Launched in 1977, the counterculture art magazine Heavy Metal took the underworld by storm. Not just about music, Heavy Metal was a venue for bizarre, ultra-violent, unabashedly sexual comic stories for college kids with a healthy interest in wild artistic extremes. In 1981, producers Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel elected to adapt Heavy Metal into a feature film, presenting audiences with a series of bizarre, animated, nudity-heavy, blood-soaked fantasy vignettes for the grindhouse crowd.
The bookend material for the "Heavy Metal" feature film was a young girl's discovery of a mysterious intelligent orb calling itself the Loc-Nar (Percy Rodriguez). The Loc-Nar explains that it is a solid ball of concentrated evil, and has caused wars and galaxy-wide corruption throughout its history. Each of the shorts in "Heavy Metal," were worked on by a different team of animators, and told another chapter in the history of the orb, although sometimes tangentially. The soundtrack...
The bookend material for the "Heavy Metal" feature film was a young girl's discovery of a mysterious intelligent orb calling itself the Loc-Nar (Percy Rodriguez). The Loc-Nar explains that it is a solid ball of concentrated evil, and has caused wars and galaxy-wide corruption throughout its history. Each of the shorts in "Heavy Metal," were worked on by a different team of animators, and told another chapter in the history of the orb, although sometimes tangentially. The soundtrack...
- 3/4/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Throw up your horns and prepare to travel to distant worlds where interstellar wars are underway, lifelines of societies hang by a frayed and delicate thread, and fantasies of the flesh are made real. In this episode of Animation Movies Revisited, we’re looking back at 1981’s Canadian animated science-fiction anthology Heavy Metal.
Back when band logos for Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Slayer were scrawled on the Marble notebooks of teens across America, a boundary-pushing animated anthology of epic proportions took adult entertainment to another level. Heavy Metal gives family-friendly animation the finger and offers something bold and untamed for the late-night stoner crowd. Join us as we explore Gerald Potterton, Ivan Reitman, and Leonard Mogel’s odyssey into the unknown and uncover the sorcery used to create an animated film you’ll want to hide from your kids. We’ll dive into the making of the film, go behind the scenes,...
Back when band logos for Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Slayer were scrawled on the Marble notebooks of teens across America, a boundary-pushing animated anthology of epic proportions took adult entertainment to another level. Heavy Metal gives family-friendly animation the finger and offers something bold and untamed for the late-night stoner crowd. Join us as we explore Gerald Potterton, Ivan Reitman, and Leonard Mogel’s odyssey into the unknown and uncover the sorcery used to create an animated film you’ll want to hide from your kids. We’ll dive into the making of the film, go behind the scenes,...
- 11/15/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Gerald Potterton, an animator and filmmaker whose most notable works include “Heavy Metal” and the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” film, died on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada announced on Wednesday. He was 91.
He died at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec, where he lived for most of his life. His most prominent work was directing the 1981 animated cult classic “Heavy Metal,” an anthology film of different science fiction and fantasy stories surrounding a force that is described as “the sum of all evils.”
He also worked as an animator on the Beatles’ 1968 musical comedy “Yellow Submarine,” which became lauded as a work that broadened the general population’s interest in animation.
Potterton was born on March 8, 1931 in London, England and moved to Canada in 1955. He lived in Cowansville and started working on live and animated motion pictures to begin his career in film.
Potterton also directed live-action films in the 1960s,...
He died at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec, where he lived for most of his life. His most prominent work was directing the 1981 animated cult classic “Heavy Metal,” an anthology film of different science fiction and fantasy stories surrounding a force that is described as “the sum of all evils.”
He also worked as an animator on the Beatles’ 1968 musical comedy “Yellow Submarine,” which became lauded as a work that broadened the general population’s interest in animation.
Potterton was born on March 8, 1931 in London, England and moved to Canada in 1955. He lived in Cowansville and started working on live and animated motion pictures to begin his career in film.
Potterton also directed live-action films in the 1960s,...
- 8/24/2022
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Gerald Potterton, the London-born filmmaker and animator who directed the 1981 animated cult favorite Heavy Metal and contributed to the memorable “Liverpool” sequence in the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died today at a Quebec hospital. He was 91.
His death was announced by the National Film Board of Canada. No cause was stated.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project,” said Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb Chairperson and Government Film Commissioner, in a statement. “He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions…He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man.”
