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Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…before. AV: I understand you’ve already worked with Aardman before. HGW: I do have a relationship with Aardman, notably with the Producer Carla Shelley. I did Chicken Run with John… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…and as far as you can see, it’s just boxes. Going into New Orleans, it was cars as far as you could see, ruined. It was something like, I think,… |
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Tinker Bell
…out all that good. Rumor has it that the main fellow pulling the trigger on the postponement was new Disney Animation head John Lasseter, who was very concerned that the… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…Coraline. After studying at Rutgers University, Syracuse University, and St. Martin’s School of Art in London, Henry Selick eventually enrolled at Cal Arts as part of the first character-animation program… |
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Joe Ranft, dead at 45
Confirming rumors we’ve been hearing all day, {{link http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/people/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001017139 The Hollywood Reporter}} and {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=14650 AWN}} report that Joe Ranft was killed Tuesday afternoon in a car accident. Ranft worked… |
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I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown
…quality suffers a little more in the extra features, with a higher degree of the same problems. It simply looks as if the compression work was rushed. At least edge… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…running just over seven minutes, you’ll find all the cast and crew gushing about making the film, and a little info on the computer graphics. My favorite moments are when… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…a live-action/animation combination about a young kid on the run from his abusive family, aided by cartoon dragon Elliott and a bunch of happy, peppy showtunes. The film wasn’t the… |
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The BFG
…here, making the stagey sets feel all the more less real. Here we come across an orphanage and meet young Sophie (Ruby Barnhill, slightly too old and not quite cute… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…Dwarfs’ roles had been given to popular radio names, with Pinto Colvig in the running due to his performances in many of the Disney shorts, not least as his regular… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…The Sweatbox Review: The past two Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures DVDs were a compilation of grab-bag episodes from the entire run of Tom and Jerry cartoons. While researching… |
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Interview: Nick Park of Aardman Animations
…One idea currently running through Park’s mind is Chicken Run 2. “At the time I thought ‘No Way, I don’t want to see another Chicken as long as I live!’… |
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Wonder Woman
…actually runs on batteries.) This movie begins with a battle between Amazons, men, and beasts, all under the auspices of Ares, god of war. The Amazon queen Hippolyta turns the… |
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Trolls
…minute each. Fortunately, Trolls has at least four showstopping musical numbers spread throughout its running time of an hour and a half, climaxing with a rousing grand finale featuring a… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…within six months, he was delivering more than mail as he ascended the rungs of the animation ladder, beginning as an in-betweener on Lady and the Tramp. He was promoted… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…medium or change it, you approach that with a lot of trepidation because you’re always worried about ruining what’s there. However, you also realize that when you translate it into… |
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Looney Tunes 2: Daffy Duck For President stills; no Chuck Amuck
…included on the new Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2, despite recent rumors. The four disc set is packed out with many other as yet unannounced special features, such as… |
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Animated Bauer Power!
…that turned out! Produced by Flash animation content studio Icebox, the only drawback to all this is the length, with webisodes only running just over a minute in new content…. |
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Animated News Forum has moved
…associated with running the old boards we have decided to move the forum to the Animated News server. We don’t want to do advertising on the site or ask for… |
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Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
…progression we learn about Palpatine’s past, before we switch over to the regular channel surfing montage known to Robot Chicken. Revealing too much about the sketches will ruin the humor,… |
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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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Two \\Tintin\\ productions?
…[for the lead role in Spielberg’s version] are Rupert Grint (\\Harry Potter\\) and Jamie Bell (\\Billy Elliot\\). Elliot is said to be a favourite with the director, but ‘since he… |
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DVD Toons back online with major updates, including full Lion King 1½ review!
…a couple more reviews: Ben Simon’s rundown on {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/264 The Critic: The Entire Series}} praises the show and its recent DVD incarnation, while Ben also checks out the new… |
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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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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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Disney+ explores animated retellings of Marvel Cinematic Universe with What If…? trailer
…on the cast will be Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Sebastian Stan as… |
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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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Alias for sale?
…For a while you could only run their software on their SGI computers, but times has changed and you can run them on anything now. I’m surprised Apple hasn’t tried… |
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Arcane
…League of Legends, have now engaged in their most ambitious media project to date producing the animated series Arcane. Within the world of Runeterra, upon the continent of Valoran, there… |
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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… |
