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Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise
…a film, and to the studios trying to recut it at the last minute and make it a more, I guess, ‘straightforward’ kid film.” By the end of its 13-week… |
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Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
…an action-packed superhero epic for the ages, featuring perhaps the two most iconic comic book characters of all time duking it out before teaming up to defeat the film’s main… |
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Good and bad news on the Last Unicorn live-action film
Ain’t It Cool News has a string of both good and bad news regarding the Last Unicorn live-action film. As it turns out, Continent Films recently paid $250,000 to go… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…the love and integrity that were given to make this film, because everybody wanted this film to be perfect, because they knew that it was Walt’s dream to bring this… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…– check out the Elf-packed and expansive Santa’s Workshop storyboard (for the film’s original traditional approach) against the smaller, almost empty “back-room” depicted in the finished film. A Play All… |
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Spider-Man 3
…show up for the final battle of the film, leading to an incredible waste that could have very nicely set up a stunning villain for an eventual fourth film. Its… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…sequences from other feature films, save their short lived (and best forgotten) European series and the 1990s update movie. THE ART OF TOM AND JERRY: VOLUME THREE rounds off this… |
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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…work from five alumni of SVA’s Film, Video & Animation Department: John R. Dilworth, Yvette Kaplan, Alex Kupershmidt, Chris Prynoski and Tom Sito. Drawings, sketches, cels, and film and television… |
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Toronto Film Fest Set to Premiere Wallace & Gromit
…Saskatchewan herritage, focusing on the “crumbling legacy of the Canadian farm.” The 30th Toronto International Film Festival is presented by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. The text for this… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…This documentation often allows researchers to trace where an idea came from, and how it evolved. Any true fan of film should be interested in Disney films for this reason…. |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…Tom’s pals running a film show of past clips, including Cat Fishin’ – again – and Fit To Be Tied) and Pecos Pest (which features a hysterical performance by Jerry’s… |
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Heavy Metal: Collector’s Edition
…science fiction vignettes form a rough story of the shape that evil takes in the galaxy, based on the works of top comics creators. The Sweatbox Review: This film defines… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…wind up featuring three actresses in the lead. When the Alice films had finally resorted to their cartoon character sidekicks out-populating the films rather than their nominal star, and had… |
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Pixar sets release date for Stanton's next film
…rumored to be about a robot. Stanton’s previous film as a director was Finding Nemo. He has been credited as a writer on Pixar’s Toy Story films, A Bug’s Life,… |
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Toy Story 4
…bittersweet yet satisfying “ending” to one of the most beloved film franchises of all time. On the other hand, a fourth Toy Story was always going to be a tempting… |
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The Halloween Tree
…translated to film very well. There were the early television anthology series adaptations of his short stories, of course, such as one-off episodes for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight… |
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Quay Brothers to present their work at Fest Anca
…forward to the attendance of Vanja Andrijevic from Bonobostudio, currently the most successful film studio in Croatia, who will most certainly bring along some films from their production.” Fest Anča… |
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Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details
…Zach Levi take viewers on a kooky behind-the-scenes tour to learn how the filmmakers styled this film’s Golden Tresses. Deleted Scenes – Co-directors Byron Howard and Nathan Greno introduce three… |
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Bill Plympton's Idiots and Angels getting rave reviews
Two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton premiered his new 2D feature film Idiots and Angels at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. The dark comedy, produced on a shoestring budget… |
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Ant-Man
…heavily from in terms of tone. As with that film and Guardians, we have a snarky hero who has a heart of gold, with Paul Rudd, as one would expect,… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
Art Of… books on Pixar films have become a tradition. A way for the studio that created the first entirely CG animated feature in history to recall that their films… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…of the film and gave us a few suggestions. He seemed to like the film a lot. He was the best combination of brilliant storyteller and human I’ve ever known…. |
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Ten films up for animated short film Oscar
Ten animated short films–including Disney’s Paperman and the Simpsons cartoon Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare–are in the running for this year’s Best Animated Short film Oscar. Originally 56 films… |
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Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen
…good film is a good film, regardless of medium. The Toy Story films, Ratatouille and How To Train Your Dragon would have been hits in 2D; CG wouldn’t have saved… |
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Ariel’s Song: Jodi Benson, a fortunate soul under the sea!
…film and I hope we were able to translate that for the children. AV: How did you work with songwriter Jeanine Tesori on this new film’s score? JB: I’m sorry… |
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Onward
…be ensuring the journey actually mattered. The goal is going to be a very small part of the film, after all. The majority of the running time is actually getting… |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…been a great success on NBC since 1983, running new episodes for an impressive seven years. As one of the biggest hits of its time, not to mention having the… |
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Frozen II
Frozen II is something of an anomaly for Disney. The company isn’t known for making sequels to their classic animated films. (OK, not canonically at least!) During the studios’ first… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…time the Road Runner (and Friends, as the sleeve notes). Shorts to be found here all contain some pun on speed with their titles (a traditional Chuck Jones/Road Runner touch)… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…until their appearance in the then-rumored fourth film so as to keep the series special. It was probably good advice: as much as I did enjoy Toy Story Of Terror,… |
