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Cowboy Bebop Live-Action Movie is Coming

It’s definitely good to be a Japanese anime fan nowadays. With “Robotech”, “Akira”, and “Ghost in the Shell” already gearing up for the big Hollywood treatment (with very notable names behind them, to boot!), fans of “Cowboy Bebop” can expect to see...
July 24th, 2008 | Read More

Movie Trailer: Star Wars – The Clone Wars

An official trailer for George Lucas’ “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” animated movie has finally arrived online. Dave Filoni directs this story, which takes place between the events of “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith”. It follows Anakin Skywalker...
May 10th, 2008 | Read More

First Look at Ilion’s Planet 51

The MarketSaw blog posted these images from Ilion’s upcoming animated movie “Planet 51″ last year, but, well, I didn’t get to it then, but I’m getting to them now. The blog also had videos from the movie, but they had to remove it when Ilion “asked” them to —...
April 9th, 2008 | Read More

Michael Dougherty to Direct Animated Calling All Robots

Walt Disney Pictures and Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers have a great project coming your way — “Calling All Robots”, a sci-fi adventure romp that will use the same performance capture technolog that Zemeckis used for his “The Polar Express” and more recently, “Beowulf”....
March 27th, 2008 | Read More

George Lucas Talks Star Wars: Clone Wars, Live-Action TV Series

The bearded one himself, George Lucas, was in Vegas over the week to premiere a 5-minute clip from the upcoming “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, which according to Lucas, is set between the events of the second and third movie (i.e. the prequels, not the original ones). As for the animation style...
March 14th, 2008 | Read More

David Fincher, Others to do Heavy Metal Animated Movie

Geez, remember the first “Heavy Metal” movie in 1981? Or the sorta sequel in 2000 starring Julie Strain? Well forgot those, because they’re making another “Heavy Metal”, to be based on the ’70s sci-fi fantasy magazine of the same name. This latest “Metal”...
March 14th, 2008 | Read More

First Look at Dreamworks’ Monsters vs. Aliens

USA Today has got your first look at the upcoming Dreamworks sci-fi animated movie “Monsters vs. Aliens”, a spoof on the old ’50s sci-fi movies about invading aliens. The 3-D animated movie is scheduled for March 27, 2009, but first it’ll be shown to future distributors at ShoWest...
March 11th, 2008 | Read More

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie Poster

To be perfectly honest with you, I’m still not sure why George Lucas is making a feature length animated film based on that whole “Clone Wars” stuff and releasing it into theaters. But I guess he reckons his Star Wars fans will watch pretty much anything he puts out with the “Star...
March 10th, 2008 | Read More

The Spectacular Spider-Man Cartoon Images

Speaking of The Spectacular Spider-Man, he’s coming to TV in an all-new cartoon from the WB, and will be joining the network’s Saturday Morning Line-up right before The Batman, which has its series finale (re: its very last episode) the same week that The Spectacular Spider-Man will be debuting...
March 6th, 2008 | Read More

The Justice League Guest-Stars on The Batman Finale: Promo Images

The Batman is closing up shop on the WB’s Kids programming line, and he’s going out with a bang. Or, specifically, a 1-hour finale that will guest-star the Justice League, as an alien menace called The Joining steals the League’s powers and transfers them to android versions. It’s...
March 6th, 2008 | Read More

Final Wall-E Poster

Pixar’s “Wall-E” doesn’t open until June 27, 2008, but here’s your look at the film’s final poster (thumbnail to your left, bigger version below). Not exactly a mind-blowing poster, but well, it’s for a computer animated movie, so what do you expect? It sells...
February 29th, 2008 | Read More

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) Movie Review

In recent years, Marvel has been giving DC a run for their money on the big screen. Besides a couple of exceptions, most notably the “Batman” franchise, Marvel’s comic book-to-movies have overwhelmed their DC rivals by a healthy margin. But that isn’t the case on the small screen,...
February 24th, 2008 | Read More

New Wall-E Image

A new image (at least as far as I can recall) from the upcoming Pixar CG animated movie “Wall-E”. Who wants to bet against this movie earning a couple of hundred million in its first few weeks? The year is 2700. WALL*E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will...
February 16th, 2008 | Read More

Planet 51 Animation Gets The Rock, Biel, Scott, and Long

New Line Cinema’s CG-animated sci-fi film “Planet 51″ has just gotten its cast — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jessica Biel, Seann William Scott, and Justin Long have all signed on to voice major characters in the upcoming animated movie, which sees Johnson as an Earth...
February 14th, 2008 | Read More

First Look at Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie

This is news to me, but then again, I don’t really keep up with the Star Wars universe nearly as much as I should, because for me it’s kind of been played out, and I’m not really that interested in heading back to “a galaxy far, far away”. But according to this USA Today...
February 11th, 2008 | Read More

Brand New Wall-E Trailer

A second trailer for Pixar’s animated “Wall-E” has arrived online, and it fleshes out (no pun intended) the storyline some more. We learn that Wall-E is a robot sent to Earth to clean up the mess humans left behind after we have abandoned the planet entirely; but something happens and...
February 8th, 2008 | Read More

Wall•E Superbowl Movie Trailer

If you were watching the Superbowl over the weekend, then you might have seen the latest trailer for Pixar’s sure-to-be newest hit, “Wall-E”. It’s the story of a robot who — well, see the trailer for yourself below. Like all Pixar animated movies, kids will love the crap...
February 7th, 2008 | Read More

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