Jennifer Yuh Nelson's "Kung Fu Panda 2" dominated the Annie Awards nominations, but the International Animated Film Society decided to give its highest honor -- the Best Animated Feature award -- to Gore Verbinski's "Rango." Both films are from DreamWorks Animation and they still have to duke it out at the upcoming Oscars in the Best Animated Feature Film category.
Besides the Best Animated trophy, "Rango" also collected awards for Best Editing and Writing. But Nelson, the first woman to direct a feature film animation from a major Hollywood production company, won the Directing in a Feature Production award! Yay! (Check out my interview with Jennifer Yuh Nelson for "Kung Fu Panda 2" right here)
The Annie Awards winners were announced yesterday at the UCLA Royce Hall in Los Angeles.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards (to see winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies,...
Besides the Best Animated trophy, "Rango" also collected awards for Best Editing and Writing. But Nelson, the first woman to direct a feature film animation from a major Hollywood production company, won the Directing in a Feature Production award! Yay! (Check out my interview with Jennifer Yuh Nelson for "Kung Fu Panda 2" right here)
The Annie Awards winners were announced yesterday at the UCLA Royce Hall in Los Angeles.
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards (to see winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies,...
- 2/5/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
It's that time, I just finished watching the last film from 2011 I had time to watch before offering up my final 2012 Oscar predictions and I'm glad I did as it is now among my nominees whereas before it wasn't. Tomorrow the 2012 Oscar nominations will be announced and many questions will be answered while new ones will sprout up. Most categories have their clear front-runners, but down near the bottom of each list the potential nominees became a bit hazy not to mention the technical categories where damn near anything can happen. For Best Picture I batted around several possibilities after I got beyond the six films I feel are absolute locks and the idea of just how many films will the Academy end up nominating? This year there can be anywhere from five to ten nominees for Best Picture and we won't know how many there are until tomorrow's announcement.
- 1/23/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock, The Adventures of Tintin David Fincher/Rooney Mara/The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Has Good (Not Great) Opening Day: Box Office With Tom Cruise performing impossible stunts in Brad Bird's live-action Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol, Tintin's motion-captured stunts in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn may look a tad less compelling. At least in English-speaking North America. Whereas The Adventures of Tintin has grossed $239 million overseas, in the Us/Canada the adventure tale featuring the intrepid Belgian hero opened with a disappointing $2.3 million on Wednesday, Dec. 21, according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. (Tintin had already earned about $3.2 million in Quebec, where it opened on Dec. 9.) Tintin's top foreign market is France, where it has pulled in $53m; it's currently the fourth biggest 2011 release in that country, after local box-office hits Intouchables and Nothing to Declare,...
- 12/23/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
I'm a huge fan of animation, animated films are getting better and better. Not only is the look and animation getting ridiculously awesome, but I find that many of these animated films actually have incredibly good stories. Not all of them are good though, for example, Cars 2 and Rio sucked. It will be interesting to see who ends up taking home the awards this year. Out of the movies on the list that I've seen and liked we have Puss in Boots, Rango and Kung Fu Panda 2. I guess it's no surprises that Kung Fu Panda 2 is leading the nominations with 9. Check out the list and let us know what your favorite animated movies of the year are!
Production Categories
Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations Cars 2 – Pixar Animation...
Production Categories
Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations Cars 2 – Pixar Animation...
- 12/5/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
"Kung Fu Panda 2" dominated the nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards. Given by the International Animated Film Society, the DreamWorks Animation sequel received 12 nods including Best Animated Feature. "Puss in Boots" and "Rango" each took nine noms. Pixar's "Cars 2" received seven nominations, while Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" took eight nods but was oddly missing in the Best Animated Feature category.
Winners of the 2011 Annie Awards will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Here's the complete list of nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards:
Production Categories
Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris . Folimage
Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L.
Arthur Christmas . Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations
Cars 2 . Pixar Animation Studios
Chico & Rita . Chico & Rita Distribution Limited
Kung Fu Panda 2 . DreamWorks Animation
Puss In Boots . DreamWorks Animation
Rango . Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/Gk Films Production
Rio . Blue Sky Studios
Tintin . Amblin Entertainment,...
Winners of the 2011 Annie Awards will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Here's the complete list of nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards:
Production Categories
Best Animated Feature
A Cat in Paris . Folimage
Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L.
