For an animated film, Rango is anything but cute. And thank god for that. The characters are mostly eyesores and the landscape is harsh, even if beautifully rendered. In fact, we suspect it's secretly ...

Rango, you scaly devil — you had me at "smuh!" As delivered by Johnny Depp, Rango the pet thespian's opening lines, actually, become "Smuh-smuh-smuh-SMUH!" With all his terrarium's a stage, our ...

Paramount did not quite reach the $50 million they were hoping for with their PG toon Rango. With an estimated $38 million from its 3,917 locations, however, the 2D animated feature did manage to top ...

In a step up for social gaming, Zynga, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies are announcing that the animated film Rango will be integrated into Zynga’s social game FrontierVille as part of a ...

Paramount Digital Entertainment enters the online video game space with a new multi-year partnership with casual game developer Funtactix. By John Gaudiosi Paramount Digital Entertainment enters the ...

With no Pixar film to beat, 'Rango' won the Academy Award for best animated feature, while "Hugo" won for best visual effects. Both victors show things are changing in Hollywood. Martin Scorcese’s ...

Road Trip at Home: For more than 35 years, ILM has worked on live-action pictures. Now, the acclaimed visual effects house is working on its first all-digital animated movie and CNET pays a visit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent interview, director Gore Verbinski spoke about how Rango had been made on a budget ...

Even in the whimsical world of animated movies, dusty frontier towns in the American West aren’t a tropical chameleon’s native habitat. So when a grandiloquent green lizard has managed to install ...

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 ...