As we head into the final stretch of Peter Jackson-directed “Hobbit” installments—all comprehensive and extravagant three of them—take a moment to remember a time when “Lord of the Rings” was still an ...

Famed filmmaker Ralph Bakshi technically shot an entire live-action Lord of the Rings movie that audiences were never meant ...

In the 1960s, Hollywood’s great white whale was The Lord of the Rings. Many notable filmmakers tried and failed to get an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic off the ground — the Beatles even ...

Earlier this year, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This month we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ralph Bakshi’s holiday special Christmas in Tattertown, which ...

A year ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Dynamite Comics was to create a Fire And Ice comic book based on the 1983 animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi and a collaboration between Bakshi and ...

The taboo-shattering counterculture films of seventy-five-year-old animation legend Ralph Bakshi will be the subject of a retrospective this May in his childhood home of Brooklyn, New York. Between ...

One of the first animators to aim cartoons squarely at adults, Ralph Bakshi hasn’t made a film since 1992, but his new Kickstarter-funded project “Last Days of Coney Island” has him working again, and ...

Rarely does a single auction encompass the entire history of an art form. But on August 16-19, Heritage will do just that when it presents The History of Animation: The Glad Museum Collection ...

Animation renegade Ralph Bakshi, the director of Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, and Wizards, will premiere his new film Last Days of Coney Island exclusively via Vimeo on Demand on October ...

Animation Legend Ralph Bakshi (Fritz The Cat, Cool World) is making his return to film in celebration of his 77th birthday on October 29th with the nationwide release of his new animated short Last ...

Ralph Bakshi’s Best Jewish Moments from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. I was on the phone with Ralph Bakshi when he told me who killed John F. Kennedy. Long story short: It was the mob. “With ...