When Disney releases "Ponyo" from Hayao Miyazaki, considered a master of animation in his native Japan, the studio hopes to score with an entirely different audience: mainstream U.S. movie fans. By ...

I’ve been spending a lot of time with John Lasseter lately. In May, the Disney/Pixar animation chief brought Up to open the Cannes Film Fest, where animator Pete Docter got the full auteur treatment.

While John Lasseter’s Disney animation division and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall have supervised the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki‘s latest anime film, Ponyo–already a hit ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Here's a telling difference between Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and (he says with a pointedly raised eyebrow) the folks on the movie production line at Disney. Both have made films about ...

You might think "Ponyo," Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/ new animated film, is the anti-"Up." That recent Disney/Pixar smash ...