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One of the greatest scenes in Frank Miller's graphic novel Batman: Year One is the dinner party that Batman crashes, in which he warns Gotham's rich and mighty that from this moment on, none of them is safe. Now you can watch that scene brought to life, in the first clip from the Batman: Year One direct-to-DVD animated movie. More »
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We've patiently waited for any news on the rumored Monsters Inc. sequel. Whispers of a "Monsters Inc. University" storyline were circulating, but now the whole plot has been leaked! More »
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Disney animator Heidi Jo Gilbert created a Wicked storyboard video, set to the tracks from Wicked, the musical, hoping to convince her bosses to make Elphaba the next Disney princess. Our reaction: Holy Hell, this is amazing. UPDATE: Youtube pulled the clip but if you go to her site you can watch the original (not embeddable) video. Thanks! More »
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Planet 51 has an intriguing premise, promising advance clips, and acid-piddling dog straight out of Alien. But none of that can save a rambling movie that's never quite sure where it's going. More »
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The monsters of Monsters vs. Aliens are back to battle a new threat: mutant pumpkins from outer space. In these five clips, our monstrous heroes try trick-or-treating and we learn why not to make Jack O'Lanterns out of sentient squash. More »
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Add another name to Disney's ever-growing list of properties. Guillermo del Toro and Disney are teaming up to launch horror cartoon label Double Dare You, and they've already got a film in the works. More »
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In the trailer for the fourth season of The Venture Bros., bizarre clips and familiar characters whiz by at breakneck speed. We break it down shot-by-shot and try to glean what's next for Rusty and the team. More »
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Here's the first image from "Dreamland," the animated Doctor Who story featuring the voice of David Tennant, which will air in the UK via the "red button" video service later this year. His hair has never been spikier! More »
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The first trailer for season four of The Venture Bros. promises that the new season will be every bit as full of trippy as we could hope, with plenty of spoilers to leave you asking, "What did I just watch?" More »
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Our enduring nostalgia for the Lex Luthor presidency will finally be assuaged when Superman/Batman: Public Enemies comes out on DVD this fall. Animation God Bruce Timm tackles a crazy-caped Jeph Loeb storyline, and judging from this first trailer, it's going to be like Batman: Brave And The Bold on steroids. More »
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Shane Acker's animated movie 9 already impressed us with its blend of action and gothy postapocalyptic-ragdoll imagery. But a new clip underscores how scary the film, produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmabetov, will be. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5219979&view=rss&microfeed=true If you picked up the direct-to-DVD Futurama movie The Beast With A Billion Backs, like all sane sentients, you'll have noticed a trailer for the third DVD movie, Bender's Game. The Planet Express crew is diving straight into fantasy role-playing, with knights, kings, and Dungeons and Dragons (whose multi-sided dice are referenced through out the clips). Click to view the whole clip, including half naked centaur Leela. More »
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What heavy metal teenager with a bitchin' mullet hasn't fantasized about acting out this scene? Walking out of a giant monster skull, with a wall of flame behind you, and telling all of the old farts that they're really slaves of the man? In this awesome scene from Starchaser: Legend Of Orin, the slaves of Mineworld think that their overlord Zygon is coming to address them, but they're surprised when it's the teenage Orin, who ventured out of their little cavern world for the first time, instead. Isn't it just like the grownups to believe the lying whip-wielding robot overseers instead of the kids? More »
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Some of the things Batman will have in this summer's animated DVD anthology Gotham Knight: 1) Glowy red eyes that give him some kind of infrared vision. 2) Little finger-sized Batarangs that he can throw a bunch of at once. 3) A flying Bat-glider that lets him glide through the ominous skyline of Gotham. 4) A torn uniform that exposes his Bat-abs. 5) A maniac swinging a scythe at his head. 6) Fists of fury. 7) Our money. More »
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The summer's most anticipated monkey movie, Space Chimps, goes for the really low-hanging fruit (sorry) when it comes to scifi humor. Either the whole movie is full of jokes like this cheesy "Space, the final frontier" routine, or they just packed all those moments into the trailer to reassure the grown-ups they'll have something to giggle at while their kids laugh at the funny monkeys. In any case, chances are you'll enjoy Space Chimps for the kid-reasons — funny slapstick, wormhole rollercoaster — rather than the grown-up" humor. Luckily the kid stuff looks pretty great. Click through for details. More »
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Freddie Highmore of Willy Wonka fame will be lending his voice to the upcoming animated version of Astro Boy set to arrive in theaters next year, and we wonder why they chose a 16-year-old with an English accent to play the titular hero. In the manga, Astro is only nine years old... will audiences buy Highmore as a little robo-boy? At least he has the spiky hair down. [Comic Book Movie] More »
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Batman doesn't even need this new-fangled 3-D technology to punch through your screen. He just needs the awesome power of his Bat-fist, judging from this new promo still from the upcoming Batman: Gotham Knight animated DVD, coming this summer. Click through for two more awesome images, including one that shows Batman walking through fire and somehow still being shadowy. More »
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Justice League: The New Frontier comes out on DVD tomorrow, a straight-to-DVD release based on writer/artist Darwyn Cooke's series DC: The New Frontier. This is part of a trend of Warner and DC releasing original animated films on disc that might never have seen the light of day otherwise, beginning with last year's Superman: Doomsday. We got a sneak peek at The New Frontier at WonderCon, and we loved the setting in space. But the flick gets mired in the origin stories of Green Lantern and The Martian Manhunter. We've got a full report, with clips, below. More »
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Sure, HD DVD has been slaughtered by Blu-ray, but will we really care when our television is an ingestible alpha-wave generator that'll just paint the pictures on the insides of our heads for us? Tex Avery's vision of the Television of Tomorrow in this MGM cartoon from 1953 might not have come true yet, but we're holding out hope that we could get a few of these innovations stuck into our next-gen televisions before the tubes vanish into our noggins. If you could flip open extra screens to see more of the subject, and attach your television directly to the garbage disposal, you wouldn't care what the delivery format was anymore. More »
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The animated Batman DVD will look amazing, judging from the clips you can see in this promo reel. Batman: Gotham Knight will come out when Batman: The Dark Knight hits the big screen. Click through for details. More »
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Animated Hawkman: alien cop or Egyptian prince? We may soon find out the truth. Hawkman put in a cameo appearance, along with some other heroes, in the season four finale of The Batman animated series, but we didn't learn much about him. Now Hawky and Batman are teaming up just as a duo, to fight the Shadow Thief and Black Mask, and we'll find out which comics version he's based on. Click through for another image of the animated Hawkman. More »
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The monkeys in the U.S. space program might seem like an odd subject for an animated film, especially since scientists killed a ton of them in the process. In fact, the first six monkeys, uninspiringly named Albert I through Albert VI, all died either in flight, on impact, or right after landing. Not exactly your Saturday matinee popcorn fare, but later this year we'll have both a Space Chimps movie in theaters, and a video game featuring this crazy family of monkey astronauts. More »
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Next August could see another Star Wars movie in theaters. Only it would be an animated film, to launch the gritty new Clone Wars animated TV series that George Lucas is working on. During a conference call with investors, an executive from the Hasbro toy company said the Clone Wars film would be in theaters on 08/08/08. But don't start lining up yet. More »
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