Last year it was announced that Studio Ghibli, the animation studio headed up by Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Ponyo) was in the process of adapting Mary Norton’s classic The Borrowers . At the time we were left with only vague sketches and a few designs and our own childhood memories of the book.What [...]

Have you ever seen a movie trailer before they filmed a single frame of the movie? watch: You might have recognized borrowed images from  Avatar, The Island, and Minority Report among others. This trailer is based on the Serbian comic book Technotise created by Aleksa Gajić and Darko Grkinić. A sequel to the comic has already [...]

I’ll admit right now that I’m not the biggest fan of fantasy-sci-fi. I don’t dislike the genre, it just isn’t one of my favorites. Thus, I have not caught the fever surrounding James Cameron’s latest film, the animated adventure Avatar. While I personally may have a lackluster enthusiasm for the movie, the amount Avatar made [...]

First there was The Polar Express in 2004. This year saw the release of A Christmas Carol. Next on Robert Zemickis’s list for animated Christmas tales? The Nutcracker. Zemickis’s adaptation of the story of the nutcracker prince will be taken from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original novel The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, rather than Tchaikovsky’s balletic [...]

Oh my goodness, my inner five-year-old (who is always quite present) is absolutely giddy right now. The last couple of months have seen screen adaptations of a couple of my favorite childhood books: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Where the Wild Things Are. Now, another of my childhood staples is hitting the big [...]

To gear up for the release, we just received a couple of clips off the bonus features for the Hellboy II: The Golden Army DVD that I thought you might enjoy. The first one is pretty cool and gives a behind-the-scenes look at Guillermo del Toro and Seth McFarlane discussing the voicing and animation of [...]