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MonkeyFunk
10-22-2006, 05:14 AM
Okay, we've all read about the CGI bubble bursting this year. So what abotu next year? From Jerry Beck's site:

344. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (3/30/07) Warner Bros.. (computer animation) D: Kevin Munroe.

345. MEET THE ROBINSONS (3/30/07) Disney. (computer animation) D: Steve Anderson.

346. FOODFIGHT (4/ /07) Lion's Gate. (computer animation) D: Larry Kasanoff.

347. SHREK THE THIRD (5/18/07) Dreamworks. (computer animation) D: Raman Hui, Chris Miller.

348. SURF'S UP (6/8/07) Columbia. (computer animation) D: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck. In the style of a mockumentary, this feature reveals that surfing was actually invented by penguins!

349. RATATOUILLE (6/29/07) Pixar-Disney. (computer animation) D: Brad Bird.

350. THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (7/27/07) 20th Century-Fox. D: David Silverman.

351. PERSEPOLIS ( / /07) Sony Pictures Classics. D: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi. Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. 2-D in black & white.

352. BEE MOVIE (11/2/07) Dreamworks/Paramount. (computer animation) D: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith.

353. CORALINE ( / /07) Laika Entertainment/Focus Features. (stop-motion animation) D: Henry Selick, Mike Cachuela.

Okay... let's take a closer look.

Three funny animal films (Ratatouille, Bee Movie and Surf's Up), and two of them are made by Pixar and Dreamworks, who no-one thought would go away soon. 2006 has, what, seven?

The other CGI movies are an odd mix. Meet the Robinsons has no anthropomorphs, just human characters in a fantasy setting - from the same school as The Incredibles, in other words. Shrek 3 is self explanatory, Food Fight probably won't go anywhere, and TMNT is a TV show tie-in. It all suggests that CGI movies are slowly but surely branching out into other directions.

Then there's a stop-motion movie and two 2D movies... yup, looks more promising than this year, all in all.
GrafSpee
10-23-2006, 11:11 AM
Meet the Robinsons was one of the previews shown before The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D. The preview didn't offer enough to know whether it will be good or not. There will be a 3D version of it, though. A web site mentioned that Pixar did some work on the film so that may be to its advantage.

I saw a preview for Surfs Up when I saw Open Season. It looks like another mediocre animal film.

Coraline is supposed to be part stop-motion animation and part CGI (depending on whether she is in the "real" world or the parallel world). It sounds like an interesting film. There will be a 3D version of this film also.

Bee Movie is supposed to be Jerry Seinfeld's first big project since leaving the TV show. He is doing a lot of work on the movie so hopefully this won't be just another throw-away Dreamworks animation.
servewithchips
10-23-2006, 01:46 PM
lets not forget the 16 Nov 2007 release of Beowulf, Zemekis' follow up to the polar express.
lupercal
10-23-2006, 02:25 PM
I was in a video store last night, intending to pick up something to review, and all I could find that I hadn't seen was 'Cars', 'Chicken Little' and 'Valiant'. I just thought, nope... someone is going to have to pay ME to watch these things, and rented 'Capote' instead.

Loop
athena
10-23-2006, 05:40 PM
Synopsis for Food Fight: "When night falls on the supermarket aisles, and the humans all go home, the grocery store transforms into a teeming metropolis where the detergent aisle looks like Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and the boxes of Tide resemble the Chrysler building. It is time for these product icons to come alive in this wild city and head towards the hottest club in town, the Copacabana, to party! However, all's well until Brand X moves in. A showdown of gross (pro)portions, FOODFIGHT! follows the epic adventures of some of the most famous branded characters in the world and some original super(market) heros as Dex Dogtective, Daredevil Dan and others as they wage battle against the evil Brand X for control of the store."

you've got to be kidding me... oy. :(
lupercal
10-23-2006, 11:12 PM
Well, Warner did what I take to be an anthropomorphic supermarklet products short during the war. 'Goofy Groceries' or something. I've got it. but haven't gotten around to watching it, as it doesn't sound particularly pulse-pounding.

Loop
MonkeyFunk
10-24-2006, 02:38 AM
I heard from somebody who claimed to have read an early script of Food Fight; he says it's about as promising as it sounds (sample dialogue: "get a shelf life!")

Cartoonbrew posted some stills a while back, too. It looks like a Playstation 1 game.
servewithchips
10-24-2006, 07:31 AM
I heard from somebody who claimed to have read an early script of Food Fight; he says it's about as promising as it sounds (sample dialogue: "get a shelf life!")

Cartoonbrew posted some stills a while back, too. It looks like a Playstation 1 game.


here is the official website http://www.foodfight.com/
get ready to be blown away! jk :)
Inkwolf
10-24-2006, 06:51 PM
Coraline must be based on the Neil Gaiman book. It was a nice, creepy book, and ought to make a nice, creepy cartoon.

On the other hand, I can't really see its having as much interest as Mirrormask, with which it shares a lot of images and themes.

(Ooh, must profile Mirrormask for Part live-action!)