Warner Bros. wants to release a bare bones Blu-ray of The Iron Giant. Brad Bird wants better. Tweet Warner Bros. and let them know YOUR preference! (Via: /film)
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Recommended Viewing: The Trailer For Takashi Murakami’s ‘Jellyfish Eyes’
Crave kooky? Check out the trailer for Jellyfish Eyes, the live-action/CG feature film debut by pop artist Takashi Murakami.
Lou Ferrigno Will Voice The Hulk In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’
In the first Avengers movie, the Hulk spoke only one line of dialogue: “Puny God.” That line was provided by actor Mark Ruffalo. But did you know that all of the other grunts and roars were made by the original TV Hulk, Lou Ferrigno?
S’true!
What’s more, while at WonderCon, Ferrigno told Nuke The Fridge that he will be doing the voice-over work for the Hulk in Avengers: Age Of Ultron (May 1, 2015). How cool is that?
The First Five Minutes Of ‘HTTYD2’
Dragon racing. Water dragons. A BIPED TOOTHLESS.
How many more days until June 13?!
Related: HTTYD2 concept art
‘Stand By Me, Doraemon’ Trailer Premiers, Prompting Skunk To Lament The Amazing Advances In CG And Stop-Motion Animation
The trailer for Takashi Yamazaki’s 3D CG Stand By Me, Doraemon is cute, whimsical and quickly forgettable. But maybe that’s just because I don’t speak Japanese. Maybe when the American trailer comes out and it features an English-language cast comprised of SNL alumni and Disney Channel cast-offs it will leave a more lasting impression. Continue reading
HBO’s ‘Monster’ Is Getting Stronger
We’ve known for a while now that Guillermo del Toro is directing the pilot for a live-action HBO series based on Naoki Urasawa’s amazing manga, Monster. Pretty cool, right? Well, it gets better. Crazy hunter recently revealed that producer Stephen Thompson (Doctor Who and Sherlock) is writing the pilot!
This is like one of those heist movies where they hire the best thieves from around the globe to pull off some incredible caper. Only, instead of thieves it’s geeks, and instead of a caper it’s a TV series about a fugitive brain surgeon’s hunt for the ruthless killer whose life he once saved. So yeah, same thing.
The Falcon Wants A Wonder Woman Movie
“There should be a Wonder Woman movie. I don’t care if they make 20 bucks, if there’s a movie you’re gonna lose money on, make it Wonder Woman. You know what I mean, ’cause little girls deserve that.”
- Anthony Mackie (a.k.a. The Falcon in Captain America: Winter Soldier) in an interview with Geek Dad.
Via: doc birdman
Animation’s Newest Philosophical Debate
The wily wizards at DBLG Animation made a stop-motion film using figures created in CG and printed — frame by frame — on a 3D printer.
This begs the question: Is this CG animation, stop-motion animation…or both?
Many thanks to pinball1998 for the tip!
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Opening Scene — Now This Is Bloody Brilliant!
Using non-stop action and next-to-no dialogue, this brief clip reacquaints viewers with Iceman, Colossus and Kitty Pryde, while simultaneously introducing us to FOUR new mutants — Warpath, Blink, Sunspot and Bishop. Exciting stuff! I am so looking forward to this flick!
Like I Needed ANOTHER Reason To Buy Ice Cream
Häagen-Dazs has teamed up with digital design firm Jam3 to bring you the enchanting app Concerto Timer. After downloading the app, simply hold your smartphone up to a pint of Häagen-Dazs, and a hologram of a classical musician appears, complete with classical score! Even cooler? Each flavor displays a different musician!
While the official product pitch describes Concerto Timer as a timer for perfect ice cream softness, it’s really just a cool party trick and a clever example of animation being used in modern marketing. The Concerto Timer app is free and available here.
“The new NASA suit design looks like the Great Cornholio”
Pics and title via El_Charro_Loco.
‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ - Trailer 3
Looks like DreamWorks and director Dean DeBlois are going epic with How to Train Your Dragon 2.
If DeBlois can pull this trilogy off — and after seeing his work in Lilo & Stitch and the original HTTYD, I have faith that he can — Dragons could become the new face of DreamWorks. I don’t know about you, but I think it’s high time DW became famous for something other than Shrek.
Disney Is After ‘The One and Only Ivan’
Disney is in negotiations to buy the rights to Katherine Applegate and Patricia Castelao’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book, The One and Only Ivan. The book is about a silverback gorilla (Ivan) and a baby elephant (Stella) who hatch a plan to escape from their cages — cages located in the middle of a shopping mall! Making this story all the more marvelous, it’s based on actual events. Well, loosely based. Very loosely.
This Is Supposed To Be Terrifying, Right?
Alex Ross’ cover for Life With Archie #37.
Doraemon Meets Akira Meets The 2020 Olympics
a = Tokyo’s bid committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games appointed Fujio Fujiko’s famous robot cat Doraemon as a special ambassador.
b = Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira predicted the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games way back in 1982.
a+b = I had to make this video, I couldn’t resist. — Aleix Pitarch.
Poor Idina Menzel…
First “Adele Dazeem,” now this. Via.
Related: Idina Menzel & The Roots perform Let It Go — using kids’ instruments!
Go, Read: Empire Magazine’s Massive Missive On ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’
Empire Magazine just published a massive, nine page article about the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. It’s a great read, encompassing the first film’s back-story, as well as what’s in store for audiences in HTTYD 2 and 3. We’re talking full-color film stills, cast & crew interviews, and countless minor and major spoilers. Oh, and the best part? Lots and lots of quotes from director Dean DeBlois!
Go, read!
Disney, YEEEAAAH!!!
In a tweet dated March 23, comedian T.J. Miller announced that he will be voicing the character of Fred — a.k.a. Fredzilla — in Disney’s upcoming animated Marvel film, Big Hero 6.
For those of you not versed in the brief history of Marvel’s Big Hero 6 (roughly two dozen issues), Fred is a “quirky, weird, wannabe filmmaker…who may or may not be some sort of dragon.”
Animation fans may recognize Miller from his pitch-perfect voicing of How to Train Your Dragon‘s Tuffnut and Gravity Falls‘ sarcastic goth, Robbie. Comedy fans know Miller as a brilliant stand-up and the loudest, most energetic podcast guest EVER. (Apologies to Pete Holmes.)
Big Hero 6 hits U.S. theaters on Nov. 7, 2014.
Related: The Art of Big Hero 6
This News Is Mildly Outrageous
Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) is set to direct Hasbro’s live action Jem and the Holograms movie. Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) will produce. Via.
(Cartoon confession: I used to watch this show. Daily.)
‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Art Reveals Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch & Tony Stark’s Hulk-Sized Iron Man Suit
Click through for the full-size pics.
Pixar, Where ‘It’s All About Story Sequels.’
At today’s WDC annual stockholders meeting, Bob Iger announced that Cars 3 and Incredibles 2 are officially in the works, although no released dates have been set. According to Iger, Incredibles 2 will be written by Brad Bird. Will he direct? WE. DON’T. KNOW. But what we do know is the top secret plot to Cars 3.
Curious?
Click through…
Pre-Order Now: The Art Of Big Hero 6
Walt Disney Animation and Marvel Comics’ Big Hero 6 arrives in theaters on November 7. According to the official WDA sales pitch, the CG animated film is “an action comedy adventure about Hiro Hamada, a brilliant robotics prodigy who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion — a robot named Baymax — Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city.”
Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? Well, why wait ’til November to see what Disney & Marvel have in store? The eager, the impatient and the enlightened know that you can get an early glimpse of the film via the official ‘Art Of’ book. Click here to pre-order.
Coming Soon: 3 New Tartakovsky ‘Toons
Sony Pictures Animation has announced THREE new Genndy Tartakovsky cartoons — Hotel Transylvania 2 (co-written by TV Funhouse‘s Robert Smigel), a CG Popeye (insert exaggerated groan here), and Genndy Tartakovsky’s Can You Imagine? (pictured above, and described as “a fantastic journey through one boy’s imagination”).
Me, personally? I think Tartakovsky is amazing. His early animated take on The Clone Wars (vol. 1 & 2) remains my third favorite Star Wars release (after the first two films). His Samurai Jack is another bit of brilliance, pairing great writing with even better visuals.
