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The film’s ironic distance, scornful approach to its fairy tale subject matter, smattering of literary and film references, as well as its broader pop culture literacy, have all since impacted the tone of several blockbuster animated features.

While Pixar’s groundbreaking Toy Story often achieves plaudits for the shot in the arm it gave Hollywood animation in the mid-1990s, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of DreamWorks’ 2001 computer-animated hit Shrek. The grubbier and more sarcastic sibling to Woody and Buzz, Shrek was a milestone for American cartoons that paved the way for a unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence that still holds sway across the industry today. Back in 2001, animation’s digital ...

Square Enix Has Several Buyers Interested in M&A, Says Report; Company Responds It Has No Intention to Sell Apr 16, 2021 05:09 EDT [ORIGINAL STORY] Historical Japanese game publisher Square Enix has recently had several buyers interested in M&A, according to a new report issued by CTFN, a team of journalists and analysts who specialize in breaking and analyzing M&A stories. The sources are two bankers familiar with the matter, though they remain unnamed, of course. It is also unclear wheth...

Read more Sophia the robot apparently has pop star ambitions. The brainchild of Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics, Sophia – who can mimic facial expressions and have conversations like a normal, blood-filled woman – is working on what sounds like a pop album, the Associated Press reports. Not much is known about the musical project, except that it will involve collaborations with human musicians. While I am sure that some may take issue with the idea of robotic pop stars swoopi...

The Golden Compass (2007). Laurie Sparham © 2007 New Line Cinema As the old adage goes, you have to speculate to accumulate. But as several Hollywood executives have discovered—often at great professional cost—is that speculation can also lead to multi-million dollar losses, job cuts, and the ignominy of becoming a laughingstock across Tinseltown. As 15 box office turkeys showed us, sometimes all it takes is one major flop to send a studio down the dreaded path of bankruptcy. 1. It’s A ...

The Pluto TV streaming service  does not make it easy to figure out what they have with a lack of a proper search engine on their site. WTK has gone through and found a lot of links with what they’re actually showing so definitely give him some love for the effort for it that we’re glad to share here. Live TV: