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The Reef
…comedies to Marvel adventures. Co-director Howard E Baker has an equal sporadic résumé, from animating on Disney’s Hercules, to directing episodes of MTV’s Aeon Flux, and working on Rugrats (for… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…started running out of new ideas, a purely animated series was called for. Already rivalling Alice for attention in the cartoons was Julius The Cat, but Winkler had married Universal… |
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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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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…were secured by John Clarke Rose. Do you know if some, like Robinson Crusoe and The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam, went to the “concept” phase or did they just stay… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…70 HD channels by March 2005. Among their 21 exclusive commercial-free, all-HD channels is Animania, focusing on, what else, animation. Animania airs classics like the Pink Panther, Dick Tracy, Mr…. |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…included, think of the way this gem of a short-lived series was treated during its original run. They are also the words of The Critic himself, one Jay Sherman, TV… |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…those pesky kids from the Mystery Inc gang. Despite the opportunity to run off some flippant comments on yet another DTV title, Rodney actually treats the disc with great respect,… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…Wallace & Gromit being two characters that mean a great deal personally to Nick Park. It was a shorter than we have become accustomed to film, running under 20 minutes,… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…Seattle and Toronto tryouts, and the final Broadway incarnation, as well as further changes once the production had been running for a length of time and additional tweaks to the… |
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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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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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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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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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Trolls: Party Edition
DreamWorks Animation (November 4th, 2016), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (February 7th, 2017), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 93 minutes plus supplements, 16:9 2.35:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Rated… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…into a stage musical in Germany. Being closer to the original source material in tone, it had a successful three-year run. In the years that followed, Alan Menken and Stephen… |
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Dinotrux
…TV series since 2004’s Father of the Pride. Featuring dinosaurs that are made out of construction vehicles (or is it the other way around?), the show centers around Ty Rux,… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…missteps later on, which led to its financial ruin. It declared bankruptcy in 1973, three years after Tezuka had stepped down in 1970 and founded a new company, Tezuka Productions…. |
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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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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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Tangled
Walt Disney Animation Studios (November 24 2010), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 29 2011), 4-disc set comprising of 3D Blu-ray, HD Blu-ray, DVD plus Digital Copy, 100 mins plus supplements,… |
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Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence and Shrek 2 to compete at Cannes
…sixth time that an animated film of any kind has been chosen for competition at Cannes. Director Mamoru Oshii says of the nomination, “I am proud to be in the… |
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Shrek The Halls
…brisk 22 minutes, the story is tightly wrapped up too, motoring along like Santa’s sleigh running out of time but taking enough breath and pauses for it all to have… |
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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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The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
…computer. Meanwhile (more or less), Fred Flintstone is conniving about how to afford the vacation that Wilma is demanding. He naturally ropes pal Barney Rubble (whose wife Betty also wants… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…“new” versions of these cartoons in order for the restorations to continue. First introduced as television filler during the run-up to The Princess And The Frog’s theatrical release, long-time fans… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…theatrical run, Mars had taken a mere $39 million worldwide. However, the story was not over for ImageMovers. In August, Zemeckis revealed ImageMovers was moving its images to Universal Studios,… |
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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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Two New Series Coming to NickToons
…LEADER DOG episode is three minutes, while each TORTELLINI WESTERN runs two minutes. Schwarz continued, “THE SIMPSONS, SOUTH PARK and even MICKEY MOUSE all started out as shorts. We hope… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…sticks to – its own rules. It’s filled with tiny, intricate details, and when I saw it for the first time in a theater last year, I wanted to go… |
