SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

In “”Rango,”” the newest genre-bending adventure from “”Pirates of the Caribbean”” director Gore Verbinski, a pampered pet lizard goes on a Wild West quest to bring water to the tortured town of Dirt.

SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

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 ...

The genre of the “children’s movie” has never really been fully and formally codified, but for our purposes here, we may assign it the quick-and-dirty definition of “any film produced for marketing to ...

Rango has won the Oscar for best animated film at the Academy Award ceremony currently taking place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp, Rango was ...

Paramount has debuted the first teaser trailer for Gore Verbinski's Rango on Apple today. Yesterday we unveiled the first poster and reveal of the chameleon Rango, as voiced by Johnny Depp. The voice ...

A marvelous mash-up of Old West and newfangled, “Rango” rewrites the animation playbook with its eye-popping critters and varmints, and its hero’s tale (tail?) of a chameleon desperate for a SAG card ...

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 ...

Back in September, when we named Johnny Depp the highest paid actor in Hollywood, I wrote that his most intriguing upcoming film was the animated Rango about a domesticated chameleon who winds up in ...