Upcoming Feature: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson's films have been known to be not the biggest blockbuster movies around. It might be a shared opinion that many of them simply don't make sense. Released yesterday in LA and New York, Wes Anderson's most recent film Fantstic Mr. Fox is based on a childrens book by Roald Dahl and is expected to have a wide release on Wednesday, November 25, 2009. The story was adapted for the big screen by Mr. Anderson himself along with a co-writer Noah Baumbach and runs approximately 87 minutes long.
Similar to this years Coraline (Henry Selick), the film breaks away from recent animated features put out by Pixar and Dreamworks, utilizing stop motion instead of computer generated characters and landscapes. Unlike Coraline, though, Fox is capture on film (instead of HD video) and uses a less than perfect stop motion technique, giving the characters a choppy, amateur-esque appearance. The strong emphasis on this style may distracted Anderson from the story, according to one New York Times writer, which is loosely based on the book, "truer to the spirit than to the letter of the source."
Don't miss this one of a kind animation starring George Clooney, Maryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray.