One of the many things that make animated Disney movies so memorable are the exotic locations. Some are real, like Paris in Ratatouille. Others are fantasy, like Arendelle in Frozen. But no matter if the settings are real or fictional, the places in those movies are places we’d love to visit.
When you look at fur, the light has taken an extended journey before hitting your eye, bouncing around lots of fur fibers and their microscopic structures. You can imagine that it’s quite difficult for filmmakers to render these structures in CGI.
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of the cool toys and merchandise we’ve been trying to furiously add to our Christmas wishlists this week. We’ve got some excellent new Pacific Rim robots, the General of the Resistance herself, and even environmentally-conscious Jenga. What more could you want?
There’s no shortage of cool stuff to see walking around a Disney convention. A huge percentage of the people there are strictly for to buy merchandise. Unfortunately, some of the coolest merchandise in the entire convention was not for sale.
Last year offered several stellar animated films. But in my mind, of all the Oscar-nominated animated films in 2016, the rightful winner took the prize: Zootopia.
Even if you don’t do Christmas, you still might find yourself in a holiday-season situation involving children, time spent indoors, and a need to fill that time with a movie viewers of all ages can enjoy watching. Pick one of these Netflix selections, then binge-watch Medici: Masters of Florence when all the kiddies…
In movies, there’s usually a moment where everything clicks. Where the image, emotion, and sound meet in perfect harmony and no matter what happens before or after, you realize you are in love with this moment. The cinema of 2016 had plenty of these moments, and we picked our 16 favorites.
The films the io9 team has picked as the best science fiction and genre films of 2016 are a very motley crew. This year we loved superheroes, animation, farting corpses, live action, talking animals, and more. These are films spanning different genres, disciplines, and themes, which experienced varied levels of…
Before it was the billion dollar hit it ended up being, Zootopia was a very different movie. Nick was the main character, not Judy, and there was a much darker take on the distinction between predator and prey. You see a great example of that in this deleted scene.
Silhouettes have been a part of art for probably longer than most of us can speculate. Put on a western or period piece and you’re likely to see the family immortalized as a black silhouette on the wall. In recent years, several artists have taken that idea into pop culture and the latest show blending these eras…
This weekend, Disney’s Zootopia crossed $1 billion worldwide, once again proving the public loves talking animals. Okay, sure, Zootopia is also great but talking animal movies have a long history. In fact, the directors of Zootopia cited the under-appreciated 1973 Disney film Robin Hood as a huge inspiration.
The year is still relatively young, but one of the biggest surprises on the big screen has to be Zootopia. The early footage looked okay, but no one could have guessed Disney Animation had made one of their best films in decades.
Everybody knows that buddy comedies rule the universe. Just in the past couple weeks, we’ve had Zootopia, about a rabbit cop and a fox con-artist, and The Brothers Grimsby, about a superspy and his yokel brother. But buddy comedies have gotten much stranger than those—here are the 20 weirdest buddy comedies of all…
I wrote a post about Disney’s efforts to market Zootopia to furries last week, and I really pissed off some furries by describing the community as “people who like to roleplay as animals for sex reasons.” The following is an email I received from a furry named Brooke, published with her permission:
There’s something inherently weird about the “talking animal” genre, especially once it gets seriously anthropomorphic. What if some people in real life were goats and others were alligators? Would you still feel the same way about crime policy and immigration? It raises all sorts of ugly questions, that don’t have…
Do you know what a furry is? Disney sure does—and it’s trying to boost box office sales to its zoo-themed film, Zootopia, by marketing directly to people who like to roleplay as animals for sex reasons.
Computer animation evolves at an alarming rate. One year, a movie like Frozen or Big Hero 6 looks like the peak of what’s possible. Then, only a year later, the next thing goes way beyond that. In this case, the next thing is Zootopia, and in this movie a single giraffe has more individual hairs on it—nine…
For several years, Pixar’s animated films made Pixar’s parent company, Disney, look good. And meanwhile, Disney’s own in-house animation studio was going through a rough patch—the company wasn’t making the kind of films people expected from Walt Disney’s namesake.
Jesse Eisenberg discusses playing the villain in Batman v Superman. The next xXx loses one action star but gains another. Get a look at the return of the Lone Gunmen on The X-Files. Plus, teasers for the finale of Agent Carter, and a new clip from Zootopia. Spoilers now!
Bryan Singer wants to keep making X-Men movies. Scoot McNairy’s Batman v Superman character may not be a comic book character after all. Rachael Taylor would love to play Hellcat on Jessica Jones. Plus tons of new snippets of Zootopia, hints about Zoom’s identity on Flash, and Emilia Clarke teases Game of Thrones.…
