by Peter Gutierrez, May 25, 2012 5:30 PM
It's hard not to be impressed by Arjun - The Warrior Prince. And I'm not talking about the grand sweep of its story or its breathtaking visuals -- I mean its sheer ambition in terms of "audience and purpose." Yes,...
by Ard Vijn, May 24, 2012 10:04 AM
(It is not "Totoro-light", although I guess it can be called "Totoro-heavy"...) Trying to see anime in the cinema can be quite hard in The Netherlands. The last decade we've seen the latest Miyazaki films released thanks to the international...
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by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 2:20 PM
RoboCop is the new Batman. Or, at least, he is the new voice of Batman.Warner Brothers currently have director Jay Oliva hard at work on a two film animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 1986 comic miniseries The Dark Knight...
by J Hurtado, May 22, 2012 10:25 PM
This Friday, May 25th, Disney and UTV are taking another stab at the Indian film market with the 2D CG animated epic, Arjun: The Warrior Prince. The film has been in the works for several years, and I recall...
by James Marsh, May 15, 2012 9:39 PM
The latest film from director Ben West and Australian special effects guru, Robot, comes FUGU & TAKO, the story of two Japanese salarymen who get more than they bargain for when one of them demands ultra fresh "fugu" (pufferfish) at...
by Todd Brown, May 14, 2012 2:30 PM
Belgian animation duo Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar earned themselves an international cult following with their debut feature A Town Called Panic. Based on the television shorts of the same name - Panique au Village in French, actually -...
by Todd Brown, May 11, 2012 1:40 PM
Many years ago - a virtual lifetime by anime standards - a young animator by the name of Hideaki Anno served as a key animator on Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind. The film established Miyazaki...
by Todd Brown, May 11, 2012 1:20 PM
In an unusual marketing quirk, Japan's Production IG have released a live action trailer for Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex director Kenji Kamiyama's upcoming adaptation of Shotara Ishinomori's 009 Re:Cyborg. And what's so odd about that? Well,...
by Todd Brown, May 11, 2012 10:28 AM
Gareth Huw Evans' The Raid is freshly released in the UK and to celebrate cult animation hero Lee Hardcastle - he of T Is For Toilet fame - has created his very own three minute version. In claymation. With...
by Andrew Mack, May 10, 2012 8:21 AM
Over a year ago we reported that Guillermo Del Toro would produce a stop animated feature of Pinnochio with the Jim Henson Company. News this morning is that he has now decided to co-direct the project along with Mark...