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Full Disney D23 panel recap; Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! to be shown before Frozen
…presentation included information about the just-announced feature film “Zootopia” (working title) from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the newest film in Disneytoon Studios’ Disney Fairies franchise, plus never-before-shared voice cast… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…the film took live/CGI-melded filmmaking one stage further, shooting its characters against a special effects screen and not only dropping in the required backgrounds and fantastical beasts but also touching… |
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The Peanuts Movie
Admit it: when you first heard that Hollywood was going to be making a CG animated film based on the beloved characters from the Peanuts comic strip and TV specials… |
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Now Playing: The Lone Ranger and more
…not better, and would have cut another five to ten minutes off the runtime! But in between the clutter there’s an interesting story. The last thirty minutes of the film,… |
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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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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
…call. AV: How did you become the director of Puss In Boots? CM: I worked on all the Shrek films, minus Shrek Forever After. I wasn’t on Shrek Forever After… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…more often, but Jimmy Neutron is consistently inventive. Our hero is basically your average, run of the mill genius kid and the film has a lot of mileage in the… |
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Secret of Kells gets US distribution, Oscar run
US distributor GKIDS has announced they will be bringing Irish director Tomm Moore’s animated film The Secret of Kells to U.S. audiences. Opening March 12, 2010, the film will first… |
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Shrek Forever After to open Tribeca Film Festival
Collider reports that Shrek Forever After will be the opening night film at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21. Shrek Forever After will be the second animated film to… |
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Newport Beach Film Festival announces the "Chuck Jones Award"
…Beach Film Festival runs April 24 – May 1, 2008 and will highlight more than 300 films from around the world, including features, shorts, documentaries, and animation. The Festival is… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…animators working on the film to have a guideline of how these characters moved and acted and things. AV: Your next film was Oliver & Company. MH: On this film,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…new wave) to Mickey’s most recent theatrical appearance in 1996’s Runaway Brain. Then there’s Walt the film studio head and television pioneer, presenting peeks into how the magic happens as… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…studio in San Diego called American Film Technology. They primarily were a film colorization company, you know, when you take old black and white films and colorize them. But they… |
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Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!
…film. She counts the experience as one of the highlights of her career. AV: Lady and the Tramp takes place in a small rural town. What kind of personal connection… |
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Sony greenlights first animated film
…first to gel”. The humor of \\In the Bleachers\\ cartoonist Steve Moore inspired the film, and he will be a co-executive producer of the film. [paid subscription required for \\Variety\\]… |
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Now Playing: Pacific Rim and more
…But the film fails so spectacularly at the most basic part of filmmaking — putting an actor on the screen and putting words in his mouth. If this genre is… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…orchestrators of Hollywood film music. After graduating from the Royal College of Music in composition and orchestration, Nicholas first acted as a music producer, owning a recording studio in London;… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…the look of the films visibly cheaper, but gags are commonly recycled from film to film, these two films being another Western (again with Buzz Buzzard) and another sleep deprivation… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…catchy! AV: Why did you want your film to be based on a song? DL: I love making movies and the most fun are musicals, there are no rules. When… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…their talents in different ways. Oddly, for a film about class clowns pulling pranks the humor in the film is fairly muted. Maybe the potty-humor crowd might enjoy some of… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…experience, so all of us were sort of floundering with that, and it shows in the film, of course. Toward the end of the film I didn’t feel so helpless… |
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Monsters, Inc. ride press release and pics
…colors as little Boo “bonks” him on his head in the attraction’s finale. Staying true to the film, the attraction features newly recorded performances by many of the film’s original… |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG announces changes in key personnel
…the films throughout production. Bill brings experience as both a filmmaker and as a creative executive to his new post, and we have tremendous faith in his ability to spearhead… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…built by the MTR Corporation near the world famous Tian Tan Big Buddha. It’s one of two films produced for the attraction, each being housed in their own specialized theaters…. |
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The BFG stomping home in December
…– Ruby Barnhill (Sophie) hosts a phizz-whizzing journey through the making of “The BFG.” This behind-the-scenes documentary details the film’s progression through interviews with Roald Dahl’s daughter Lucy Dahl, screenwriter… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
…film. Finally, the film is completed much like any other motion picture—via final editing, scoring and the addition of sound and special effects. With The Incredibles, Brad Bird asked his… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
Chronicle Books has rightly forged a great reputation for their quality art books on Pixar films, showcasing developmental pieces from The Art of Monsters, Inc to Tim Hauser’s The Art… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…what appeared in the film The Dark Knight, though I don’t claim that the animated movie rivals The Dark Knight in terms of impact. A film I was prepared to… |
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Classic \\Popeye\\, rare Charley Bowers shorts added to the National Film Registry
…\\There It Is\\ have been added to the {{link http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2004.html National Film Registry}} according to the head of Library of Congress, James Billington. Each year the Librarian of Congress, advised… |
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Martin Rosen's Plague Dogs comes to DVD – UNCUT!
…the early 1990s – the full uncut version of this important film to DVD, using Rosen’s personal 35mm print of the film for the transfer. Big Sky (who collaborated with… |
