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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…runs around smashing things as the good-guy, Fix-It Felix, saves the day with his trusty hammer. Tired of being the bad guy, he escapes his 8-bit world in search for… |
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Toy Story 3 makes playdate? Gnomeo & Juliet & Sprackling?
Before we meet and possibly greet these rumors, it is important to stress the fragile nature of the information. Collected from an assortment of user-submitted sites, the trivia could merely… |
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M.A.S.K.: Volume One
…swinging tray holds one of the discs. The package incorrectly gives a runtime of “approx 9.5 hours,” despite correctly touting the presence of eleven episodes, which each run about 22… |
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Star Trek – Lower Decks: Season 1
…rule-loving pretty boy of an officer. The tactical officer is a tough Bajoran named Shaxs, and the doctor is T’Ana, a cat-like humanoid that is a nod to bridge officer… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…One tidbit that I’m happy to hear is that Aardman Features, home to Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit have quickly set up shop under a new home at Sony… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…which can only mean Sony Animation execs rubbing their hands together in anticipation of their own penguin movie, the “mockumentary” Surf’s Up, being as popular. Penguins – especially movie penguins… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…new episodes to the long-running show in 1979. It was here that the kids started watching clumsy superhero the Brown Hornet on TV, and his adventures helped to illuminate the… |
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Ghost In The Shell: a phenomenon waiting to happen; first eight minutes online
…first eight minutes}} of the sequel has now debuted on IFILM, allowing for an exclusive sneek preview of Mamoru Oshii’s visually stunning film. There’s movement on the {{link http://www.gofishpictures.com/GITS2 official… |
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The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 1
Hanna-Barbera (1978-1979), Warner Archive (October 9, 2012), 1 disc, 99 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: Fred and Barney run into trouble with two classic… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943
…want to go to bed, in the rather domestic Me Musical Nephews. In Spinach Fer Britain, Popeye tries to run food to America’s Allies while evading a German ship. Next,… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…other animators could use for reference. We spent a lot of time educating the animators who were new to the Cars universe to make sure they understood the “rules” of… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…producer and DreamWorks Animation head-honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg put it), with some amazing set pieces and darker-than-usual themes. The first rule of movie-music is that sometimes “less is more”. This was… |
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Renaissance comes to DVD for wider audience
On July 24th, Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release the blacker than black detective noir thriller Renaissance, which got an extremely limited theatrical run in 2006, on DVD through their… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…Keanu finds himself on the run, the film seems so intent on making itself so different from the original that it eventually runs out of steam, heading off in several… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Harman and Rudy Ising, responsible for the Happy Harmonies; a series of well intentioned and expertly made (Disney himself outsourced one of the Silly Symphonies to Harman-Ising) cartoons, but which… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…got it after he acted something out for you; you just went to run back to your room and animate that, because it was so clear.” AN: I heard that… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…and rush hour traffic to make my appointment, I had an opportunity to talk to Diane about Walt’s life at home and at the Studio, and find out more about… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…film’s Original Prologue runs six minutes, offering an erudite view of our solar system and space travel, all reportedly factual. There is little animation here, relying instead on NASA footage,… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…of my AV colleagues. DAN: I recall being tied for third one year. Can’t remember exact placement or year, though. JAMES: I’ve run an Oscar contest every year since the… |
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Tangled
…have ruffled many feathers, we can thank him for many others. Several films already in advanced development were too far into production to be canceled, but Lasseter’s Pixar-honed touch undoubtedly… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…And The Beast, running under ten minutes. While Disney may have looked at many such stories over the years, and did suggest turning this story itself into an animated film,… |
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Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
…fight with his tormentor. Joe is injured in the melee, and Jack runs off, going home to see Madeleine. His adoptive mother insists that Jack run away, as the police… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…tribes, the very tall Matassalai and the very tiny Minimoys. In appreciation for the help he provided them Archibald is rewarded with rubies. As Granny is about to be evicted… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…initially on Sesame Street, but soon after that it was Hanna-Barbera cartoons – a lot of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The studio built by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera ruled Saturday mornings… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…a retro-futuristic world. Although it was deemed a success at the time, the original show’s first season would only produce 24 episodes that would later run continuously on Saturday mornings…. |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…the king. THE ROAD RUNNER SHOW starts with a typical Coyote/Road Runner outing in Zip ‘n Snort; Tweety evades Sylvester in style in The Jet Cage; and then we get… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…outing that ties its message into the current environmental issues. But it’s in the second half, once director Derrickson has run out of Spielbergian tricks and has finished setting up… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…the full-blown Technicolor equivalents to those classic tough guy pictures: indeed, if the recent rumors were true (and they’re sadly not) that none other than Orson Welles had once planned… |
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Jack Frost: Deluxe Edition
…the title character. The course of true love never did run smooth, of course, but here things are overcomplicated by Elisa’s fondness for a brave knight, which leads to a… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The vain, powerful and comically flippant ruler of an Incan empire learns a few rules about life and friendship, in an epic and very… |
