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Add Paramount's «Wonder Park» to this growing list when the all - star animated film opens March 15, 2019.

In addition to lending her voice to the animated film Open Season from Sony Pictures, she co-starred opposite Abigail Breslin in the family film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and in the NBC Christmas Special «Muppets: Letters to Santa.»

Not exact matches

Tiny yellow «Minions» topped this weekend's box office, pulling in a reported $ 115.2 million in North America alone and earning the second - largest opening for an animated film in history.

The film surpassed Frozen's record of $ 67.4 million to earn the biggest debut ever for a non-Pixar Disney animated film, and it also scored the fourth - highest March opening weekend in box office history.

Disney said it was the first time that either an animated feature or a 3D feature had been selected as the opening night film.

75 years ago (from 2015), Nazi Germany was expanding all over Europe, Walt Disney had just released his second animated film, McDonalds was about to open its first restaurant, Roosevelt was president, his New Deal was still new, and the first electrical digital computer was revealed.

Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit opens as one might expect for an animated / live - action film based on the misadventures of Beatrix Potter's beloved fictional animal character: with a flock of birds gliding through the sky and singing a pretty little tune worthy of Julie Andrews.

The film looks dreadful, and the CG effects are a legitimate eyesore: An opening animated sequence is so tacky, it took me a while before I realized it wasn't just another logo animation for a random film fund.

Perhaps fewer will recognize Batman animated voice actor Kevin Conroy in a cameo, or have any knowledge of Anthrax «s song «I'm the Man,» a cover of which opens the film.

Despite an overlong and somewhat overly juvenile opening sequence, the film settles down into a beautifully animated, thoughtful meditation on various aspects of life and where they derive their origins from.

,» the film opens as a traditional animated cartoon but pulls back to reveal «toons» living and acting alongside humans in 1947 Hollywood.

The 16x9 - enhanced menus employ imagery from the film's animated opening.

Following a record $ 20.1 million opening weekend in China, Illumination Entertainment's «Minions» has pushed past «Toy Story 3» to become the second - highest grossing animated film of all time.

On Friday, Disney's new animated film, «Brave,» opens at the Varsity.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

However, for the many years that Coco was in development at Pixar, the animated film had a very different opening.

The stop - motion animated film, opening via Fox Searchlight, includes an impressive ensemble cast along with newcomers in a cross-cultural and species amalgam.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

On home turf, Rian Johnson's film, which stars Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt as different incarnations of the same futuristic assassin, scored a respectable, if somewhat disappointing US$ 20.8 million opening weekend, placing it second at the box office behind Adam Sandler's animated Hotel Transylvania.

The big showing for «Zootopia» — which was directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore and voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer and Shakira, among others — was the best March opening ever for an animated film.

Independently made (on a reported $ 80 million budget) by French producer Dimitri Rassam, «The Little Prince» may lack the fast pace and high - concept storytelling of today's most popular animated fare, but it should strike a solid chord with family audiences around the world (where the film has been heavily presold) and particularly in France, where Paramount opens the film July 29.

The opening credit sequence of Catch Me If You Can (by graphic arts company Kuntzel & Degas) harks back to the animated geometric lines of Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and its main character, Frank Abagnale, Jr., reminds of that film's Oedipally - arrested chameleon Roger Thornhill.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden trOPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden tropening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.

But yeah, most everyone else is focused on the Oscars, and just in time for some last minute cramming for your Oscar pools comes two more nominated films: Chico and Rita, a hand - drawn musical from Spain nominated for Best Animated Feature, opens at the Seven Gables (John Hartl reviews it for The Seattle Times), and Bullhead, the Belgian drama nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature, opens at The Uptown.

In his review on Uproxx, Mike Ryan, who praises the film as feeling «like the beginning of something new» for Marvel, called out the animated opening.

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Hawks, who also wrote the original story, tells you exactly what the film is about in the opening shots: a spectacular wreck on a dirt track, the animated response of the spectators leaping up to get a better view, and then the title.

Pixar made history in 2009 when «Up» become the first animated film to open the Cannes Film Festival.

Opening Aug. 29, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is The Congress, from visionary writer - director Ari Folman, whose 2008 animated film Waltz with Bashir was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

February still seems to me like a curious month to open this kind of product, but I'm guessing if the film lives up to its promise, it'll be an early contender for the 2009 Animated Feature Oscar.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Though reviews were good, the film, based on the animated British TV series, earned only $ 4 million over the weekend and $ 5.6 million since opening Wednesday.

Many of the films that opened here this year had played elsewhere previously; Isao Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya first opened in Japan back in 2013, while Tomm Moore's superb Song of the Sea opened in the US (and elsewhere) in 2014; both competed for the best animated feature Oscar in February of this year.

Obviously never intended to be anything more than an entertaining romp, the computer - animated film's most serious message is a reminder that through the eyes of the prey, Open Season is no picnic.

Academy Award ® winner Pete Docter, who helmed Disney • Pixar's «Up» (the first animated film ever to be the Festival's Opening - Ceremony film), directs «Inside Out,» an original new movie from Pixar Animation Studios.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 1, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Battle for Terra (PG for violence and mature themes) Animated sci - fi adventure about the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet who face annihilation when desperate human invaders declare war in the wake of the destruction ofOPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 1, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Battle for Terra (PG for violence and mature themes) Animated sci - fi adventure about the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet who face annihilation when desperate human invaders declare war in the wake of the destruction ofopening May 1, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Battle for Terra (PG for violence and mature themes) Animated sci - fi adventure about the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet who face annihilation when desperate human invaders declare war in the wake of the destruction of Earth.

The Sneak Peeks menu is a bit livelier than usual - with flashy animated openings for the logos of the advertised films.

The «Finding Nemo» sequel opened to $ 135 million, according to Box Office Mojo, making it the highest - grossing North American debut of all time for an animated film.

It's the first animated film to open proceedings in the festival's history and follows in the footsteps of The Grand Budapest Hotel, which opened the 64th Berlin Film Festival back in 2014.

Pixar's nineteenth animated feature film Coco, which opens Wednesday in Bay Area theaters, may seem a little lightweight compared to heart - wrenchingly profound as things like Inside Out, Wall - E, Up, or the Toy Story films.

Each Pink Panther film has an elaborate, animated opening - credits sequence, steered by luminaries like Friz Freling or Richard Williams, usually featuring a non-speaking panther capering mischievously to the catchy strains of...

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

The disaster film will now open against «Insidious: Chapter 3», animated pic «Monster Trucks» and Cameron Crowe's untitled comedy.

Polley was in Chicago with her film as the opening night selection for the first ever Chicago Critics Film Festival, which also played Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden's «Feral» which was nominated for Best Animated Short Film.

While Fantastic Fest is known more for its offbeat, non-mainstream genre films, this year's festival will open with the world premiere of Tim Burton's stop - motion animated flick Frankenweenie.

In addition to the animated features such as «Atlantis» and «Shrek,» there have been three live - action films: «Spy Kids,» which opened in March and is still hanging around; «Dr. Dolittle 2,» and now «Cats and Dogs.»

Opening Nov. 25, the 3D - animated film features the voice talents of Lucas Neff, Neil Patrick Harris, Bill Hader, John Lithgow, Frances McDormand and Judy Greer.

In a year without a Pixar film — or «Frozen» for that matter — the animated feature Oscar race is as wide open as it's ever been.

Opening on 4,370 screens — the widest release ever for an animated film — The Secret Life Of Pets capitalized on a...