The first animated feature from Industrial Light & Magic, the film is richly detailed, from the dirt billowing across the desert to the way the animal characters’ eyes dart back and forth. How did the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

Defying every convention of the animated genre, Gore Verbinski’s PG-rated $135-million Rango opened well, at $38 million. Why? As Verbinski (who jumped ship on Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean ...

Hollywood, CA, September 06, 2011: The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, have announced that “Rango” will receive this year’s Hollywood ...

Jennifer Yuh Nelson is named best director for “Kung Fu Panda 2.” By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Rango was named best animated feature, and won three additional competition categories for writing, ...

Johnny Depp reunites with his Pirates of the Caribbean director, Gore Verbinski, for a witty animated western set in a dusty frontier town where all the inhabitants are animals - talking animals, of ...

"Rango," starring Johnny Depp as the voice of a pet chameleon who tries to bring law and order to a town in the Wild West, won the Oscar for best animated feature film on Sunday. Feb. 26, 2012, 9:54 ...

Animated films made for children have long included winks directed at the grown-ups who’ve been dragged along; it’s a tradition almost as old as the medium itself. The classic Disney and Loonie Tunes ...

In light of the Best Animated Film Academy Awards nomination it just received this morning, Paramount Pictures is re-releasing Gore Verbinski's Rango in just one theater in Los Angeles starting this ...

Look out, Pixar and DreamWorks, there’s a new (animated) sheriff in town. After the success of their CG animated hit, the trippy Johnny Depp-lizard-western Rango, earlier this year, Paramount Pictures ...

With his first animated feature, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski shows ambitions considerably beyond producing the usual standard of most children's fare. To put it plainly, Rango is ...