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Castle In The Sky
…Miyazaki discusses the themes in the film, as well as his influences for the film— Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, and the Superman cartoon The Mechanical Monsters. Character Sketches (2:47) does… |
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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
…sequels that will stretch the series to six films, as announced by DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg shortly after the box-office success of the first film (the two events quite unrelated,… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
The 2010 DVD edition of this fine Studio Ghibli film easily bests the 2003 version, with better video, changes that bring it closer to the original Japanese film, and a… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…the most fun I’ve had in a movie theater in ages, as many who saw the film on its theatrical release this past summer have agreed. On DVD, the film… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…film’s animation, with Ron Tippe producing. Of course, screenwriters Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod needed an epic reason for an entire Looney Tunes movie to revolve… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…Creature Feature: low-budget movies about giant freaks of nature running rampage through big cities, or unthawed dinosaurs running rampage through big cities, or robot monsters on the loose…running rampage through… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…craft. On every film, we get to try out ideas and see them to their birth. Then they go into the film, and then the film is done. Each time,… |
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Enchanted
…you to replay a film and discover, just as lawyer Robert does with Giselle in the movie, the magic within. In case these next few words sound overly negative, let… |
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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…while the first comic had worked off the first draft of the script, thus having scenes not in the film. Beck brought up the film was released the same month… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…the film fresh and entertaining; indeed, it’s perfectly suited to this collection even if it is a film of a very different type. Jerry is joined again by Nibbles the… |
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Cars
…minute mark, where the film becomes overly talky, the laughs dry up, and Lasseter, for a while, seems to run out of gas. Overall, the movie is around 10-15 minutes… |
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Renaissance
…on the number of edits they make to foreign language films. Time was when the Weinstein Miramax would have chopped a few minutes out of this film and probably end… |
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Zootopia
…define a message movie as a film where the moral is the central point of the thing. Other considerations like being entertaining or making a good film come second. That… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…most fun I’ve had in a movie theater in ages, as many who saw the film on its theatrical release this past summer have agreed. On DVD, the film gets… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…the original running time at 100 minutes. However, while it is clear from the onscreen notices that Fox have been able to use the Eastman edition here, the film clocks… |
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A Christmas Carol
…is serviced by a strong story, lean and mean so that the film gets right to the point without any artificial padding. A theme in the film is dual identities,… |
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Bee Movie Fun Facts
…opposite the other actors in the scene (a luxury that rarely happens during the making of animated films). The upshot—with the film’s writer/producer/lead at every session, new material was invariably… |
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Apple’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation
PRESS RELEASE Apple Original Films Academy Award nominee The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse wins BAFTA Film Award for Best British Short Animation The deeply moving film,… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…went any further, ‘this octopus film takes place underwater, and the first thing someone watching this film for the first time would say to themselves would be… ”Hey, what’s a… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…VN: The mind characters were more stylized than anything we had attempted in a feature film, and each emotion had very specific rules about how to get them “on model.”… |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…inspirational art all over the walls, from past films and the films we are currently working on. I love the early stage of development on the films, when it’s just… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)
…three films was finally rewarded with the second trilogy of films that began with The Phantom Menace in 1999. The Clone Wars were a series of battles that took place… |
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The Jungle Book
…library. But while this is essentially a live-action remake of that film, it’s not necessarily the same film. This version of The Jungle Book not only manages to stand out… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…Haru (Hara in the US) is very suspicious of what is happening, and she knows of the family legends about a race of little people living on the grounds. Haru… |
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Mulan II
…not reaching, Feature Animation standard, and a running time which surpasses the usual 66-minute length that places such endeavours firmly in the destined-for-TV movie category. With that longer run time,… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…Hedge was directed by Tim Johnson (Antz) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Chicken Run screenwriter), making his directorial debut. Bonnie Arnold (Toy Story, Tarzan) produced the film, with Bill Damaschke serving as… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…checklist of films that I really wanted to see someday. One by one, I have gotten the chance to see them, and to judge for myself whether or not they… |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…animation process. Having storyboarded his films, Verbinski was familiar with this first phase of animated filmmaking, but the usual processes took an unusual turn unlike that for any animated film… |
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
…making for a film different from the rest but still very good. So where does film four, Continental Drift, fit in the franchise? Manny is being the stereotypical overprotective father… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…cannot deny that the film is a beautiful delight and a worthy if minor successor to the Studio Ghibli films, full of whimsy and wonder. Studio Ponoc may not have… |
