Director John Kahrs Talks PAPERMAN, How the Idea for the Short Came About,...
The black-and-white short Paperman, running with the new Disney animated feature Wreck-It Ralph, follows the story of a lonely young man in New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a...
View ArticleTHE COLLISION – Episode 23: Video Games and WRECK-IT RALPH
This week on The Collision, we'll be talking about video games, why they tend to suck when they're made into movies, if movies based on video games can be better, and if their increasingly cinematic...
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: WRECK-IT RALPH Earns High Score with $49.1 Million;...
Though much of the East Coast is still a ruin, Hurricane Sandy did not dampen enthusiasm at the weekend box office. Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph was the easy winner with $49.1 million from 3,752 locations....
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: SKYFALL Soars To a New Franchise Record with Domestic...
Believe the hype. Skyfall, the latest entry in the now 50 year-old James Bond series, is not only as big as everyone said it would be... it’s bigger. Over its first weekend in domestic release,...
View Article2013 Oscar Preview: Best Animated Feature, Best Adapted and Original...
We’re continuing on with our weeklong preview of the upcoming 85th Academy Awards, and after running down both acting categories it’s time to take look at some of the other races. Today we’ll be...
View ArticleBRAVE, PARANORMAN, WRECK-IT-RALPH and More Nominated for Annie Award
The Annie Awards, which honor achievement in animation, have announced their best picture nominees for 2012. According to THR, most wide-release animated films made the cut including Brave,...
View ArticleWatch: Animation Roundtable with BRAVE, PARANORMAN, WRECK-IT RALPH, HOTEL...
A staple of every awards season is the multitude of roundtable interviews and discussions that pop up featuring said season’s top contenders. We’ve already shared an hourlong interview with some of...
View Article2012 Box Office in Review: A Look Back at the Highest Grossing Films of the...
It’s January 1, 2013, which means that 2012 is now officially in the rear-view mirror. Quality-wise, it was a stellar year in film, and with over a month to go before the Oscars there’s still an...
View Article2013 Producers Guild Awards Nominees Include LINCOLN, DJANGO UNCHAINED, LES...
The nominations for the 2013 Producers Guild Awards have been announced. The PGA’s are a fairly reliable predictor of the Academy Awards, as last year all but two eventual Best Picture nominees (The...
View Article2013 Visual Effects Society Awards Nominations Include LIFE OF PI, THE...
The Visual Effects Society has announced the nominees for the upcoming 11th Annual VES Awards. This year’s major players include Life of Pi, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Prometheus, The...
View Article2013 Oscar Nominations Announced; LINCOLN Leads with 12 Nominations, Kathryn...
The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards have been announced, and it's quite a whirlwind of nominees. As expected, Lincoln landed the most nominations with 12, followed with Ang Lee's Life of Pi...
View ArticleCritics Choice Awards: ARGO Wins Best Picture, Ben Affleck Is Best Director;...
The Broadcast Film Critics Association announced the winners of the 18th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards tonight. While Ben Affleck was noted as the lesser of the Best Director snubs when Oscar...
View ArticleAmerican Cinema Editors Eddie Awards Nominations Include ZERO DARK THIRTY,...
The 85th Annual Academy Awards announced its slew of nominations yesterday, but today the American Cinema Editors guild has released their nominations for excellence in editing for 2012. Nominees for...
View ArticleARGO Wins 2013 Producers Guild Award for Best Picture; HOMELAND Wins Best...
We’re nearly a month away from the 85th Academy Awards, and Oscar prognosticators now turn their attention to the various guild awards ceremonies that will be taking place over the next couple of...
View ArticleDeleted Scene from WRECK-IT RALPH; Director Rich Moore Talks about His Ideas...
A deleted scene has been released from Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. In my review, I expressed my disappointment that Ralph didn't go to more gaming worlds. This scene hints at a game called Extreme EZ...
View ArticleLimited Paper: Mondo’s Second-Annual Oscar Night Poster Drop Featured 14 New...
Last year, Mondo put together a fun little event for the 2012 Academy Awards: a few days prior to that Oscar Sunday, Mondo announced that a series of brand-new posters (all of which were based on that...
View ArticleWRECK-IT RALPH Director Rich Moore Talks about More Ideas for the Sequel
Earlier this month, Wreck-It Ralph director Rich Moore talked about his ideas for his sequels. His ideas included trying to bring in Dirk the Daring from Dragon's Lair, and weaving in aspects of...
View ArticleNew to Blu-ray: WRECK-IT RALPH, RED DAWN, SCHINDLER’S LIST 20th Anniversary...
Here’s a brief look at new Blu-rays hitting shelves this week: The Intouchables [Blu-ray] - $24.99 (31% off) Lay the Favorite [Blu-ray] - $18.86 (37% off) Playing for Keeps (+UltraViolet Digital Copy)...
View ArticleWRECK-IT RALPH Concept Art Goes Behind-the-Scenes of the Visual Development...
With the release of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph on Blu-ray/DVD, the studio has shared some behind-the-scenes concept art that reveals a look into the visual development process. The images show early...
View ArticleWRECK-IT RALPH Blu-ray Review
2012’s Best Animated Feature Oscar for Brave shows us just how powerful branding can be. The Pixar label swayed Academy voters, most of whom failed to notice that it didn’t feel much like a Pixar flick...
View ArticleJohn C. Reilly Has Signed on for WRECK-IT RALPH 2
Wreck-It Ralph was a big hit for Disney, and like Frozen, getting a sequel felt more like a matter of “When” rather than “If”. Frozen 2 was officially announced back in March, and now John C. Reilly...
