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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…1994. Also in 1994, two other new shows were placed together to form the syndicated Marvel Action Hour. The two featured cartoons were Iron Man and Fantastic Four, each running… |
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Rumors resurface of Disney buying Pixar
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, via the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, talk has begun once more that Disney may purchase Pixar. Other ideas being considered are that Disney might buy a… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…clownish foil for the ring-bearing Hobbit. But then amongst the pace, Bakshi will suddenly stop for a moment of slow-motion running (there’s a lot of slow-motion running) or a bizarre… |
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Toying around with more Toy Story 3 rumors
A recent article in Variety discusses Pixar Animation Studios’ release schedule for the next couple of years, mentioning 2009 as a possible release date for Toy Story 3…. |
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The Fox And The Hound 2
…fine animation, but it lacks the pizzazz of the fairy tales or the comic adventures. Still, with Disney’s mad rush to provide follow-ups to all of its films, even The… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…late Joe Ranft, a former Disney man who had worked with Burton on Nightmare before moving to Pixar. Ranft presented to Burton a story idea based on a Russian folktale…. |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…half of the film basically runs through their lives as they meet for the first time at Stanford Art Department in 1931, becoming fast friends while learning art in Los… |
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Osmosis Jones
…as a running gag for the duration. Under The Microscope is a standard HBO First Look special (running 14 minutes) hosted by co-star Brandy Norwood that offers the usual on-set… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…to, their mutual understanding!). Now famously (but, for various reasons, never revealed at the time) created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears during their tenure at Hanna-Barbera (before they left… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…ironically the shorter run time doesn’t mean that it’s tighter: after enjoying the roomier final version, I found this to be a little choppy, too rushed at times in the… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…team had become. Unfortunately, if DisneyToons’ traditionally animated run was about to come to an end, it wouldn’t be on the high that Cinderella III would have allowed the unit… |
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"Dinosaurs" DVD website up and running!
Buena Vista’s DVD website for Jim Henson’s early ’90s sitcom “Dinosaurs” is now fully launched – complete with DVD information, video clips, character profiles, and much more! Thanks to JustinWilliams… |
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The Wild
…and it was so critically savaged that all hopes for an impressive box office run were dashed. More happily, audiences do seem to be catching it on DVD, where Disney… |
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Queen Latifah rules Ice Age; New international trailer
Speaking to Dark Horizons, Queen Latifah reflects on her work in Ice Age: The Meltdown. “One of my favourite things that comes across in the movie is the idea of… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…movie where Peter and Lucy are sitting in Aslan’s How and Edmund runs in and says: “Peter, you’d better come out and have a look at this!” They all run… |
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The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
…2000 release Chicken Run; and it was largely Wallace & Gromit that inspired Dreamworks to sign up Aardman to a distribution deal in the first place. They obviously were charmed… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…how experiencing the continent for real gave their film the right look and informed story points. Jambo Jambo: Swahili Speak is just what you might think it is: a run-through… |
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The Simpsons Movie rules weekend Box Office, Smashes Records
Entertainment Weekly reports that The Simpsons Movie opened at No. 1 with a $71.9 million gross, far exceeding industry expectations and breaking all sorts of box office records along the… |
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Bambi II
…original Disney movies, padded out and stretched to a babysitting friendly hour or so, also making them perfect television fillers where commercials make up a more respectable running length of… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…as it should! The story is tight, and moves along nicely as opposed to rushing through, and that climax is one of the most exciting and involving sequences ever seen… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…FOR MATURE READERS ONLY] Storyboard: All fourteen episodes from Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2008 run of their groundbreaking comedy institution, now uncut and uncensored! The Sweatbox Review: About to… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…fan. We’ll get to the good stuff in a bit, but up front let’s clear the way for it… Little more than a year ago, around the run up to… |
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Megamind continues to rule box office
DreamWorks’ Megamind earned another first place finish at the box office with $30.1 million in its second week, according to EW.com. It’s cumulative total is $89.8 million…. |
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Animation rules at 2006 DVD Exclusive Awards
DVD Exclusive has announced the winners of the 2006 DVD Exclusive Awards giving top prizes to a number of animated DVDs. Of the 26 awards presented, half were handed… |
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Rumor mill: Cinderella III originally rated PG?
An interesting tidbit has appeared at Wikipedia, regarding Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. According to the site, the movie was originally rated PG, because of “some violence scenes.” Nonetheless,… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Howl-Oween Special
…suggesting the feature compilations such as The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and Jones’ own later The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie). But whatever one feels about the way the… |
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Enchanted
…into productions than the editors of these pieces might be intending. That’s How You Know (5:55) whisks us to Central Park for a complete run down of how the extravagant… |
