Tag: Rango
RANGO Receives Best Animated Feature Award at 39th Annual Annie Awards
Paramount Pictures Rango took top honors as the Best Animated Feature at the 39th Annual Annie Awards, Saturday, February 4, at UCLA’s Royce Hall. With the expanded list of categories from 25 to 28, and the addition of two new categories – Editing and Best Animated Special Production – this year’s show honored more nominees than in the past. Also new to the ceremony was the live streaming of the event at www.annieawards.org/watch-it-live. The complete list of winners can be viewed at www.annieawards.org. The newly created ‘Member’s Favorite’ award voted on by the entire ASIFA-Hollywood community also went to ‘Rango.’
For the Second Year, Johnny Depp is America’s Favorite Actor
In 2011 he was the voice of Rango, he was Captain Jack Sparrow (again) and he was also a journalist. And, again this year, Johnny Depp has the distinction of being America’s Favorite Actor. Next on the list are two actors who haven’t actually acted in a movie this past year. Tied for number two are Denzel Washington, who was in the second spot last year, and Clint Eastwood who was number 9 on the list last year.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll ® of 2,237 adults surveyed online between December 5 and 12, 2011 by Harris Interactive®.
Paramount Pictures Tops 2011 Box Office with $5.17 Worldwide!
Paramount Pictures announced today it ended 2011 in the No. 1 position among all studios, having achieved the highest total combined gross of any studio for the year, earning a record $5.17 billion worldwide. The studio, which released a total of 16 new releases domestically this year, placed first in the North American market share with $1.96 billion, while also amassing record grosses at the international box office with $3.21 billion.
18 Animated Feature Films Submit for 84th Annual Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled 18 movies that have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 84th Academy Awards.
Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin seems a clear favorite for the prize. However, its motion-capture technique has raised doubts concerning its eligibility as an animated feature.
Weekend Box Office: March 4-6, 2011Rango
Rentrak Corporation, today announced the official weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of march 4, 2010. through March 6, 2011 according to the company’s Box Office Essentials™ theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rango | Paramount | 38,000,000 | 38,000,000 | 3,917 | |
| 2 | Adjustment Bureau, The | Universal | 20,945,000 | 20,945,000 | 2,840 | |
| 3 | Beastly | CBS Films | 10,115,000 | 10,115,000 | 1,952 | |
| 4 | Hall Pass | Warner Bros. | 9,015,000 | 27,000,755 | 2,950 | |
| 5 | Gnomeo & Juliet | Disney | 6,912,000 | 83,694,010 | 2,984 | |
| 6 | Unknown | Warner Bros. | 6,620,000 | 53,129,264 | 2,913 | |
| 7 | King’s Speech, The | The Weinstein Company | 6,501,000 | 123,816,877 | 2,240 | |
| 8 | Just Go With It | Sony | 6,500,000 | 88,200,070 | 2,920 | |
| 9 | I Am Number Four | Disney | 5,702,000 | 46,440,416 | 2,903 | |
| 10 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | Paramount | 4,325,000 | 68,876,411 | 2,254 | |
| 11 | Take Me Home Tonight | Relativity Media | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 2,003 | |
| 12 | Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | 20th Century Fox | 3,300,000 | 33,269,678 | 1,642 |
Rango Review
Opening Friday March 4 Rango is Industrial Light and Magic’s first fully animated movie . Written by John Logan, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp.
Like The Fantastic Mr Fox, “Rango” is helmed by a cineaste Gore Verbinski who has worked in live actions, and it takes advantage from his heightened awareness of visual responses to the piece –Verbinski assisted on True Grit’s DP Roger Deakins as a visual consultant, and it shows.
Three New Rango Character Posters
The Photo Gallery has been updated with three new character posters from Paramount Pictures’ Rango.
Rango tells the story a chameleon with an identity crisis, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery taking place in the western town of Dirt.
Johnny Depp voicing the titular Chameleon and he is joined by Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin and Alfred Molina.
New 3 Minute Rango Clip Arrives!
Paramount Pictures has unleashed a three-minute clip from their upcoming animated adventure Rango.
From the director of ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean -’ Gore Verbinski comes ‘Rango,’ featuring Johnny Depp in an original animated comedy-adventure that takes moviegoers for a hilarious and heartfelt walk in the Wild West. The story follows the comical, transformative journey of Rango (Depp), a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet, while facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt — a lawless outpost populated by the desert’s most wily and whimsical creatures — the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt…until, in a blaze of action-packed situations and encounters with outrageous characters, Rango starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be.
Oscars Toward Bottom Line’s Winner
Oscars didn’t exactly precipitated on Paramount this year, but the company’s bottom line shine a double gold – one that reducing losses and also raising the prospect of significant increases.
The attention has been concentrated on Paramount six years ago when the studio had weak profits and a thin schedule. Executive Brad Grey was being beaten by bloggers that must soon fade away. Last year, however, box office reached to $416 million based on a blend of low-budget movies like Paranormal Activity 2 and big-bucks deals like How to Train Your Dragon and Iron Man 2.And when rivals were faced failing to recoup its budgets like How Do You Know and Gulliver’s Travels, Paramount released a $38 million sleeper hit, True Grit, and a $25 million, The Fighter, and even obtains unexpected success with Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never.
