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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…forgotten in the rush to praise Pooh Bear as a Disney creation. Perhaps mindful of that fact, the BBC steadfastly adapted the Potter books into delightfully whimsical animated featurettes for… |
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Weekend Studio Estimates: March 18 – 20, 2005
Box Office Guru records that Robots dropped 40% to the #2 position in its second weekend, with an estimated gross of $21.8 million. After ten days, the CGI toon has… |
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Klasky Csupo having troubles?
{{link http://www.animationblast.com/ Animation Blast}} reports that Klasky Csupo “is apparently not doing so well nowadays. Rumor has it that their staff has dwindled to around 30 people, and that they’re… |
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Brother Bear Gathers Another $18 Million
According to Box Office Guru, “Landing in third place was last weekend’s runner-up, Disney’s Brother Bear, which brought in an estimated $18.6M this weekend, a drop of only 4%. Its… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…Ahsoka. Sinister villains—led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous—are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands… |
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Belleville leads sparkling UK TV Christmas line up!
…Clause – 12.00pm, BBC1 The Road To El Dorardo – 1.55pm, BBC1 The Snowman (featurette) – 2.55pm, C4 101 Dalmatians (live-action) – 3.15pm, BBC1 Chicken Run – 6.15pm, BBC1 Christmas… |
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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…to Michael Eisner insisting that all Disney stories have a happy ending. As an exception to the rule, The Little Matchgirl definitely leaves you with a lump in your throat…. |
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Nemo sub coming to you
…participants at a selected location or within the mail-in entry pool for the time or date (as applicable) selected. Subject to official rules at www.DisneyParks.com/rules. Sponsor: Magic Kingdom Productions, Inc.,… |
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DreamWorks Animation Preview
‘Bobbie’ on the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=651#post651 AN Forum}} posts a press release from the upcoming 21st {{link http://www.rustycon.com/ Rustycon}} convention (running January 16th through January 18th in Seattle) that announces that… |
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Celebrate Mother's Day with The Flintstones
…delivery that he decides to stage a dress rehearsal. All is going well until the practice run turns into the real thing, with Wilma giving birth to baby Pebbles. •4:30… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…is eminently skip-able, with Mowgli’s Story Time Adventure and Mowgli’s Jungle Ruins Maze likely working better for kiddies than they did for me. (Actually, my daughter found them frustrating to… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Prize Pack – Winner Announced!
…with the DVD release, Universal is also running an “All I Want This Holiday” $100,000 instant win game that will give one lucky grand prize winner $100,000 to create their… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…this setup, a new factor is introduced that changes the dynamics of the original relationship (a new character, gadget, or rule). The changing factor then accelerates the drama and usually… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…much here but on the cable stations sometimes they do. BK: But because of the rules at many of the festivals you’re supposed to wait before you allow your short… |
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Inaugural Graphic Impact Annual Animation Competition announced
…for the contest is “the Pivotal Moment,” with rules stating, “You must create an image, animation and story depicting a pivotal moment between antagonist and protagonist.” In relation to that… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrator Dawn Brown decorated the Red Queen’s Castle
…to see these big giant gorilla soldiers with forkfuls of food hunched over dainty little hand mirrors, trying negotiate their lunch through these thick rubber lips they couldn’t feel and… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume One
…rubber. The 1950’s Adventures of Superman, on the other hand, was brilliant in its presentation of Superman as fantastic yet down-to earth, and it was Reeves that first made me… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…Bass. Their production company, Rankin/Bass, was responsible for some of the best-known Christmas specials of the television age including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus is Comin’… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…He’s different. AV:Did you talk about that transition with Ruben Aquino, the supervisor of Adult Simba? MH: I’ve known Ruben since back when he came at the studio around The… |
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The Princess and the Frog
…continue avoiding work of any kind. After a run in with a scheming voodoo magician, Naveen is turned into a frog. After mistaking Tiana for a princess whose kiss can… |
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Prep & Landing
…my childhood as Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Today, studios continue in their attempt to create the world’s next Christmas classic,… |
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The first and fairest meets the latest for Thanksgiving!
…but the plot, in which it is said Shrek “makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to see what the world would be like if he had never married Princess Fiona” is… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…straight and true, and learn how to mix your colors. It’s all basically the same thing. It’s a rudimentary thing. And it’s a teaching song. It was kind of a… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…at under $20, accounting for online discounts, to “deluxe” box sets costing near $250! Here, then, is a complete run down and comparison of all the now available editions of… |
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More animated series coming to DVD
…given for the two upcoming DVD volumes of The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, The Journey Begins and The Journey Continues. Concurrently, the press release and artwork for Astroboy (1963) –… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…soon, the applause turns into the sound of rainfall as reality rushes back. Red must resign himself to sitting in the corner and await his fate. Don’t let Red’s sale… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…Loch Ness monster), Golgo’s Guest (about the meeting between a Russian frontier guard and an extraterrestrial), Prep And Landing (in which two inept elves ready a house for Santa’s visit)… |
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Merry Madagascar
…feature quality regularly throughout. Highpoints, as always, are those darned Penguins, this time engaging in a hilarious battle with Santa’s Russian accented reindeer who, in the special’s major laugh out… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…time. It was a difficult and twitchy process, with many setbacks and bizarre results. Sometimes Geri’s jacket was like concrete, sometimes jello or rubber, eventually more and more like… cloth… |
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Additions old and new; reviews and a new Media section!
…it sound fun! Next up, Rodney’s been running the Justice League: The Complete Series marathon through all 91 episodes of the show’s five year run of 15 DVDs. The most… |