That said, I wasn’t wild about Hotel Transylvania. I liked it, but I didn’t love it. And is it just me, or does the description of Can You Imagine? sound a lot like Pixar’s upcoming Inside Out? Here’s hoping the input of Smigel and the deep pockets of Sony will provide Tartakovsky with everything he needs to make a string of stellar flicks.
Bill Peet: From The Circus Tent To The Silver Screen
As a young boy, Disney story artist Bill Peet used to spend hours at the circus, drawing everything he could.
“I did have hopes of doing something with it. In those days, my secret ambition was to be an illustrator of animal stories.”
When Peet began his career at Walt Disney Studios in 1937, he felt his “secret ambition” had been achieved. Unfortunately, this feeling didn’t last long. Peet quickly discovered that animating and illustrating were two VERY different disciplines.
Finally! An English Language Trailer For ‘Jack & The Cuckoo-Clock Heart’
Three months ago, Skunk did a detailed ‘First Look’ post for Jack & The Cuckoo-Clock Heart. It was packed with posters, pics and production info. The only problem? The trailer was in French. Well, the English language trailer has finally arrived. Enjoy, mono-linguists!
Tantalizing Trailer: The Boxtrolls
The stop-motion films of Laika just seem to be getting better and better. First there was quirky, captivating Coraline. Then the spooky, silly ParaNorman. Now Laika’s dropped a tantalizing trailer for their next pic, The Boxtrolls. I’m really digging the film’s grimy, grotesque, European arthouse aesthetic. It kinda reminds me of a stop-motion City of Lost Children!
The Boxtrolls hits U.S. theaters 9/26.
War of the Worlds: Goliath
Directed by Joe Pearson (Rocko’s Modern Life, Phineas and Ferb) and starring Adam Baldwin (Firefly), War of the Worlds: Goliath is set 15 years after the events of H.G. Wells classic, The War of the Worlds, and tells the tale of the Martians inevitable return.
The film is a gripping, grandiose, alien invasion extravaganza, beautifully realized via a surprisingly seamless blend of CG and hand-drawn animation. Yes, HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION. Lots of it!
I got to interview writer/director Joe Pearson last week for Animation Scoop. Pearson not only shared a bit of the back-story for War of the Worlds: Goliath, he also detailed his long and illustrious career in the animation industry, as well as his path for breaking into the biz.
Idina Menzel & The Roots Perform ‘Let It Go’ — Using Kids’ Instruments!
Adela Dazeem — er, Idina Menzel — and The Legendary Roots Crew restored the luster to Frozen‘s Oscar-winning ballad last night with a charming, chills-inducing, pitch-perfect rendition of Let It Go — orchestrated with kids’ instruments!
‘Seconds’ Available For Pre-Order
Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley has a new, 328-page hardcover graphic novel coming out — Seconds.
To read O’Malley’s description of the plot, click through… Continue reading
Cartoon Network Crossover Coming To Comics
Cartoon Network and IDW are planning a HUMUNGOUS comic book crossover event for this summer — the Super Secret Crisis War!
Bill Watterson Resurfaces!
Calvin And Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has released his first published cartoon in eighteen years, and it’s a documentary film poster! The documentary, Stripped, is a described as a “love letter to comic strips,” and includes interviews with such funny page luminaries as Bill Griffith, Richard Thompson and, yes, Bill Watterson.
Rihanna Recording Album For DW’s ‘Home’
Jeffrey Katzenberg announced yesterday that Rihanna will create a concept album based on DreamWorks’ upcoming animated film, Home.
Katzenberg has been trying to build some sort of pop culture cross-pollination with Rihanna for a while now. Back in October, Radar Online wrote a piece about Katzenberg’s interest in Ri-Ri, quoting a DreamWorks “insider” as saying:
“He sees a huge amount of money to be made there and wants to capitalize before somebody else does. He’s making pop-friendly movies and wants her to be in them.” Continue reading
A Handful Of Hallucinatory Images From The John K./Miley Cyrus Collaboration
Remember a month or so ago when I risked what little credibility I had defending the pop culture cross-pollination of Ren & Stimpy‘s John Kricfalusi and Miley Cyrus? (Psst — over here.) Well, from the looks of these candy-colored cartoon stills, I was right.