Arthur Christmas . Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations
Cars 2 . Pixar Animation Studios
Chico & Rita . Chico & Rita Distribution Limited
Kung Fu Panda 2 . DreamWorks Animation
Puss In Boots . DreamWorks Animation
Rango . Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/Gk Films Production
Rio . Blue Sky Studios
Tintin . Amblin Entertainment,...
- 12/5/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 picked up 12 nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards — announced today by the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood — including Best Animated Feature and Best Director. DreamWorks’ Puss in Boots and Paramount’s Rango won nine nods, and Pixar’s Cars 2 earned seven. Steven Spielberg’s motion-capture The Adventures of Tintin won five nods, including Best Feature; the last animated film built from performances by live actors to earn a nod for the top prize at the Annies was 2006′s Monster House.
Curiously, Cars 2 did not earn nominations for director John Lasseter,...
Curiously, Cars 2 did not earn nominations for director John Lasseter,...
- 12/5/2011
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside Movies
Jean Dujardin, The Artist Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart/Taylor Lautner's Breaking Dawn Plummets 76%, or Does It?: Box Office In a strong second place on Friday, James Bobin's The Muppets grossed $12.27 million according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Jason Segel, and Rashida Jones star. Adams was also the star of Disney's Enchanted, which opened the week of Thanksgiving 2007. For comparison's sake: The Muppets' cume is $24.77 million after three days; four years ago, Enchanted had grossed $28.97 million (not adjusted for inflation) during the same time frame. The Muppets' extensive cast features Whoopi Goldberg, Sarah Silverman, Judd Hirsch, Neil Patrick Harris, Selena Gomez, John Krasinski, Ken Jeong, Alan Arkin, Mickey Rooney, David Grohl, Emily Blunt, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Cobbs, and Jim Parsons. George Miller's Happy Feet Two continued its modest run, bringing in only $5.13m at no. 3. The Warner Bros.
- 11/27/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Martin Scorsese/Hugo Surges on Thursday, Michelle Williams/My Week With Marilyn Soft Bow: Box Office
Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz in Martin Scorsese's Hugo Kristen Stewart/Robert Pattinson's Breaking Dawn to Pass $200 Million, Still Behind New Moon: Box Office Martin Scorsese's Hugo, a 3D fantasy drama about English-speaking French families, was no. 3 on Thursday after debuting at no. 7 on Wednesday, according to Box Office Mojo. At 1,277 theaters, Hugo brought in $2.34m, for a per-site average of $1,834. That's really not all that great, especially for a well-received and (costlier) 3D movie showing at a little over one third of the 3,440 locations showing The Muppets — which averaged $1,715. (All things being equal, the fewer the number of theaters, the higher the per-theater average should be.) Hugo, which was made for "less than $150 million" as per producer Graham King, is expected to gross up to $14m by Sunday evening. For the movie to break even (not including marketing/distribution expenses), its actual cost must have been way less than $150 million.
- 11/26/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Hugh Laurie is no stranger to voice over work. Whether it's "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Stuart Little" or numerous other appearances, Laurie's vocal talents has served him well. Now, just in time for the holidays, the "House" star can be heard in Aardman Animation and Sony Picture Animation's clever and charming new feature "Arthur Christmas." A leading contender for a best animated picture Oscar nomination, "Christmas" is the brainchild of director Sarah Smith and co-writer Peter Baynham. This new contemporary tale answers the question "How does Santa Claus deliver all those toys to billions of kids across the globe?" It also features...
- 11/10/2011
- Hitfix
Movie lovers with a prolonged case of the Munchies could soon be sated. Indie-pure director Christopher Munch is back, in fine form, with his latest film, Letters From the Big Man.
Munch imbues his works with a distinct nostalgic longing. The Germans have a precise word for it: Sehnsucht. He explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction of one living being toward another. The latter might be a gay man’s unrequited feelings toward a disinterested straight man (The Hours and Times), or even two brothers...
Munch imbues his works with a distinct nostalgic longing. The Germans have a precise word for it: Sehnsucht. He explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction of one living being toward another. The latter might be a gay man’s unrequited feelings toward a disinterested straight man (The Hours and Times), or even two brothers...
- 11/6/2011
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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