already in, you know, with DreamWorks and Jeffrey and all that. I just want to work with the people. They do really good stuff.
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The World Series, Hideki Matsui and Mariah Carey In Today's Twitter-Wood
5 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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Yankees supporters were out in force last night, and a few Twitter-Wood citizens were right by the field uploading pics. Brody Stevens may have shot the most enviable of the day, apparently getting soon-to-be-mvp Hideki Matsui in the dugout before the game. Jeremy Piven caught another high-quality photo-op, though, standing with his fellow Chicagoan Brian Urlacher.
Poor John Favreau was stuck in the editing room for "Iron Man 2," though, which he noted on his account. Larry King, Eliza Dushku and other added their thoughts after Phillies finally went down. Check out all of their tweets, along with Brett Ratner's pic with Mariah Carey after wrapping her video and Andy Milonakis. They're all in the Twitter-Wood report for November 5, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@jeremypiven on the field before last nights game...amazing http://yfrog.com/05worldser...
-Jeremy Piven, Actor ("The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," "Entourage")
Runner-Up:
@AndyMilonakis http://twitpic.
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- Brian Warmoth
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Teaser Trailer
2 November 2009 3:40 PM, PST
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DreamWorks Animation has released the trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, a viking adventure with the same visual style as Shrek and Kung Fu Panda. Hopefully this one will be more in line with those titles rather than some of the more mediocre movies Dwa has produced (I’m looking at you, Bee Movie). I suppose it’s a step up when the characters aren’t making pop culture jokes or bad puns.
The new movie is from the writers/directors of Lilo and Stitch, which might explain why the dragon looks like a jet black version of Stitch with wings. Jay Baruchel is the voice of the main character (Hiccup) and he’s joined by Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, and Kristen Wiig.
How to Train Your Dragon is out March 26, 2010. What did you think of the trailer?
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- Jeff Leins
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First Trailer for How To Train Your Dragon
2 November 2009 10:01 AM, PST
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I approach each DreamWorks Animation movie with extreme caution because while there are a few I highly enjoy (”Over the Hedge”, “Bee Movie”), their films have a tendency of trying too hard to be hip and cool rather than just tell a good story and include clever jokes.
But the first trailer for their upcoming movie “How to Train Your Dragon” (in 3D, of course), is quite charming. And while the trailer may say “From the Creators of ‘Shrek’ and ‘Kung Fu Panda’”, the writer-directors of the film are Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. They made the “Lilo & Stitch” and now I understand why “How to Train Your Dragon” looks good. Hit the jump to check out the trailer. “How to Train Your Dragon” hits theaters on March 26th, 2010.
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- Matt Goldberg
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Hugh Hefner, 50 Cent And Heath Ledger In Today's Twitter-Wood
7 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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Everybody found somebody to take a picture with in today's Twitter-Wood feed. Ice-t was pal'n around with 50 Cent, Mary Lynn Rajskub from "24" saw her new co-star and former "Battlestar Galactica" actress Katee Sackhoff in the parking lot, and Nicky Hilton presented a shot of her and her sister Paris with Hef from last year.
In other posts, Jeremy Piven made it out to a screening of "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" and reflected on Heath Ledger's final performance there. Check out all of those out below along with Sarah Silverman, a shocked Larry King and how many "Pootie Tang" residual checks is takes to pay for an espresso. It's in the Twitter Report for October 7, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@NickyHilton I snapped a photo of the Trashy Lingerie collage-me, @parishilton & @hughhefner at last years party at the Mansion. http://pic.gd/2a0531
-Nicky Hilton, Actress ("Pledge This!
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- Brian Warmoth
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Oprah Winfrey, Chris Rock look for 'Black Friend'
5 October 2009 7:41 PM, PDT
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Oprah Winfrey's Harpo films is partnering with Lionsgate to secure the big-screen rights to Devin Friedman's November 2008 GQ magazine article "Will You Be My Black Friend?," according to Variety.
The article is a humorous account of how a clumsy Friedman attempted to make friends with African Americans. Word is Chris Rock ("Good Hair") will be starring in the film.
Winfrey's career in the film indutrsy is slowly growing. She's a producer on "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire," and her credits also include "The Great Debaters."