Potterton had graduated from London’s Hammersmith Art School when he moved to Canada in 1954, working with the Nfb before directing his own notable animated shorts in the early ’60s.
His death was announced by the National Film Board of Canada. No cause was stated.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project,” said Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb Chairperson and Government Film Commissioner, in a statement. “He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions…He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man.”
Potterton had graduated from London’s Hammersmith Art School when he moved to Canada in 1954, working with the Nfb before directing his own notable animated shorts in the early ’60s.
- 8/24/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Gerald Potterton, who directed the 1981 cult classic animated science-fantasy film “Heavy Metal,” has died, according to the National Film Board of Canada. He was 91.
Potterton died Monday in a Quebec hospital, the film board said.
“Heavy Metal” was a Columbia Pictures project produced by Ivan Reitman and based on the magazine of the same name. John Candy, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis and several more up-and-coming stars of the ’80s lent their voices to the movie that modern genre filmmakers still cite as an influence.
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Potterton died Monday in a Quebec hospital, the film board said.
“Heavy Metal” was a Columbia Pictures project produced by Ivan Reitman and based on the magazine of the same name. John Candy, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis and several more up-and-coming stars of the ’80s lent their voices to the movie that modern genre filmmakers still cite as an influence.
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- 8/24/2022
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Click here to read the full article.
Gerald Potterton, the British-Canadian filmmaker who directed the adult animated cult classic Heavy Metal in 1981 for Columbia Pictures, has died. He was 91.
Potterton passed away at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada said on Wednesday.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project. He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions… He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man,” Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb chairperson and government film commissioner, said in a statement.
Born on March 8, 1931 in London, England, Potterton graduated from the Hammersmith Art School and emigrated to Canada in 1954 to work alongside the pioneers of Nfb animation.
Gerald Potterton, the British-Canadian filmmaker who directed the adult animated cult classic Heavy Metal in 1981 for Columbia Pictures, has died. He was 91.
Potterton passed away at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada said on Wednesday.
“Gerald came to Canada and the Nfb to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project. He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions… He was an exceptional artist and a truly nice man,” Claude Joli-Coeur, Nfb chairperson and government film commissioner, said in a statement.
Born on March 8, 1931 in London, England, Potterton graduated from the Hammersmith Art School and emigrated to Canada in 1954 to work alongside the pioneers of Nfb animation.
- 8/24/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Spine of Night, now streaming on Shudder, is a forward-looking retro fantasy. Shot with the rotoscope animation technique most associated with Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings and Gerald Potterton’s Heavy Metal, it captures a world in ecological danger because of the greed of powerful men. Lucy Lawless plays the shamaness Tzod, whose magical powers are rooted in the blue flowers which grow in her enchanted swamp, Bastal.
Also starring Richard E. Grant, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel, and Joe Manganiello, The Spine of Night is an adult cartoon with responsible themes. Barbarians and librarians vie for power while necromancers try to restore balance to a bent and broken world. Time flies by with nods to Ridley Scott’s Legend and John Boorman’s Excalibur, if fed through the meat grinder of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead.
In their first collaboration, animator Morgan Galen King, and filmmaker...
Also starring Richard E. Grant, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel, and Joe Manganiello, The Spine of Night is an adult cartoon with responsible themes. Barbarians and librarians vie for power while necromancers try to restore balance to a bent and broken world. Time flies by with nods to Ridley Scott’s Legend and John Boorman’s Excalibur, if fed through the meat grinder of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead.
In their first collaboration, animator Morgan Galen King, and filmmaker...
- 3/25/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Heavy Metal Synopsis
Based on the fantastical illustrated magazine Heavy Metal, producer Ivan Reitman enlists the help of some of Hollywood’s animation masters to create the otherworldly tale of a glowing green orb from outer space that spreads destruction throughout the galaxy. Only when encountered by its one true enemy, to whom it is inexplicably drawn, will goodness prevail throughout the universe. Richly and lavishly drawn, the vignettes of the orb’s dark victories include the character voices of John Candy, Harold Ramis and a pounding soundtrack by Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Devo, Donald Fagen, Don Felder, Grand Funk Railroad, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Nazareth, Stevie Nicks, Riggs, and Trust. Highly imaginative and full of surprising special effects, Heavy Metal set the standard for alternative contemporary animation. An intoxicating experience not to be missed!
