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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…comic and film fans united for a single purpose: San Diego’s Comic-Con International. This year, largely represented before the “Con-verts” was a cornucopia of animated undertakings – from feature films… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
…that film jokes: Wreck-it Ralph is an “adorable animated adventure that finally cracked how to make a good video game movie, by not focusing too much on the video game”…. |
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Osmosis Jones
…the film’s climax. This could account for why the film did not end Warner’s run of bad box-office when it was released to theaters, since there’s no sense of a… |
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Academy Award-nominated director awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
…winning animated short films, announced their partnership today in Los Angeles. The duo, which will make The Better Half a stop-motion animated short film, also announced that Osborne received a… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…the film’s scope. The sneak peek also threatened that, unlike the first film where almost the entire Squad survived, the new film will have a much higher body count. “Don’t… |
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Spirited Away
…Spirited Away is the only Ghibli film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, and it is easy to see how it won that year —aside from the… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…great. Other films, like Migration and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, were better than expected, but “competently made” isn’t necessarily high praise. Then there was Wish [above right]. Living in Orlando… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…Space Odyssey were enough of a success for us to repeat the idea again this summer with Elstree Film Festival II, which ties in with the 80th Anniversary of filmmaking… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
Melwood Pictures and Exodus Film Group have optioned the rights to magician and illusionist Nicholas Night’s computer animated/live action feature film Pavlov’s Dog. The synopsis for the film revolves around,… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…feature film executive produced by Kevin Lima, before working as a story artist on the director’s critically acclaimed live-action & hand-drawn animation hybrid film Enchanted. Most recently, Quane joined Sony… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…with a film containing footage from the Yankee Doodle short as this was an early highlight itself, being the first Academy Award winning T&J film, and somehow brings everything around… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…a lengthy book to a film. And sometimes the hardest films to make are actually the ones based on the shortest stories (look at some of those Dr. Seuss movies)…. |
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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…By One no longer part of Fantasia 2006 One By One at Animated World Network Redux Riding Hood at Cartoon Brew Runaway Brain Figurines Newport Beach Film Festival home page… |
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Lightyear
…personally invested, but that doesn’t mean the characters themselves aren’t. And a lack of non-stop laugh-out-loud humor doesn’t mean something isn’t fun. The filmmakers have crafted a film that is… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…TMNT game, including looks at the sets found in the film, may be viewed at You Tube. Director Kevin Munroe gave some interesting details about his film, summarized by Ain’t… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…Age 3 is very different from the preceding films in the franchise. The new film features a much more action-adventure type vibe — and the filmmakers have done a surprisingly… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…Oscar-winning Hans Zimmer, one of the most successful film composers of the time. This fruitful association has lead to significant credits and contributions on several top-ranking films produced in recent… |
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Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast
…truly the final film in the series, no one can say it limped its way to the end, although I would have thought that the previous film, The Pirate Fairy—… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…magic in so many ways. Our focus as filmmakers is on telling great stories knowing that Disney will support those stories across the company. Disney Animation is also very filmmaker… |
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The Lady of Names, Making an Animatic
… Toronto Independent Film Festival 2011 Philadelphia International Film and Animation Festival 2011 Eugene International Film Festival 2011 Garden State Film Festival 2012 Special Jury Prize: Canada International Film Festival For… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
…often than not, films in the fantasy genre tend to play with such seriousness that they run the risk of being droll and stiff. The other direction is to spoof… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…us grew up watching Miyazaki’s films, and the influence of his work on our first film is undeniable. We never sat down and intentionally created a world influenced by Miyazaki’s… |
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Elemental
…previous films were critical and/or box office hits. Do they have another shining star on their hands? Of has this particular well run dry? Ember is a fire element with… |
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Big Hero 6
…Hero 6 is a superhero team film inspired by Marvel comic characters. The story features Hiro, a young robotics prodigy, and a mechanical nurse named Baymax that Hiro trains to… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…of Meatballs, Enlightened, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and the hugely successful Rugrats television, stage and film franchise. Mothersbaugh received the BMI Richard Kirk Award… |
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Only Yesterday
…Only Yesterday, it was a surprise success becoming the highest grossing film of the year in Japan. This was unexpected given that the film was a realistic drama more for… |
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Tying Your Own Shoes takes home Leipzig award
…Animated Film. The National Film Board of Canada film was honored with the Golden Dove Award for a short film after making its world premiere at the festival. The Jury… |
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Raven Tales: The first all Native American computer animated short film
…the recipient of a $10,000 completion grant from National Geographic’s All Roads Film Project. The $10,000 grant will allow completion and distribution of the first computer animated film written, produced,… |
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Captain America: Civil War
…is thrilling and exciting to watch. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo clearly understand how to visualize the film in such a way that audiences are engrossed with what is happening… |
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Shrek the Third
…of the big things that really makes the film feel like a sequels’ sequel. One of the pivotal themes running through the film is fatherhood and it looms over Shrek… |