Wanna see more? Click through… Continue reading
Coming Soon: A LEGO ‘Simpsons’ Episode!
On January 8, the world witnessed the unveiling of The Simpsons House LEGO set.
On Feb. 7, The LEGO Movie was released to critical and financial success, taking in almost $200 million worldwide in its first two weeks.
On May 4, these two tangentially related news items will collide when FOX airs its first episode of The Simpsons done entirely in LEGO! The episode, Brick Like Me, revolves around Homer waking up in a world made of LEGO. He then must “put together” how he got there and how to get home. Sounds fun!
‘Everything Is Awesome’ Is Awesome
Tegan & Sara, The Lonely Island and Devo front-man Mark Mothersbaugh created an insanely infectious pop ditty with Everything Is Awesome, the theme song to The LEGO Movie. Enjoy!
The Inside Scoop On Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
It took a little digging (and a helluva lot of YouTube clips), but Skunk has found some short-but-sweet quotes from the voice cast of Pixar’s upcoming animated feature, Inside Out. While the normally outspoken Lewis Black remains mum, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Phyllis Smith and Bill Hader have all gone on the record regarding their characters.
Curious? Click through…
Annie Award-Winner Shane Prigmore — The Interview!
Hot on the heels of our interview with Annie Award-winner Carter Goodrich comes this interview with his fellow Croods crewman and Annie Award-winner, Shane Prigmore. A couple of cool things to look out for in this interview: Prigmore’s anecdote about working on The Iron Giant and the two animal mash-ups that inspired the rest of The Croods‘ critter combos. Enjoy!
‘Frozen: The Musical’…The Website
Disney has launched a website for their upcoming Broadway adaptation of Frozen. So far, the site is pretty paltry. There’s no art, no info — heck, it doesn’t even use the official Frozen font. So what IS there? A spot to leave your email address for future Frozen updates (and other assorted Disney-related spam). Curious? Click here.
(Frozen fan art via here and here.)
Related: Finding Frozen‘s Easter Eggs
2014′s Winter Olympics Mascots:The Good, The Bad & The Cuddly
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia begin today, and with them come three new cartoon mascots: Zaya the doe hare, Bely Mishka the polar bear and Snow Leopard the…well, snow leopard. (Creative!)
The three merchandise-ready mascots were designed and chosen by Russia’s citizens as part of an open-entry contest that netted nearly 24,000 entries. Of course, Russia being Russia, even this seemingly simplistic act of demi-democracy was not without its scandals.
‘The Art Of HTTYD2’ Cover Is A Stunner
The setting sun silhouetting Hiccup. The flaming sword held high. The cheering viking hordes. Pretty powerful cover, eh?
The Art of How to Train Your Dragon 2 can be pre-ordered here.
Annie Award-Winner Carter Goodrich — The Interview!
This past weekend, Carter Goodrich was awarded the Annie for ‘Character Design in an Animated Feature Production’ for his work on The Croods. This OFFICIALLY makes Goodrich a certified member of the A-list animation elite. You want to ask him for an autograph? An interview? A couple of bucks? Talk to his people, babe. From this day forth, the closest he’s gonna get to ‘the little people’ like us is a corner table in Club 33.
Lucky for me, before I did this site, I did a Croods-themed blog. And guess who I managed to interview for it? Mr. award-winner himself, Carter Goodrich.
Korean ‘HTTYD2′ Poster Premiers
Wanna see a lot more art from HTTYD2? Click here!
Fox Marketing: If It Ain’t Broke…
X-2 teaser poster (2003)
X-Men: Days of Future Past magazine cover (2014)
(Someone at Fox really likes Anna Paquin’s bum!)
First Look: Disney’s Moana
Now that Frozen has been certified a financial, critical and popular success, it’s time to take a look at the next Disney animated feature to feature a princess in the lead — Ron Clements and Jon Musker’s Moana. (Pronounced as either Mo-AH-na or Mwa-na depending on who you talk to.) While tentatively scheduled for a Nov. 2016 release, surprisingly little has leaked about the South Seas tale. That said, what little has leaked is good. REALLY GOOD.
Click through to read everything out there thus far.
Is Pixar Making A Star Wars Movie?
According to Latino Review, the answer is YES.