She's also done a bunch of voice acting lately, including "Charlotte's Web," "Bee Movie" and the upcoming "The Princess and the Frog."
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- Franck Tabouring
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How to Train Your Dragon Teaser Trailer
15 September 2009 9:01 AM, PDT
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Of the past decade, the major animation studios have been constantly trying to “one-up” each other when it comes to releasing major CGI animated pictures. Obviously Pixar started the ball rolling with its ground-breaking movie Toy Story but it not long after that, DreamWorks got into the CG animation ring and threw a knockout punch with Shrek. Next on the DreamWorks agenda? How to Train Your Dragon in 3D.
Based on the book by the same name written by Cressida Cowell, the story follows the adventures of Hiccup the Viking boy who would be king and his quest to pass a rite of passage. To succeed he must find the fiercest dragon in all the land and bring it under his submission, kind of like breaking in a horse for a cowboy, I suppose. The first teaser for How to Train Your Dragon has hit YouTube but it’s a
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Renee Zellweger's career saved: 'Bridget Jones 3' in the works
14 July 2009 11:40 PM, PDT
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Having made her dwindling fanbase suffer through "New in Town," "Appaloosa" and "Miss Potter," Renee Zellweger has received a gift from the movie gods: Working Title is developing a third "Bridget Jones" movie.The project is in the early stages, but Variety reports the project will probably be based on the 2005 weekly columns original author Helen Fiedling wrote where the forty-something Bridget attempts to have a baby before it's too late. According to the trade, Zellweger, whose biggest hit recently has been voicing a CG animated character in "Bee Movie, seems keen on returning to the unlucky in love British
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Rose McGowan’s New Dog And ‘Twilight’ Actor Peter Facinelli In A Bikini In Today’s Twitter-Wood
30 June 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled 5-0 today that Al Franken won last year’s Senate election, and it didn’t take long for responses to start popping up in the Twitter-Wood feed, including reactions from Larry King and Graham Linehan. Magician and quick-witted thinker Penn Jillette also brought politics into his tweets, pointing out the relevance of his film “The Aristocrats” in a recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
The conversations weren’t all political though. Rose McGowan showed off a shot a of the new dog she adopted and Demi Moore posted her own puppy shot of Ashton Kutcher rolling around on the set of his new movie “Five Killers.” Meanwhile, “Twilight” actor Peter Facinelli was just innocently trying on a bikini and Russell Brand kept to what he does best, lacing an apology to his neglected Twitter followers with dog-and-leg-humping imagery. You’ll find all of this
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- Brian Warmoth
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Twitter-Wood: A ‘Harry Potter’ Star Visits The Louvre and Fred Durst Gushes About ‘Iron Man 2′
9 June 2009 3:30 PM, PDT
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Today on Twitter, Jon Favreau and Russell Brand both dropped some notes about films that they’re currently making, while Fred Durst and Larry King mentioned some movies that they’ve been excited about recently.
Durst isn’t the only one excited about “Iron Man 2,” though. Favreau showed he has a sense of humor about the tightened security surrounding his movie’s production and detail leaks with a little re-tweeted — or Rt’ed, to use the Twitter vernacular — picture humor. All that and more today in your Twitter-Wood feed for Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
@Jon_Favreau Rt @dsgrimace: @Jon_Favreau just thought you should know that another photo leaked from Iron Man set. http://yfrog.com/0p559puaj
-Jon Favreau, Director/Actor (”Iron Man 2,” “Elf”)
@freddurst @Jon_Favreau so excited to see Rourke and Downey together.
-Fred Durst, Musician/Director (”The Longshots,” “The Education of Charlie Banks”)
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- Brian Warmoth
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Exclusive Portrait: Larry King in Chicago For ‘My Remarkable Journey’ Book Signing
2 June 2009 6:01 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Talk-show icon Larry King of “Larry King Live” on CNN posed for an exclusive HollywoodChicago.com portrait before meeting fans at the signing of his autobiography “My Remarkable Journey” on May 30, 2009 at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Ill.
While in the Chicago area to promote his book, King also lent his voice to the Chicago Cubs and sang during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field. King’s voice has also been heard in “Bee Movie,” “Shrek the Third” and “Shrek 2”. Our exclusive portrait of Larry King can be found below.
