Wes Anderson to Make New Feature Next Year?

Wes Anderson

Fans of indie hipster filmmaker Wes Anderson will be pleased to learn that following his first foray into animation (this year’s stop-motion delight Fantastic Mr. Fox), he has another film coming in 2011. The Playlist have reported Production Weekly dropped the news (via Twitter) that the Rushmore auteur is planning to shoot sometime next spring. [...]

Audio Interview with the Animators of Fantastic Mr. Fox

A couple of weeks ago, HeyUGuys got to speak to some of the men who made The Fantastic Mr. Fox come to life. Ian McKinnon from McKinnon and Saunders, the specialist puppeteers (who also worked on The Corpse Bride ) and Andy Ghent and Andy Biddle (stop-motion animator and Aardman alumnus). For your auditory pleasure [...]

Fantastic Mr Fox Opens the 53rd BFI London Film Festival

London Film Festival 2009 BFI

The 14th of October is the start of the 53rd London Film Festival and HeyUGuys will be there relaying the biggest news from the best films playing this year. Ultimately it’s a celebration of cinema and British cinematic culture, it’s the place to find exciting new talents whose stars are on the rise, and enjoy [...]

New Trailer for Fantastic Mr Fox

Fantastic Mr Fox Poster

Here’s the second full length trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox. This trailer really shows off what the film is about and I cannot wait to see it. My one criticism is that Roald Dahl (author) isn’t mentioned once in the trailer. Wes Anderson (screenwriter/ director) gets a mention but the guy behind the original concept [...]