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My Life With Charlie Brown
My Life With Charlie Brown By Charles M. Schulz Edited and Introduction by M. Thomas Inge University Press Of Mississippi April 1, 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages $25.00 One tragedy of… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…pleased to break out of Disney’s, going from one often hellish take on a subject to another, and breaking box-office records along the way, before a revitalized Disney called him… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
Walt Disney Productions/Walt Disney Feature Animation (1940 and 2000), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 30 2010), 2 Blu-ray Discs plus 2 DVDs, 125 and 75 mins respectively plus supplements, 1080p… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…in 1937, and the then less than stellar box office runs of Pinocchio and Fantasia (partly based on the cutting off of revenue from foreign markets involved in the Second… |
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Iron Giant delayed again
…and hopefully final – release date has been set for November 16 2004, according to {{link http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=4236&n=1&burl= DVD Answers}}. Price and specs remain the same, though instead of a snapper,… |
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Wizards
…in retrospect. Surprisingly, they pack in a number of shots that don’t do the film justice, though the second of the trailers is best, with more of a sense of… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…that appealed to different audiences, often with more serious themes and plots. Around this time, adaptations of books such as Watership Down, The Secret Of NIMH and The Plague Dogs… |
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Academy Award nominations
…http://www.pixar.com/shorts/omb/index.html One Man Band}}\\ Best Visual Effects: \\The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe\\, \\King Kong\\, \\War Of The Worlds\\ The full list of nominations follows:… |
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Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition
…about adverbs and their uses. With the very whinny voices of the singers, this is one of the most memorable songs and I still cannot get it out of my… |
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Don Knotts dies at 81
…Hills, according to the {{link http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/02/25/knotts.obit.ap/index.html AP}}. He was 81 years old. Knotts was no stranger to animation voicing characters in several tv shows and films, including: the title character… |
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight song royalties stay awake
…time, released a {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00001887.html statement}} that suggested the family take the matter up with the song’s publishers. Now {{link http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/22/lion.sleeps.royalty.ap/index.html CNN reports that the case has ended}} favorably for… |
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Disney's FastPlay DVD feature is a success with families
…implementation due to high customer satisfaction. BURBANK, Calif., March 23, 2006 – In support of the March 21st DVD release of Chicken Little, Disney’s #1 animated movie of 2005, and… |
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WB aquires animated \\Ark\\
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=17091 Animation World Network}} reports that Warner Brothers has picked up an animated script from actor {{link http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000729/ Casey Affleck}} titled \\Aardvark Art’s Ark\\. “The story centers on the… |
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Going under the hood of \\Cars\\
{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2900 Animation World Network}} goes in-depth into the technical aspects of the making of \\Cars\\, which they call “John Lasseter’s most mature and personal” film yet. Talking with the… |
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U.S. weekend box office estimates: July 7-9, 2006
…Dead Man’s Chest\\ with $132,028,000, averaging $31,944 over 4,133 theaters (1st week) 2. \\Superman Returns\\ with $21,850,000, averaging $5,375 over 4,065 theaters ($141,677,000 total; 2nd week) 5. Cars with $10,330,000,… |
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King Con! News from San Diego…
…fans. Check the link for the full exhaustive program, including the official announcement of an extended edition of Peter Jackson’s King Kong, while some bite-sized highlights include: Thursday, July 20th… |
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\\The Ant Bully\\ opens today
…\\message\\ also seems to be dividing the critics. The \\{{link http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=cityguide/profile=1114188&lat=200.0&lon=200.0&displaySearchLocation=&nm=1&categories=Movies Washington Post}}\\ hypes the “rigorously moral point of view”, and {{link http://grouchoreviews.com/index.php?module=Movie_Reviews&func=display&id=2627 Groucho Reviews}} likes “the political allegory that… |
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Superhero series will have integral web comic
…be sometimes an alternative look at what you’ve seen, or the other side of what you’ve seen, or a story that just sort of enhances your appreciation of the characters”…. |
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Top \\South Park\\ episodes to air for 10th anniversary
\\South Park\\ is celebrating its 10th anniversary by airing “episodes that changed the world”, according to {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=17990 AWN}}. “Remember the episode when televised cussing almost brought about the apocalypse?… |
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Prince pens song for \\Happy Feet\\
{{link http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=38150 Sci Fi Wire}} reports that the upcoming Warner Bros. animated film \\Happy Feet\\ will feature an original song penned by pop superstar Prince. Other singers with songs appearing… |
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The Animated Seuss
…over fifty books that sold millions of copies (over 200 million at the time of his death, and still counting!). His Green Eggs And Ham is one of the best-selling… |
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The Pixar Story
For those in the Los Angeles/Hollywood region please make note of a special one-week engagement of The Pixar Story which began last Friday and plays through to Thursday, August 30,… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…while Dalmatians 101 is a responsible primer on the pros and cons of owning one of the spotty canines, probably a result of the thousands of kids who wanted such… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…shortcoming. Followed by a lack-lustre direct-to-video spin-off, Joseph, King Of Dreams, it’s The Prince Of Egypt that will stand the test of time from DreamWorks biblical animation outings. People have… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…the Silly Symphonies series of experimental cartoons, and the “careers” of Pluto, Goofy, Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Chip ‘n’ Dale, and a host of others. Before long, Walt… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…so much more conviction: “I was there, and I remember”, he says, and you believe that guy in the trailer. With Damon, you just kind of accept it. Much of… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The lives, times and works of the two last surviving of Walt Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” group of trusted animation geniuses, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston…. |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…great range, and only minor bugbears pop up in terms of a slight trace of distortion on a couple of very, very noisy takes. Carl Stalling’s minefield of music cues… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…Studio out there, knocking the spots off of the competition of the time (and since). Everything about The Lion King, from the voice talents to the date of release, fell… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…than stellar box office runs of Pinocchio and Fantasia (partly based on the cutting off of revenue from foreign markets involved in the Second World War), Walt was looking for… |