Disc Details & Bonus Materials
Presented within a limited edition SteelBook, including Heavy Metal...
Based on the fantastical illustrated magazine Heavy Metal, producer Ivan Reitman enlists the help of some of Hollywood’s animation masters to create the otherworldly tale of a glowing green orb from outer space that spreads destruction throughout the galaxy. Only when encountered by its one true enemy, to whom it is inexplicably drawn, will goodness prevail throughout the universe. Richly and lavishly drawn, the vignettes of the orb’s dark victories include the character voices of John Candy, Harold Ramis and a pounding soundtrack by Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Devo, Donald Fagen, Don Felder, Grand Funk Railroad, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Nazareth, Stevie Nicks, Riggs, and Trust. Highly imaginative and full of surprising special effects, Heavy Metal set the standard for alternative contemporary animation. An intoxicating experience not to be missed!
Disc Details & Bonus Materials
Presented within a limited edition SteelBook, including Heavy Metal...
- 2/15/2022
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
, Morgan Galen King and Philip Gelatt’s “The Spine of Night” is nothing less than an orgiastic ode to Ralph Bakshi, Gerald Potterton, and the other god-kings of rotoscope animation whose adult cartoons glistened from behind the beaded doorways of America’s video stores like forbidden relics that would melt the faces of anyone who dared to gaze upon their taboo wonders. It’s nothing more than that, either, but there’s only so much you can ask of a movie in which Lucy Lawless voices a naked swamp witch who wears a human skull as a headdress and shouts things like “tremble before the immensity of the night!”
Even if “The Spine of Night” struggles to align its overarching story with the anthology-like shape that it takes, it’s still rare and rewarding to watch a film that makes so few bones about what it wants to be — all...
Even if “The Spine of Night” struggles to align its overarching story with the anthology-like shape that it takes, it’s still rare and rewarding to watch a film that makes so few bones about what it wants to be — all...
- 10/27/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A bright, watery cornflower blue may lead the palette of “The Spine of Night,” an adult animated fantasy indebted in equal part to Ralph Bakshi and Gerald Potterton, but that doesn’t mean a lot of crimson blood isn’t spilled for contrast. Extreme, skeleton-snapping ultraviolence is a key selling point of this first collaboration between animator Morgan Galen King and filmmaker-comics writer Philip Gelatt. To watch it is to feel the wide-eyed thrill of many a Generation X teen for whom hard fantasy — particularly in cartoon form — was a gateway into more illicit spectacles. With its fusion of naive, old-school character rotoscoping and lavishly airbrushed world-building, the film’s visuals aim squarely for geek nostalgia and hit their target.
Narratively it’s a murkier, less engaging affair: a convoluted saga of dark magic and darker human impulse that passes through multiple eras and heroes, without amassing much in the way of feeling.
Narratively it’s a murkier, less engaging affair: a convoluted saga of dark magic and darker human impulse that passes through multiple eras and heroes, without amassing much in the way of feeling.
- 3/27/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The early ‘80s marked a handful of notable ultra-violent, hand-rotoscoped animation features aimed toward adults. Gerald Potterton’s Heavy Metal, based on the magazine, and Ralph Bakshi’s Fire and Ice– a collaboration with artist Frank Frazetta- are chief among the notable standouts of the era. The Spine of Night is a love letter to the classic animation style and draws […]...
- 3/19/2021
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
If a coked-up Nicolas Cage hunting devil-worshipping gimp demons with a self-forged battle-axe in an intergalactic fantasy realm, circa 1983, doesn’t exactly sound like your cup o’ tea, it might prove best to stop reading here.
Panos Cosmatos’s die-hard cult shock-er-piece has already caused an absolute firestorm overseas at both Sundance and Cannes, and for good reason. Yes, it sees the Cage himself at his most “groovy”, cementing the more DVD-friendly fanbase he’s grown more recently, but it’s also a seriously delectable bit of big-screen pulp trash too. A stylish revenge fable that’s not-so-much neon drenched as it is neon-born; a throwback that’s thrown so far back it’s an entirely separate animal from the recent 80s-wave.
For those unfamiliar with Cosmatos’s prior work (the hideously under-appreciated gem Beyond the Black Rainbow), he’s a big fan of both bright colours, and a mood-heavy,...
