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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…rule of staying with his protagonist all the way through his stories. Most of the time he’s right! AV: Was director Simon Wells already involved with Mars Needs Moms? BH… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…Creature Feature: low-budget movies about giant freaks of nature running rampage through big cities, or unthawed dinosaurs running rampage through big cities, or robot monsters on the loose…running rampage through… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken opens
DreamWorks’ Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is now playing in 3,400 theatres, according to The Numbers. The film is just staying afloat with the critics, earning a 58% score from Rotten… |
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2016 Los Angeles Comic Con Exclusive
…The Brain had run for President in this year’s election he would’ve won. This led to them touching upon mentioning a lost episode that they did record, but was never… |
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Netflix announces cast and first look for animated feature My Father’s Dragon
…the Newbery-honored children’s book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett. Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer (Jacob Tremblay) runs away in search of Wild… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…in, though topical cuts were made to remove a black centaur that was a clear racial stereotype. This cut removed the original intermission segments to run the film through in… |
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\\Rudolph\\ airs tonight in HD
The perennial holiday classic \\Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\\ airs tonight at 8pm ET on CBS. And, unlike the false reports last year, it \\will\\ air for the very first time… |
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Rumors abound for Disney, Fox projects
…Horton Hears Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Town Crier), Josh Flitter (Rudy) and Joey King (Katie), says the IMDB. Likewise, the same database states Bernie Mac, Woody Harrelson, Bruce Greenwood and Liv Hutchings… |
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Brizzi brothers meet Ruby Tuesday
The Hollywood Reporter via Reuters finds that brothers Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi will write and direct the animated movie Ruby Tuesday. Including twelve songs from the Rolling Stones, the project… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…and Joe Barbera’s MGM careers that it was labelled as a Rudolf Ising production. Hanna and Barbera had been at the MGM studio by this time for a few years,… |
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AMPAS revises Oscar's animated feature definition
…some movies. The previous rule stated that “An animated feature film is defined as a motion picture created using a frame-by-frame technique of at least 70 minutes in running time… |
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Shrek 3, Bambi and the Great Prince, and Rapunzel casting ruminations
…Teulan (the upcoming Great Raid) has landed the role of Rumplestiltskin in Shrek 3. Meanwhile, young actor Anthony Ghannam (Kronk’s New Groove) has been cast as the voice of Ronno… |
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Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1
…Rudolph Ising. Harmon and Ising were early associates of Walt Disney in his Kansas City days, and they continued with him on the Oswald and Alice series when Walt moved… |
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A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa
…material or deleted scenes being inserted back into the special, the running time has been upped by creating around ten minutes of space between the proper ending of the program… |
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Russian Despicable Me poster
A new Russian poster for Universal Pictures’ animated Despicable Me has just been revealed on the internet. It features supervillain Gru sitting on a platform of some sort while surrounded… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…$26.98 Storyboard: The immortal cat and mouse’s career is snapshot in this ultimately disappointing collection of shorts and episodes from their long running feud. The Sweatbox Review: Right up front… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…the freedom of his also kidnapped girlfriend, Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford, who had previously played a similar role opposite Mickey Rooney in his Andy Hardy series) and his radio sponsor’s… |
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Russian TMNT poster
Kinoguru.com has the Russian one-sheet for TMNT. The image reveals the Ninja Turtles readying for action against a surrounding army of menacing villains…. |
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Mickey And The Roadster Racers
…bouncy songs, and goofy comedy. Though it “officially” ran for four seasons, various TV specials kept the show going for more than a decade, making it Disney’s longest running cartoon… |
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Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume One
…first effort was The Ruff And Reddy Show; new Ruff and Reddy segments, running alongside older Columbia cartoons, began in December 1957. This was all well and good, but Hanna… |
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Restoring Rankin/Bass' Rudolph and Santa
The New York Times covers the history of two Rankin/Bass puppets of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus. Crafted from wood, felted wool and wire, the figures were created… |
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Shrek Forever After
…nauseatingly sweet birthday party, Shrek finally loses it. Rumpelstiltskin, a huckster with a grudge who specializes in magical transactions that always come with strings attached, offers to let Shrek experience… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…set of the complete Flip series, thanks to Thunderbean – that little operation based out of Michigan and run by cartoon mensch Steve Stanchfield. But who is Flip the Frog?… |
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Court to rule on whether park rides are "public transportation"
The California Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling that holds Disneyland “to the same passenger safety requirements as operators of buses, trains, taxi cabs, escalators and ski lifts”… |
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Irn Bru spoofs The Snowman
Cartoon Brew points to a hilarious but controversial Irn Bru commercial. Hosted at YouTube, the recent advertisement for Scotland’s #1 soft drink spoofs the beloved Holiday classic The Snowman. Concurrently,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…This short, based on a book, introduces the dreamer kid Rusty, who has a love of vehicles. Rusty would return in better cartoons over the next couple of years, as… |
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Tombstone
…critical (winning Best Picture and other accolades) and commercial success suggesting that there was still gold in them thar hills. A slate of new, contemporary westerns were rushed into production,… |
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RumpelDeals revealed, Pied Piper posted
DreamWorks has two new videos and a website out to promote the upcoming Shrek Forever After. First up is an viral-type infomercial posted at Trailer Addicts starring Rumpelstiltskin. In it… |
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Fantasia will amaze ya: full details
…Museum (running time: approx. 5 minutes) – Walt’s daughter Diane Disney-Miller takes viewers on a tour of the new Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, California featuring a very large… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…behind the Imax edition and how many of the film’s scenes were achieved. It would have been great to have been able to run this against the workprint, but it… |
