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John Carter (Of Mars)
…television interviews. The movie supposedly had a $100 million marketing spend, but where that money went is anyone’s guess: some rumors persist that the film’s 3D conversion was nothing more… |
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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… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…for itself with the issues of a collection of its earliest animated shorts, under the title MGM Cartoon Classics: Happy Harmonies (which contained many of the Hugh Harmon-Rudy Ising cartoons),… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…would run the same risk. We knew that if they were too real, sometimes you can go so real that something is unreal after a while and they can look… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…seemed to trust us enough to let us run with it. He watched the rushes every morning and if needed would leave comments and/or request changes. These notes were mainly… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…those original films running sporadically on TV for years afterwards. At the turn of the millennium, a short run of Disney’s New True Life Adventures all but came and went… |
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Tarzan II run time
Following the recent unveiling of the {{link http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=5815&n=1&burl= full size cover art}}, a trade industry advert reveals that Tarzan II, a mid-quel to Disney’s 1999 theatrical hit, will run for… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…in the animation department, an expensive operation to run. “You know,” he once said jokingly to his animators, “with live action I can go out with the actors and film… |
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Ruby Spears Superman DVD in November
DVDActive reports that Warner has announced Ruby Spears Superman dvd on 3rd November. The 2-disc set will feature 13 episodes from 1988-89. Extras will include a “Corporation of the Corrupt:… |
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Rurouni Kenshin In Live Action
Anime News Network has some news briefs on the new live-action Rurouni Kenshin film that will hit Japanese theater August 25. They have a nice film poster and the full… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…of the factory that supplies every one of Wile E Coyote’s Road Runner contraptions) is found murdered. The bunny goes on the run, turning to down-on-his-luck gumshoe Eddie Valiant, known… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…was also the beginning of a legendary run for the cartoon industry. True, Saturday mornings came to later be regarded as a television “wasteland,” but to the kids growing up… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…To Live-Action…And Back Again! Every good story has a good ending – a happy one, of course! And our following the creation of Enchanted is no exception to the rule,… |
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The Jungle Book
…Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Walt Disney’s swingin’ 1967 animated feature based on Rudyard Kipling’s legendary tale gets a modern-day, photo-realistic update. The Sweatbox Review: Oh, oobee-doo! Who would have guessed that… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…a rudimentary knowledge of animation will grasp what’s going on. The extras here cover everything from promoting the film on Norwegian broadcast television in 1971 (15 min), to the original… |
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Keri Russell to fly in Disney’s Planes?
IMDb has added Keri Russell to the cast of DisneyToon Studios’ Planes. Until an official confirmation arrives, one should take this bit of casting news with a grain of salt,… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…old, admittedly stale, executive-run animation department away. Long-gestating projects were canned and unneeded executives removed, but for all the good Lasseter’s arrival caused in a boosted morale and return to… |
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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…Walks and Timing • Runs and Run Cycles • Personality Runs and Timing • Silhouetting • Dialogue and Lip Sync • Laughter • Takes • Eyes and Expressions Chapter 9… |
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Justice League: Season One
…for DC Comics fans. After years of producing the definitive Batman cartoon, and a pretty decent Superman show, it was rumored that Bruce Timm and his cohorts would be creating… |
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Foosball snags Rupert Grint
…by Juan Jose Campanella in a joint venture between Spain and Argentina that might take some time to get here. Animation Magazine reports that Rupert Grint (aka Ron Weasley) will… |
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The Wind Rises to open in states early for Oscar-qualifying run
Disney has decided to release Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises for a brief run in LA and New York this November, Collider is reporting. The reason for the week-long release?… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…illustrates just how large these “miniature” models were, and those with a rudimentary knowledge of animation will grasp what’s going on. The extras here cover everything from promoting the film… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…hoho!). Blade Runner, The Thing, Conan, Annie, Poltergeist, The Dark Crystal and countless others (including the bonkers but oddly brilliant Q: The Winged Serpent and, deservedly, the misguided Grease 2)… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…animatics (filmed storyboards, with soundtrack) for each episode. These are not complete episodes, only scenes from them, running about a minute or less. The first disc runs a couple of… |
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Ant Bully finds TV spots, rumored cameos
Opening July 28th, The Ant Bully finds itself with three television advertisements, currently playing on the tube and You Tube: #1, #2, and #3. Meanwhile, from Wikipedia comes the rumor… |
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SpongeBob is hunting for Gary in new Sponge on the Run trailer
The full trailer for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is now online, and can be viewed in the player above. The film was originally set for theatrical release… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…how they influenced the later show, allowing its participants (exec Jean MacCurdy, Ruth Clampett, Sherry Stoner, producer Tom Ruegger and writer Paul Dini) to express at length what the intentions… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…couldn’t wait to see what he came up with next. Unfortunately, Beowulf, here released in a Director’s Cut that adds scant minutes to the running time but reinstates violent and… |
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French judge rules against injunction for Nemo
\\{{link http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/03/12/cx_al_0312nemo.html Forbes}}\\ reports that a French judge has ruled against Franck Le Calvez, who asked the court to stop the merchandising of \\Finding Nemo\\ in France. “Even though a… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…ancestor to the Abominable Snowman in Rankin-Bass’s Rudolph Christmas special – further evidence of Pal’s influence on future animators. Puppetoons B Two Gun Rusty (1944, 8:27) – Little red-haired Rusty… |
