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Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt has signed on to provide the voice of Garfield in a new animated adaptation for the big screen.

Chris Pratt will voice Garfield in new animated movie from writer David Reynolds and director Mark Dindal.

The lasagna-loving feline is getting an animated movie.

The words “Disney” and “animation” fit together so firmly in the public mind that a feature-length cartoon from any other studio has tough going. If it's not Disney, somehow parents don't feel automatically compelled to load up the family van and head for the multiplex.

Cats Don’t Dance. Technically, Cats Don’t Dance was only distributed by Warner Bros.; it was the sole full feature produced by Turner Animation before a merger absorbed the nascent studio into its new corporate parent. But it’s extremely compatible with Warner’s history, not least because it features at least a dozen caricatures of the types of Old Hollywood celebrities that used to dot classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. It’s even set in 1939, right around the creation of Bug...

Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but many of these nostalgic favorites were critical failures, box-office disappointments, or both. What went wrong along the way? And why did they gain such love after the fact? The is out to dust off those old VHS tapes (or, more accurately, find the movies on streaming) and examine some of these ...

Thank you, Bilge Ebiri! Thak you for brightening this Wednesday and thus our whole damn week with this truly marvelous oral history of, as you describe it, “an irreverent, pratfall-heavy, non sequitur of an animated movie that so defied Disney’s painstakingly deliberate traditions, it’s hard to believe it actually exists today.” That movie is Advertisement Normally in a Read This, we’d spend some time selling you on why this particular piece is worth reading, and we’d use some part...

The Lion King set among the Inca of Peru, with a soundtrack of songs by Sting,  Kingdom of the Sun spent years in development and preproduction, with the creatives even taking a trip to Machu Picchu. The original story has some resemblance to what ended up on the screen, but in other ways, it’s very different. The plot of Kingdom of the Sun is wild and extremely complicated. The ruler was still voiced by David Spade but he was named Manco, who encounters a simple llama herder named Pacha,...

20 Years Later The Emperor’s New Groove Is a Beloved Classic, but Its Journey To the Screen Was Not Easy Jessica Mason © Provided by The Mary Sue kronk with an angel and a devil in the emperors new groove Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of one of my favorite movies maybe of all time:  The Emperor’s New Groove. The film was a box office and critical failure when it debuted in theaters on December 15, 2000, but in the years since its weirdness, humor, ...