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Meet Madame Tutli-Putli and one of her directors!
…you’ll enjoy meeting them – and Madame Tutli-Putli – too! Have a great weekend, and we’ll be back with more updates – and a lot of Dalmatians – from Monday,… |
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Exodus Film Group takes on Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo
…to the industry buzz surrounding Exodus’ first CGI film Igor, which is still in production and scheduled for a 2007 theatrical release. All three films come from Exodus’ $50 million… |
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Enchanted
…coupled with the decent track, is good value, running 3:30 in letterboxed 4:3 video. The only thing marring it is that the animated shots have been framed at the 2.40:1… |
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Poll finds Bambi most beloved Disney animated film
…and the Seven Dwarfs (20%), Cinderella (12%), “Other” (9%), The Lion King (8%), Beauty and the Beast (7%), The Little Mermaid (5%) and Fantasia (4%). Pinocchio, Peter Pan and One… |
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Snow White DVD re-release coming in 2008?
…As the site notes, Disney’s schedule for Platinum Edition releases remains the same worldwide. Concurrently, it appears One Hundred and One Dalmatians has been moved from winter 2007, as it… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
Please, welcome… The King of Cute! Well, animator Dave Pruiksma, of course! A title that seems particularly appropriate in that over the past 20 years Pruiksma has been cast on… |
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Giveaway winners, plus our Academy Award contest!
…contest here at Animated News & Views, and our biggest one yet: we have over $200 worth of classic Disney DVDs amounting to no less than ten movies, including Sleeping… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…Dalmatians but here, rather than a shortcut or statement in style, it’s actual production design. It’s not always successful: some of the rougher lines sometimes look as if they’re over… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…to drag a little in the Uncle Albert section, and the animation may be of the rougher, 1960s Xerox-look that defined One Hundred And One Dalmatians and The Sword In… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
Walt Disney Productions (1971), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (September 8, 2009), 1 disc, 140 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: An amateur… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…They feel there would be no sales. It’s not worth $25,000 per cartoon to restore each cartoon and release a set of 60 or 90 cartoons. That’s cost prohibitive. They’re… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…animation veterans who had been doing this stuff for some 20 or 30 or 30 years. You can’t discount that experience and they helped me immensely. So I try in… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…commercials in that series were the best and demonstrated a beautiful sense of storytelling even in a short form like a 30-second television commercial. My Listerine commercial, called “Arrows”, won… |
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Enchanted's Kevin Lima and Chris Chase on their fairytale moviemaking experience – exclusive!
…such as 102 Dalmatians and a pair of Eloise movies for television. Chris then remarks about how they teamed up for Enchanted, finally bringing a long on the shelf project… |
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Kevin Lima gets Enchanted
Variety [paid registration required], via Coming Soon, indicates that Kevin Lima (Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians) will helm the romantic fable Enchanted, a mixed live-action and computer animated feature from Walt Disney… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, and Fantasia 2000. In the mid-90’s he became President of Feature Animation at Warner Bros., overseeing the award-winning animated feature… |
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Jim Rygiel to direct Bunyan And Babe; first look at Igor
…He was also the visual effects director on 102 Dalmatians, Anna and the King, Star Trek: Insurrection, and The Parent Trap. Rygiel is represented by Jon Levin at CAA. Bunyan… |
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A Goofy Movie
…direction. Another “backroom boy” at Disney’s, Lima has risen from character designer on The Little Mermaid (1989) to director of Tarzan (1999), the live-action sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000) and supervising… |
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Long wait for Cats And Dogs 2?
{{link http://www.moviehole.net/news/3726.html Moviehole}} is reporting that the sequel to the surprise 2001 hit Cats And Dogs, originally to have been directed by Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians),… |
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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…have found your way around the site (some of us are still lost!) and worked out the general gist. We’ve added around 30 new and archival reviews, and Randall has… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…Hundred And One Dalmatians, The AristoCats and Peter Pan among them, along with Superman: The Movie, and its these early viewings that I put down to my life-long appreciation of… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…The Stone, One Hundred And One Dalmatians, Jungle Book, AristoCats – and it’s already happened to Robin Hood – will all come out again in their “original theatrical aspect ratios”…. |
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Ratatouille
…in, you know you’re in good, masterful hands. In fact, I started enjoying myself so much that 40 minutes had passed before I realised 40 minutes had passed and I… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
Walt Disney Television Animation/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 20 2007), single disc, 44 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Not Rated (Canadian G), Retail: $26.99 Storyboard:… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
Walt Disney Pictures (August 3 2007), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 18 2007), single disc, 82 mins plus supplements, 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 pan-and-scan crop, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround,… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…bringing to this film other than a slight hint of 20,000 Leagues-era Peter Lorre to it? Rand: Well, basically, that’s the Don Bluth character that inserts itself into the film…. |