Gore Verbinski’s alternately overbearing and engaging “Rango” raises a chicken-or-egg question I associate with a lot of animated features. Did somebody decide, at the outset, that a movie with a ...

Rango tells the story of a pet chameleon who gets stranded in the desert. He soon finds a small town called “Dirt,” which looks like something out of the old west. To fit in, Rango pretends to be an ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

When Gore Verbinski met with Johnny Depp to discuss “The Lizard Project,” neither of them had any fantasy or idea that three years later the reptile would transform into the hit film Rango ($245 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there's been one thing you could count on every year since the Academy Awards started honoring animated features, it's that Pixar would walk away with the Oscar. Through last year, six of the ...