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[lithera]

John Lasseter and Ed Catmull are planning to return the Walt Disney Co.'s studios in Burbank to its roots as a "traditional" (hand-drawn) animation company exclusively, while Pixar will continue to turn out computer-animated (CG) features, Disney watcher Jim Hill reported on his website www.jimhillmedia.com today (Tuesday). In doing so, Lasseter, the chief creative officer for Disney Animation, and Catmull, the unit's president, will be reversing Disney's efforts over the past three years to, in Hill's words, "retrain that studio's staff as well as to change Disney Feature Animation into a state-of-the-art CG operation." Hill observed that the plan has not yet been "entirely embraced" by Disney CEO Robert Iger. One result of the about-face, Hill noted, has been the cancellation of Disney's plans to produce the computer-animated American Dog, a movie conceived and supervised by Chris Sanders, who ironically was responsible for Disney's last big hand-drawn hit, Lilo and Stitch.

Paramount is hiring a writer for Tomb Raider 3.

Dimension Films has made a deal to turn the Michael Allred-created comic book Madman into a live-action film, reports Variety.

Sam Raimi is making a major small-screen push, tapping former Tribune Entertainment and Universal executive William Hamm to run the newly formed Ghost House Television, reports Variety. Like its sibling Ghost House Pictures, the TV unit will have a singular focus: producing scary content.

Film rights to Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, have been sold to Headline Pictures, BBC Films and the U.K. Film Council.

And this is a great review of the new Rocky movie.

Comments

[stacyx.livejournal.com]

And James Cameron is finally going to do another Sci-fi movie after an 8 year break. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/article2087368.ece

[lithera.livejournal.com]

He keeps on saying that and he's started Avatar and he also wants to do Battle Angel Alita and... something else I can't remember. *grins*

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

John Lasseter and Ed Catmull are planning to return the Walt Disney Co.'s studios in Burbank to its roots as a "traditional" (hand-drawn) animation company exclusively,

YAY! I don't dislike computer animation, but next to traditional animation it always leaves me feeling cold and flat. I was very sad when Disney said they were going to be doing nothing but computer animated films from now on.

[natasthellama.livejournal.com]

I am also happy to see that they are going to go back to hand-drawn animation, at least a little bit. I must agree that while I do not dislike the CG movies, they are not as "warm" as the hand-drawn ones. Besides, I could do computer animation if I really wanted to but I have no talent for drawing at all so there might be a touch of envy in my preference as well.