Jeffrey Katzenberg is one of the fans of 3D, so it’s no miracle that Dreamworks Animation announced that all of it’s movies will be released in 3D starting from 2009. The first project is titled Monsters vs. Aliens and will be released on May 15 2009 in the US. The movie will be directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman.

The classic fifties monster movie will be reinvented in this modern action comedy about Rex Havoc. The story is based on the comic “Rex Havoc and The Ass-Kickers of the Fantastic.” Havoc is the leader of a team of monster-catching experts, who already suffered from some brain damage caused by a golf stick while being attacked by vampires.  Cable television on earth is threatened by aliens. It’s now up to Rex and his Ass-Kicker team to use the monsters in the battle against the aliens. Sounds freaky…. I can’t wait !

A new trailer for Seinfelds Bee Movie is released. You get to see plenty of animation work and it’s really funny! (Especially the last one with the musquito )

We’ve located the music from the trailer of Wall-E and Bee Movie. It’s a song from the soundtrack of the movie Brazil: ‘Central Services/The Office’ by Michael Kamen. You can download the song here:

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Antonio Banderas has given some details about the spin-off involving his character in Shrek: Puss in Boots. The title of the animation movie will become Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer and the story will take us back in history (just like Shrek4). We will discover more about the past of Puss and how he became such a charming tomcat. After reading the script, Banderas says it will be an emotional and funny movie which will definitely appeal to the audience. The Spanish actor will be doing the voices of both Puss as his brother’s. The movie is planned for 2010.

I didn’t notice it until now, but there are 3 movies of which 2 competing animation movies that use the same music in their trailer.  Bee Movie, Wall-E and Michael Moore’s Sicko all use the same song! I think it’s a variation of that famous Brazilian samba song which you can listen to here. If anybody knows the specifics of the song, you are very welcome to share the information.

• Throughout the complete trailer of Bee Movie
• At the end of Wall-E
• A bit after the beginning of Sicko

Strange?

Jerry Seinfeld is the brain behind the new Dreamworks Animations production called Bee Movie. The popular stand-up comedian got the idea on a lazy Sunday afternoon when he heard - you guessed it- a buzzing bee. The next day he had lunch with Steven Spielberg and the deal was made.

Seinfeld himself plays the role of Barry B. Benson: a recently graduated bee who comes to the scary realization that he has to spend his whole life inside the bee hive. The boring prospect of making nothing else but honey scares him and it doesn’t take him long to search his freedom. Once outside a beautiful world awaits him and he has an interesting meeting with a New York City florist called Vanessa. She tells him that humans steal all the honey from the bees for the sole purpose of consumption.  Barry is enraged by this idea and sues the entire human race on charges of theft. But maybe that isn’t such a good idea after all…

You’ll also hear these voices buzzing by: Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Izzard and Larry King. The movie will be released on November 2nd in the US and December 14th 2007 in the UK. Click ‘read more’ for more trailers.

The trailer with the real animation:

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Two weeks ago, Shrek the Third had the best opening weekend ever for an animated movie. One of the reasons for this is the large marketing machine of Dreamworks. Here are some examples:

• Through the intensive cooperation between Dreamworks and HP, the computer builder has hired Princess Fiona to promote the HP laptop with the slogan: “The computer is personal again”

• The cooperation between Shrek & McDonalds
• Dodge Caravan commercial (Click more for these and more ads)

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