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UPDATED with Pics! New Line joins the 3-D animation game with PLANET 51!!

firsties with my frosties :-) by billyhitchcock	Nov 27th, 2007 01:56:24 AM
nooch
sounds good... by billyhitchcock	Nov 27th, 2007 01:59:59 AM
...but make it a bit edgy. pirates and potter have shown parents will still take young kids to 12A/PG13 movies in their droves.
and i'm sick of.. by billyhitchcock	Nov 27th, 2007 02:01:22 AM
...cute little sidekicks!!!!!!
I've got a good casting idea for the hero... by JimCurry	Nov 27th, 2007 02:04:59 AM
My ass.
sounds fun. by ironic_name	Nov 27th, 2007 03:50:41 AM

Well q by sleeptones	Nov 27th, 2007 04:54:34 AM

well Quint... i think you are fat by sleeptones	Nov 27th, 2007 04:55:07 AM
owned
Looks like they copy and pasted Monsters Inc by Constidine4Rorshach	Nov 27th, 2007 05:05:53 AM
Oh and Shrek was a boat that left me on the island.
I hope by Series7	Nov 27th, 2007 06:59:41 AM
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!
Looking forward to seeing more. by JDanielP	Nov 27th, 2007 07:58:07 AM
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.
Alien Worlds.... by Uridium	Nov 27th, 2007 08:35:16 AM
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! Go Go Imagination!!!
Screw all computer animated by Series7	Nov 27th, 2007 08:46:35 AM
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.
Looks Adequate by onusbone	Nov 27th, 2007 09:23:26 AM
You can usually see a pixar clone from a mile away, but these screens look pretty close to the real magilla.
Why have their city look just like ours? by jimmy_009	Nov 27th, 2007 09:47:11 AM
Booooring. Cool astronaut though.
* by Automaton Overlord	Nov 27th, 2007 09:47:22 AM
I like Ilion's fat horse logo.
Why ARE these movies so costly? by Saluki	Nov 27th, 2007 10:21:40 AM
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.
This is pretty old news... by KillDozer	Nov 27th, 2007 11:08:54 AM
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?
Green guy with stubby antennae... I'll pass by modlight	Nov 27th, 2007 11:23:32 AM
Those Shrek films are aweful.
SPAIN? THAT COUNTRY SUCKS BIG TIME!!! by ludmir88	Nov 27th, 2007 11:46:37 AM
BIG TIME!!!
All animated movies are expensive... by Zardoz	Nov 27th, 2007 01:13:05 PM
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!
that city IS the worst monsters inc rip off ever! by billyhitchcock	Nov 27th, 2007 01:41:43 PM

more kiddie fare by Rupee88	Nov 27th, 2007 01:43:11 PM
not interested unless I can go back to being 10 y/o.
By 2009 this CG will look dated by Swollen_balls_low_hung_too	Nov 27th, 2007 06:15:19 PM

Get Tim Allen to voice the Astronaut! by Macstone	Nov 27th, 2007 08:23:26 PM

Why would an alien planet call it Ketchup & Mustard? by OtisSpofford	Nov 28th, 2007 12:38:40 AM
Can't they use their own words? Damn copycat brainless tard off-worlders!
They made me hate that kind of cartoon by CuervoJones	Nov 28th, 2007 06:58:37 AM
All the carachters have the same fraking face!
60M is cheap by CGI standards. by minderbinder	Nov 28th, 2007 08:59:28 AM
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.
Looks Ass by Harry Weinstein	Nov 28th, 2007 02:20:58 PM
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.
I am really starting to miss old school painted cell animation. by Engelhast	Nov 29th, 2007 07:55:33 AM
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.
Five bucks says... by Reel American Hero	Nov 29th, 2007 03:44:21 PM
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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