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Disney's A Christmas Carol Photo, Cannes Photocall & Clip!

Source:Walt Disney Pictures

May 18, 2009

Walt Disney Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with a new photo from Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, as well as a new clip that you can watch here! The studio also held a photocall in Cannes today of which you can see 40 photos here. The 3-D animated adventure features the captured performances by Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Cary Elwes and Fionnula Flanagan.

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Click the image to view the 40 photos from Cannes!

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COMMENTS (13)

Posted by:

Cruzinaround9

May 18, 2009

I'll reserve judgement for when the trailer comes out... however, the CGI looks great! Looks like Jim Carrey himself...

Posted by:

i am faster than 80% of all snakes

May 18, 2009

im so glad disney is making a brand new movie with a totally original plot...o wait...THERE'S BEEN HUNDREDS OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by:

the dude

May 18, 2009

I will go see this. Awesome.

Posted by:

X-treme

May 18, 2009

This pretty good! I like it when Disney takes original stories and make them into movies. They do a good job, usually. The CGI looks amazing.

Posted by:

Lsnake

May 18, 2009

Ugh I hope the CGI isn't gonna be as weird as Beowulf. Either do it with real actors, or animate everything from scratch. Both the Polar Express and Beowulf suffered from really ghastly humans that were animated into being realistic, but they had this aura of fake, unreal..it was more creepy than anything else. Especially the eyes! I wish Zemeckis would go back to making really good movies, I mean the guy made Romancing the Stone and Roger Rabbit. Well, I hope I'm proven wrong, I just shiver when I hear another "Motion Capture" animated movie. It's fine to animate certain types of movement, especially combat, but when it comes to emotion and stuff like that it just gets creepy.

Posted by:

Saudia

May 18, 2009

looks awesome, definitely going to see this !

Posted by:

tsfogg

May 18, 2009

I'm still not convinced of this "progress" in technology. That photo looks like a nice cut scene from a video game -- which is what I want when I sit down in front of my 360, not in my local cinema.

Posted by:

Bombed?

May 18, 2009

Lsnake,

I get where you're coming from. I love Zemeckis in live action as much as the next guy. The most successful motion capture to date is a Zemeckis film he only produced, Monster House.

However, there will never be photorealistic motion capture unless people like Robert Zemeckis are out there pumping the money, time, and resources into developing.

So... "do it with real actors, or animate everything," doesn't really work. Robert Zemeckis, since Roger Rabbit on, has always been on the cutting edge of filmmaking. I too miss his live action work. But, I'm willing to accept that the man is doing work that makes him happy. If that's what I have to do in order to thank him for Back to the Future, Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her and Forrest Gump, then I will.

Posted by:

Philbert

May 18, 2009

Robert Zemeckis is currently considering a sequel to Roger Rabbit although he states that it is not a done deal.

Posted by:

kees

May 18, 2009

I'm actually gonna say this doesn't look that good, I expected more from Zemeckis' CGI. Beowulf looked better...