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 ...

After three hit pirate films with Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski made a risky animated feature in the same way he made his live-action films. He could have become roadkill, but now he's Oscar ...

Hollywood, CA, September 06, 2011: The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, have announced that “Rango” will receive this year’s Hollywood ...

There's a new sheriff in town. "Rango," director Gore Verbinski trippy animated Western, has won the Oscar for best animated feature at tonight's (Feb. 26) 84th annual Academy Awards. The animated ...

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 ...

"Rango" is rated PG for rude humor, language, action and smoking. Running time: 107 minutes. Three stars out of four. It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where "the drugs began ...

In a recent interview, director Gore Verbinski spoke about how Rango had been made on a budget that was typical for “big animated movies.” “We went after the big animated movies… we were in the range ...

THR chief film critic Todd McCarthy dissects 2011's good, bad, and downright excruciating toons. By Todd McCarthy Steve Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" captures a spirit of adventure and ...