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Ten films up for animated short film Oscar
…85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of… |
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UPDATED: Disney acquires Pixar
…a number of shares equal to 40% of the outstanding shares in favor of the transaction. The Disney Board was advised by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Bear, Stearns &… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…TV sketches to the big screen for And Now For Something Completely Different and the live account of their smash stage show Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl. “Proper”… |
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Let's start the week off with some new announcements…
…of live–action titles of note include the Being There: 30th Anniversary Edition (February 2, DVD $19.96 with featurette, BD $28.99 adds additional scenes, alternate ending, gag take), the Douglas Trumbull… |
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Cartoon Network Panels and Events Lineup for 2007 Comic-Con International
…Gym Partner’s a Monkey Saturday, July 28 · 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Carl Greenblatt, Chowder · 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Derrick Wyatt, Matt Youngberg, Marty Isenberg, Transformers Animated · 4:15… |
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Hey hey hey! It's Faaaaaat Albert
…show Saturday Night Live has been cast in the title role. “The film will start with animation, move into live–action and end in the animated world.” And in an additional… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…discs, the first “extra” we come across is a couple of generic TV On DVD promos from Columbia/TriStar (featuring that other short-lived, animation-inspired live–action show, The Tick among others). Our… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…in 2010. It is available on Blu-ray and DVD. Megamind Directed by Tom McGrath Release Date: November 5, 2010 “Girls, girls, you’re both pretty! Can I go home now?”… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…to crack the hold that live–action has on Best Picture. It’s going to have to be a truly unique film that breaks out from the animation ghetto (for that’s what… |
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Weekend wrap-up…
…heating up! Lastly, just before the weekend, we’ve got some light reading for you in the form of a pair’o new reviews. The live–action Disney take on Underdog got a… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…elements or kind of grand and broad elements, we would take winds or even strings. So, I think it’s a layered score that lives in this Western and Eastern environment…. |
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My nose ain't that big! Does Pinocchio's Platinum ring true or false?
…Alternate Ending), The Sweat Box (no, not Trudie Styler’s feature film, but a featurette on Walt’s projection room critiques, Live Action Reference Footage, Art Galleries, Deleted Songs (an actually pretty… |
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Nominations for the 93rd Oscars announced
…David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan • Tenet – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas Best live action short film • Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan… |
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Wizards
…prolific period (discounting the Paramount-funded live–action mix Cool World) to attracting children. That Wizards came out the week before a certain other sci-fi fantasy, Star Wars, also says as much… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…1996 which featured reasonable designs and animation, but was sapped of any real charm by drab live–action sequences and unconvincing new musical arrangements. There was also a Tiny Toons Adventures… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…is going to start seeing more live–action influences? Say it ain’t so! Monster House‘s mo-capped technique meant it never really stood an honest chance with voting animators, but the year… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
Walt Disney Productions / Walt Disney Home Entertainment (1937 / 2009) 84 mins plus supplements, 1.37:1, 5.1 Surround, Rated G, $30 – $250 The Movie: Is there anyone that has… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…Most amusing was the “pick a theme like movies about the sea” – do they realize just how long it would actually take to watch Finding Nemo and 20,000 Leagues… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…also like live–action ones, the parks, (and) the shorts, but to a lesser extent. So, it is not because the Disney stamp is on something that I necessarily fall for… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
When we think about Alice in Wonderland, it’s hard not to recall Walt Disney’s classic animated film. So, when making the live action sequel, the challenge for Tim Burton and… |
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Broken Saints (Original Release)
…many millions of hits, and a core base of over 20,000 fans worldwide. The story and the artwork also captured the attention of numerous journalists, who wrote articles for magazines… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
In 2015, the internet streaming channel Geek & Sundry introduced Critical Role, a live broadcast of Dungeons & Dragons gaming sessions played by well-known animation voice actors Matthew Mercer, Ashley… |
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Confirmation on this year's Walt Disney Treasures, and Real Ghostbusters!
…so here’s hoping that the additional “interview, tribute and Mickey Mouse Club episodes” bring some much needed bonus value to the collection. As perhaps the first true Disney-manufactured live–action breakout… |
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A Christmas Carol
…Forrest Gump, Contact, Cast Away and What Lies Beneath? In recent years he has thrown away the rough shot conditions of live–action and confined himself to The Volume, a hideously… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…the characters and some occasional shots, including a live–action shoot that is represented here by footage from the round-table reading of the script. While this doesn’t fix any problems –… |
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Marvel heroes to unite on stage
Deadline says that Marvel has signed a deal with Feld Entertainment (the company behind the Disney on Ice series) to bring their characters together in a live–action show called Marvel… |
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Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
Disney (2010), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (September 21, 2010), 2 discs (Blu-ray + DVD), 76 mins plus supplements, 16:9 ratio, DTS-MA 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: A well-meaning… |
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Mirrormask Trailer
…and dangerous Sphynxes. Her only hope to return home is to find the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power. The movie uses a mix of live action, stop motion, CG… |
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Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition
…Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0), Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Disney’s Robin Hood follows the traditional story of the famed English hero, but with all of the main characters… |
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Pixar Production Designer Harley Jessup “remembers” Coco
…Twice Upon A Time, an animated feature done in cutout paper. He went on to Lucasfilm to work as art director on several live action projects before joining Industrial light… |
