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 ...

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where "the drugs began to take hold" in the Johnny Depp adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." In the manic, ...

"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 ...

While there aren’t too many changes in this week’s best picture countdown things are heating up in the best animated feature race. The Academy announced 18 films that had qualified for the animated ...

A master of weird and eclectic characters – Edward Scissorhands, Capt. Jack Sparrow, Mad Hatter, Willy Wonka – Johnny Depp is an acting chameleon, able to convincingly morph into any role. In the ...

The old-fashioned Western gets a makeover this weekend with Rango, the wacky, computer animated adventure starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Ned Beatty, ...

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, ...

This year’s race for Best Animated Feature Film is a bit of a full one. After only 15 titles qualified last year (yielding just three nominees), the total number of qualifying films in the hunt this ...

Austin Allison is an Animation Feature Writer for Collider. He is also an illustator, avid cartoon watcher, and occasional singer. His karaoke favorites include singing Rainbow Connection as Kermit ...

Rango This isn’t just a line from an animated film — it’s a truth dressed as dialogue. In Rango, this moment marks the ...