Superman/Batman: Public Enemies now on DVD
September 29, 2009 || Category: Featured, On DVD || Tags: Animation, Video Clips || 1 Comment
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is the latest film from Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation. Set for release on Tuesday, September 29, it will be available in a Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def edition, a special edition 2-disc DVD, and a single disc DVD. Warner Home Video will distribute the action-packed movie, which will also be available OnDemand and Pay-Per-View as well as available for download.
Cartoon Network Orders New Series from “Robot Chicken” Team
May 7, 2009 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
Looking to build and emulate the success of “Robot Chicken,” the Cartoon Network has ordered nine episodes of “Titan Maximum.” The new series will be simliar to “Chicken,” employing stop-motion animation and will be a comedic look at a group of near-future robots.
“Titan” is set 100 years in the future, when Saturn’s moon Titan is [...]
Fox Renews “Family Guy” Spin-Off–Before It Airs
May 5, 2009 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
Fox, the network infamous for giving shows a very short leash when it comes to cancellation, has given the upcoming “Family Guy” spin-off a renewal notice. And the first episode of the show hasn’t even aired.
The new spin-off, “Cleveland” focuses on Peter Griffin’s neighbor and friend, Cleveland. The series was originally set to [...]
“Secrets of the Furious Five” Coming to DVD
March 17, 2009 || Category: On DVD || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
JACK BLACK AND DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETURN IN
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION’S SECRETS OF THE FURIOUS FIVE, THE ANNIE AWARD-WINNING FOLLOW-UP TO KUNG FU PANDA
Packed with Special Features, New Adventure Arrives for the First Time as a
Single DVD on March 24, 2009
Discover the origins of Kung Fu Panda’s unforgettable menagerie of martial arts masters in SECRETS OF [...]
“Superman/Batman: Public Enemies” Next Animated DC Film
March 16, 2009 || Category: On DVD || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
The winning streak for Warner Premiere and DC Animated direct-to-home-theater releases looks like it will continue after “Green Lantern.” Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that following “Green Lantern,” the next release will be the popular “Superman/Batman: Public Enemies” storyline.
From the company press release: “United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of [...]
Following the success of the “Blue Harvest” episode of “Family Guy,” it was inevitable that the series would lampoon and satirize the other two installments in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
“The Empire Strikes Back” spoof will air next fall according to the Hollywood Reporter and now the cast has just completed a table-read of a [...]
Warner Announces Animated “Green Lantern”
March 4, 2009 || Category: On DVD || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
Warner Brothers Animation will release their fifth direct-to-home-theater release on July 28th. This time the film will center on the popular “Green Lantern” character. The movie will be produced by Bruce Timm, directed by Lauren Montgomery and written by “The Batman” writer Alan Burnett.
Here’s some more information on the upcoming release from Warner Brothers.
GREEN LANTERN: [...]
Fox Renews “The Simpsons”
February 27, 2009 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
In a bid to make it the longest running show in American television history, Fox has given the green light to two more seasons of everyone’s favorite family from Springfield.
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie will all get two more years of shennigans thanks to a new deal that calls for 44 more episodes. At [...]
Fox Interested in More “Futurama”
February 20, 2009 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation || 7 Comments
Another once-cancelled Fox animated series may be getting a second lease on life thanks to strong syndication numbers and DVD sales.
Voice-actor Billy West recently told the Anime Supercon that Fox is considering ordering a sixth season of the once-cancelled series, “Futurama.”
“They [the DVDs] sold so well that Fox started making noises about maybe doing a sixth [...]
Two European Toon Houses’ Financial Straights Cause Production Delays
October 28, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
Because of the worldwide economic slump being felt even harder in Europe and the Far East, two of Europe’s largest toon film houses, Sparx Studio and Bibo Films, have decided to stop production on two of their projects, the highly anticipated CGI animated flick “Bunyan & Babe” and “A Monster in Paris.”
“Bunyan & [...]
Full Voice Cast for “Astro Boy” Revealed
October 10, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
The Hong Kong based studio Imagi Studios has announced its full voice cast for the leading characters in its new CGI-animation big screen adaptation of “Astro Boy.” The feature film presentation is based on the classic comic book story created by Osamu Tezuka, one of the giants of manga.
Kristen Bell and Matt Lucas have [...]
Oscar Contender Opens Well Across Asia
October 1, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
“Painted Skin” (”Wa pei”) is the new feature film from Hong Kong and Singapore and a real contender for the 2008 foreign-language Oscar. It’s opening day in China saw it gross $2.2 million (USD), according to reports from Xinhua, China’s official Chinese news agency.
Director Gordon Chan (”Julius Caesar”) opted to open during one of [...]
“Journey To Saturn” Proves to be a Huge Danish Hit Film
October 1, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
What do you get when a crew of Danish misfits aboard a spacecraft head for Saturn in search of natural gas? You get yourself a huge blockbuster animated hit film. That is exactly what happened this past weekend in Europe when the Danish animated movie “Journey to Saturn” hit theaters in selected European [...]
Spaceballs: The Animated Series Premieres Sept. 21
September 21, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation || 4 Comments
“Spaceballs: The Animated Series” premieres Sunday, September 21, 2008 on G4TV.
Click on the image to be taken to the official “Spaceballs” Website
“A Fox’s Tale” Boasts of World-class Cast
September 18, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
“A Fox’s Tale” is a new animated feature film about a young fox named Little Jack who has an ideal pleasant life living with his family in the forest, that is until his father gets trapped and forced to work in a traveling circus. To help his father escape Little Jack calls on the [...]
