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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…30 per cent futuristic style to the overall film, from the look of the ships, the design of Silver and the audiences’ perception of the use of CG in the… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…just made a live-action remake with John Hughes (he of the Home Alone films), which had gone through the roof at the box-office. The movie was announced as being the… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
…A testament to the life, work and vigor of legendary cartoon director Chuck Jones’, from animation’s pioneering days to some of the last footage of Jones’ before his passing. He… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…couple of times, and the arrangement itself is similar to the MOR versions of songs that play out the end credits of recent Disney fare. A couple of kid-friendly features… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…I was quite literally “hooked” (sorry)! To me even now, Peter Pan still holds up as one of the best-looking Disney features of any era. I think the films of… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…in full flight, while the reverse makes mention of the game and storybook. Best of all is the enclosed 12-page Animals Of The Outback booklet which offers some facts, figures… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…deal of the look and tone of The Black Cauldron. I was excited by the prospect of what Quest For Camelot could be, especially as it was taking a huge… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…him some of the new breed of talented animators. He felt that the style and heart of the original Disney features was something that had become missing in the later… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…un-official first was Robert Benchley’s tour of the Studio in The Reluctant Dragon, which only featured a couple of shorts as well as the title featurette. Many of the cartoons… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…more often, but Jimmy Neutron is consistently inventive. Our hero is basically your average, run of the mill genius kid and the film has a lot of mileage in the… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…This surprising ignorance of the original seeps over into the music as well. One of Disney’s most memorable scores, The Jungle Book contained a number of great tunes and is… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action DVD specs
…time, when no doubt we’ll see a better release along the lines of the Space Jam Special Edition (a two-pack, perhaps?). {{link http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=2946&n=1&k=looney+tunes&burl=r%3D0%26g%3Dinfo%26s%3D1%26k%3Dlooney%2Btunes%26x%3D0%26y%3D0 DVD Answers}} has full specs, and also… |
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DreamWorks to spin of animation unit
…spinning off its animation studio by filing for an initial public offering, {{link http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/21/news/midcaps/dreamworks_ipo/index.htm CNN reports}}. The company expects the IPO, being handled by Goldman Sachs, to raise $650 million…. |
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Jim Hill on Disney's CEO: "denial isn't just some river in Egypt"!
The ever popular (and ever probing!) {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill Media}} is back this morning with another insightful story. To put it in his words, “as more stories leak out… |
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Brother Bear and Looney Tunes get the Barrier treatment
{{link http://www.michaelbarrier.com/index.html Michael Barrier}}, author of Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation In Its Golden Age and a contributor to the recent Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set, offers up his take… |
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Mickey and Macy's
As we approach Thanksgiving (in the United States), Wade Sampson of {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/guest/wsampson.11262003.1.htm~contentFrame Jim Hill Media}} writes about the history of the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the role… |
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Flash animation gets serious
{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1930 AWN}} looks at how Macromedia’s Flash animation software, once considered a “toy for Internet users”, has grown into a “serious production tool” for creating broadcast quality animation. They… |
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Toon Zone on a couple of interesting New York Times articles…
The {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/index.php? Toon Zone Forums}} today report on a couple of stories that just appeared at {{link http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times.com}}. The first, {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=95782 Studios Sue To… |
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Eisner already planned to leave Disney?
Could Roy Disney’s attack on Eisner actually keep the CEO and Chairman of the Walt Disney Company around even longer? {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/12012003.1.htm~contentFrame Jim Hill Media}} reports that most of the… |
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Three greatest comic strip artists of our time
…their own unique style and sense of humor. And all retired at the top of their game in the mid-1990’s. As we reported {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00000320.html last week}}, Breathed (who won… |
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Drew Hackney looks into \\The Hunchback of Notre Dame\\
Also at {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/guest/hackney.12022003.1.htm~contentFrame JHM}} is the first of three articles by Drew Hackney on the live stage version of \\The Hunchback of Notre Dame\\. In this installment we learn… |
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Latest on Disney/Gold/Eisner, plus a Rankin/Bass treat!
The ever present {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill Media}} has a brief update on the Roy Disney/Michael Eisner situation over at Disney today, plus an announcement for a rather special event… |
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Kim Possible duo will script polish Disney's Enchanted
{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/ Dark Horizons}} picks up on a story that originally featured at {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117896739&categoryID=13&cs=1 Variety.com}} (paid subscription required) about the long-in-pre-production Disney live-action/animation fairy-tale skewer Enchanted. “Kim Possible executive… |
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More on Seinfeld's \\Bee Movie\\
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9786 AWN}} has more on the upcoming computer-animated feature film project with comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The DreamWorks film is “set in the anthropomorphized world of bees… a Manhattan-like setting… |
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WB cartoon and comic book heroes ready for the big time again?
{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news03/031210f.php Dark Horizons’ News Bites}} points out a story from today’s edition of {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117896919&categoryID=13&cs=1 Variety}} (paid subscription required), which reports that Warner Brothers’ DC Comics has hired Joel… |
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\\Chicken Little\\ cast
…{{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/04302003.1.htm~contentFrame Jim Hill reported}} earlier this year that head of Disney Animation David Stainton “ordered that – in order to make the movie’s central character more sympathetic – that… |
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Michael Eisner / Roy Disney flap cause of Disney Treasures DVD delay?
{{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/12112003.1.htm~contentFrame Jim Hill Media}} reports that the real reason Disney {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00000250.html delayed the release}} of the popular Disney Treasures DVDs probably was not any of the three reasons… |
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How do Superheroes spend Christmas, anyway?
…Cartoon Network’s popular animated series based on the the joining up of DC Comics’ biggest guns, reports {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9822 AWN}}. The half-hour Comfort And Joy, which premieres at 10pm on… |
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Belleville spreads…
‘Nicolas’ on the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=610#post610 Animated News Forum}} lets us know that Les Triplettes De Belleville “will be released in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the 19th of December. The film’s… |
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\\Chicken Little\\ update
…\\Chicken Little\\ has got in spades”. The film has had a significant number of changes during its development and production, including the cutting of Penn Jillette’s (of Penn and Teller)… |
