HERE COME THE TROLLS DreamWorks Animation Studios should be a case-study examination on the rise and fall of a once proud company. Producing their first film back in 1998 with Antz, DreamWorks slowly became a force to reckon with a string of successful features, including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon. At its height, the
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Alec Baldwin is the “Boss….baby” as DreamWorks releases the teaser trailer for their new upcoming animated film Boss Baby. View trailer below.
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WHAT “SKULLDUGGERY” IS THIS? Back in 1719, English novelist Daniel Defoe published the novel Robinson Crusoe. First released under the author name of Robinson Crusoe, which many believed that it was a work on non-fiction (a travelogue memoir to a real person), tells the story of castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island (somewhere near Trinidad)
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FIND YOUR FLOCK (FAMILY) Under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation has moved slowly “under the radar’ from animated powerhouses such as Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks. The animation studio created some modest features, including Quest for Camelot, The Iron Giant, and Osmosis Jones, but ultimately the studio fell short, while other animated studios were on the
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TALENTED AND COLORFUL, BUT OVERSTUFFED AND UNNECESSARY Back in 2011, Rio was a surprising hit, grossing nearly half a billion at the box office. This animated “Fish out of water” tale of Blue, a domesticated blue macaw bird, and his misadventure in the city of Rio de Janeiro was well met; appealing to viewers with a good story, colorful
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A “DIGITAL” BLAST FROM THE PAST While Pokémon was beginning to building its empire of “pocket monsters” through various media outlets (TV shows, cards games, video games), a somewhat rival franchise, Digimon “Digital Monsters”, was slowly on the rise. For the uninitiated, Digimon was created back in 1997 in Japan and was originally created virtual pets (similar to Tamagotchi
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COLLISION TO NOWHERE While DreamWorks had Shrek, Pixar has Toy Story, and Illumination Entertainment has Despicable Me, Blue Sky Animation, a subdivision under 20th Century Fox, has Ice Age as their flagship series. Created back 2002, Ice Age follows the cartoon adventures of a group of animal misfits, a Mammoth, a sloth, a sabretooth, and other colorful characters throughout
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DOGGONE FUNNY Illumination Entertainment is slowly making a name for itself with its feature films. While it has made other films, including Hop, The Lorax, and its upcoming movie Sing (due out in December 2016), Illumination Entertainment’s crowning joy is the Despicable Me franchise, which (at this moment) consist of two Despicable Me movies and its spin-off Minions. Of
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Get ready for a animal “sing off” as Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment release a new theatrical trailer (trailer 2) for the animated movie Sing. View trailer below.
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FOLLOW THE SHELLS AND JUST KEEP SWIMMING Back in 2003, Disney’s partner animated company, Pixar Animated Studios, released their fifth full length feature film titled Finding Nemo. Directed by Andrew Stanton, Finding Nemo told the story of Marlin, an overprotective clownfish, who, along with Dory, a regal tang fish who has problems with her short memory, searches for his
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