Slice of SciFi Contest: “Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow” DVD
September 13, 2008 || Category: Contests || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
The Avengers have been destroyed by the ominous and evil robot gone bad, Ultron. The children of the Avengers have been put into the care and safety of Tony Stark, a.k.a., Iron Man. Now teenagers, this group of the next generation Avengers are called out of hiding to once again face the killer [...]
“Rango” Depp - Johnny’s Latest Project
September 10, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
Johnny Depp and his “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski, reteam for a new Paramount Pictures animated feature film titled “Rango.”
Shooting on the film begins in January with Depp voicing the lead character, a household pet who goes out into the world on an adventure to discover his true self.
Script duty fell to John [...]
“Dragon Hunters” to Stalk North American Cinema
September 9, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
Thanks to a deal procured by Futurikon, the ambitious French 3D animated feature film “Chasseurs de dragons,” a.k.a. “Dragon Hunters,” will get showings across North America.
“Hunters” has seen good success throughout Europe, will get its second release in the U.K. and Scandinavian release on the film festival circuit in November. Distributor Peace Arch thinks [...]
“Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow” — A Slice of SciFi Review
September 9, 2008 || Category: DVD Reviews || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
There are many interesting sub-plots to this animated film. The action is engaging enough to keep children and adults alike interested enough to keep rooting for the good guys.
Whenever the forces of evil threatened mankind, Earth’s mightiest heroes known as the Avengers, could be counted on to stop them and make all right again. [...]
Ponyo Could Be Biggest Film Ever in Japan
August 29, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || 4 Comments
The animated movie, “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” from anime filmmakerHayao Miyazaki is well on its way to becoming the most successful box office film in the country of Japan.
Now passing over $109 million (12 billion yen), the film is on track to surpass current champ “Spirited Away,” also from Miyazaki. First [...]
Marvel and Madhouse Team Up For Japanese Fans
August 28, 2008 || Category: News || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
Marvel and Madhouse are joining forces to bring some of Marvel’s best known superheroes to anime in a push to make the comic giant’s cast of characters better known in Japan and a major competitor in the tight Japanese anime market.
The first set of superheroes to hit as a series will be Iron Man and [...]
“MasterMind” Mines Big Voice Talent
August 28, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
Actress Tina Fey (”30 Rock”) and Robert Downey Jr. (”Iron Man,” “Tropic Thunder”) are in negotiations to voice characters in DreamWorks Animation’s “MasterMind,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
The animated feature film centers on a super villain who, after accidentally killing-off his nemesis and good guy superhero called Uberman, must find a new motivation for continuing [...]
“Gnomes & Trolls: The Secret Chamber” is a Film Festival Success
August 26, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Animation || 10 Comments
“Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber” is a new animated children’s film from Sweden that has captured the imagination of kids all over Eastern Europe. After its showing over the weekend at the Norwegian Film Festival, the movie got pickup in theaters across 69 different countries and regions including Asia, the Middle East, Spain, [...]
DreamWorks Animation & Intel Team Up for TRU 3D
August 21, 2008 || Category: Technology News || Tags: Animation || 1 Comment
2009 is the year that all of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc’s films will be turned out in next-generation 3-D, according to Reuters.
“This is the next innovation for the movie industry,” Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation, said in an interview. “It impacts how we make our movies, how movie theaters present our films and [...]
James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are in negotiations to star in a film centered on garden gnome love. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were under consideration for the roles that would reunite them since “Titantic,” however, both opted out due to scheduling problems.
“Gnomeo and Juliet,” will be an adult CGI-animated adaptation of Shakespeare’s play [...]
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” — A Movie Pulse Review
August 15, 2008 || Category: Film Reviews || Tags: Animation, Star Wars || 11 Comments
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy and Animation
Running Time: 98 min.
Theatrical Release Date: August 15th, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG for sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.
Directed By: Dave Filoni
Starring: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane
SCORE = 5/10
“Without at least fundamental prior knowledge to the very expansive Star [...]
A high-definition stop-motion animated feature – the first to be originally filmed in 3-D – with spectacular CG effects, based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book. A young girl (Dakota Fanning) walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is [...]
Two New “Dead Space” Videos
August 3, 2008 || Category: Gaming || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
The creative team behind “Dead Space” have released two new videos for your enjoyment. The first, as promised by our most recent guest on Slice of SciFi, Chuck Beaver, is the Dead Space Comic Book Video #4, which is the newest animated comic video to come out of Dead Space, and continues to follow [...]
“Marvin the Martian” Heading Back to the Big Screen
July 31, 2008 || Category: News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
Warner Bros. is getting ready to launch “Marvin the Martian,” the character created by renowned cartoonist Chuck Jones. Marvin turned 60 this year and first appeared in theaters as a Looney Tunes short. These short toons were featured as fillers in the days when two movies were seen in theaters. They filled [...]
Liu, Jackson & Hamill Go Afro — Part II
July 25, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation || Leave a Comment
Lucy Liu (”Charlie’s Angles,” “Payback”) 39, will be joining the voice cast for Samuel L. Jackson’s highly acclaimed SPIKE TV animated series “Afro Samurai” when it returns to television January 2009. Also joining the cast is Mark Hamill (”Star Wars,” “Batman: The Animated Series”).
Liu will star in “Afro Samurai: Resurrection,” the two-hour sequel [...]
