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Animated Oscar Hopefuls
Filed under: Action », Animation », Comedy », Drama », Horror », Independent », Awards », Family Films », Cinematical Indie »
Now here's a weird Oscar rule that you probably never knew (I sure didn't): In order for there to be five Best Animated Feature nominees, there have to be at least sixteen eligible titles. The last time this happened was in 2002, when Miyazaki's Spirited Away proved to be the year's best ieffort n animation. (According the The Academy, anyway.)Warner's Happy Feet, Weinstein's Arthur and the Invisibles and Sony's Paprika have yet to "officially" open, but once they do it means we'll get five nominees in one of Oscars' more colorful categories. (Last year we only had three, and that wasn't as much fun.) In addition to the three mentioned above, the other eligibles are The Ant Bully, Barnyard, Cars, Curious George, Everyone's Hero, Flushed Away, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Monster House, Open Season, Over the Hedge, Renaissance, A Scanner Darkly and The Wild. (What, no Ultraviolet?)
So if you had to pick only five of those flicks (aside from the three we haven't seen yet, of course), what would be your picks as "Oscar material?" If I'm predicting the field, my five picks would be Cars, Monster House, Over the Hedge, Renaissance and A Scanner Darkly. If I'm casting a vote for my favorite: Over the Hedge. Flick made me giggle.
Wild trailer is, yes, in the wild
Filed under: Animation », Disney », Movie Marketing »
As you may have heard, Disney's The
Wild is a movie about a bunch of zoo animals who find themselves running free in New York City. A lion and a
giraffe lead the crew, and they're on the loose in a desperate effort to save one of their friends, who was cruelly
taken from the zoo. Ha, great concept! No, no - wait a minute. It actually sounds very familiar...it'll come to you,
give it a second. Yes, that's right: you already saw this movie, back when it was called Madagascar.
And, according to a Cinematical spy, the similarity isn't an accident - it was understood among those who worked on
The Wild that, early in their developments, The Wild and Madagascar (which was made first,
not just released quickly) were actually based on the very same script. Hollywood? Out of ideas? Naw.So, yeah, the trailer - which was previously released on some sort of temporary Disney site, but has now been unleashed on the wider internet world - is still just like Madagascar, except for a couple of small factors. The first difference is the presence of Eddie Izzard, who voices a koala bear. Putting aside the fact that there aren't any koala bears from Britain, he's hilarious, and brings a bit of dignity to a production that otherwise seems average at best. The second difference - one that comes down very firmly in Madagascar's favor - is an incredibly uncomfortable scene involving a sexually suggestive squirrel. I mean, honestly. Who at Disney thought it was a good idea to include a squirrel slapping his own ass and talking about riding pigeons "bareback"? The realistic flesh-slapping noise is downright creepy.
Disney unveils a Wild trailer
Filed under: Action », Animation », Comedy », Disney », Trailer Trash », DIY/Filmmaking », Movie Marketing »
Disney's latest animated effort, The Wild, now has a trailer online for all of you to bow down and pray to.
Directed by Steve "Spaz" Williams (I'm sure the name Spaz
will help him get tons of work), story revolves around a young lion accidentally removed from the New York Zoo and
shipped to South Africa. Now, it's up to a band of rowdy animals to head out into the city and attempt a wild
rescue.
Due out April 14th, The Wild stars Eddie Izzard, Kiefer Sutherland and Jonathan Kimmel. Ooohh, Kimmel was head writer on the Andy Milonakis Show - he must be brilliant AND hilarious. Now that we've tackled animals at the zoo, I'm wondering which species will be next? We've had fish, robots, monsters, toys, ants, bears, penguins, lions, mice...and that's just off the top of my head. Will we run out of bankable animals soon? Maybe Disney can put out something about crocodiles and call it A Croc's Tale. Get it - tale/tail? Man, I crack myself up. Someone get Kimmel on the phone, stat!
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