Wednesday, March 12, 2008

WALL-E Full Length Trailer

Head over to Apple and check out the brand new full length WALL-E trailer! There are lots of new scenes towards the second half of the trailer!

Monday, March 3, 2008

Prince Caspian Behind-the-Scenes Clip

Check out the behind-the-scenes clip on Prince Caspian.

High School Musical Reality Series

Variety reports that ABC is developing a reality series based off of the highly popular "High School Musical" franchise. Looking for a summer debut, there will be a nationwide talent hunt for those Troy and Gabriella wannabes. Those chosen few will improve their skills at a music conservatory with eliminations each week. The winning prize has yet to be announced, but their will be guest appearances by "High School Musical" stars throughout the competition.

As expected Disney is milking every penny out of the High School Musical franchise while it's still popular. I'm sure they'll have a big hit on their hand, especially if they get the stars from the movies to appear on the show.

Friday, February 29, 2008

New Poster for WALL-E

After reading the reports from WonderCon, I'm becoming more and more obsessed with all things WALL-E. Take a look at the new poster!


I think the tagline at the the top, "From the humans who brought you Finding Nemo," is very creative. I also love the blue overtone of the poster with Eve flying in the background.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Oscars 2008

Congratulations to Ratatouille for winning Best Animated Feature! I especially enjoyed Brad Bird's acception speech, thanking his Jr. High guidance counselor and all "the dreamers supporting a rat who dreams."

Unfortunately, even with three nominations, Enchanted didn't pick up Best Original Song with "Happpy Working Song," "So Close," or "That's How You Know." I did enjoy the three performances throughout the night, though. I feel a little sorry for Amy Adams when she was singing "Happy Working Song." Performing that song, really only works in context with the film and she didn't have any kind of back up--It was just her alone on the huge stage. That really must take some courage to perform that type of song alone on a stage with billions of people watching. Atleast with "So Close" and "That's How You Know" there was a scene and background performers similar from the film. I really think that they could have thought of something for "Happy Working Song." Maybe have animated pigeons and rats along side her as she was singing, even.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Prince Caspian & WALL-E at WonderCon

Lots of reports out now from WonderCon. Aint it Cool News and Slashfilm have very detailed reports, so go check them out. (Warning: Possible Spoilers).

I'm going to list some of the more interesting details, so if you don't wish to be spoiled stop reading now.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian:
~ Pre-production has already started on Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Howard Berger the Creature Supervisor hopes to do all 7 books providing the Box Office stays strong.

5 minute clip was from Prince Caspian:
- Footage was a very rough cut with incomplete effects. A sword fight between Peter and King Miraz was shown.

WALL-E:
~ They aren't planning on a 3-D release, but Andrew Stanton says that it's a possibility.

~ John Ratzenberger will be in WALL-E as a character creatively named John.

~ The Pizza Planet Truck will be featured in the first 20 minutes of the film.

~ Andrew Stanton states that WALL-E is a love story at heart.

~ WALL-E like Luxo Jr. is a machine first, a character second. Emotions can be brought forth by just its design.

~ WALL-E's design was inspired from playing with a pair of binoculars.

4 Clips were also shown for WALL-E (Go check out the reports above for more details):
- A day in the life clip, with similar shots from the trailer.
- WALL-E showing Eve his pad. Shows her items such as a mounted bass, bubble wrap, light bulb, Rubix Cube, and "Hello Dolly" playing on the television. The "Hello Dolly" scene sounds really cute in particular.
- WALL-E stows away on a recovery ship.
- WALL-E trying to be sent back to Earth.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

WonderCon 2008

Those in the San Francisco area may want to check out WonderCon this Saturday, February 21. Director Andrew Stanton will show new footage from the upcoming movie WALL-E. There will also be a special guest to participate in a Q&A as well as show new footage of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Go check out the website for more info: http://www.comic-con.org/wc/wc08_prog_sat.php