Panos Cosmatos’s die-hard cult shock-er-piece has already caused an absolute firestorm overseas at both Sundance and Cannes, and for good reason. Yes, it sees the Cage himself at his most “groovy”, cementing the more DVD-friendly fanbase he’s grown more recently, but it’s also a seriously delectable bit of big-screen pulp trash too. A stylish revenge fable that’s not-so-much neon drenched as it is neon-born; a throwback that’s thrown so far back it’s an entirely separate animal from the recent 80s-wave.
For those unfamiliar with Cosmatos’s prior work (the hideously under-appreciated gem Beyond the Black Rainbow), he’s a big fan of both bright colours, and a mood-heavy,...
- 10/9/2018
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In 1981, the world was blessed with the animated horror/fantasy/sci-fi/comedy film Heavy Metal, which was directed by Gerald Potterton. Based on the magazine of the same name, the film was an anthology where each short was centered, in some way,… Continue Reading →
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- 5/9/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Our favorite online curator have offered us an interactive map on some of the top Canadian film spotlights (from Canuck/poutine filmmaker types) available over at Fandor.com. The Fandor folks support and showcase features developed, and shot in The Great White North. Among the names, we find the likes of Gerald Potterton, Norman McLaren, Winnipeg’s best in Guy Maddin, Cannes Film Festival habitual Xavier Dolan’s debut film, I Killed My Mother and of course treasures from the National Film Board of Canada.
- 12/4/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com
Heavy Metal (1981)
Director: Gerald Potterton
Writers: Daniel Goldberg, Len Blum, Dan O’Bannon, Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, Angus McKie, Jean Giraud
Voice talents: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus, Al Waxman, John Vernon
Soundtrack artists: Sammy Hagar, Journey, Riggs, Devo, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Don Felder, Donald Fagen, Nazareth, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Trust, Stevie Nicks
If you were a kid in a record store in the early 1980’s, you saw this poster. Our record store was poorly lit with carpet crawling up the walls where you could thumb through albums with provocative covers while your parents ran their errands. Ahh, innocence lost. I couldn’t recall an animated film like this before or since, but the most significant thing that I can remember about “Heavy Metal” is that it taught me that animation can have adult and horrific elements. This movie scared me a little.
Heavy Metal (1981)
Director: Gerald Potterton
Writers: Daniel Goldberg, Len Blum, Dan O’Bannon, Richard Corben, Bernie Wrightson, Angus McKie, Jean Giraud
Voice talents: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Richard Romanus, Al Waxman, John Vernon
Soundtrack artists: Sammy Hagar, Journey, Riggs, Devo, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Don Felder, Donald Fagen, Nazareth, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Trust, Stevie Nicks
If you were a kid in a record store in the early 1980’s, you saw this poster. Our record store was poorly lit with carpet crawling up the walls where you could thumb through albums with provocative covers while your parents ran their errands. Ahh, innocence lost. I couldn’t recall an animated film like this before or since, but the most significant thing that I can remember about “Heavy Metal” is that it taught me that animation can have adult and horrific elements. This movie scared me a little.
- 5/24/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
News.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul has jazzed up the website for Kick the Machine, his production company. The home page includes the following text from the filmmaker himself:
"I was just talking to a friend that if there was no cinema what I would do or what I could do. I could probably try to enter a veterinarian school or open a small guest house or grow green peppers or learn Braille and compose a novel full of raised dots.
But until then.
Until we can train our mind to see other lives, past and present, with our eyes closed. Until we have a new heart devoid of ancient defects such as empathy. Until there’s a non-stop rain that causes more melancholia than the one in Tsai Ming Liang’s apartment. Until the movie screens sprout in the forest and the trees fill them with stories."
The Seventh Art's latest issue...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul has jazzed up the website for Kick the Machine, his production company. The home page includes the following text from the filmmaker himself:
"I was just talking to a friend that if there was no cinema what I would do or what I could do. I could probably try to enter a veterinarian school or open a small guest house or grow green peppers or learn Braille and compose a novel full of raised dots.
But until then.
Until we can train our mind to see other lives, past and present, with our eyes closed. Until we have a new heart devoid of ancient defects such as empathy. Until there’s a non-stop rain that causes more melancholia than the one in Tsai Ming Liang’s apartment. Until the movie screens sprout in the forest and the trees fill them with stories."
The Seventh Art's latest issue...
