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Potter, Austen, de Vil…and lots of spots!
…offering background info on the era, and a healthy number of Deleted Scenes (all rightly cut; the film still runs long at two full hours) round out a decent bonus… |
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U.S. weekend box office estimates: April 21–23, 2006
Ice Age: The Meltdown continued its impressive run this past weekend, as recorded by Box Office Mojo. The sequel dropped an understandable 36.1%, falling to fourth place in its fourth… |
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What's New Scooby-Doo? The new Indy trailer, that's what!
…Blanchett does look great (but we knew that), the Ruskies look like they’re going to do the business as the bad guys, and that glimpse of the Roswell-branded container hints… |
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Hoodwinked DVD details
…MPAA Rating: PG Languages: English and French Subtitles: English and Spanish Running time: 81 minutes Catalog Numbers: 79109 – Widescreen 79119 – Fullscreen Screen Format: 16X9 Widescreen (1.78:1) Closed Captioned… |
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The Barbie™ Diaries DVD details
…Captioned: Yes Spanish Availability: Spanish 2.0 Audio Format: Family Friendly Widescreen (1.66:1) Feature Running Time: 70 Minutes DVD Audio Status: 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio, 2.0 Audio Barbie Diaries DVD Box… |
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Richie, Scooby, Caspian, Boba Fett…all in the same post!
…making the impossible seem possible in big motion picture making! Lastly, I just wanted to squeeze in another mention of the Elstree Film Festival 3 that I’ve been running this… |
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El Capitan roundup
…opening night (which technically begins on June 8 at 11:59pm). Then from July 7 to September 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest enjoys a lengthy, two-month, swashbuckling run…. |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
…a duo of Filmation favorites in the mix at Contest Corner, running until the end of this week. We’ll be back to our regular site updates soon, so stay tooned!… |
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Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!
…favorites. Those contests will run through the holidays and we’ll name the lucky winners next year – see I can say that now! Stay tooned, and we’ll catch’ya in the… |
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AOD: San Francisco Animation Convention coming this August
…Shigeru Aoba in Neon Genesis Evangelion, among many other successful and exciting roles. • Mr. Yune, also known as “Yoonie,” has been working for over a decade in the animation… |
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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…fans due to completing the original series run and the ten episode/two adventure block commonly referred unofficially as season two. Though the series did slide after these episodes, there are… |
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Layout of Disney/Pixar merger meeting; Disney throwing away junk food
Jim Hill Media provides a rundown of the minutes from last Friday’s short meeting at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, where Pixar stockholders approved Disney’s merge with the computer… |
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Dumbo flaps at the El Cap
Yahoo! Finance gives all the details on the previously mentioned run of Dumbo at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre from May 25 to June 7. Each screening during the two-week engagement… |
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A pair o'Pixar reviews!
…congrats to Anita McCarl, who wins a copy of Volume 2! Finally today, with the Thanksgiving weekend upon us, I’d urge you all to run out and catch Disney’s Enchanted… |
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Pixar culture blending into Disney animation
…The article likewise hints of traditional animation surfacing once more at the studio, with Disney Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs commenting it “is definitely not something we would rule out.”… |
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Indiana Jones and the really slow and talky blockbuster…
…of my previous concerns seem to have been justified and that I ultimately found the film to be an inevitable disappointment – not badly made, but just unexpectedly run of… |
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Early preview of Disney's \\Meet the Robinsons\\
…Rob Thomas and Rufus Wainwright compose original songs for the soundtrack.” pictured left to right: Aunt Petunia and Uncle Fritz, Cousin Tallulah, Cousin Lazslo, Uncle Art, Uncle Gaston, Uncle Joe… |
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The Amazing Screw-On Head
…short run-time for the main feature, Lionsgate decided to spring for offering two visual presentations of The Amazing Screw-On Head. You may therefore choose from the pan & scan 4:3… |
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Oswald on Disney's website
…Disney.com: Just a quick follow-up on your Oswald article – Disney has actually had several Oswald pages running since the acquisition. You can check them out here: This is the… |
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APRIL FOOL'S DAY – AOL Acquires Animated News
…run the website. About Animated News, Inc. Animated News, with bureaus stretching from California to London, is one of the internet’s premier sources for daily animation news. The Animated News… |
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The Gremlins
…Kremlin became Russian Rhapsody. Both of these cartoons are great fun, featuring the typical Clampett wackiness. They also feature designs that do appear very similar to the Dahl/Disney versions, complete… |
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Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
I still have a big silly smile on my face from a rerun of Road To Rupert, the frankly excellent episode of Family Guy that I saw again last night… |
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Disney to end Adventures
Advertising Age reports that the Disney Adventures magazine will halt its run following the November issue. The site discloses that Disney Publishing is making this move “to better focus resources… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…He’s a hitherto unknown name in American animation, but was a genuine legendary pioneer of stop-motion in Britain, famous for his many long-running animated series that would inspire the likes… |
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Cost-cutting, Hollywood style…
…he work out who he was? Didn’y Matt Damon say no? Didn’t they run out of books?). Kennedy/Marshall began laying off staff last week, though will remain involved in the… |
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The Bart Ultimatum
…solid launches of $5 million in Russia and $3 million in Brazil plus respectable Euro holdover biz — has continued to show impressive traction overseas. International cume is $270 million,… |
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David Michael Maurer speaks with Pixar's Jeff Pidgeon
On “The Filmschool Podcast,” Emmy-winning editor and filmmaker David Michael Maurer interviews Pixar story animator and voice actor Jeff Pidgeon (both Toy Story films, Monsters, Inc.). With a running time… |
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The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series
…TV Funnies. Those segments weren’t too great either, but at least Dick got to do some of the work himself. It was rumored that film Roman was looking at the… |
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Looney Tunes meets Gargoyles…what's up, doc!?
…enjoy, including a disc full of propaganda wartime shorts, a visit back to Looney Tunes black and white beginnings for some early years goodness and a final run through of… |
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Hollywood Reporter goes Wild with review
…Nigel: Eddie Izzard Bridget: Janeane Garofalo Kazar: William Shatner Larry: Richard Kind Ryan: Greg Cipes MPAA rating G Running time – 85 minutes – Source: Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter… |
