Sentences with phrase «animated films of all time»

Disney's ice princess movie is already the top - grossing animated film of all time.

What you need to know: Frozen remains one of Disney's (DIS) hottest properties more than a year after it became the highest - grossing animated film of all time.

In 2014, the Disney film «Frozen» became the highest - grossing animated film of all time, according to Forbes.

Its sequel, «Despicable Me 2,» did gangbusters numbers, just $ 30 million shy of hitting the vaunted $ 1 billion mark, making for the third highest grossing animated film of all time behind «Frozen» and «Toy Story 3.»

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.

A nightmare of witch trials, revolutionary slogans, and obscene psychosexual imagery, Belladonna Of Sadness was one of the most unusual and challenging animated films of its time.

Based on the 1971 young adult novel The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch's Flower is an all - ages action fantasy adventure that hearkens back to some of the most beloved animated films of all time, full of ingenious characters, jaw - dropping imaginative worlds, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to figure her place in the world.

Assuming you're okay with that being added to the film's already impressive overall take from the summer of 1994, it leap - frogs «Finding Nemo» to become the third - highest grossing animated film of all time.

With the release of How Train Your Dragon 2 in theatres, Jason & Jacob look back at one of the most popular animated films of all time.

But if it is good, it could be one of the biggest animated films of all time.

Pixar has created six of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.

• 25 Fun Facts About Beauty and the Beast — Disney Channel's Gus Kamp and Kayla Maisonet host this entertaining countdown featuring little - known fun facts, anecdotes and hidden Easter Eggs (references to Disney animated films and characters) from one of the most cherished animated films of all time.

Like the other Disney animated films of this time, Mulan offers a mixture of ingredients.

A big part of the success can be attributed to Disney's 2013 movie Frozen, the most successful animated film of all time, which was modeled on Norway.

Not exact matches

Two new Star Wars movies, Avengers: Infinity War, sequels to animated hits The Incredibles and Wreck - It Ralph, and a film adaptation of children's classic A Wrinkle in Time are all set to hit theaters in 2018.

The half hour animated film based on the much - loved children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler is a beautiful portrayal of the book telling the tale of the happy go lucky father's epic journey across the seasons to make it home in time for Christmas.

While I can say that the Wonder Woman animated movie is one of my favorite films of all time.

Still, at a time when animated feature films are in danger of losing their magic because of an oversaturation of ho - hum vehicles, Flushed Away contains enough charm, fun, and adventurous spirit to make us hope this genre is far from withering away.

It's an animated film, created by an Irish animation studio (Cartoon Saloon) and based on a novel by a Canadian author (Deborah Ellis), but despite these seeming obstacles to authenticity, this is a deeply felt and unsparingly realistic depiction of Afghanistan at a time of tyrannical rule by religious fundamentalists.

It doesn't rank up their with the all - time Pixar greats for me personally, but there's still no denying it offers not only many eye - popping sights to behold, but a refreshing examination of Mexican culture that is certainly unique, not only for Pixar but for a major animated film in general.

Predominantly silent, this animated film has moments of charm, but mostly its slow pace and lack of substance makes for a dull time.

At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.

Other rarities I've recently found include Chekhov's Motifs (aka Chekhovian Motifs), one of the craziest features by the Russian eccentric Kira Muratova (it's on a Russian label with optional English subtitles and available in the U.S.); a fascinating collection of animated World War II propaganda from Disney, some of it unavailable since that time; a splendid French letterboxed copy of Anthony Mann's Man of the West; Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger and two Kenji Mizoguchi films (released on the British labels BFI and Artificial Eye, respectively); and Louis Feuillade's stunning 1916 French serial Judex on an American label.

«Inside Out — Pixar's delightful tale of a little girl's emotions trying to steer her through a turbulent time for her family is one of the funniest and most critically - acclaimed films of the year — and certainly the most vivid depiction of developmental psychology in a movie, animated or otherwise.»

We started with one of this year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI MOVIE being the first animated film to vie for the worst picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet of bad films for the last 38 years; the odd timing of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.

Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon based on the 1991 animated film, «Beauty and the Beast» is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight - time Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner Tim Rice.