- 10/30/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Buster Keaton’s silent comic masterpiece never fails to get an audience laughing from the beginning and applauding by the end. To help recreate a 1920s night at the movies, the film will be accompanied by live music and every attendee will receive a vintage-style souvenir program. For added pleasure, they will screen a vintage film print on a “reel” movie projector. Plus: Popcorn, home-made desserts, coffee, tea, beer etc.
The guest speaker is Oscar-nominated Gerald Potterton who directed Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (1966). He also worked on Yellow Submarine (1968) and directed the animated cult film Heavy Metal (1980). Also on display will be Potterton’s impressive recent oil paintings.
On grand piano: Shayne Gryn
The whole event takes place in a magnificent gothic church and is definitely not to be missed!
When: Saturday May 25, 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm)
Where: W. P. United Church, 4695 deMaisonneuve W. (métro Vendôme)
Admission: $12, $8 (students & 65+) at the door,...
The guest speaker is Oscar-nominated Gerald Potterton who directed Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (1966). He also worked on Yellow Submarine (1968) and directed the animated cult film Heavy Metal (1980). Also on display will be Potterton’s impressive recent oil paintings.
On grand piano: Shayne Gryn
The whole event takes place in a magnificent gothic church and is definitely not to be missed!
When: Saturday May 25, 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm)
Where: W. P. United Church, 4695 deMaisonneuve W. (métro Vendôme)
Admission: $12, $8 (students & 65+) at the door,...
- 5/22/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Railrodder
Directed & Written by Gerald Potterton
Canada, 1965
The General
Directed by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
Written by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
USA, 1926
Tsff festivities came to a comedic crescendo at the Revue Cinema on Tuesday night with a pair of locomotive laugh-getters starring “The Great Stone Face”, Buster Keaton. First on the program was a throwback silent short made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1965, just a year before the comedian’s death. The film was introduced by International Buster Keaton Society “Porkpie” Scholarship recipient R. Edwin Barnett, whose current research project aims to reintegrate The Railrodder into the main body of Keaton criticism (most books/essays on the actor/auteur simply name-check the movie as one of his “industrial” films during the rush to ring down the curtain on Keaton’s career). After seeing the film, Barnett’s point seems manifest. The Railrodder may not be a great film,...
Directed & Written by Gerald Potterton
Canada, 1965
The General
Directed by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
Written by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
USA, 1926
Tsff festivities came to a comedic crescendo at the Revue Cinema on Tuesday night with a pair of locomotive laugh-getters starring “The Great Stone Face”, Buster Keaton. First on the program was a throwback silent short made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1965, just a year before the comedian’s death. The film was introduced by International Buster Keaton Society “Porkpie” Scholarship recipient R. Edwin Barnett, whose current research project aims to reintegrate The Railrodder into the main body of Keaton criticism (most books/essays on the actor/auteur simply name-check the movie as one of his “industrial” films during the rush to ring down the curtain on Keaton’s career). After seeing the film, Barnett’s point seems manifest. The Railrodder may not be a great film,...
- 4/10/2013
- by David Fiore
- SoundOnSight
Montral has another film festival, and I am willing to bet that our city has more film festivals than any other city in the world. Welcome the first annual Animaze Animation Film Festival, celebrating animation in all of its form. In thier inaugreal year, the festival is focusing on bringing the best animated films released worldwide that never made it to a North American audience in thier International Animated Film contest.
The festival is celebrating the 30th anniversary release of one of the greatest fantasy films (animated or otherwise) of all time, Heavy Metal with famed director Gerald Potterton in attendance
Here is the press release from the festival’s founder Michael Dahan
The Animaze Festival is also about contributing to the community on a local level with a Saturday Morning Cartoon show for charity and a rare documentary about legendary Looney Tunes director Friz Freleng with a special presentation...
The festival is celebrating the 30th anniversary release of one of the greatest fantasy films (animated or otherwise) of all time, Heavy Metal with famed director Gerald Potterton in attendance
Here is the press release from the festival’s founder Michael Dahan
The Animaze Festival is also about contributing to the community on a local level with a Saturday Morning Cartoon show for charity and a rare documentary about legendary Looney Tunes director Friz Freleng with a special presentation...
