Green Lantern - WonderCon footage

Coming June 17th in theaters everywhere!

In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest recruit, the first human ever selected: Hal Jordan. 

Hal is a gifted and cocky test pilot, but the Green Lanterns have little respect for humans, who have never harnessed the infinite powers of the ring before. But Hal is clearly the missing piece to the puzzle, and along with his determination and willpower, he has one thing no member of the Corps has ever had: humanity. With the encouragement of fellow pilot and childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), if Hal can quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears, he may prove to be not only the key to defeating Parallax…he will become the greatest Green Lantern of all. 

 

Oscuro Cardinal

A Make Believe Aniboom Animation by Adrian

On a visit out to the country, two children run off to play a game of make believe war. They come across the remains of an armored tank, at a place where a terrible battle had been fought. A series of strange events occur and the children learn what a real war is really like.

Don't Miss Clone Wars this Friday Night

The Conclusion of the Night Sisters Trilogy...

Lucasfilm and Cartoon Network have released the following clip from "Witches of the Mist," the newest upcoming episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiering on Friday, January 21, 2011, at 8:30 PM (Eastern/Pacific). Click the image to play:

 

The full press announcement follows, with a new still from the episode and comments by voice actors Corey Burton (Count Dooku), Nika Futterman (Asajj Ventress), and Clancy Brown (Savage Opress). 

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Savage Opress proves to be a valuable asset and fearsome opponent
in “Witches of the Mist,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
remiering at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 21 on Cartoon Network.
TM & © 2011 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved.

The Must-See Conclusion to an Epic Three-Part Clone Wars Arc – This Friday on Cartoon Network!(click to enlarge)Savage Opress proves to be a valuable asset and fearsome opponentin “Witches of the Mist,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARSremiering at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 21 on Cartoon Network.TM & © 2011 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. 

Sent to track down the mysterious figure behind the deaths of several Jedi, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi find themselves on the trail of Count Dooku’s newest apprentice – the monstrous Savage Opress. However, Dooku and Asajj Ventress discover that their creation has a will of his own, and that he has grown more powerful than either of them had anticipated – perhaps even more powerful than the combined forces of the Jedi and the Sith. The end begins in “Witches of the Mist,” the final chapter of a thrilling, three-part Clone Wars arc – airing at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT Friday, January 21 on Cartoon Network. 

Driven by the Machiavellian machinations of Count Dooku, the series’ various villains come face to face at last in a climactic clash of red sabers. Dooku, Opress and Ventress – all are manifestations of evil, yet each is so distinct. It’s not until these three titans are brought together in the heat of conflict, however, that their nuances and differences become truly clear. 

“With Dooku, the series' direction is pushing his character more towards that of a masterful diplomat, concealing a sinister agenda beneath a veil of polite sophistication,” says Corey Burton, voice of Dooku – and countless other Clone Wars characters, both good and evil. “He's a subversive political overlord – a major marketing force and seducer for the dark side ‘brand.’ It's all about his personal enrichment, power and position within the hierarchy; there's nothing intentionally cruel or vengeful in his manner, or behind his dastardly actions – as a Sith Lord, it's just how things are done to most efficiently preside over the fate of the galaxy. Mustache-twirling displays are beneath his sense of dignity.” 

While Dooku is as consumed by his quest for power as he is by his own sense of sophistication, Ventress is wholly unconcerned by the niceties of evil. Driven by a desire for revenge, her motivation is raw and real – a product and a reflection of her own difficult past. 

“She’s been wronged by so many, and I believe her experiences will lead her in an even more powerful direction,” says Nika Futterman, voice of Ventress. “We are finally beginning to understand what makes Asajj tick; I think this is her quest for revenge and not power like the Sith. That’s what separates her. She does things that may seem like her quest for power, but, I think she aligned herself with the dark side as a means to an end. She doesn’t ever forget who has done right by her and, of course, who has done her wrong. All this time, I had hoped that I would be able to delve into what made her so fabulous and complex. It turns out my hopes are coming true!” 

Serving as a foil for the final confrontation between the former master and his jilted apprentice is the massively powerful Opress. Ostensibly a blunt instrument of evil, the monstrous creation is nonetheless imbued with a perverse humanity of his own – brought to the surface by sharp writing and a soulful performance by screen legend Clancy Brown (Highlander, The Shawshank Redemption). 

“I'd been a fan of The Clone Wars since the first season; and then caught up with the second season with my son,” says Brown. “He was excited because it was Star Wars and I was excited about the role not just because it was in the Star Wars universe but because the writing is so sophisticated. There was never any question from me about Savage's motives and what was going on because I was familiar with the characters, and you can go another layer deeper.” [Source: ToonZone]

Disney's TRON UPRISING Animated TV Series!