As always, Pixar has created the animated movie of the year, this time going where family - aimed films rarely dare to go as it deals directly with death.

It's Disney / Pixar, it's a known commodity (Finding Nemo won the Animated Feature Oscar) and has made an astonishing $ 471M domestically, making it the 8th highest grossing film of all time and the biggest animated fiAnimated Feature Oscar) and has made an astonishing $ 471M domestically, making it the 8th highest grossing film of all time and the biggest animated fianimated film ever.

After a long time of shunning the medium, Criterion makes Watership the second animated film in the collection in a little over a year, following Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Hayao Miyazaki) Japanese animé master Hayao Miyazaki's latest girl's fable is the magnificent Spirited Away, easily the best animated and foreign film of this year and, without question, the longest of long shots to even be nominated for either category come Oscar time.

But even members of that class who somehow missed one of the most extensive advertising campaigns of all - time (certainly the most celebrity - oriented for an animated film) would be sure to recognize the voice and stylings behind the film's lead character; Barry B. Benson is essentially Jerry Seinfeld, if Seinfeld were a talking honey bee.

Truth be told, it isn't a bad film, but in an ocean already teeming with films just like it, it will have a tough time impressing anyone who has seen a few entries in the recent crop of animated family fare.

Animated Israeli film «Waltz with Bashir» took the top honors from Society of Film Critics and was named the best film of 2008, reported the Los Angeles Times.

The story of Moses has been adapted for the screen many times before, from live - action epics like The Ten Commandments to DreamWorks» animated tale The Prince of Egypt, but Scott's film seems to be part of a recent push for Biblical and / or religious themed epics in Hollywood; another upcoming title is Ben - Hur, which will star Jack Huston in the title role.

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Often, thanks to its strong cast and quieter moments, It succeeds in this goal — but there'd be a lot more time for character development if the film didn't feature quite so many long, frenetic scenes of animated mayhem.

Directed by Oscar ® winner Bill Condon from a screenplay by TBD based on the 1991 animated film, the film is produced by Mandeville Films» David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman with eight - time Oscar - winning composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards ® (Best Original Score and Best Song) for the 1991 animated film, providing the score, which will include new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and Howard Ashman, as well as several new songs written by Menken and three - time Oscar winner Tim Rice.

Delicately shaded and delightfully old fashioned, like a fairy tale come to life from a 19th century illustration, it remains to this day one of the most beautiful animated features ever made and my favorite Disney film of all time.

With a product that spawned various lines of toys that sold by the millions, and had television shows and an animated movie to its name, The Transformers: The Movie in 1986, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood turned it into a hugely profitable film franchise, having now made over $ 3.7 billion across its four recent movies.

4 - time Academy Award winner and «Wallace & Gromit» creator Nick Park joins me on this episode of The LCJ Q&A Podcast to talk about his new Aardman animated film, «Early Man», and to reflect on the late voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis.

Rick Moranis doesn't think of himself as retired, but with has last feature film performance being a voice in the 2003 animated feature Brother Bear (followed by a straight to video sequel), the Ghostbusters and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids star has certainly been out of the limelight for a long time now.

Whatever the reasoning behind Valiant's quiet theatrical run (and we might not ever know), the film wound up with a grand North American box office total of just $ 19.5 million, making it handily the all - time lowest - grossing widely - released computer - animated film in the continent (by comparison, 2002's Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie earned $ 6 million more) and putting it just slightly ahead of the $ 18 million gross of DisneyToon Studios» modest off - season traditionally animated release Pooh's Heffalump Movie.

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.

Now is the Time and Around is Around (Norman McLaren, 1951) The screening of the digital restorations of McLaren's 3D movies (considered to be the first stereoscopic animated films ever made).

Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.

It's certainly not even close to being one of the best animated films of the year, but it is funny from time to time and sure keeps the kiddos entertained.

The usual trajectory of a Disney animated film is that it starts small and gains additional bonus features over time.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

This empowering, inspirational Disney animated film doesn't get the credit it deserves, but remains one of the studio's better films of the time period.

In fact, the story of Po (voiced by Jack Black), a clumsy, overweight panda and kung - fu fanatic, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and is currently the 49th highest - grossing film of all time.