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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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\\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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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…line rules all: no doubt the companies were eager to quash the rumors as nothing more than speculation fodder in the run up to their joint production Flushed Away hitting… |
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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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Bedtime Stories
…allow Sandler’s character’s niece and nephew’s imaginations to apparently run riot in his private life. Its main failing are the incessant attempts to take the story in various directions, but… |
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Ruben Aquino Talks: Interview with Brother Bear Animator
Kristin has alerted us to an interview at Out Now! with Ruben Aquino, supervising animator of Denahi for Disney’s Brother Bear, who has also worked on such Disney classics as… |
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The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season
…stop hounding the man he considered to be his sworn enemy— Dr. Rusty Venture. (Rusty, meanwhile, remained somewhat ambivalent about The Monarch.) There was a big hullabaloo, what with Dr…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two
…Mice – retains his small size in The Barnyard Battle, which almost runs as a precursor to such later films as The Brave Little Tailor, and is joined again by… |
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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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Bolt
…cut short by a stray boom mic being caught in shot – something that could ruin the illusion for the show’s star actor, Bolt himself, who thinks this is all… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…a continuous loop, the final The Way You Are isn’t anything too out of the ordinary as in syndication it could have been placed anywhere in the run. Even though,… |
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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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Minions: The Rise of Gru pushed back an entire year
Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru has been pushed back…again. The movie has been pushed back an entire year, and will now open on July 1st, 2022. It had originally… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…producer. From 1997-2001, he acted as show runner for The Simpsons, leading it through Seasons 9-12. But he hasn’t just been confined to their colorful world, and Scully has also… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…been on television. In only the last 5 -7 years have they stopped running these old classic cartoons on TV. Some of them are still on Boomerang, or here and… |
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More unannounced DreamWorks animation in the pipeline: Chicken Run 2?
…updated news on several other new DreamWorks properties, including Space Monkeys and Chicken Run 2, read on here: Two other projects registered, The Shadow Project (a mix of live-action and… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…to mention growing concerns with his health, meant that he spent less and less time in the animation department, which was becoming an expensive operation to run. “You know,” he… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…it must help set up (to an extent) the happenings of this summer’s The Dark Knight. This meant a particular set of rules for the story segments: no appearances by… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…see it for the first time. Disney had apparently “run out” of first-run features to release on home video and was seen to be scraping the barrel with this release…. |
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Mad Monster Party
…restored and results truly show – the Party has never been this popping! A childhood favorite, and run, run and re-run on my now tatty VHS, I was pleased that… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…Kingdom… You have been warned! The Sweatbox Review: When DreamWorks Animation’s long rumored push into television animation was announced as being in the pipeline for real, a lot of eyebrows… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…required for an 18fps speed. Given the footage length of The Lost World, the same 75 minutes, run at the slower 18fps, would indeed correctly run to the exact Eastman… |
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Madagascar 2 IMAX run extended
Latino Review reports that the IMAX run of the upcoming Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has been extended. The film will now run into December, including the Thanksgiving holiday season, which… |
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Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows giveaway contest
…six Toa Metru encounter strange and dangerous new foes, including the spidery Visorak, when they go back to the island city of Metru Nui to fulfill their duty. Packed with… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…hoho!). Blade Runner, The Thing, Conan, Annie, Poltergeist, The Dark Crystal and countless others (including the bonkers but oddly brilliant Q: The Winged Serpent and, deservedly, the misguided Grease 2)… |
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17 years later, The Lion King still rules
…the big screen for only two weekends, but given the massive success that its found, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if Disney were to decide to extend its run…. |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…independent producer in the 1960s, hitting it big with Ken Russell’s infamous Women In Love, with Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. He made his directorial debut with Watership… |
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Captain America (1990)
…has the best live-action Captain America costume. Of course, one has to look past the, uh… rubber ears. Yes, rubber ears. The costume people couldn’t grasp how to make the… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…in 2,552 theaters and collected $40.9 million, achieving the record for biggest opening of an animation film. By the end of its run in spring 1995, the film had earned… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…sets up its story and runs with it, providing economic storytelling coupled with quality animated slapstick and wit. The animation has clearly been advanced from what was achievable when the… |
