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Madagascar 3 rules the box office
Despite months of hype, Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus ultimately wasn’t enough to top a bunch of wise-cracking zoo animals. Box Office Mojo is reporting that Madagascar 3 ruled the… |
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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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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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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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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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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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No Oscar run for Coraline this year
…which is based upon a Neil Gaiman novel, was originally scheduled for a limited theatrical run before it’s wide release on February 6th, 2009. Coraline tells the story of a… |
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Spielberg settles Mary Poppins remake rumor
Dark Horizons points to Spielberg Films, where the rumor of Steven Spielberg hoping to shoot a Mary Poppins remake finally comes to rest. Steven Spielberg’s rep Marvin Levy responds, “I… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…how to continue. The top brass, including Walt’s brother Roy O. Disney who was now effectively running the company, didn’t have a handle on how the animation unit worked. Walt… |
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Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows giveaway contest
…six Toa Metru encounter strange and dangerous new foes, including the spidery Visorak, when they go back to the island city of Metru Nui to fulfill their duty. Packed with… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…gone into what is generally looked on as the last of the true “golden age” animated features. Running at only 75 minutes, the movie is spread over three CAV sides,… |
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Rumor mill: Disney's Joe Jump synopsis revealed?
…to ‘jump’ into today’s high-tech games…” Until confirmed by proper sources, this news should be taken with a grain salt, as it remains only a rumor for the time being…. |
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Recent Toy Story 4 rumors debunked
The rumors of Toy Story 4 are false, says Drew McWeeny at HitFix. Colombian radio host Jorge Luis Balaguera raised eyebrows on Monday when he “confirmed” via Twitter that Tom… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…to keep him cohesive throughout the film? DP: I think I worked with Mark Henn on acting and whatnot, running my scenes by him for advice and guidance, but mostly… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…aggravated proclamations of its animators and heavily dropped rumors that director Wes Anderson was hardly to be seen on the “set” of this stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic… |
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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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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…adventurers battle against pirates, dark water, and monsters in order to find the thirteen treasures of Rule necessary to rid the world of Mer from the threat of Dark Water…. |
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Box Office Guru's Brother Bear Prediction
Concerning Brother Bear‘s performance at the box offce, Box Office Guru says, “Last year around this time, Disney released Treasure Planet, another 2D animated film, and it flopped pretty badly,… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
Arthur Christmas is Sony Pictures Animation’s first film collaboration with Aardman, the landmark animation company best-known for their award-winning and crowd-pleasing stop-motion films Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The… |
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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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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…film critic Mark Kermode (host of several respected DVD-featured documentaries on such films as Alien, The Wicker Man, The French Connection and Blade Runner) recall a conversation between himself and… |
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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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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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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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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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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…done to that degree. And, of course, one of the main proponents was Russell Means. Now, I do have a funny story about Russell. When he came in to actually… |
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Rumor mill: Fox and the Hound 2, Little Mermaid III casts
…Ian McKellen is noted as now voicing Grimsby the Valet. One should take a grain of salt with these news tidbits, for they remain merely rumors until confirmed by proper… |
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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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Mamoru Oshii talks Ponyo
GhibliWorld brings an English summary of a radio interview with Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell wherein Oshii shares his thoughts on Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature film Ponyo… |
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CGI ruining Hollywood?
“Will digital effects ruin Hollywood?” – that is the question asked by Edward Jay Epstein. In his article “The Schizoid Split in Movies,” available at Slate, Epstein ponders whether directors… |
