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So far the buzz surrounding Avatar has been less than stellar. Now, the day before the preview of the HD trailer, we get a high quality foreign trailer that might turn those frowns upside down. And turn them into smiles. Just making sure you got that.

Fans of Avatar don’t have to deal with promo shots of James Cameron hanging out anymore. Instead, we have to deal with Sam Worthington hanging around.

Neil Burger is being tapped to write the script to bring the rats of NIMH and Mrs. Frisby back to the big screen.

Kevin Carr breaks down the week’s releases, looking at G-Force, The Ugly Truth, and Orphan.

So far, James Cameron has done nothing but tease us with photos of him next to green screen and blurry parts of mechanical feet. Now, he unveils 25 minutes of Avatar footage to the world, and the film community goes crazy.

Does it matter that Transformers 2 is probably this summer’s worst movie? Sadly, no. It’s little more than crassly commercialized cinematic excess, but still some viewers and reviewers have latched blindly on to Bay’s teats as if they expect awesome-flavored milk to start splashing against their tongue. And yes, I am talking about all of FSR’s head honchos…

We’ve already laid waste to Tokyo and kidnapped bikini babes off beaches, so it was definitely time to enlist with the Monster Army to fight Aliens. But did we enjoy the experience?

The Mutant Chronicles finally fights its way out of development hell and (briefly) into theaters this April. Check out this new Red Band trailer in celebration.

Forget James Bond. He’s nothing more than a human with a tag line. According to Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer the new guy in town is named Darwin and he’s a guinea pig.

Pixar may be on the cusp of their very first Best Picture nomination with Wall-E, but that doesn’t mean they’re resting on their CGI laurels. Their new film, Up, comes out next May and a new trailer has just been released.

Robert “Rage” Fure boils over when thinking about CG images replacing flesh and blood actors.

With the release of Kung Fu Panda later this week, we’re heading into the summer animation season. All this makes me reflect on some of my favorite computer animated characters over the years.

Is this a first glimpse into 2010’s Thundercats film?

What would you do if you had torn through Hollywood on storm, laying down bloody decapitations in Dawn of the Dead, spilling blood by the gallon surrounded by nearly nude men in 300, and adapted the gritty violence and rape infested Watchmen?

In a rare occurrence, a rumor has began circulating around the web about a possible new animated feature from the Academy Award winning team of Blue Sky Studios. The rumored project is an adaptation of a Bruce Zick book entitled The Anubis Tapestry.

Resident Reject Robert goes past his boiling point once again on the over abundance of poorly rendered CGI infesting movies.

The X-Men 2 scribe dishes about where he thinks an Avengers movie is headed.

With big action/fantasy releases like I Am Legend and The Golden Compass hitting the box office, we can hear audiences voicing two very loud opinions on the use of Computer Generated Imagery.

Check out this first look at a concept image of the titular Astro Boy for the upcoming CGI feature film, planned to storm into theaters in 2009.