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2009 | 2008
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Does Up Have the Right Stuff? See Which Toons Are Oscar Eligible
11 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Now here's a Balloon Boy Hollywood can really get behind. As expected, Up leads the record 20 eligible films for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards. Disney-Pixar's latest instant-classic, which is also aspiring for a Best Picture nod, seems a lock for one of the five animation slots when the nominations are announced on Feb. 2. Jockeying for the other four will be intense. Japanese master and previous Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki hopes for some Oscar bait with the acclaimed hand-drawn Ponyo, about a goldfish who wants to be a little girl. But he'll need to ward off a slew of big-budget, big-box-office, big-studio submissions, including DreamWorks Animation's... »
Does Up Have the Right Stuff? See Which Toons Are Oscar Eligible
11 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Now here's a Balloon Boy Hollywood can really get behind. As expected, Up leads the record 20 eligible films for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards. Disney-Pixar's latest instant-classic, which is also aspiring for a Best Picture nod, seems a lock for one of the five animation slots when the nominations are announced on Feb. 2. Jockeying for the other four will be intense. Japanese master and previous Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki hopes for some Oscar bait with the acclaimed hand-drawn Ponyo, about a goldfish who wants to be a little girl. But he'll need to ward off a slew of big-budget, big-box-office, big-studio submissions, including DreamWorks Animation's... »
Look for Five Animated Oscar Nominees This Year
11 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It was long speculated and recently confirmed that enough titles would be submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category for there to be five nominees this year. This is something that hasn't happened since 2003 when Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away took home the award and not only are there 16 contenders, which is the magic number needed to open the door for five nominees, but there are 20.
The Academy just released the list of 20 films submitted for consideration and they are: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Astro Boy Battle for Terra Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Coraline Disney's A Christmas Carol The Dolphin - Story of a Dreamer Fantastic Mr. Fox Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Mary and Max The Missing Lynx Monsters vs. Aliens 9 Planet 51 Ponyo The Princess and the Frog The Secret of Kells Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure A Town »
- Brad Brevet
Review: Ponyo Aka The Cutest Movie Ever
11 November 2009 2:33 AM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Okay, as the official anime nerd of DoorQ.com, it is my duty to bring to you the glory and wonders of Japanese animation. I've kinda been slacking on my blog posts for the past few months because of the new job and doing things even a censor bar couldn't protect you against with my boyfriend =)
No more, though! Back to my anime-gushing ways! I just spent a nice chunk of my raise (Can you believe it? People actually reward you for hard work and a good job) on some fabulous anime box sets spanning several different genres! This is gonna be Tight, Dawg!!!
*Ahem* Moving along... A few months ago, a bunch of friends of mine went with me to see Hayao Miyazaki's newest creation, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, as interpreted by Disney at a midnight showing on the big screen! The story of the »
Thn interviews the Film of the Month winner Sjors Vervoort for his film Cardboard
3 November 2009 1:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Every month here on The Hollywood News, we feature an interview with an up and coming student filmmaker, and we sponsor the Film of the Month contest over on ReelShowInt.com, the best place for online student film.
This past month Sjors Vervoort won the Film of the Month contest for his short Cardboard. Here, I sit down for a quick Q+A about his filmmaking process, his inspirations and future plans. You can watch Cardboard in full over here. Hi, tell me a little bit about your background. What got you into filmmaking, and who do you draw your inspiration from?
After graduating my multi media course I went to Disneyland Paris, and during my stay there I purchased a book called "the illusion of life", an animation book which explains all the aspects and principles of animation (I can definitely recommend it). I got really excited about traditional »
- Paul
Ponyo: Us Gift Set with Ponyo Plush
31 October 2009 1:37 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »
Disney producer Frank Marshall announced some cuddly details for the Us video release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. Perfectly fitting the missed Christmas sales, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Ponyo in a limited gift set that will include a plush toy of our favourite goldfish on March 2, 2010. The day-to-day Blu-ray Disc release will have to live without the fluffy companion.
The avid importers among you who pre-ordered the December Ponyo Blu-ray Disc releases from Japan or France don’t have to wait till march to get the Ponyo plush, J-List has the same plush toy in small and medium size ready to order.
[via The Blu-ray Blog, thanks to Brenden!] »
- Ulrik
"Matt Damon!" New Trailers for 'Invictus' and 'Green Zone'
27 October 2009 8:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
August gave us the voice of Matt Damon in Ponyo, September gave us the inner voice of Matt Damon in The Informant!, and now October has brought us a look at his next two performances.
Clint Eastwood's Invictus is one of the last big likely contenders of the awards season, though it is as of yet unseen (unless those very few who have seen it are very good at being very quiet). Damon plays real-life rugby captain Francois Pienaar, whose team saw the support of Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) as a rallying point around which they might lift the spirits of South Africa in the wake of apartheid. It's political! It's underdog! It's opening in December! It's Oscar bait for certain, and Apple has the exclusive trailer.
Paul Greengrass' Green Zone, on the other hand, was shuffled out of the Oscar race once Universal decided to sort out »
- William Goss
Oscar Update: 'Precious' Backlash, 'An Education' Looms Large and New Predictions
22 October 2009 3:24 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
We shall begin with Amelia, a film I wrote about on Monday as it became the talk of the town with hardly a review in sight and a mere five days until its release. Well, that's all changed as I saw the film early Tuesday morning and it seems most everyone in Los Angeles and New York saw it for the first time as well. While I won't be joining David Poland on the train to completely disembowel Mira Nair's film of the famed aviatrix (and it seems Kris Tapley will also be doing the same), I will admit it's not a very good movie and would agree with Justin Chang's take at Variety when he says the film "offers snazzy aerial photography and inspirational platitudes in lieu of insight into Amelia Earhart's storied life and high-flying career."
What does this mean for the Best Actress race? Well, I »
- Brad Brevet
Oscar Contender: 'The Princess and the Frog' is a music frontrunner
21 October 2009 12:25 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's a busy year for animation at the Walt Disney Studios. The company's Pixar division has the critically acclaimed and box office smash "Up," it released Hayao Miyazaki released his third English-language dubbed masterpiece "Ponyo" and Richard Zemeckis has collaborated with the studio to bring Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" to the world of motion-capture. Flying a tad under the radar, however, is Disney's long awaited return to traditional hand drawn animation, "The Princess and the Frog." After reviving the animation division in the early 1990s with such modern classics as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion... »
Ponyo gets Us DVD & Blu-ray Disc release on the same day as Japan [Update]
19 October 2009 2:37 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »
Good news for those of us who want to see Hayao Miyazaki’s latest Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea in glorious HD as soon as possible without paying a premium price for the Japanese Blu-ray Disc release.
According to Rope of Silicone, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will bring the significant cheaper Us DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on the same day as in Japan, meaning December 8th. So the October date mentioned back in July was (just as espected) just some retailer related date.
[Oct. 20] Update: According to Disney producer Frank Marshall, Ponyo will be released in the Us in March 2010! I asked him about the date Rope of Silicone stated but I didn’t receive an answer yet. Hard to believe that Disney won’t take advantage of the upcoming Christmas sales, especially since a French Bd release for December was announced two days ago. [via The Ghibli Blog] »
- Ulrik
Which Five Animated Films Do You Think Will be Nominated for an Oscar?
12 October 2009 3:53 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
[poll id = "65"] Word has come down from In Contention, and Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol will be submitted into the Best Animated Film race, which means the category will have enough films to qualify (anywhere from 16 to 17) for five nominations as opposed to the traditional three. Of course, as per the rules this doesn't mean the Academy has to nominate five films: All submissions sent to the Academy will be screened by the Animated Feature Film Award Screening Committee(s). After the screenings, the committee(s) will vote by secret ballot to nominate from 3 to 5 motion pictures for this award. In any year in which 8 to 15 animated features are released in Los Angeles County, a maximum of 3 motion pictures may be nominated. In any year in which 16 or more animated features are submitted and accepted in the category, a maximum of 5 motion pictures may be nominated. Can you imagine the Academy not nominating five films, »
- Brad Brevet
Noah Cyrus Is Totally Into Frankie Jonas
5 October 2009 4:30 AM, PDT | Celebuzz.com | See recent Celebuzz news »
It looks like Noah Cyrus is really following in her big sister Miley's footsteps. First, she copied her pole dancing routine. Now, she's confessing her love for a Jonas Brother! The 9-year-old is good friends with little Frankie Jonas, who was her co-star in Ponyo. "Good friends" or maybe more? She tweeted a picture of her and Frankie, along with the following: "me and my boyy. i love you frankie! forever and always" Oh, man. This is getting serious! On another note, Noah was also doing a live-chat on Ustream last night at 1am. She's nine. Appropriate? Share your thoughts below. »
- Celebuzz
400 Screens 400 Blows - Hello Ponyo, Hello
3 October 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
This has been one amazing year for animated films. At least four of them are contenders for my list of the year's best films, and a few others are good enough to warrant a second viewing. But despite that, the majority of them are in 3D, and rated PG, neither of which appeals much to my 3-1/2 year old son who is beginning to ask to come to the movies with me. There's one exception, still in theaters, that stands apart from all the rest of the competition: Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo (163 screens). Ponyo is hand-drawn (rather than computer-animated), not in 3D, and so far is the only G-rated movie of the year. (I'm not counting two others: Hannah Montana: The Movie, or Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, about which the less said, the better.)
