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NEW Ghost in the Shell Film and Trailers

Production I.G is prepping a new Ghost in the Shell film called Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society. It will debut in Japan this September and then in the U.S. and Europe in 2007. The film takes place in 2034, two years after the refugee riot incident from Stand Alone Complex. A significantly larger Section 9, ….

Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese Lend Voices to Igor

Exodus Film Group announced today that Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese will lend their voices for Exodus’ CG-animated feature comedyIgor, an irreverent comedy which brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. Igor is the story of a mad scientist’s hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a scientist in his own right and winning the coveted ….

Ant Bully to be in IMAX 3D

The Ant Bully: An IMAX 3D Experience is an animated CGI film from John A. Davis, director of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Santa vs. the Snowman. The Ant Bully will be digitally converted into IMAX 3D and feature proprietary IMAX Digital Re-mastering technology. The film is based on a book by John Nickle, which tells the tale of a young boy who floods ….

Renaissance Trailer

Paris 2054. Ilona Tassueiv, a young and brilliant researcher is violently kidnapped. Avalon, a giant multinational corporation and her employer, wants her found at any cost. So goes the premise of the French anime-styled Renaissance. The film looks like cross between The Animatrix, Sin City and A Scanner Darkly.Not bad company, if you ask me. Christian Volckman (Maaz) takes duties at the ….

Wachowskis Helming Live Action Speed Racer?

With 2006 being the 40th Anniversary of Speed Racer, the rumor mill is a buzz with mutterings of a live action movie from the Wachowski brothers. While Speed Racer fans await the good news, the folks at Art Asylum are bringing out a new toy line packaged with all new, original animated promotional shorts that will be comprised of ….

Ratatouille Teaser Trailer

Cars sped away with the top spot this weekend and Pixar is taking the opportunity to introduce us to its next creation called Ratatouille. The film is due in theaters on June 27, 2006. Ratatouille is the story of a rat of the same name who lives in a upscale Parisian restaurant run by an eccentric chef. Check out the ….

Open Season Gets IMAX Treatment

IMAX Corporation and Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that Sony Pictures Animation’s first CG project Open Season, an animated feature from directors Roger Allers, the acclaimed director of The Lion King, Jill Culton, whose credits include Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc., and co-director Anthony Stacchi (credits include ANTZ) will be released in IMAX 3D simultaneously with the motion picture’s premiere in conventional theatres on September 29, 2006. The ….

Raven Moon’s Low-Budget Animated Film

Raven Moon Entertainment, Inc. announced today that according to a story written by Alex Armitage and Mike Weiss of Bloomberg News, and published in the September 24, 2005 issue of the Orlando Sentinel, Walt Disney Co., whose film unit said it will lose money in the fourth quarter, has raised $505 million from investors to ….

Summer 2005’s Top Grossing Films Are…

While the final domestic summer scoreboard won’t be tallied until Labor Day has come and gone, there’s no need to wait for that typically blah holiday weekend to play itself out. It’s already clear who this summer’s winners were: “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (20th Century Fox) with over $379 million. ….

Case #4: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

This Week’s Case: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Released: 1993 Director: Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm Starring: The Voices of Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Abe Vigoda, and Mark Hamill Synopsis: A new villain, The Phantasm, is murdering its way through the Gotham underworld all the while leading police to believe that Batman has turned to homicide. The plot thickens ….

Guardians of Ga’Hoole Series to be Animated

Warner Brothers has acquired film rights to Kathryn Lasky’s children’s fantasy series Guardians of Ga’Hoole and set it up as a computer-animated film, with Donald De Line producing, Variety reported. Lasky’s seven-book series revolves around a parallel universe featuring a cast of owls and magic transformations. The first book begins with a young barn owl ….