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UPDATED: Animated Film Disqualified from Oscar Consideration
…publication of this article, ToonZone.net reported that The Missing Lynx: Paws on the Run (which opened in Spain on December 25, 2008) is in the midst of a qualifying run… |
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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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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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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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From Up On Poppy Hill
…and declared the junior Miyazaki a failure who might never be allowed to direct again. Rumors also swirled, suggesting that production on Earthsea had been so rocky, that the father… |
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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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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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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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Back In Time
…other, hugely enthusiastic tie-ins. After all, when else are we likely to meet up with another movie future-date anytime soon, aside from the dystopian 2019 of Blade Runner, which doesn’t… |
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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 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… |
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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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The Secret Life Of Pets
…seemingly, for a short film, and each running around four minutes. Norman TV makes a hero out of one of the main feature’s sidekicks in a zippy cartoon, and Weenie… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…project on to his son Goro, who had never directed a film before. (This was during one of those times that Hayao Miyazaki claimed to have retired.) The somewhat rushed… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Amblin production, where Spielberg’s usually assured touch eluded him. That rare misfire aside, Disney ruled and, in fact, I may have to declare Pete’s Dragon [right] to be the most… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…shocked discussion between the evil faction? Sure, she seems to have relaxed her rules of appearance as of the second film, but we’re not counting that here, it seems, since… |
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Joe Barbera; Gremlins and Disney's Dog
…American Dog turned out to be…true! However, as our second Rumored Rumblings update reveals, the underlying reason that this is the case could be that John Lasseter and Ed Catmull… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…Its soundtrack was arguably an even bigger home run for them, with the chart-topping Can’t Stop the Feeling! even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Trolls may have… |
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Sing
…the cartoon karaoke aspect takes up a huge chunk of the movie’s longer than expected, near two hour runtime, but right from the start (with a sly poke at the… |
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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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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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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…starts to feel like a retread. Once alien Keanu finds himself on the run, the film seems so intent on making itself different from the original that it eventually runs… |
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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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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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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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Armageddon
…soon he had earned it for all the wrong reasons: unable to go anywhere but down after The Towering Inferno’s great heights, a run of bad TV movies (including such… |
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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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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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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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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… |