Yet Ponyo hasn't exactly been lighting its United States audience on fire. Or »
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
Clip du jour: Bert and Ernie get lost in translation
30 September 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
It's one thing to ape Madonna videos or replace Tony Soprano with a restless Yakuza don. But certain cultural icons should be considered off-limits; and Bert and Ernie exist well inside that no-fly-zone. I know this because I've seldom felt evil breathing down my neck the way I did while watching this wackadoodle Japanese spoof on Sesame Street's answer to the odd couple. When I was a kid, watching Sesame Street in its first season on the air, Bert and Ernie inhabited the safest, coziest bedroom I could imagine. They were not shrill Benny Hills in clown makeup talking about touching "female staff's butt. »
- Christine Spines
Studio Ghibli's New Film... and More Miyazaki
29 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Director Isao Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki, has revealed that he will be directing his first feature-length flick since 1999's My Neighbors the Yamadas. Takahata, who also wrote and directed the tear-jerker Grave of the Fireflies, will be taking on the classic folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, or Taketori Monogatari. According to Asian Pulse, "Taketori Monogatari has directly and indirectly inspired many Japanese manga and anime, such as Sailormoon and Inuyasha. This beloved story is considered to be the oldest surviving example of Japanese narrative... A little baby is found inside the stalk of a glowing plant by a bamboo cutter. He takes her home, and raises her with his wife as their own daughter, and they give her the name Kaguya-Hime (radiant-night princess). She grows into a beautiful adult woman, with many suitors, even the Emperor of Japan - and she rebuffs them all. »
- Jenni Miller
Studio Ghibli to Make The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
28 September 2009 6:41 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio behind films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and the recent Ponyo, has announced that co-founder and director Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) will be directing The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, based on an ancient folktale. It will be Takahata’s first film in 10 years.
According to asianmoviepulse.com, the story has particular historical storytelling relevance in Japanese culture:
“The story is considered to be the oldest surviving example of Japanese narrative, and every Japanese person knows this story. A little baby is found inside the stalk of a glowing plant by a bamboo cutter. He takes her home, and raises her with his wife as their own daughter, and they give her the name Kaguya-Hime (radiant-night princess). She grows into a beautiful adult woman, with many suitors, even the Emperor of Japan – and she rebuffs them all. Then, things become »
- John Cooper
First Details on Studio Ghibli’s Next Film: Taketori Monogatari/Kaguya Hime no Monogatari
28 September 2009 12:17 PM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »
Asian Movie Pulse has posted the first details on the next animated feature from Studio Ghibli. Since Hayao Miyazaki is currently recovering from creating Ponyo, its Ghibli’s co-head Isao Takahata turn ten years after My Neighbours the Yamadas.
The film is supposed to be an adaptation of Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter aka The Tale of Princess Kaguya), one of the oldest Japanese folktale told since the 10th century. Here’s the synopsis taken from Wikipedia:
One day, while walking in the bamboo forest, an old, childless bamboo cutter called Taketori no Okina came across a mysterious, shining stalk of bamboo. After cutting it open, he found inside it a baby the size of his thumb. He rejoiced to find such a beautiful girl and took her home. He and his wife raised her as their own child and named her Kaguya-hime (”radiant-night princess”). Thereafter, Taketori »
- Ulrik
Tiff 2009 Day 8: Neil Jordan's Ondine
21 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- I can't quite wrap my head around Neil Jordan's latest offering - clearly a fairy tale for adults that could easily play well for children, Ondine sounds good (Sigur Ros) and looks good (Christopher Doyle), but I didn't much care for the end result. Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo did way more for me if we are going the direction. Full review coming soon.... »
Betty White to Receive Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
15 September 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I have added the first award for 2009 to the database as the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced today that Betty White will receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, January 23, 2010, at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct and 6 p.m. Mt. In making today's announcement, Screen Actors Guild National President Alan Rosenberg said, "Whether creating some of television's most indelible characters, plunging into film roles with joyous gusto or perfecting the art of the quip as a television panelist and host, Betty White has entertained audiences with her impeccable comic timing and remarkable wit for more than sixty years. Her lifelong devotion to the welfare of animals, manifest in her work as an author, producer and philanthropist, is further evidence of her tremendous humanity and meaningful contributions in so many important areas. Screen Actors »
- Brad Brevet
Now Playing: The Dire Days of Summer
11 September 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here looking at new releases this week. If you hadn't noticed (of course you've noticed) we've entered a strange barren time of year when the whiz-bang of summer has died off and the post-fest Oscar season has yet to start up. Pickings are slim so I'll remind you that these films are still in theaters: The Hurt Locker, Ponyo, District 9, In the Loop.
9 - The one film attempting to position itself for Oscar recognition will have an uphill climb, especially since three Animated Feature spots have practically been snatched up by Coraline, Ponyo, and Up, and there's plenty of competition for two remaining, should there be two remaining. Critical reaction hasn't been very kind, except toward the visuals and I'm reminded of how many filmmakers today are fantastic visual artists desperately in need of writers who aren't anywhere to be found. [rotten tomatoes / metacritic]
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself »
- Robert
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