Eighteen Animated Features Submitted For Best Animated Film At Next Year’s Oscars

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The race for the 84th Academy Awards is on in the Animated Feature Film category, with eighteen animated features being submitted for consideration this year, Deadline report. Last year saw the largely expected victory of Toy Story 3, marking the fourth year in a row for a Disney/Pixar film to win the award, which is [...]

Exclusive Interview with Rango Lead Animator – Maia Kayser

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Rango, a quirky, delightfully unique and inspired animated film, was released in cinemas back in March where it made quite the impression, grossing an estimated $242M worldwide and kick-starting this years awards buzz. Gore Verbinksi’s quirky, delightfully unique and inspired animation film, featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin and Ray Winstone, hit [...]

Exclusive Look at Rango Concept Art Progression

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We’ve a little Rango crazy over the last few weeks, and with good reason. Gore Verbinski’s CG adventure looks incredible, as the many trailers and clips show, and we’ve got our hands on some concept art showing the transition between the hand drawn storyboards and the final shot. It’s always interesting to break down the [...]

Johnny Depp Talks Emotion Capture on Rango

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Tomorrow sees the arrival of Rango into UK cinemas. We loved the film, and Gore Verbinski’s chameleonic western tale not only looks fantastic but benefits from a voice cast which includes Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin and Alfred Molina. You can see why we’re excited about this one. [...]

New Rango Clip and International Poster

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Rango sees Gore Verbinski and Jonny Depp team up to tell the tale of a pet chameleon with aspirations of becoming an actor finding himself stranded in a town called Dirt in the Mojave desert. In order to fit in with the locals he adopts the persona of a typical western gunslinger and soon finds [...]

Exclusive Interviews with Abigail Breslin & Director Gore Verbinski for Rango

Johnny Depp’s latest movie comes in animated form with the name of Rango. I caught up with co-star Abigail Breslin and their director Gore Verbinski where we talked about acting for this animated movie with no voice booth included. If you missed our interview post with Isla Fisher you can check it out here, our [...]

Brand New Clip from Rango Looks Incredible

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Over the last week there have been a number of clips from Gore Verbinski’s Rango unleashed onto an expectant world and I can’t work out why people aren’t falling over themselves to praise the quality of the visuals here. I’m not just talking about the character design or the impressively rendered models or the almost [...]

Rango Review

Pirates of the Caribbean colleagues, director Gore Verbinski and actor Johnny Depp are the headliners on the poster for this  new animation but in all honesty, you really wouldn’t recognise Depp’s vocals, were you not in the know. Depp is like a voice chameleon himself as the optimistic lizard lead, Rango, the latest bestial hero [...]

Isla Fisher Talks Rango

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Isla Fisher used to be on Home and Away, just like Melissa George, whose turn in Christopher Smith’s Triangle was very impressive, and with her leading role in Confessions of a Shopaholic and her appearances in Burke and Hare and now Gore Verbinski’s Rango, the future is looking grand for Ms. Fisher. Here she talks [...]

New Clip from Rango

Rango hits the UK this time next week and we’re very much looking forward to it! Next week, we have an exclusive interview with Abigail Breslin and director, Gore Verbinski so keep your eyes peeled for those. Rango has a voice cast which includes Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail [...]

More Behind the Scenes Fun from Rango

You might have seen the post I put up a while ago which showed just how director, Gore Verbinski chose to direct his new movie Rango. It’s an animated feature but he wanted his actors to get more hands on that just speaking into a microphone. To achieve this, he had them actually acting on [...]

New Clip from Rango Has Owls, Guitars, Fun

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A few days ago I posted the first clip from Gore Verbinski’s animated comedy Rango, which I enjoyed, and now there’s another clip from the film which gives a good idea of the amazing visuals and a keen sense of the silliness on offer here. It’s true that Blazing Saddles had a similar gag thirty [...]

New Clip from Rango Which I Enjoyed

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We’ve already seen a few odd trailers for Gore Verbinski’s reuniting with his Pirates leading man Johnny Depp for the animated tale of the chameleon with an identity crisis, Rango and now we have the chance to see a clip from the movie. Depp is joined by Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, [...]

Who Won The Super Bowl TV Spot ‘Buzz’ War – Infographic

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Last night saw a deluge of tv spots and trailers for some of the most anticipated films of this summer, with comic book adaptations and sequels aplenty taking their time in the spotlight to show off their wares. Many of the spots took advantage of the huge audience to debut new footage with JJ Abrams’ [...]

Rango Super Bowl TV Spot

Paramount Pictures have unveiled a brand new TV spot for their upcoming animated comedy Rango. Directed by Gore Verbinski, Rango features the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Timothy Olyphant, Ray Winstone, Harry Dean Stanton and Maile Flanagan. A chameleon (Depp) that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds [...]

Listen to the Rango Theme Song

The LA Times have released this rather nice little feature which gives us the opportunity to listen to the theme song composed by film composer Los Lobos from new animation, Rango. Rango has a voice cast which includes Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina and is directed [...]

Loads Of Great Super Hi-Res Images For Thor, Tintin, Rango, Kung Fu Panda 2 and More

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For the most part, these images are nothing terribly new, however we are always keen to bring you the best quality images we can find for the various films that may be starting to pop up on your must-see radar. So today, we have Rango, Transformers, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, Tintin, Never [...]

Paramount Goes Super Bowl Mad With Five Trailers Scheduled To Début

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The Super Bowl is famed for its tendency to host many of Hollywood’s most anticipated trailers and TV-spots, the studios eager to take advantage of its status as the most-watched televisual event of the year. With February 6 fast approaching, Paramount has bought enough time to advertise five of its prime summer releases (THR). The [...]

New Featurette Takes us Behind the Scenes of Rango

Yahoo have released a new featurette which shows us just how Rango was created and it’s rather amazing! Rango has a voice cast which includes Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina and is directed by original director of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Gore Verbinski. Now, [...]

New Rango Trailer

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Fans of Johnny Depp are getting a lot to love this week with The Tourist in cinemas (and doing bizarrely well at the Golden Globes nominations), the new trailer for the Jack Sparrow Show: On Stranger Tides out last night and now there’s a new trailer for Rango. Gore Verbinski directs this animation with Depp [...]