- 11/3/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Robert Rodriguez had been hinting for the past few days that he would have a big announcement at the San Diego Comic-Con this week, and yesterday he was finally able to reveal the news: he has picked up the rights to do a brand new animated Heavy Metal movie. Based on the popular fantasy magazine, the original Heavy Metal film was released back in 1981 and was directed by Gerald Potterton. Most recently David Fincher was trying to set up a Heavy Metal remake, but it would appear that he is no longer involved. However, Heavy Metal owner and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Kevin Eastman will be involved, and the project will be developed through Rodriguez's new Quick Draw Studios. While trading David Fincher for Robert Rodriguez might be seen as a step down, somehow the material seems to suit Rodriguez a little better. Rodriguez is a fan of both animation and fantasy,...
- 7/22/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Rank the week of June 14th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time:new Releasesbattle:los Angeles
(DVD and Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #3294
Times Ranked: 3631
Win Percentage: 42%
Top-20 Rankings: 9
Directed By: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart • Ramon Rodriguez
Cory Hardrict • Gino Anthony Pesi • Ne-Yo
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
(DVD and Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #19020
Times Ranked: 83
Win Percentage: 31%
Top-20 Rankings: 1
Directed By: John Whitesell
Starring: Martin Lawrence • Brandon T. Jackson
Jessica Lucas • Michelle Ang • Portia Doubleday
Genres: Comedy • Police Comedy
Rank This Movie
Hall Pass
(DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5878
Times Ranked: 1164
Win Percentage: 40%
Top-20 Rankings: 4
Directed By: Bobby & Peter Farrelly
Starring: Owen Wilson • Jason Sudeikis • Jenna Fischer • Christina Applegate • Nicky Whelan
Genres: Comedy • Romantic Comedy
Rank This Movie
Kill The Irishman
(DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart...
(DVD and Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #3294
Times Ranked: 3631
Win Percentage: 42%
Top-20 Rankings: 9
Directed By: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart • Ramon Rodriguez
Cory Hardrict • Gino Anthony Pesi • Ne-Yo
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
(DVD and Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #19020
Times Ranked: 83
Win Percentage: 31%
Top-20 Rankings: 1
Directed By: John Whitesell
Starring: Martin Lawrence • Brandon T. Jackson
Jessica Lucas • Michelle Ang • Portia Doubleday
Genres: Comedy • Police Comedy
Rank This Movie
Hall Pass
(DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5878
Times Ranked: 1164
Win Percentage: 40%
Top-20 Rankings: 4
Directed By: Bobby & Peter Farrelly
Starring: Owen Wilson • Jason Sudeikis • Jenna Fischer • Christina Applegate • Nicky Whelan
Genres: Comedy • Romantic Comedy
Rank This Movie
Kill The Irishman
(DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2011)
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- 6/14/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
After a brief hiatus The Animated Series! is returning to the Toronto Underground Cinema with a 35mm screening of the Canadian cult classic Heavy Metal on Feb. 17th at 7pm.
Directed by Yellow Submarine animator Gerald Potterton and featuring a stellar cast of canuck voice talent (John Candy, Jackie Burroughs, Eugene Levy), this anthology film, based on the famous sci-fi and fantasy pulp magazine of the same of the name, has endured as both a cult attraction and as a highly influential slice of 1980s animated insanity. It is also responsible for many a fantasy of flying a 1960 Corvette through space.
Heavy Metal repeats the following Sunday at 9:30pm.
Tickets $8.
Facebook Event Page here.
Directed by Yellow Submarine animator Gerald Potterton and featuring a stellar cast of canuck voice talent (John Candy, Jackie Burroughs, Eugene Levy), this anthology film, based on the famous sci-fi and fantasy pulp magazine of the same of the name, has endured as both a cult attraction and as a highly influential slice of 1980s animated insanity. It is also responsible for many a fantasy of flying a 1960 Corvette through space.
Heavy Metal repeats the following Sunday at 9:30pm.
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- 2/13/2011
- by Dork Shelf
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ROME -- New U.K. dog-and-cat series "Buddy & Elvis" won the Pulcinella Award for an animated pilot series and "Water & Bubbles" from Italy's RAI Fiction won the top prize for television series for all ages at the 12th Cartoons on the Bay Festival, which concluded Sunday.
The Salerno-based animation festival, which began Thursday, also handed out career Pulcinella Awards to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Japanese artist and designer Fusako Yusaki.
The U.K. took home three of 11 competitive Pulcinella nod, with Italian productions and those from Canada taking home two each. A U.S. production took home just one Pulcinella Award -- Nickelodeon's "Tak and the Power of Juju", which won for best soundtrack.
