At their core, all narrative features are lies. We can will ourselves to believe we're watching superheroes save Manhattan, but we know deep down that what we're really seeing is costumed actors zipping around on wires and jumping in front of green screens. And like all great, big whoppers, the more moving parts there are,…
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Today we bring a bunch of new sequel news bits including: Waiting to Exhale 2 Could Still Happen Without Whitney Houston Universal is developing ideas for a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman ... but without Snow White? The studio has no plans for The Lorax 2 but definitely more Dr. Seuss adaptations Will…
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So much for that liberal, pro-environment, anti-industrialist agenda Fox News accused The Lorax of pushing. In a truly WTF bit of cross-promotion, the title character of Dr. Seuss' nature-friendly fable is shilling for the 2013 Mazda CX-5. That's right: The feisty Lorax, who famously "speaks for the trees," is promoting an SUV, and not even…
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Animated family films are at their best when the main story is saying something more. Think about all the films Pixar has made in recent years. Is Wall-E just about a robot cleaning a planet? Is Up really just about a flying house? Of course not. These stories are used to teach us all some…
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The first teaser we saw for The Lorax, which comes from Despicable Me animation studio Illumination Entertainment, focused a lot more on the new stuff that has been written for the film than it did the classic Dr. Seuss book upon which the film is based. An Australian trailer showed just a bit more of…
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If last month's trailer for The Lorax seemed surprisingly cutesy and sweet for an urgent environmental fable, perhaps the new Australian trailer will balance it out. Where the last one really played up the colorful setting and playful tone, the new video offers a much better look at the destruction the greedy Once-ler (voiced by…
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Here's the trailer for The Lorax, the CGI animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. The story describes a budding industrialist, the Once-ler, who destroys a small ecosystem in order to make and sell his invention, the theed, a thing that everyone needs. In doing so he meets the disapproval of…
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Anyone who read Dr. Seuss' The Lorax as a kid is undoubtedly familiar with the title character, the mustachioed orange grump who speaks for the trees. The villainous Once-ler, on the other hand, has always remained more of a mystery. Seuss' books showed only a pair of long, spindly arms, leaving readers to guess at…
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It's always upsetting to see major roles for animated characters go to high profile celebrities who have no business voice acting -- or acting at all, in this case -- when there so many more capable voice actors out there struggling to find consistent work. Such is the business of Hollywood. Audiences see a name…
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Looking only at live-action films such as The Cat in the Hat, you'd think the books of Dr. Seuss are better left to the page. But Chuck Jones has proved that animation, guided by a careful hand, is a fine way to bring the author's stories to the screen. Horton Hears a Who, directed by…
Read MoreIllumination Entertainment's first feature Despicable Me earned 56.3 million domestically in its first weekend of release, nearly double what analysts had predicted. It seems like everyone got lured to the theater to catch a glimpse of those cute little yellow minions. Of course, a sequel is already in development. Mike Fleming reports that a sequel…
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As part of his thesis in film at the savannah college of art and design, /Film reader Lee Keeler re-imagined The Lorax by Dr. Seuss as a retro grindhouse movie trailer. "A twist on the original text: 'The Lorax: He Speaks for the Tress' is a mock Grindhouse trailer that chronicles the badassssss adventures of…
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The latest Dr. Suess tale to go before cameras (or, in this case, rendering software) will be The Lorax, as Variety reports that Universal has started work on a 3D animated feature based on the book. Chris Meledandri is heading up the project for the Universal family film division Illumination Entertainment. Meledandri was the guy…
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