Wall-E “Eve” character inspired by iPod
Fortune reports that Wall-E character “Eve” was inspired by Apple’s iPod and in fact, Pixar brought in Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, to consult for a day on the character’s design.
“I wanted Eve to be high-end technology - no expense spared - and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to [...]
Posted on: May 13, 2008, Section: Animation, Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
News Briefs for May 12, 2008
» Jack Bender, current cartoonist on Alley Oop will be attending this year’s national Tarzan convention in Waterloo, IA this year. Bender is a native of Waterloo and has an extensive collection of Tarzan art. He’ll discuss Tarzan art while there.
» Slashfilm.com is reporting that Frank Miller will be directing a live action remake of [...]
Posted on: May 12, 2008, Section: Comic history, Movies, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 1 Comment
New CG Star Wars movie due in August
While reporting last week on new animated movies that were due out this summer, I missed the new “Star Wars: The Clone War” movie that Lucas Film is releasing to theaters on August 15th. The computer generated movie is set between episodes II and III of the live action movies. The movie is the initial [...]
Posted on: May 12, 2008, Section: Animation, Movies, Comments: 3 Comments
Moola movie intro uses Leigh Rubin animation
Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.
Posted on: Apr 9, 2008, Section: Animation, Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 12 Comments
Paul Gilligan to write Pooch Cafe treatment
Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan has been officially hired by Sony to write the treatment for the Pooch Cafe movie that optioned back in January. A movie treatment is the basic story for the movie outlined in paragraph form.
I pitched my treatment/vision of the Pooch Caf’e movie to Sony along with a number (not sure [...]
Posted on: Apr 8, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
Steve Moore wrote original story for movie ‘Alpha and Omega’
Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers, wrote the original story for the upcoming movie “Alpha and Omega.” The CG movie, which has not yet started production will feature Hayden Panetierre (”Heroes”), Justin Long (Mac in the “I’m a mac, I’m a PC” commercials) have the title roles, with Christina Ricci, Danny Glover and Dennis [...]
Posted on: Apr 3, 2008, Section: Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
Pooch Cafe optioned for movie with Sony Animation
From Paul Gilligan’s blog comes news that his feature, Pooch Cafe has been optioned by Sony Animation to be made into a CG feature film. He notes that Sony’s two previous forays into computer-animated movies include Open Season (which Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers was an executive producer and co-creator) and last year’s [...]
Posted on: Jan 11, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 10 Comments
Lio optioned for movie deal
Mark Tatulli’s Lio has been optioned by movie producer David Kirshchner (”American Tail” movies, “Curious George” and the Chucky horror features) who plans to make it a live-action feature. No date has been set for production. Bridget McMeel and John Glynnof Amuse, the film and television division of Universal Press, will be executive producers.
“I’ve [...]
Posted on: Oct 24, 2007, Section: Movies, Comments: 23 Comments
New direct to DVD movie for Garfield
Jim Davis has written and ‘executively produced’ a Garfield movie entitled Garfield Gets Real which will be released on DVD on November 20th. The movie is CGI and the plot is described as:
Tired with his routine as a comic strip star, Garfield escapes the page and heads into the “real world.” While living the low-key [...]
Posted on: Oct 22, 2007, Section: Movies, Comments: 10 Comments
Garfield DVD to be released this fall
Garfield Gets Real is the new direct-to-video Garfield movie set for release this fall. The movie will be all CGI.
Posted on: Aug 1, 2007, Section: Animation, Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
Early Simpsons Movie reviews: not bad, not great
Fox has kept The Simpsons Movie away from critics - usually a sign of a stinker, but movie reviews that are now being posted appear to be mostly in the positive. Over at Rotten-Tomatoes it is currently scoring a 79% (29 reviews total, 23 positive, 6 negative).
A bad review:
“The movie isn’t a disaster, just [...]
Posted on: Jul 26, 2007, Section: Movies, Comments: 2 Comments
Matt Groening to visit the Center for Cartoon Studies
While visiting Springfield Vermont (Springfield was the Springfield that beat out all other 13 Springfields vying to be THE Springfield in the Simpsons’ Movie), Matt Groening has said that he’d like to return and visit the Center for Cartoon Studies.
The man behind Bart and Homer says he is impressed that Vermont is home to a [...]
Posted on: Jul 26, 2007, Section: Cartoons, Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
Matt Groening on The Daily Show
Matt Groening is interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show about his upcoming movie - The Simpson’s Movie
Posted on: Jul 24, 2007, Section: Animation, Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
Simpson Movie opens this Friday; Groening getting lots of press
Matt Groening is getting a lot of press as The Simpson’s movie debut nears (this Friday). The Independent has a great write up on Matt’s career from waiting tables, creating the alternative comic Life in Hell to creating The Simpson’s franchise (worth $2 billion/annually).
Posted on: Jul 23, 2007, Section: Cartoons, Movies, Comments: 3 Comments
Mandrake the Magician heading to big screen?
A movie based on the Mandrake the Magician comic is heading into production to be a movie. Criss Angel, an illustionist/magician who has a television show called “Mind Freak”, is cast as the main character and will provide some of the special effects. Chuck Russell, who directed The Mask and The Scorpion King has signed [...]
Posted on: Jun 8, 2007, Section: Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 2 Comments