"Frankenstein's Cat" and "John and Karen" -- both from the U.K. -- won the prizes for children's television series and best short film, respectively. Canada's two winners were "My Friend Rabbit", which won for infants' television series, and "Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in all the World" -- which the jury applauded for "pushing social boundaries" -- for best television series.
The Salerno-based animation festival, which began Thursday, also handed out career Pulcinella Awards to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Japanese artist and designer Fusako Yusaki.
The U.K. took home three of 11 competitive Pulcinella nod, with Italian productions and those from Canada taking home two each. A U.S. production took home just one Pulcinella Award -- Nickelodeon's "Tak and the Power of Juju", which won for best soundtrack.
"Frankenstein's Cat" and "John and Karen" -- both from the U.K. -- won the prizes for children's television series and best short film, respectively. Canada's two winners were "My Friend Rabbit", which won for infants' television series, and "Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in all the World" -- which the jury applauded for "pushing social boundaries" -- for best television series.
- 4/13/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- The 12th annual Cartoons on the Bay festival gets under way Thursday with its biggest lineup ever -- more than 175 programs from 25 countries.
The festival, which Will Hand out prizes in eight competitive categories before wrapping Sunday, also will present career honors to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Japanese artist and designer Fusako Yusaki. South Korea's Akom Prods. will receive the fest's studio of the year honor.
The awards for Yusaki and Akom are part of festival trend toward recognizing contributions from Asia. This year's lineup includes seven productions from Japan, four from South Korea, three from India, two from China and one from Malaysia.
"It is definitely appropriate to pay more attention to the important contributions from Asia," festival founder and artistic director Alfio Bastiancich said.
Western Europe remains well represented at the Salerno-based fest, as do up-and-coming regions Latin America and Eastern Europe.
The festival also announced that it will include a special retrospective of Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianni's 1978 film "The Magic Flute" to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
The festival, which Will Hand out prizes in eight competitive categories before wrapping Sunday, also will present career honors to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Japanese artist and designer Fusako Yusaki. South Korea's Akom Prods. will receive the fest's studio of the year honor.
The awards for Yusaki and Akom are part of festival trend toward recognizing contributions from Asia. This year's lineup includes seven productions from Japan, four from South Korea, three from India, two from China and one from Malaysia.
"It is definitely appropriate to pay more attention to the important contributions from Asia," festival founder and artistic director Alfio Bastiancich said.
Western Europe remains well represented at the Salerno-based fest, as do up-and-coming regions Latin America and Eastern Europe.
The festival also announced that it will include a special retrospective of Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianni's 1978 film "The Magic Flute" to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
ROME -- Italian animation studio Cartoon One will be presented with the Pulcinella award for the top Italian studio at the upcoming Cartoons on the Bay festival, organizers said Wednesday.
The Rome-based studio will join South Korea's Akom Prods. among studio honorees. The festival previously announced that Akom would take home the prize for non-Italian studios.
The two Pulcinella career achievement nods will go to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Japanese artist and designer Fusako Yusaki.
The 12th edition of the festival is to take place April 10-13 in Salerno.
The Rome-based studio will join South Korea's Akom Prods. among studio honorees. The festival previously announced that Akom would take home the prize for non-Italian studios.
The two Pulcinella career achievement nods will go to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Japanese artist and designer Fusako Yusaki.
The 12th edition of the festival is to take place April 10-13 in Salerno.
- 3/26/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ROME -- South Korea's Akom Productions was selected as the winner of the Pulcinella Studio of the Year award at this year's Cartoons on the Bay festival, organizers said Thursday.
Akom, which was founded in 1985, is best known for the overseas animation of more than 200 episodes of "The Simpsons" and for "The Simpsons Movie". Other well-known productions include the animated versions of "Fraggle Rock", "X-Men" and "Batman".
The April 10-13 Salerno-based festival previously announced that the Pulcinella Awards for career achievement would go to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Fusako Yusaki, the Japanese artist and designer.
Akom, which was founded in 1985, is best known for the overseas animation of more than 200 episodes of "The Simpsons" and for "The Simpsons Movie". Other well-known productions include the animated versions of "Fraggle Rock", "X-Men" and "Batman".
The April 10-13 Salerno-based festival previously announced that the Pulcinella Awards for career achievement would go to Canadian animator Gerald Potterton and Fusako Yusaki, the Japanese artist and designer.
- 3/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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