The creators of Once Upon a Time are launching a new Epic ABC series that's set in "the fairytale universe of Disney." It's a romantic anthology series.
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Award season is ready to get into full swing, and one of the early stages of the runup to the Academy Awards is the submission of Best Animated Feature options. This year there are nineteen submitted features, including big studio fare (Cloudy 2, The Croods, Despicable Me 2, Monsters University), one from Studio Ghibli (The…
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One of the more intriguing films being release this summer is Blue Sky Studio's Epic. Featuring an insane list of voice talent (Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Chris O'Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Beyoncé Knowles) the film tells the story of a young girl who finds herself in the…
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Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that's about an hour and half of your life you'll never get back. That's time you could've spent actually watching one of these movies. If you…
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Last year at CinemaCon, 20th Century Fox previewed very early footage for Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Attendees at the presentation were floored, and the buzz on all the blogs was that Pi was an Oscar contender. Some argued that April was too early to be calling for possible Oscar contenders, and they were probably…
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Sure, it's got noble warriors, a vicious villain, a graceful queen, and an old, bitter feud, but the most epic thing about Epic may be the voice cast. Amanda Seyfried leads as Mary Katherine, an ordinary girl who somehow gets shrunk down and finds herself involved in the grand yet very, very tiny battle between the…
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A star-studded cast works wonderfully as a marketing gimmick, but as films like New Year's Eve and Movie 43 have proven, it's no guarantee of quality. Fortunately, Blue Sky Studios' animated adventure Epic seems to have a little more going for it. Amanda Seyfried voices Mary Katherine, a normal girl who gets caught up in…
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Following on the heels of a bunch of character images, here's the first full trailer for Blue Sky Studios' Epic, directed by Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Robots) and featuring the voices of Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, and Aziz Ansari (in what seems to be essentially a parralel of Eddie Murphy's gig in Shrek). Seyfried voices a girl who…
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The first teaser trailer for Blue Sky's CG-animated Epic was wonderful at showing off its fantastical forest setting, but not so much at introducing us to the characters. We heard more of Snow Patrol's "The Lightning Strike" than we did dialogue from the cast, despite a star-studded lineup including Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Christoph Waltz, Colin…
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Through the Ice Age movies, Blue Sky Studios has become one of the premier CG animation houses for feature films, and the company's new effort is a whimsical forest battle called Epic. Chris Wedge, who directed the first Ice Age film and has voiced the Scrat character throughout that franchise, is directing. This one features…
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Thanks to the ongoing licensing expo in Vegas, we're getting early looks at a couple of films on our radar. The same event gave us the first tiny and not at all revealing glimpse of Fast & Furious 6 promo art earlier this week, and today we're getting an eyeful of two animated projects that…
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Adding to the big day over at 20th Century Fox, they've just announced the full voice cast for their latest CG 3D animated film called Epic. Created by Blue Sky Studios, Epic (formerly called Leafmen) "tells the story of an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and the forces of evil. When a…
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