“Pixar has been given their own Star Wars movie.”
And…that’s it. The sum total of what anyone outside of Disney seems to know. Will this rumor prove true, or be quickly debunked? Your guess is as worthless as mine.
Art by Phil Postma
Steven Spielberg Suggests Bigger, Better Ending For ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’
Steven Spielberg is once again acting as the unofficial adviser to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. An email posted yesterday on Icelaniceel.tumblr reports:
Steven Spielberg was [at DreamWorks] last Wednesday to give notes on How to Train Your Dragon 2. He liked the first Dragons a lot, and one of his kids is really crazy about the original. Steven’s been involved with the new movie for a while, he’s seen it three times.
Everybody thinks we’ve got a terrific film, but the third act needs to be a little bigger, have a bigger climax and a larger celebration at the end. We’re supposed to get a meeting about Steven’s notes tomorrow or the next day…
Fans of the original HTTYD may remember that Spielberg was an early, outspoken supporter of the film. He was also responsible for one of the most touching moments in the movie. In the DVD commentary, HTTYD‘s co-director Dean DeBlois recalled:
‘Me And My Shadow’ Pencil Test Surfaces
DreamWorks animator William Salazar posted a pencil test he did for the studio’s long-delayed/probably cancelled film, Me and My Shadow.
Watching this brief bit of loose-limbed lunacy makes me pine for what could’ve been. Adding to my list of laments, Me and My Shadow was to be a Paperman-esque blend of CG and hand-drawn animation — heavy on the hand-drawn!
Me and My Shadow was intended as the feature film directing debut of How to Train Your Dragon 2‘s head of story, Alessandro Carloni. The film was initially scheduled to be released in 2013, then 2014, and has since been removed from DW’s official 2014-2016 release schedule. Bummer, huh?
For three GIFs clipped from this pencil test, click through.
Y’Know That John K./Miley Cyrus Collabo? It’s Actually Kinda Brilliant.
In a recent press conference, Miley Cyrus announced that she has hired Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi to help design the visuals for her upcoming Bangerz tour.
“Our whole tour is literally based on animals,” [Cyrus] told reporters, adding that the majority of the creatures are actually “imaginative animals” designed by Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi.
“His art is driving a lot of the tour,” Cyrus explained.
Bakshi Is Back!
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Via The TAG Blog, quoting huge chunks from The Jewish Daily Forward:
… There hasn’t been much recent news from [Ralph] Bakshi, … but with “Last Days of Coney Island” he’s making a return to filmmaking, and to subjects that have marked his career since the beginning: crime, corruption, and the grime-ridden streets of New York. …
The decline of Coney Island was a local tragedy, but it wasn’t just the beach that was in trouble. As Bakshi tells it, the fate of the neighborhood was a metaphor for everything happening in America, including the assassinations of Kennedy and King. “Coney Island was a place where poor people could go and not feel poor,” he said. “You wouldn’t run into any Rolls Royces, and you didn’t feel that there was anything that you could not afford to do. But it ended up trashed, and I felt that America was headed the same way. Continue reading
David Kawena’s Disney Beefcake Featured In Cosmopolitan Magazine!
Here at Skunk Central, this is BIG NEWS.
Back in October, David Kawena let us use a few of his romance cover re-imaginings of the Disney dudes for a satiric post we did. Boy did we get lucky. Cuz in the months since, homie has BLOWN UP. He’s not only created a number of new pin-up princes (including a skivvy-clad version of Frozen‘s Kristoff), he’s been featured in the German language version of Cosmopolitan magazine! How cool is that?
To read the pic-heavy piece, click here.
Go, Read: My 1-On-1 With Cloudy 2′s Dave Bleich
Me, via Animation Scoop:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 was one of the most visually impressive animated features of 2013. Boasting an unabashedly UN-realistic look and more colors than a quadruple rainbow, Cloudy 2 was a wonderful reminder of just how gorgeous non-photo-realistic cartoons can be. With the digital download of the film going on sale today, it seemed like the perfect time to catch up with Cloudy 2‘s Art Director, Dave Bleich, one of the key brains behind this brilliant spectacle.
To read my interview with Bleich, click here.
