I’m seeing a few rumblings across some movie bulletin board and blogs that Christopher Columbus has picked up the movie rights to Dilbert after they lapsed from Columbia (who produced the short run Dilbert tv show). Columbus is the director behind the Harry Potter movies. Speculation circulates that it will be a live action movie […]
Last December, I told you about Over the Hedge, Open Season and Flushed Away were up for several Annie Awards. The Annie Awards are the animation industry’s big award. The big winner was Pixar’s Cars – which won Best Animated Feature beating out Over the Hedge and Open Season. Over the Hedge and Flushed Away […]
This article over at E&P reminds me that “Open Season” has been released to DVD. Open Season is based on a movie treatment written by In The Bleachers cartoonist Steve Moore. You can read my interview with Steve and his work on Open Season here. If you haven’t had a chance to see Open Season, […]
The movie Over the Hedge – based on Michael Fry and T. Lewis’ strip of the same name – has been nominated for eight Annie Awards including Best Animated Feature. Steve Moore creator of In The Bleachers has two animated features also up for awards. Steve was the executive producer of Open Season which is […]
Prince Valiant fans will be able to pick up volume two DVD set called “The Legend of Prince Valiant-The Complete Series” on January 16. The comic feature was an animated television show between 1991 and 1993 where it featured the voice talent of Robby Benson (Beauty and the Beast), Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show), […]
Universal Press has announced the Phil Dunlap’s Ink Pen has been optioned to be developed into an animated film. Phil’s cartoon is barely a year old and is now in 50 newspapers. The movie would be produced by Jason Korrnick who is the executive producer of the upcoming movie “Next” staring Nicholas Cage and Julianne […]
Slightly off-topic, but newsworthy: Matt Groening’s The Simpsons will hit the silver screen on July 27. You can see The Simpson’s Movie (in 2-D) trailer on Apple’s trailer site. Trailer review: Loved it. Laughed out loud. There are few shows I get out the hustle to see on opening night, but this will be one […]
Open Season is still doing well in theaters after three weekends. So far the film has grossed $59 million domestically ($63 worldwide).
The movie “Over the Hedge comes out on DVD on the 17th of this month. If you didn’t take my advice from my review and see it in theaters, make sure you pick up a copy of the DVD. The movie is of course based on the comic strip by T. Lewis and Michael Fry.
Open Season opened as the number one movie in America on it’s debut weekend. According to “Movie Web,” Open Season grossed $23 million knocking Jackass Number Two to, well, number two and edging out new movies The Guardian and School for Scoundrels.Open Season’s executive producer is Steve Moore.
Steve Moore’s movie, “Open Season,” wasn’t intentionally planned to open up in the fall around the time of traditional hunting season, but sometimes timing is everything in the entertainment industry. Steve ought to know that. In many ways, his entertainment career has been aided by providential good timing since the day he decided to take a swing at cartooning. His “In the Bleachers” submission landed on the editors desk at Tribune Media at the same time another sports cartoon was ending. Pitching the movie idea for “Open Season” to Sony Pictures came at a time when they were just opening their animation studio and were hungry for a great movie project.
In case you missed the last Garfield: A Tail of Two Cities movie, you can pick up the DVD which is slated to be released on October 10 according to E&P. The DVD includes unseen footage, a music video, games and a ‘Drawing with Jim Davis” feature.
Several puzzle pieces point to the possibility of Berkeley Breathed’s Opus making the leap to the big screen. Coming Soon.net has an entry for a Opus film entitled “Opus: The Last Christmas” with a release date of December 19, 2008. The production studio is The Weinstein Company, the same company behind CG animated films such […]
According to the Reuter’s story the DVD will include a hybernated feature that can be activated after November 28 (presumably to coincide with peak Christmas buying season), a four minute mini-movie with all the original voice talent. The mini-movie is a parody of reality tv called “Hammy’s Boomerang Adventure.”The DVD also includes “Behind the Hedge,” a look at the real-life animals that inspired the film’s critters; filmmaker commentaries; a mock “infomercial” spoofing the career opportunities of pest control; a “making-of” documentary; cast interviews; and a virtual drawing lesson by a DreamWorks animator on how to sketch Hammy.Over the Hedge took in $151.7 million domestically.
Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers is an executive producer and co-creator of the upcoming movie Open Season that hits the theaters on September 29th. While Steve is no stranger to animation (he’s created animation shorts for ESPN and a children’s television series), this is his first feature film.