View Article‘Zootopia’: Directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore on Making a Buddy Cop...
For the past few years, Disney Animation has been on a roll releasing films like Wreck-it-Ralph, Big Hero 6, Frozen, and Tangled. Their newest film, Zootopia, continues their great streak. If you...
View ArticleJohn C. Reilly Talks ‘The Lobster’, ‘Kong: Skull Island’, and ‘Wreck-it-Ralph 2’
The Lobster is set in a dystopian near future where single people are taken to The Hotel and are obliged to find true love in 45 days, or be transformed into the animal of their choice and released...
View ArticleExclusive: ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Director Rich Moore Teases Internet Setting,...
Hollywood likes to make sequels. The fact is, sequels make money. If they didn’t, the movie industry wouldn’t make them. The unfortunate part of so many sequels, prequels and spinoffs is many of them...
View ArticleMovie Talk: ‘Wreck it Ralph 2’ Announced; Academy Awards Respond to Call for...
On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (June 30, 2016) Kristian Harloff, Perri Nemiroff, Jason Inman and Natasha Martinez discuss the following: Disney Animation announces Wreck it Ralph 2 Academy...
View ArticleJane Lynch on ‘Mascots’, Returning for ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ and More
From director/co-writer Christopher Guest (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman), the new comedy Mascots takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots, where men and women put on furry...
View Article‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Key Scenes Shot in IMAX for Maximum Feels
In anticipation of the December 15th release of Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, IMAX Corporation and The Walt Disney Studios have revealed that key sequences of the eighth installment of the...
View Article‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Gets a Wordy Title and New Plot Details
Last night at CinemaCon, Disney revealed some new details about their upcoming animated film, Wreck-It Ralph 2. The official title is now Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, which doesn’t...
View Article‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Will Bring All of the Disney Princesses Together in One Film
In the upcoming Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (I’m excited for this movie, but that’s the worst title; they should have called it Super Wreck-It Ralph), Ralph (John C. Reilly) and...
View ArticleThis Week in Animation: ‘Coco’ Returns to Theaters; ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ to Air...
In This Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news...
View Article‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’: First Trailer Does Its Best to Break the Internet
We didn't get one in 2017, but the wait for a new Walt Disney Animation Disney animation studios film is almost over, and so is the even longer wait for the Wreck-it-Ralph sequel. In 2012, the animated...
View ArticleNew ‘Wreck-It-Ralph 2’ Image Unites the Disney Princesses in a Royal Reunion
The internet has been dreaming up a Disney princess shared universe for years, but Disney went ahead and made it a reality (kind of) by staging the ultimate royal reunion in Ralph Breaks the Internet:...
View ArticleNew Trailer for ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Is Determined to Break the Internet
A new trailer for Disney's highly anticipated animated sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 is now here! The upcoming film has Ralph and Vanellope headed to the Internet to find a...
View ArticleDisney Pushes ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Back a Year, Sets ‘Jungle Cruise’ and...
Disney's shuffling their early 2020s release date calendar, which comes with some lengthy delays, surprising moves up in schedule, and even new dates we're seeing for the first time. Here's what we've...
View ArticleThis Week in Animation: GKIDS to Bring ‘Perfect Blue’ to Theaters This September
In This Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news...
View ArticleNew ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Clip Reveals Gal Gadot as Shank
Giving us a horrifying glimpse into the future where Disney buys Warner Bros. and Wonder Woman officially becomes a Disney princess, Gal Gadot has joined the cast of Ralph Breaks the Internet, the...
View ArticleNew ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Trailer Gets Weird on the Internet
The latest trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet, a.k.a. Wreck-It Ralph 2, is the best yet at delivering plot nuggets and Internet weirdness. It turns out that the reason our title character and...
View Article20 Things to Know about ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’, Disney’s ‘Wreck-It...
Even though the filmmakers were still hard at work, finishing Ralph Breaks the Internet, a.k.a. Wreck-It Ralph 2, in time for its November 21st release date, they invited members of the media out to...
View ArticleHere Are the 25 Animated Films Submitted for an Oscars Nomination Consideration
My personal favorite time of each year's major awards season is the submission stage. That's where you see the best representation of a year's worth of creative efforts on the big and small screens...
View Article‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Creatives on Princesses and the “Oh My Disney”...
Directed by Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, Ralph Breaks the Internet (out in theaters on November 21st), the sequel to the hugely popular nostalgia-filled Wreck-It Ralph, will see best friends Ralph...
View Article‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, & Taraji P....
From co-director Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, Ralph Breaks the Internet, the follow-up to 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, revisits the friendship between video game bad guy Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) and...
View ArticleThe Best Disney Animated Sequels Ever Made (And You Can Stream All of ‘Em!)
On November 22, 2019, we all move into the unknown. Disney will release Frozen 2, a risky creative move no matter which way you slice the iceberg. It’s the ubiquitous studio’s first ever theatrically...
View ArticleThe Best Movies About Video Games, Ranked
We’ve got plenty of “video game movies.” Movies, like the much-maligned Super Mario Bros. or objectively-the-best-movie-ever-made Mortal Kombat, that adapt the world and characters of a video game and...
View ArticleThe 45 Best Animated Movies of the 21st Century (So Far)
From 2000 to the present, animated films have become ubiquitous, increasingly experimental in their narrative construction and visual language, and critically acclaimed. The 21st century has done a lot...
View ArticleThe Best Disney Movies of the 21st Century, So Far
Has any studio more fully dominated one decade like Disney did in the 2010s? Not only did the Mouse House start mining its animated classics for live-action remakes that regularly cross $1 billion at...
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