The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival: Wallace & Gromit's 20th Anniversary
Master animator Nick Park discusses his illustrious career and helps us celebrate 20 years since Wallace & Gromit hit our screens.
As a child, Nick Park’s career aspirations included being an artist for the Beano comic and an inventor. By far, his best invention has been Wallace & Gromit, who first appeared on our screens 20 years ago. In 1985, Park became an invaluable addition to Aardman Animations, and A Grand Day Out (which he began as a student at the NFTS) earned him his first of many BAFTA awards. Four Academy Awards followed, not just for his much-loved shorts Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, but also for his feature Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Park’s perfectionist attention to detail and his ability to infuse his plasticine characters with humanity and humour (not to mention giving an immense vocabulary and emotional range to a dog that never speaks a word) is testament to the genius of his imagination and to his unsurpassed talent as an animator. To celebrate Park’s ‘cracking’ achievements we are delighted to be able to screen A Grand Day Out, digitally remastered for the occasion. Nick Park will be interviewed on stage after the screening by journalist David Gritten. Timothy Smith
Where
BFI NFT1
When
15:15 Sat 24 October
New trailer for Neil Gaiman's Coraline is now online in HD
Neil has given this trailer his blessing as well.
Coraline Web Trailer HD
Click the Trailer to see the larger version on YouTube
TRON 2.0 is coming soon (2011)
Disney debuts the teaser trailer for TR2N at Comic-Con 08.
As always the trailer was captured by a fan on his mobile phone. The below version was further cleaned up by another fan to give us an almost watchable version.
From “http://tron2trailer.blogspot.com/” comes a breakdown of the full teaser trailer:
– The Disney logo appears and quickly seems to get digitized.
– We pan over ominous clouds into a digital city landscape only to find a man in a updated “Tron” costume. He’s on the run.
– The man jumps into a brand new 2008 version of the familiar light cycle.
– And a huge chase ensues with a pursuer in a dark mask after our racer. Unlike cycle races of old this one goes up and down AND side to side.
– The chased man is vanquished, crashing horrible. As the pursuer gets off his cycle he pulls a familiar disc from his back. The winner looks up to a previously unseen observer.
– And the observer is…Jeff Bridges! An older (and now evil) Flynn?!? He rises from a meditative state in his watchtower to see the pursuer do his bidding.
– The vanquished man pleads to his pursuer. “It’s just a game!” And then the final big reveal: the pursuer takes off his helmet and he is also Bridges, a seemingly younger Bridges!
Yes! It seems that both Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleiter are reprising their roles from the original.
Preview screening of Bolt 3D & Q&A with John Lasseter in London
Preview screening of Bolt 3D & Q&A with John Lasseter in London
Raised on the set of a hit television show, Bolt the dog believes he has amazing powers. But when he’s accidentally shipped to New York City, his daredevil stunts no longer go according to plan… We present Bolt in Digital 3D (a first for BFI Southbank) and welcome John Lasseter back to NFT1 for a Q&A following the screening.
National Film Theatre
Thundercats Hooooooooooooo!!!!!!
This fan made trailer for an imagined Thundercats is impressive, in a Thundercats kind of way.
It’s called Thundercats: Sword of Omens and took WormyTV the creator “about a year and a half on and off”. Thundercats the film is still in pre development and expected to be in cinemas 2010.
In case you are wondering if the cast in the trailer looked familiar:
Jaga … Robert Eddison
Panthro … Vin Diesel
Cheetara … Gigi Edgley
Tygra … Hugh Jackman
Lion-O … Brad Pitt
Snarf … Garfield
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