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Culture Warrior: Was 2009 a Banner Year in Animation?

14 December 2009 3:14 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

There’s been a bunch of hubbub about 2009 turning out to be a disappointing year in cinema. And, when comparing films released this year to other years within the decade, this sentiment is just about right. Many an end-of-the-year release that was supposed to be the saving grace to a lackluster twelve months either turned out to be mightily disappointing (Invictus, Amelia) or contained minor problems that prevented them from quite living up to their massive expectations or full potential (The Lovely Bones, The Road, Precious). But what’s been overlooked is the fact that it’s been largely live-action features that have met the brunt of disappointed reactions, while animated films meanwhile have shined in 2009 in a way they haven’t in any other year. Last month Variety released a list of twenty films eligible for the five slots in the Best Animated Feature category at this year's Academy Awards. First »

- Landon Palmer

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Tra-la-la-la-La The Smurfs Are On Their Way

1 September 2009 10:05 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

I personally have been smurfing The Smurfs feature-film adaptation, officially titled The Smurfs 3-D, since the announcement by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation back in January of 2008. The first behind-the-scenes rendered images of the CGI Smurfs came out this past December.

The feature-film Smurfs is being smurfed by Raja Gosnell (Scooby Doo, Slither) and the script was smurfed by David Stern and David Weiss (Shrek 2, Shrek 3). Today we have a smurfy look at the first teaser poster for The Smurfs 3-D, then below that some behind the smurf stills with the unfinished wire animation. Take a smurf for yourself:

 

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The Smurfs, or Les Schtroumpfs as they were called in the Netherlands, have been around since the fantastical mind of Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford (or Peyo as he was known) originally thought them up in 1958. In 1981, Hanna & Barbera started producing The Smurfs animated TV series for »

- Paul Young

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Stretch Armstrong: the movie?

16 February 2009 6:26 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

First Hasbro turned Transformers into a movie. (Obligatory Mark Ryan link and reference to The Pilgrim here.) Then Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (June 26, 2009) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (August 7, 2009). And then they put Monopoly, Candyland, and Ouija into production with Universal. And now, announced just in time for Toy Fair International, writer Steve Oedekerk (Bruce Almighty, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) has been tapped to write Universal's movie adaptation of Stretch Armstrong, a comedy based on Hasbro's stretchy strong guy toy, according to Variety.

Stretch Armstrong was first introduced by Kenner in the late 1970s, which eventually featured a line of stretchy characters, including Stretch Monster, Wretch Armstrong, and Fetch Armstrong. Stretch Armstrong was later re-introduced after Hasbro acquired Kenner (which was part of Tonka) in 1991. Disney had acquired the movie rights to Stretch Armstrong and worked at developing a movie first with Danny DeVito and then Jackie Chan. »

- Glenn Hauman

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2009 | 2002 | 2001

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