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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Rango," starring Johnny Depp as the voice of a pet chameleon who tries to bring law and order to a town in the Wild West, won the Oscar for best animated feature film on ...

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 ...