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, ...

Academy voters got a closer look Thursday at what went into creating the unique look of Rango as Paramount released a behind-the-scenes featurette highlighting its CGI progression. By Todd Gilchrist, ...

The $38 million debut of Johnny Depp’s animated film was below expectations, but the kid-friendly feature should ultimately gross $159 million domestically. By Paul Bond Rango might have opened a tad ...

Pixar has run Toon Town for some time now. But as of this Friday, there’s a new gang in town: those badass sons-of-guns from George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic, with their Pirates of the ...

Gore Verbinski’s alternately overbearing and engaging “Rango” raises a chicken-or-egg question I associate with a lot of animated features. Did somebody decide, at the outset, that a movie with a ...

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 ...