Following the Revolution that takes place within the grid

[Source: BoxOfficeMagazine]

Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis, screenwriters of the new film TRON: Legacy, told BOXOFFCE that the forthcoming TRON spinoff projects would offer a continuation of the mythology of the movie series. "There's a 10-part micro series that will premiere next summer that Eddie and I wrote," Horowitz said during an interview in Los Angeles, Calif. "And we've also worked on a couple of episodes with the series itself. We've hired an incredible team; we've got a guy running the show named Charlie Bean who is an amazing director."

When asked whether the animated series will be part of the continuity of the films, Kitsis said, "Absolutely. And we're treating it very seriously." He explained that the events of the show will take place in between the events of TRON and TRON: Legacy. "This animated show will take place from when Flynn is in a safe house. It's from when Clu takes over the grid to before when Sam comes in. So if you were wondering what was the grid like before that, then watch the show."

Horowitz indicated that it will feature an eclectic cast of voice actors, including the actor who played Tron in both films. "We hesitate to tell too much just yet, but it will fill in the blanks of some things, and also explore some new areas as well," he revealed. "Bruce Boxleitner is in it, Elijah Wood, Linda Moore, Paul Reubens, Lance Henriksen. I mean, we've got a really cool group of actors."

He also suggested that some of the stories might piggyback on preliminary ideas that he and Kitsis developed for the film that didn't make it into the final cut. "To give you an example of how we approached storytelling sometimes is like when you're in the End of Line club, when we first meet Castor and he's being berated by one of the patrons saying, ‘I want an audience with Zuse.' His name is Bartik, and there's an entire back story we have for him. The guy with him, his name is Hopper, there's a whole thing between the two of them, what they are doing in there, and how they got there. It's like over the years of developing this movie, we developed all these mythologies and all these back stories and all little tangential things."

Kitsis said that he and Horowitz came up with explanations for every aspect of these peripheral characters, and that gives them a richer mythology to draw upon for future stories. "Did we have time to do the Bartik story? No. But now maybe the Bartik story is in the animated series —you know, he's got a huge scar on his face. I want to know how he got that scar. We couldn't sit down and write that there's a guy with a scar on his face without knowing what the scar was. So we hope it adds to the depth of the movie. Our intention is to try and make something that is more than just, let's go get something. We treat TRON very, very seriously and as writers we try to have a reason and a world for everything and not all of it gets to be shown because in this particular movie, we only had two hours.

"[So] hopefully it fills in the blanks in and in a fun way and an intriguing way."

Gon - The Anime

Gon with the Wind

Gon is a tiny fictional dinosaur and the title character of a Japanese manga series created by Masashi Tanaka. The Gon series features the completely wordless adventures of the irascible title character as he interacts with the natural world, depicted by Tanaka in lush, realistic detail. Gon somehow survived the extinction of his fellow dinosaurs and interacts with paleolithic animals. In 1998, the manga received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival. [Source: Wikipedia]

Now it is being made into a CGI animated film. Check out the clip below:

There's a new Christmas Special this Holiday Season

@-}-- Day 2 of our 25 Days of Christmas --{-@
 

 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Yes, Virginia is a new animated Christmas special (on CBS December 17), based on the 1897 true story of the most famous newspaper editorial of all time.

By Francis P. Church, first published in The New York Sun in 1897. [See The People’s Almanac, pp. 1358–9.]

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below,expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful authoris numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no SantaClaus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell methe truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected bythe skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what theysee. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible bytheir little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s orchildren’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mereinsect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless worldabout him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping thewhole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly aslove and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they aboundand give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how drearywould be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as drearyas if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then,no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should haveno enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with whichchildhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe infairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all thechimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you didnot see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody seesSanta Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. Themost real things in the world are those that neither children nor mencan see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not,but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive orimagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in theworld.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noiseinside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not thestrongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest menthat ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance,can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beautyand glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this worldthere is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousandyears from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he willcontinue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Fallen Art

Codehunters

Transformers: Prime

 Premieres November 29 on the HUB Network

Roll out with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead, and the rest of the heroic Autobots as they battle the evil Decepticons. Now that big bad Megatron has returned with a mysterious and dangerous element, Team Prime must prepare for an epic battle. But that's not so easy when they have to guard over Jack, Miko, and Raf -- three normal kids who’ve accidentally discovered the Autobots. As Team Prime works to defend Earth from destruction, the drama gets just as intense as the heavy metal action. 

Jack Darby

Arcee

Bumblebee

Cliffjumper

Sneak Peek Clip

Firebreather Premieres this week!

[Source: AICN.com] Cartoon Network will premiere the CG movie Firebreather on Wednesday, November 24th at 7pm ET/PT

Based on the comic book series, fans are introduced to Duncan, a typical teen with not so typical parents. His mother once stopped a destructive war between the humans and a race of deadly monsters – the Kaiju. His father is the King of the Kaiju and has been waiting years to meet Duncan and to present him his legacy.

Directed by famed animator Peter Chung (Aeon Flux), Firebreather delivers an action-packed theatrical experience exclusively on Cartoon Network.

Firebreather is written by Jim Krieg (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) and executive produced by Julia Pistor (Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events).

The Firebreather voice cast includes:
Jesse Head as Duncan
Dana Delany as Margaret
Kevin Michael Richardson as Belloc
Reed Diamond as Barnes
Amy Davidson as Jenna
Tia Texada as Isabel
Dante Basco as Kenny
Josh Keaton as Troy

 Kung Pow Panda Too!!! 

As expected, when a movie makes a zillion dollars, there has to be a sequel. Prepare for the Return of Awesomeness in... Kung Fu Panda 2.

Empire Magazine Reveals First Look at Tintin Movie

[Source: EmpireOnline.com] Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have chosen Empire to reveal the first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Headed our way next October, the film adapts the enormously popular books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form.

Our exclusive and specially-Weta-created cover is a riff on the iconic image of Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his dog Snowy picked out by a spotlight as they are running. Then we have a couple of stills from the film, one showing you Andy Serkis’ Captain Haddock and another with Haddock and Tintin adrift at sea and signalling for help.

“With live action you’re going to have actors pretending to be Captain Haddock and Tintin,” says Peter Jackson. “You’d be casting people to look like them. It’s not really going to feel like the Tintin Hergé drew. It’s going to be somewhat different. With CGI we can bring Hergé’s world to life, keep the stylised caricatured faces, keep everything looking like Hergé’s artwork, but make it photo-real.”

So what can we expect from the story? Here’s what Spielberg told us. “The first part of the film, which is the most mysterious part, certainly owes much to not only film noir but the whole German Brechtian theatre — some of our night scenes and our action scenes are very contrasty. But at the same time the movie is a hell of an adventure.”

The film also stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thompson and Thomson respectively (“When people first heard that bit of casting they thought that we’d gone barking mad,” says Jackson. Adds Spielberg, “The Thompson Twins can’t be clones of each other. Nick and Simon provided all the differences we needed to foil for each other. They have a wonderful moment in the movie where they start to have an argument about whose sidekick is whose.”) and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. It also features Cary Elwes, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook and Daniel Mays.

And for those of you thinking really far ahead, what has Jackson got planned for his Tintin adventure if and when the planned sequel happens? “One of my favourites is The Seven Crystal Balls, so that’s the one I’ve always been thinking of,” he says. “I also really like the Eastern European ones, the Balkan ones like King Ottokar’s Sceptre and The Calculus Affair. I think it’s a terrific setting for a thriller, the weird Balkan politics and the mysterious secret service agents. I think the Moon ones are terrific, but they’d be good for the third or fourth Tintin film, if we get that far. We want to keep his feet on the ground just a little bit longer.”

For much, much more from Spielberg, Jackson and their entire cast, pick up the new issue of Empire, today. Or better still, order your copy online now!

For a full preview of this month's issue - click here.

FireBreather the Movie

An animated CGI film by Cartoon Network, to premiere November 24, 2010, 7:00PM/6:00PM Central Time. The film is co-executive produced by Hester, Kuhn, and Julia Pistor, written by Jim Kreig, and directed by Peter Chung (Aeon Flux,Phantom 2040).

New Video Clip from Tron Legacy

IDOLM@STER2 PV dance with "irony-ClariS"

First Full Ultramarines Animated Movie Trailer

Yogi Bear Movie Trailer

DC Universe Online Trailer

Olivia Wilde will kick butt in cyberspace

The O.C. and House vet told MTV about her character Quorra (whom they call "Cora"), the right-hand woman of Jeff Bridges' character Flynn, who was himself last seen in 1982's Tron. Wilde says of her character kicking butt in the world of Tron (where getting splattered in a lightcycle duel seems an everyday matter), that "I'm a very passive, nonviolent person, but there's something to be said for playing a very strong woman, and being able to train yourself to do something that you never thought you'd be able to do is one of the highlights of being an actor."

More Tron Legacy Pics!