The animated telling of "Beowulf," who rids a Danish kingdom of the feared beast Grendel, slew the box office over the weekend, giving a huge boost to...
Chicago Sun Times | Roger Ebert | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Variety reports that Paramount has entered "Beowulf" in the Academy Awards' best animated film category, which means nothing is really there, realisti...
IGN | Todd Gilchrist | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Robert Zemeckis' new film Beowulf offers a powerful reminder of how far we've come, and perhaps have yet to go, in the ever-expanding world of special...
USA Today | Claudia Puig | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Beowulf couldn't be less faithful to the original epic poem, and that's actually a good thing for moviegoers. It's a lot more fun than the mythic adv...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The new version of "Beowulf", Robert Zemeckis' $150 million performance-capture extravaganza is the most anticipated movie of the weekend, and for tec...
Los Angeles Times | Josh Friedman, Lorenza Muñoz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Movie ticket sales are flat, but Hollywood thinks a sword-wielding Nordic warrior seduced by Angelina Jolie in 3-D can pump them up. Loosely drawn fr...
New York Times | MANOHLA DARGIS | Posted 08.15.2008 | Entertainment
You don't need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this "Beowulf" isn't your high ...
NY Post | Lou Lumenick | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
In this lusty Hollywood version, Beowulf rises to the throne of Denmark after striking a Faustian bargain with Grendel's mom, only to pay an awful pri...
New York Times | David F. Gallagher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
When John Markoff wrote about the Contour digital special-effects system last year, he noted that it would be judged by its ability to help animators ...
Cinematical | Scott Weinberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Part I: The Presentation Holy ****ing moly. I've simply never seen anything like it. IMAX 3-D and a movie that was tailor-made for this kind of prese...
LA Times | John Horn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
It's as close as moviegoers will ever get to being Brad Pitt: the chance to hang out with Angelina Jolie (or a digitally manipulated version of the ac...
AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread. Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf...
Variety | Justin Chang | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Further advancing the much-vaunted performance-capture technology he unleashed with "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis delivers a muscular,...
Hollywood Reporter via Reuters | Kirk Honeycutt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
What have they done to "Beowulf," everyone's least favorite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoyi...
AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment