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    Watch Criterion Collection Trailer For 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'

    By Russ Fischer February 11th, 2014

    The new Wes Anderson movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is garnering praise left and right. While you wait for its March opening date, there's plenty of time to take in the new blu-ray release of an older Anderson movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Criterion Collection disc, which hits stores next week, features an extensive suite…

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  • Cool Stuff: Zoltron's Fantastic Mr. Fox And Willy Wonka Movie Posters

    By Peter Sciretta March 27th, 2010

    The Red Vic Movie House on Haight street in San Francisco has been producing limited edition posters to celebrate the 30th year of one of the last great movie houses. Two of the posters I really love were created by Zoltron. I must warn you that both prints are completely sold out. The first is…

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    VOTD: 50 Movie Spoilers Of 2009 In 4 Minutes

    By Peter Sciretta March 1st, 2010

    The Fine Brothers love to spoil everything, In past years, we've featured their popular videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes and Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History. After seeing all of the big movies of 2009, the brothers are back once again.  Their latest video spoils 50 movies released last year (including…

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    Wes Anderson's Stop Motion Animated NBR Awards Acceptance Speech

    By Peter Sciretta January 13th, 2010

    Wes Anderson accepted his special achievement award for Fantastic Mr. Fox from the National Board of Review in character - via a stop-motion animated vignette. Not one to make a mockery of things, Anderson then got up on stage to thank them in person. You can watch the video of the stop motion animated acceptance…

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    Movie Review: A Town Called Panic (My Choice For Best Animated Film Of 2009)

    By Hunter Stephenson January 8th, 2010

    Here's to a school of dagger-propelled, orange barracuda siccing any listmeister who jumped the gun and failed to consider A Town Called Panic for his or her top ten films of 2009. Undeniably the most entertaining and energetic movie of that now-caput year, I found myself funstruck from film's start to its fireworks-laden finish; ATCP is also 2009's…

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    Stephen King's Top 10 Films Of 2009

    By Peter Sciretta January 5th, 2010

    Author Stephen King has published his annual listing of the top 10 films of the year. This year King agreed with the mainstream critics in naming The Hurt Locker as the best film of the year, but the rest of his list is the opposite of conventional. His list for 2009 is bound to spawn…

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    Cool Stuff: Chris Appelhans' Fantastic Mr. Fox Concept Art

    By Peter Sciretta December 15th, 2009

    Chris Appelhans has created concept art work on Monster House, City of Ember, Coraline, and Princess and the Frog. Appelhans has uploaded some of the awesome work he crafted for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I have included after the jump. [gallery columns="2"] Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any…

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    Funny Interviews: Jason Reitman Answers Questions NOT On His Pie Chart And Jason Schwartzman As Wes Anderson In Stop-Motion

    By Peter Sciretta November 30th, 2009

    A couple of unusual interviews have hit the web today. The is first from our friends at FilmSchoolRejects, who talked to director Jason Reitman, not about his new movie Up in the Air, but instead quizzed the filmmaker on the pie chart he keeps of all the questions asked while on his press tour. Rejects Managing Editor Dr. Cole…

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    Interview: Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox

    By Peter Sciretta November 26th, 2009

    Last month, while I was in London, I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to filmmaker Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) about his new film, the stop-motion animated adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Yesterday we posted our interview with Jason Schwartzman. Today I bring you my interview with Wes, in which he discusses how he discovered…

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    See Wes Anderson's Directorial Videos For Fantastic Mr. Fox

    By Russ Fischer November 14th, 2009

    We don't have a review of Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend (I haven't even seen it yet, being in Atlanta rather than on the coast) but this is a nice alternative. There was that whole uproar over the fact that Wes Anderson directed some of the film via email, but he also used a lot…

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    How Wes Anderson Directed Fantastic Mr Fox

    By Peter Sciretta October 5th, 2009

    The production process of stop-motion animation has always fascinated me. It's such a time intensive process that I've never really understood how a director manages it all. Last month some people were shocked to learn that Wes Anderson wasn't even on set much for the filming of Fantastic Mr. Fox. The fuss was caused by…

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    Fantastic Mr. Fox Soundtrack Listing

    By Peter Sciretta September 21st, 2009

    I'll admit, I'm not as excited about Fantastic Mr. Fox as I should be. Definitely not as excited as I would be about a new live-action Wes Anderson film. But lets look on the bright side, at very least we will have a new Anderson-curated soundtrack. /Film reader Bill C sent over the complete soundtrack…

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