Talk-show icon Larry King of “Larry King Live” on CNN poses for a HollywoodChicago.com portrait
before meeting fans at the signing of his autobiography “My Remarkable Journey” on May 30, 2009
at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Ill.
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
By Adam FENDELMANEditor-in-ChiefHollywoodChicago.comadam@hollywoodchicago.
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Summer, the Season of Free Outdoor Movies
5 May 2009 7:33 PM, PDT
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The city where I live, Portland, Oregon, is known for being rainy. Like, ten months out of the year. So when July and August arrive the town goes a little crazy.
It's as if no one's ever seen sun before. The citizens madly scurry about like hyperkinetic beavers, painting their houses, filling potholes, constructing new buildings, and generally creating noise and congestion everywhere. Not a weekend goes by without some major thoroughfare being shut down for a parade, a walk to benefit a popular disease, a "fun run" (two words that just don't go together in my mind), a street fair, or a multicultural hoe-down featuring local blues bands and patchouli-scented hippies on bicycles.
In other words, summer here sucks.
There's one shining exception, though: Summer means free movies. It's become quite the vogue, in Portland and elsewhere, to project films out-of-doors, and each year my city is awash in free open-air screenings.
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- Dawn Taylor
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Katzenberg's Latest Toon Faces a Big Budget, 3D ... and Old Rival Pixar
24 March 2009 6:25 PM, PDT
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No less than his company is riding on the success of the $175-million film
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The recent announcement that Pixar’s next release, “Up!,” would be screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May presumably did not go over very well with DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg -- especially as he stands at the ready with this weekend’s release of the highly anticipated “Monsters vs. Aliens.”
For years, Katzenberg has used the Croisette as a launching pad -- and parade grounds -- for such films as “Shrek” and “The Bee Movie.” In one memorable publicity stunt, Jerry Seinfeld leapt off the roof of the
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Pixar's 'Up' to Open 62nd Cannes Film Festival
19 March 2009 8:35 AM, PDT
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For the first time in history an animated film is opening the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Just announced this morning, Pixar's Up will become the first Disney film since Dumbo to premiere at the prestigious festival, and it will also mark the first time they screened an animated film in 3D. The 3D aspect of Up is also a first for Pixar -- so there will be plenty of cherries being popped in France come May.
Cannes has warmed up to animated films these last few years, with studio's staging elaborate events to promote their projects -- like Jerry Seinfeld flying through the air in a bee costume to promote Bee Movie, and Jack Black arriving on a boat last year with an assortment of Kung Fu Pandas to promote that film. No word on what fantastical stunt Disney will churn out, but I imagine it will include a whole bunch of multi-colored balloons.
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‘Dinotrux’ Being Adapted By DreamWorks Animation
10 March 2009 11:12 AM, PDT
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It’s understandable that Hollywood would want to adapt books, comics and graphic novels from page to the big-screen. They have the advantage of having a pretty much automatic built-in audience who will end up forking over money to see the movie no matter what. And it also gives them a source material to constantly work off of.
However in the case of the children’s book called Dinotrux, Hollywood hasn’t even let the thing be published before they lay claim to the movie rights.
DreamWorks Animation has optioned the rights to make a CG animated film of the upcoming 32-page children’s book, reportedly for a figure somewhere around the half-million dollar mark. Forgive me for assuming pretty much all of you don’t know what the book is about, so here is the overall story:
Written by Chris Gall, the book takes place in a fictional prehistoric age,
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New in Town (review)
30 January 2009 7:04 AM, PST
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It’s like Fargo meets Doc Hollywood, with a bit of that movie with Michael Keaton and the Japanese auto executives thrown in for what-the-hell’s sake. Except that it’s bad. Terrible. Like please-just-kill-me awful.
As generic as its title while also yawningly idiotic in its own unique way, New in Town is so ridiculously simplistic that it reduces even those characters it likes to cardboard caricatures. And the ones it doesn’t like -- such as its own protagonist, corporate executive Lucy Hill -- well, they’re really in trouble.
Renée Zellweger’s (Bee Movie, Miss Potter) Lucy, see, is such a complete fucking moron that she, though allegedly an intelligent, college-educated, sophisticated woman, can travel from Miami to Minnesota in November without once checking Weather.com, or having the administrative assistant she surely has and surely abuses terribly check for her. So then it’s hilarious --
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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