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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle trailer promises a darker tale
…last October, but was picked up from Warner Bros. by Netflix over the summer. The movie will still get a limited theatrical run on November 29th, presumably at least in… |
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The Grinch steals $66 million
…a jolly $66 million, and could be in for a very strong run as the holiday season arrives. Though it split the critics, audiences liked what they saw, giving The… |
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DreamWorks playing "stand off" with Disney/Pixar again?
First it was the battle of the bugs, then we got not one but two asteroids-heading-to-Earth flicks, two Latin-American set comedies, and a couple of mythical monsters in the running… |
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The first Kim Possible teaser trailer is here
…its title character in action, and also hints at the lighthearted tone the film will be going for (as a side note, there’s no Rufus in sight!). Kim Possible premieres… |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
…happening to him when he then stumbles upon a secret laboratory run by the crime lord Wilson Fisk, better known as The Kingpin. Chaos ensues and just when things have… |
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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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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…CZ: The stories of the main characters, Gene (the emoji) and Alex (the human), run in parallel. They are influencing each other and at the same time they belong to… |
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Endgame passes $600 million mark stateside, $2.1 billion globally in second weekend
…all time globally, behind only James Cameron’s Avatar. And you read that right, the film has already sunk Titanic (sorry, we had to). At this point, it’s easy to run… |
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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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UPDATED: Aladdin flies to a whole new world at box office
…of $139 million…and that’s not even its “full” take going by today’s rules, as At World’s End had Thursday night preview shows that were not counted into its weekend numbers… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…your own background? AL: I grew up in Florida. I was born in Miami Beach. My grandmother was Hungarian. My father came from Russian descent. And that was where I… |
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Director Juan Antin talks about Pachamama on Netflix
…film. Those research trips took us to Bolivia and Peru, always in contact with indigenous communities. and we learned more about the culture of Pachamama, which is still very vivid… |
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Godzilla stomps softer than expected
As was anticipated, Godzilla: King of the Monsters ruled over the box office this weekend, but his stomp was softer than many thought it would be at $49 million, Box… |
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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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The Breadwinner
…day-to-day, as food and money run out. Parvana’s older brother has been killed, and her younger brother is still a baby, so there is no male to go out and… |
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Justice League Action – Superpowers Unite: Season One, Part One
…Superhero Squad, so why not give a DC kiddie show a chance? And hence we have Justice League Action, a series whose stories run only a quarter-hour, keeping the conflicts… |
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Spies in Disguise
…Disguise ruffled my feathers, but in reality the entire thing together is good enough, especially for kids. If only the filmmakers had just embraced what they had though (a fun… |
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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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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…could be. While it would add to the running time, there’s a good deal that should have been retained here (including contact from Spielberg himself) instead of the focus on… |
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Kristen Bell implies that Frozen 2 might be a long way off
…in for a long wait. “They are not rushing the script,” Bell said. They have the luxury to not rush because everyone is going to be excited whether it comes… |
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\\Sesame Street\\ actors make news
Two actors on PBS’ long running children’s show \\Sesame Street\\ are in the news this week. {{link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118125,00.html FOX News}} reports that Alison Bartlett, who has played Gina on the… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…seasons, I guess I’m in until the end! By then, the Adventure Time crew will have produced enough episodes to run continuously for nearly three days. The mind fairly boggles…. |
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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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The Animated News Haunted Mansion Mini-Review
…Scooby Doo: a group of run-of-the-mill suburbanites get trapped in a haunted house and find they all have a mystery to solve; they split up into various groups, find different… |
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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 new Despicable Me 3 trailer is here
…next summer. The team who brought you Despicable Me and the biggest animated hits of 2013 and 2015, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, returns to continue the adventures of Gru,… |
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My Little Pony: The Movie may be longer than many Disney movies
IMDB has (apparently) revealed the running time for the upcoming My Little Pony: The Movie, and it’s a lot longer than many might have expected, clocking it at nearly an… |
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The Boss Baby
…one of those films meant to appeal to adults on another level. That said, there’s no rule that says movies just for kids can’t be really well made. So let’s… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…animated by the Feature Animation crowd) and the long-running Kim Possible, probably the last Disney TV series I had any real interest in. Yes, there has been an explosion of… |
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Cars 3
…the dissonance between Cars 2 and its predecessor was intolerable. So that brings us the third installment of the franchise. Is this one stuck in a rut, best in class,… |
