The New York Times book review has a piece on The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation (Amazon UK) which discusses the pastoralist view of nature presented (think Bambi which outraged hunters in 1942 on its release) in its films.
Disney does sentimentalise the children’s stories that it creates and arguably always has done. The […]
OMG, Neil Gaiman’s got a sneaky trailer of the Henry Selick’s animation of Coraline. It looks absolutely fab (its short though) and reminds me a little of Tim Burton’s animation style or Jan Svankmajer. Coraline is one of my all time favourite books and I cannot wait.
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The BBC show on Mervyn Peake has just been out forward to March 5th according the Sebastian Peake’s blog.
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Holly Black has set up a thread on her Livejournal for the Spiderwick Chronicles film.
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According to the Times, the Estate and heirs of J.R.R. Tolkien are suing New Line for their share of the profits of the trilogy. The rights granted in 1969 granted them a 7.5% share of the gross profits for both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit films. New Line inherited the rights in […]
Holly Black has a link to pictures from the Spiderwick Chronicles premiere held on a brown carpet. Its a long page with pictures of Hayden Panetierre, Tony Derlizzi and Holly Black, Freddie Highmore, Rachel Fox, Sarah Bolger amongst others.
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BBC Four is to begin a series of programmes entitled “The Worlds of Fantasy” starting on March 18th at 9pm. The following programme will be on Mervyn Peake on March 25th.
The BBC site doesn’t have much more detail but I have put a call into them to get more information.
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It appears that Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Cronos) is in talks to take on the Hobbit film. Jackson is up to his eyeballs in projects but will be the executive producer with creative control.
The film itself will be divided into two (and this make me nervous). The first part covers the Hobbit novel […]
LinuxJournal has a piece on the use of Linux to render the CGI in the forthcoming Spiderwick Chronicles movie which comes out in the UK on 21 March. (Sorry, annoyingly its behind a pay wall at the moment online but is in the print version.)
A quick plot summary from the trailers appear to be Jared […]
Oni Press are releasing a preview comic of Jumper, a soon to be released cool film of Steven Gould’s novel. Titled Jumpscars, it promises to reveal an ancient war that has been happening around us. Jumpers are individuals who can “jump” or teleport anywhere around the world whilst the Paladins have protected humanity from them. […]