2011 Animation Preview
This is the second and final collaboration between Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital and Walt Disney. In this performance-capture film, a young boy learns that his mom ain't so bad after she is kidnapped by Martians. Adult Swim, ShadowMachine Films, Stoopid Monkey and Williams Street all have a hand in this production as well. Matte World Digital provided visual effects and The Third Floor the previz. Seth Green is voicing the young hero and he is joined by Joan Cusack, Breckin Meyer, Dan Fogler and Billy Dee Williams. Simon Wells, who helmed Balto and The Prince of Egypt, is the director.
Carlos Saldanha sets into the director's chair for Blue Sky Studios' first original story since they launched with Ice Age. The story centers on Blu, a domesticated blue macaw, who is introduced to the wild female blue macaw, Jewel, in order to save the species. (Due to the similarity to this and Alpha and Omega, Pixar dropped the development of Gary Rydstrom's Newt.) Blu's world is rocked when he gets pulled out of his comfy life and is thrust into Rio de Janeiro. Voice cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Jemaine Clement, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Will I Am. The early word is it's very good.
Many consider Kung Fu Panda to be the best DreamWorks feature, so its follow-up is another one of the hotly anticipated animated films of the year. Jennifer Yuh, who has been a story and storyboard artist at DreamWorks for years, makes her feature-film directing debut on the new adventure, which finds Po (Jack Black) looking into his past, while trying to stop the peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) from using a weapon that could rid the world of kung fu. In addition to the returning Furious Five voices and Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu, the film finds new kung fu masters in James Woods as Skunkman, Alias' Victor Garber as Thundering Rhino, Michelle Yeoh as Soothsayer and Jean-Claude Van Damme as Croc.
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Hey Rick
Looks very good but you forgot to put The Dreaming Machine in that list and thier are some images of it online and they say it comes out sometime in 2011. Also, I think the best animated films I am looking forward for are Cars 2, Arthur Christmas, Kung Fu Panda 2, Happy Feet 2, and Tintin and here are my precdications of who will be nominated for the 84th Academy Awards' Best Animated Feature
If five, let the Academy chose these...
4. The Dreaming Machine (This anime film needs to get nominated and chould pull another Secret of Kells move like the 82nd Academy Awards. The reason why is becuse the first director (Satoshi Kon) had died while making this film and he and this film needs the Oscar and Critics' love when it comes out in American and Japanese theaters when it is done been made. Finally, Sony Pictures Classics needs to bring it to America after it is done been made and had its premiere in Japan)
5. Happy Feet 2 (This one chould be a good one if it gets the critics' love and if Cars 2 gets nominated along with this. There chould be a huge problem)
Also here are my precations for Best Animated Feature of the 69th Golden Globe Awards
Also, I like Tintin but The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn looks more for Best Visual Categories (Best Original Score to Best Visual Effects) type. I love all kinds of animation and it is still good in its own way. Peace Out my anmation freind Rick.
Two, actually. Hop isn't in 3D, either.
Just one film that isn't 3D? That makes me sad.
nyc..6
You're missing "The Smurfs".
Rango, Tintin, maybe Kung Fu Panda 2 will be worth watching.
For the rest, I have my doubts...
Puss in Boots? Seriously? A Shrek spin off? As if Shrek 2 to 4 haven't been bad enough?
And Cars 2? A sequel to the worst Pixar flick ever?
I mean how dumb is the general theater audience really that they don't get those rip offs?
The Animation houses have so much potential to tell original stories, and yet production companies always push them to go for the sure-money, stereotype sequel.
If it's only for the money, why not just found an investment bank? Seriously! It's way easier to make millions that way!
Do us a favor suits: leave the Animation Business alone and let artists make movies again, OK?
Rick
Just a quick correction.
Happy Feet 2 is being made at Dr D Studios (not Animal Logic).
Animal Logic were the studio behind the first Happy Feet film and the recent Legends of the Guardians.
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