Corpse Bride co-director to helm CG/stop-motion hybrid feature Oz Wars

Vanguard Films’ President and CEO John Williams announced today that Oscar and Annie Award-nominee Mike Johnson, co-director of Corpse Bride, to direct its CG/stop-motion hybrid feature film, Oz Wars. Oz Wars, written by Rob Moreland (Space Chimps 1 & 2, City of Dragons) and Athena Gam (Alien Rock Band), transforms the Oz narrative into a ….

Clip from the post-apocalyptic animated epic 9 hits the net

A new scene from director Shane Acker’s animated epic 9, has premiered on MTV. The film, which is a feature-length expansion of Acker’s own award-winning short of the same name, is produced by Tim Burton (Corpse Bride, upcoming Alice in Wonderland), Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and Jim Lemley, who produced Red Eye and We Were Soldiers. ….

The Warner Brothers Fall Preview

Originally Published: September 1, 2005 Hollywood’s long, dreary summer finally is over. Now it’s on to the good stuff. And it better be good, if film studios hope to salvage what’s shaping up as the worst year for film attendance since the late 1990s. After a summer season that left audiences generally uninterested, the fall ….

New Posters and Photos from King Kong, Fantastic 4, Hitchhiker’s Guide and Much, Much More

Originally Published: April 3, 2005 This has got to be the biggest film preview we’ve had on the web site. We have really done our homework on this one for you, the fans. Now I don’t want to spend to much time talking. I just want to say that you may have seen some of ….

New Posters and Photos from King Kong, Fantastic 4, Hitchhiker’s Guide and Much, Much More

Originally Published: April 3, 2005 This has got to be the biggest film preview we’ve had on the web site. We have really done our homework on this one for you, the fans. Now I don’t want to spend to much time talking. I just want to say that you may have seen some of ….