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 !
This advertisement is created by Aardman to promote the Countryside Code in the United Kingdom. The animals of Creature Comforts give some advise on how to behave on the countryside, the coast and the British ‘Moorlands’.
‘Endless Cookie’ is a very nice animation for Zune, the MP3-player of Microsoft. If you know that you can share a song endlessly with Zune and this way the network keeps growing, it all becomes a bit more clear. This commercial is made by Passion Pictures and the song is Magic Trick by M. Ward.
The website of Buy N Large, the notorious store from the new Pixar movie Wall-E, is active. The information is extremely broad, shocking and funny. I’m already reading the site for a long time and still haven’t seen everything. The funniest parts are the hidden references to everything that has got something to do with Pixar.
The overall impression however is that Buy N Large Company offers the most disgusting future perspective for mankind. Money is everything and everything is money. Catchphrases like “BNL Family Values – Because the family that pays together, stays together” can be found throughout the website. The company has got an “almost complete” monopoly in the media, the weather, politics and even education. Critics are seen as souls that still need to be won over. In short, the whole world is a mess.
So what can you buy there? Just everything: from a privatised weather system, space travels to a Wend-E (not to be mistaken with a Wendy ). This magnificent device gathers all your clothes and calculates the specific dirtiness per item. If necessary it washes, dries and irons the clothes, after which it will be nicely folded and put away in the closet.
Wall-E promises to be an interesting movie with relentless criticism on the current consumption society. If you click on “Read More” you will find the (BNL Production) movie poster for “Annual Report 2″ with some nice easter eggs. (Read more…)
Horton Hears a Who is a new animation movie produced by Blue Sky Studios (Fox) based on the book by Dr. Seuss. Voices for this movie include Jim Carrey and Steve Carell.
Horton is an elephant with a great imagination. One ordinary day he hears a voice coming out of a hovering dust-heap. The voice calls desperately for his help. Horton assumes the beings calling him are probably too small to be seen by an elephant’s eye. But how small they may be, everyone has got the right to a good life, so he does everything in his powers to protect the dust-heap. His friends from the jungle soon declare Horton to be a nutcase…
Extraterrestrial life is hot in 2008. After Wall-E, Planet One and Space Chimps, Terra will be the fourth animated movie with space/aliens as storyline. Terra is a CG animation movie based on the short movie by the same name from director Aristomenis Tsirbas. The independent Snoot Entertainment Studio will take care of the production, however a distributor hasn’t been found yet. There are some famous voices in the movie, like Evan Rachel Wood, Chris Evans, Justin Long, Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, James Garner and Rosanna Arquette.
The peaceful planet Terra is threatened by an invasion by the human race. After the destruction of earth, caused by greed and pollution, this would make an ideal ‘fresh’ planet for the homeless humans. The reptile-like inhabitants of Terra are considered as an unnecessary animal race, however in reality they are highly civilised beings. With their paddle-like tails the Terrians swim in helium air like fishes in the water. Their fear of people is great. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teen, is doing everything to stop the destructions. Just as in Planet One it is a story about an inverted alien invasion. Producer Keith Calder says it is not an anti-human movie, because the movie shows both the good and the bad qualities of mankind.
The dvd of Surf’s Up will be released in America on the 9th of October. As a bonus feature there will be a new adventure of the animated short The Chubbchubbs! that is called: ’The Chubbchubbs save Xmas‘.
Other extra features are:
* THE CHUBBCHUBBS — The original Oscar-winning animated short
* “Not A Drop of Real Water” — Three-part doc that takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the movie and its technical achievements
* Music Video — Lauryn Hill “Lose Myself”
* Arnold’s Zurfinary — Arnold gives a kids-eye view of surf terminology
* CREATE YOUR OWN SURFBOARD game
* LAVA SURF game
* WHALE HOPPING game
* Filmmaker commentary* THE CHUBBCHUBBS! — The original Oscar-winning animated short
The Chubbchubbs is a short film by Eric Armstrong for Imageworks and Sony Pictures. In 2003 it won the oscar for best animated short. Click ‘read more’ to watch The Chubbchubbs.
So what can you buy there? Just everything: from a privatised weather system, space travels to a Wend-E (not to be mistaken with a Wendy 
). This magnificent device gathers all your clothes and calculates the specific dirtiness per item. If necessary it washes, dries and irons the clothes, after which it will be nicely folded and put away in the closet.
Horton Hears a Who is a new animation movie produced by 
