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UPDATED with Pics! New Line joins the 3-D animation game with PLANET 51!!
Yo, Quint here again. Got a tip-off from a reader by the handle "Jonnybegood" about some images from the film that have been floating around for a while. I haven't seen 'em yet, but even if you have they go with the story really well. Enjoy a few stills from PLANET 51!! (Be sure to click to make bigger!)
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. New Line has acquired a $60 million animated sci-fi flick from Spain's Ilion Animation Studios called PLANET 51.
The flick is written by SHREK's Joe Stillman and revolves around an alien planet in constant fear of invasion from beyond the stars. One day an American astronaut arrives and has to be hidden by a young alien kid. Kind of a reverse ET, it sounds like.
The movie won't be ready until Spring '09, but work is rolling on it and New Line is already scheduling a big marketing push complete with merchandising and video game tie-ins. The production is now looking in to lock in an A-list voice cast.
Curious about this one. SHREK isn't my favorite thing in the world, but animated sci-fi will always get my curiosity up. What about you?
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nooch
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...but make it a bit edgy. pirates and potter have shown parents will still take young kids to 12A/PG13 movies in their droves.
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...cute little sidekicks!!!!!!
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My ass.
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That is some expensive ink yo! If they were smart they would hire the team that does the voice work and dialog for the Half-Life 2 games.
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owned
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Oh and Shrek was a boat that left me on the island.
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They make the cute little indians have some cool accents like who Shrek was Scotish, I hope these guys are played by Mike Myers and that they are Indian!
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Seriously! There is NOTHING new about this, including the pictures!
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Is it just a matter of time until we see computer animated versions of cartoon classics? Personally, I think Hanna Barbara is worth much more than most people realize, when you consider what is possible with the many properties it originated. And then there's the WB's Looney Tunes, too. The interactive entertainment of video games have so much potential, however cartoon properties are visually interpreted (computer or cell animated). I think it's really just a matter of talent working with such characters, with the power to make such projects happen. It's easy to imagine a computer animated version of Bugs Bunny and friends (look away from the recently released video game), while inspired by the classic look, just as it's easy to imagine the characters in today's world. How fun it would be to write those short stories in a world of computers and video games and cell phones and gas guzzling automobiles , etc. It's a different world than it was then. And other than the visual interpretation and the environment in which they live, who says that such characters need to change? ...I certainly don't.
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Well I am glad to see when we finally make the big push into space and visit alien worlds, we will be able to get Ketchup and Mustard to add to our Astronaut Food.
And in case we get homesick we can just look around at this world that looks exactly like ours... except they have hover cars!
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Movies that aren't Pixar excluding over the hedge Bruce can do no wrong. I want more Adult Swim movies! Bring on Harvey Bridman the movie. Colon Film was by far the best time I've had at the movies since Borat. In fact those were the last two sold out shows I'd seen, wait not No Country and Hot Fuzz were sold out as well and 300 midnight show. And all but 300 those movies all did crap at the Box office? Wait thats all wrong Borat was huge. Don't really know were I was going with that.
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You can usually see a pixar clone from a mile away, but these screens look pretty close to the real magilla.
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Booooring. Cool astronaut though.
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I like Ilion's fat horse logo.
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Beowulf was $150+ million, and Pixar films are coming up to around the same. I undertstand hiring talent and all, but... The Japanese can produce 2D animation on a very equal scope, with something like only a few million. Is this a 3D thing? I also understand sets need to be dressed in different manners for 3D, but boy is that a lot of money.
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Also, the same people doing the Tom Swift movie (Worldwide Biggies and Albie Hecht) are involved in this film, too. I like the look of this film. Wonder if Ilion's going to be doing Tom Swift, too?
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Those Shrek films are aweful.
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BIG TIME!!!
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It's because they're so labor intensive. Whether it's traditional hand-drawn animation or computer animation, it takes many, many animators working for a long, long time to make an animated film. "Snow White" cost Disney $1 million to make (at least $100 million in adjusted dollars) and it would've bankrupted him if it had not been such a huge success. As to this movie, I like the "reverse E.T." concept; it could be very funny and clever... we'll see!
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not interested unless I can go back to being 10 y/o.
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Can't they use their own words? Damn copycat brainless tard off-worlders!
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All the carachters have the same fraking face!
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Shrek 3 cost like 160M or so, the last few pixars have been 100-150. You can make one for cheap, but you end up with shlocky results like Hoodwinked or Jimmy Neutron. So 60M really isn't bad.
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Astronaut is nice - the rest looks shit. John K of REN AND STIMPY has a blog wher he is usually arrogant and opinionated in the extreme - but among other things, his criticisms of the awful use of color in modern animation, both 2D and 3D, are right on the money. Put the fucking pink crayon down, animators. Just put it down.
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Nov 29, 2007 7:55:33 AM CST
I am really starting to miss old school painted cell animation.
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CG is nice looking and all but there was just something about the old Disney, Don Bluth, and Ralph Bakshi films that I am getting homesick for.
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Patrick Warburton is somehow involved in this...more than likely the astronaut. I like the guy's work, but they use him way too much.
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