2014′s Winter Olympics Mascots:The Good, The Bad & The Cuddly
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia begin on Feb. 7, and with them come three new cartoon mascots: Zaya the doe hare, Bely Mishka the polar bear and Snow Leopard the…well, snow leopard. (Creative!)
The three merchandise-ready mascots were designed and chosen by Russia’s citizens as part of an open-entry contest that netted nearly 24,000 entries. Of course, Russia being Russia, even this seemingly simplistic act of demi-democracy was not without its scandals.
‘Frozen’ Wins Golden Globe
Congratulations to Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and the rest of the cast and crew of Frozen for winning the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature. Y’all deserved it!
To see Buck and Lee’s acceptance speech, click through.
The Simpsons Go Ghibli!
The Simpsons has been around so long that it’s kinda hard to get too excited by it anymore. That said, when the show does wow, it’s an all-caps WOW.
This strange and surreal homage to Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli is one such WOW. While I’ve no doubt that it is entirely unnecessary to the plot of whatever episode it airs in, that only makes me adore it all the more. Such tangents and tributes are a gift, and the most memorable gifts are rarely the stuff of logic, but of love.
Click through for GIFs.
Monsters U(noriginality): Pixar’s Next Short Is A Spin-Off Of A Sequel
Here’s the first image from Pixar’s next short, Party Central. The look on the characters’ faces pretty much mirrors my own reaction upon seeing this. I mean, seriously, Pixar — ANOTHER freaking franchise pic?
Here’s D23′s description of the spin-off to the sequel to Monsters, Inc.:
Mike and Sulley are back at Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first party, but no one—
No one cares. Party Central is being directed by Kelsey Mann (story supervisor on Monsters University). It was initially scheduled to be released with Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, but with Dinosaur being pushed back to 2015, the powers that be decided to open it in front of Muppets Most Wanted on March 21, 2014.
Hey, all those leftover Monsters U toys won’t sell themselves!
DreamWorks Unveils The ‘DreamTab’
DreamWorks Animation has partnered with Fuhu Inc. to create a new tablet, the DreamTab. It’s aim? To teach kids how to be their own animators.
The DreamTab will come equipped with Be an Artist, a program that “teaches kids how to create…animated characters in one-on-one video sessions with DreamWorks animators.”
Oh, and How To Train Your Dragon fans will be especially excited to know that the FIRST game that’s going to be released for the DreamTab is HTTYD themed…
(drooooooooooooooooooooools…)
For the full story, CLICK HERE.
The Museum of Uncut Funk Presents:The Golden Age of Black Animation
Racial diversity is once again on the rise in TV animation, with Black, Asian and Latino characters playing a major part of such recently launched series as Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe, Nickelodeon’s Sanjay and Craig and Disney’s Sofia the First. Is this merely a fleeting trend, or the it’s-about-time actualization of The King of Cartoons‘ ‘I Have A Dream’ speech?
Your guess is as good as mine.
First Look: Omoide no Marnie
Studio Ghibli’s next film will be Omoide no Marnie, an adaptation of Joan G. Robinson’s children’s novel, When Marnie Was There.
The novel tells the story of Anna, a lonely, brooding, adopted girl who travels to the coast to stay with a kindly older couple. While there, Anna meets Marnie, a mysterious girl who lives in ‘The Marsh House,’ a large, aging mansion by the sea. The two girls gradually become friends, a first for Anna. Then, one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into The Marsh House. Having learned so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna befriends the Lindsays — and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed…
Frozen’s Oaken Co-Directing Disney/Marvel’s Big Hero 6!
It’s official. (And true!) For the full story, click here.
1st Look: Jack & the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Jack & the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is Stéphane Berla and Mathias Malzieu’s stop-motion adaptation of Malzieu’s fantasy/romance novel, La Mécanique du Cœur. The story revolves around Jack, a young man born in 1870s Scotland on ‘the coldest day ever.’ Because of the extreme cold, Jack’s heart stops beating. An attending midwife saves him by replacing his heart with a cuckoo-clock, only this has an unintended side effect: Jack must never get angry or excited, or the clock will stop working. As he grows up, Jack realizes that he also cannot risk falling in love, because that too could stop his fragile, clockwork heart. Très tragique! Très Enchanté!
For posters, pics and production info, click through.
