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Walden Media to develop Housebroken
…same roof when the two halves of the couple that owns them moves in together. Housebroken will combine CG and live action in the manner of such Walden films as… |
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Disney to buy Lucasfilm; New Star Wars trilogy of movies on the way
…new trilogy of live–action Star Wars films, with the first to come in 2015. Kathleen Kennedy–a woman behind a seemingly endless number of blockbusters–will serve as Lucasfilm’s new president, and… |
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Watch Jungle Book stars Bill Murray and Neel Sethi sing The Bare Necessities
The live–action remake of The Jungle Book may not be a musical, but that doesn’t mean that Disney isn’t going to use some of the animated classic’s songs when doing… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…would have to manually reenter scores and records every week of the season! I eventually moved up to Vic-20, a TRS-80, and finally a Mac. Like Olivier, I got hooked… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
ASIFA Hollywood has announced the nominees for the 46th Annual Annie Awards. Besides movies, the awards also recognize animated achievements in television, live actions films, video games, advertising, shorts, and… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…along with two television films (The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Rockin’ With Judy Jetson) and one theatrical film (Jetsons: The Movie). A rumored live–action film is also in development and… |
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Manimal Gets CGI Treatment
Riding on the success of live–action/CGI movie The Smurfs, Sony has plans to make a sequel and they also plan to adapt puppet show sitcom Alf. If that was not… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…on the right. Also of note is the recent news that Enchanted director Kevin Lima will stay in the animation/live–action combo world for Warners’ long-delayed remake of their 1964 Don… |
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Rick And Morty: Rickmancing The Stone
…was before, it may even actually be better. It’s hard to think of any comedy series, live–action or animated, which has managed to maintain such a level of an insane… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…the first bonus feature on Disc 2, Forging The Frame: The Roots Of Animation 1900-1920 (31:00). Filmmakers and animators like Terry Gilliam and Ray Harryhausen are joined by animation historians… |
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The Smurfs 2
…Most of the film is in decent taste. Director Raja Gosnell—– (also known for the Scooby-Doo live action features and Beverly Hills Chihuahua) returns for this film, showing his usual… |
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Family Guy breaks Emmy glass ceiling with Best Comedy Series nod
For only the second time in history, an animated TV show has been nominated for a Best Comedy Series Emmy Award alongside the live action counterparts. After being canceled a… |
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Reviewing the World Of Tomorrow
…such names as Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie in the live–action cast. Even more so than other recent fare, everything else in the film is computer generated, which… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…as done by the South Korean studio. Much less substantial is the four-second CG Test For Hogepodge Monster (0:04), while it is nice to see the 2010 Comic-Con Teaser Trailer… |
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Eloise actress Mouser honored with KIDS FIRST! award
…to educate young people to become critical media users and to promote quality children’s media. The KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival stages more than 10,000 film screenings annually for… |
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Joe Barbera, RIP
…in the 1980’s, but competition was much fiercer and in 1990 Hanna-Barbera was sold to Turner Broadcasting. The 90’s saw Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and The Powerpuff Girls produced under… |
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New Detective Pikachu TV spot introduces more Pokemon
…together through the neon-lit streets of Ryme City—a sprawling, modern metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side in a hyper-realistic live–action world—they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon… |
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The Red Turtle
…lush animation, produced in France and Belgium, lives up to the term—this world is simple, but extremely alive. The bamboo trees, the birds, and the sea all move continuously, bringing… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…“I’m happy to say that, especially having seen it, you know, some 400-500 times over the course of the last three years. The very last session we had with it,… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…Life Adventures styled wildlife films, this one following a year in the lives of animals who live in the extreme climates of our world. The Sweatbox Review: There’s something very… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…epic vision to life. Matthias was born in 1970 in Mannheim, Germany. He spent his youth in an idyllic south-German setting. In 1990, he moved to Hamburg to find his… |
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Korra of the Water Tribe: Sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender
…world quite different from Aang’s time. The live action movie from M. Night Shyamalan did not fair well in reviews, but here’s hoping this animated sequel will live up to… |
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Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details
…Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records, while Disney Theatrical Group produces and licenses live events, including Broadway theatrical productions, Disney on Ice and Disney LIVE! For more information, visit disney.com…. |
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The Little Mermaid grab bag #3: Two press releases
…lives along the coast, while many others visit the ocean each year. Yet, few Americans are aware that the health of our oceans is currently at risk; nor do they… |
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Mewtwo is unleashed in new Detective Pikachu trailer
…by side in a hyper-realistic live–action world—they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon characters and uncover a shocking plot that could destroy this peaceful co-existence and threaten the whole Pokémon… |
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Up
…live a much more ordinary, but still happy, life. When Carl is about to be forcibly moved from the house he and his wife lived in for decades, he decides… |
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Animation legend Dale Baer passes away at 70
…Jerry: The Move, and an episode of the Disney series Quack Pack. Baer briefly worked on live–action features as his studio provided the animation for the Whiskers character in the… |
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The (Re)Birth Of The Pink Panther
In a very expected move (it’s been rumored for months), Ghostbusters and Evolution director Ivan Reitman has been announced by MGM as responsible for continuing the Pink Panther live–action movie… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…left for darker comic book fare, leaving Freakazoid! itself to become more broad, moving away from the action and towards the sometimes downright bizarre. The first season of the show… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…their theatrical animated shorts units down, reasoning that they could recycle the previous 20-30 years’ worth of cartoons already produced for theatrical reissue or television distribution. The Disney Studio mostly… |
