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Alias and Blade Get Animated
…Animated Alias. The live–action cartoon trend started with The Animatrix,a series of animated shorts that ranged from realistic computer graphics to moody Japanese anime — telling side stories from The… |
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Thunderbirds trailer is Go!
…ultra-cool. Anyway, movie site {{link http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Movies&action=page&obj_id=40252&type_id=270285&cat_id=270338&sub_id=0# Cinescape}} alerts us to the fact that it’s now online – a CG packed live–action version of the classic “Supermarionette”-animated show from the 60s,… |
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Our Caspian coverage continues!
…a quick note today, but I wanted to squeeze in a mention of Sydney Pollack, the live–action director who passed away yesterday. Although he has very few links with the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…lot of interesting lighting and shading effects at work. Combined with the skillful assistance of live–action cinematographer Roger Deakins, it was one of the more amazing looking animated films. Believe… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…American atmospherics, with Cinderella an open attempt to create another Snow White), and a later move into live–action resulted in many franchises long before the term was coined. Even in… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…is “meh”. There really is no coherent plot in the traditional sense, with strict building blocks like rising action, climax, etc. The story is more a weird assemblage of things… |
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The Ten Commandments
…to action-oriented CG movies whose looks don’t come off much better than the kind of inter-level story sequences many high-end game titles enjoy (think the Final Fantasies in particular). I… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…current trend of revisiting Disney’s animated classics in live–action retellngs. It was even more of an enticement to hear that the film’s major principals, voice artists Mandy Moore and Zachary… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Master Shifu. The film was seen as the most complex that had ever been animated at DreamWorks. In wanting to capture the visual artistry evoked in the live–action martial arts… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…attention currently – by way of the original film’s fairly recent debut on Blu-ray, the stage musical adaptation and word of a Guy Ritchie live–action remake along this year’s Beauty… |
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The full Ghost in the Shell trailer is here
The action-packed full trailer for Ghost in the Shell is here, and can be viewed in the player below. The live–action remake of the classic Anime film opens everywhere March… |
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Kids' WB! fall season to debut three new cartoons
…Salad Island, and Johnny Test. For a preview of each read on! Loonitics Unleashed is an “action-comedy-adventure” series that features descendants of the Looney Tunes. After a meteor knocks Earth… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…even when the film was always destined to have been a solemn drama whether it was made in live–action or animation. I think the same scenario essentially applies to the… |
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DreamWorks lands Japanese film \\Casshern\\
…The film blends Japanimation and manga-inspired live action. DreamWorks says of the plot: “It is late in the 21st century. After 50 years of devastating war between Europa and the… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…and gives kids a bug’s-eye-view of the importance of getting along with others. LazyTown, a show popular with not only kids but parents as well, uses puppets, live action, and… |
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Biff! Pow! Zowie! Batman's coming back, and so is Freakazoid – and more!
…new promotion concentrating around action and comic books. Look for the Wachowski Brothers’ futuristic sci-fi thriller V For Vendetta on Blu-Ray Disc around May 20, with an In-Movie Experience, commentaries,… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…princess who rides on a glider and has an almost mystical relationship with nature. She lives in a time 1000 years after a devastating global event that left the planet… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…mega-budgeted version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, heralding the movies’ fascination with the works of Verne and a whole series of adaptations and knock-offs. Although Nemo, of course, had… |
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Latest Aladdin teaser reveals Will Smith’s Genie
“A thrilling and vibrant live–action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic, Aladdin is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie… |
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The full Mulan trailer is here
Disney launched the full trailer for their upcoming live–action remake of Mulan today, but unlike some of the studio’s other recent reboots, this one doesn’t look very similar to its… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…have actually taken Beauty and the Beast and converted it to 3D and we’ll see how that is received. I don’t believe all of live action is going to go… |
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New Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer
…the franchise by now: lots of giant robots and lots of explosions. The third live–action/animated film to be based off of the popular 80s cartoon series, Transformers: Dark of the… |
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Transformers, My Little Pony, and more to be featured at “Hascon” in 2017
…live interactive experiences, exclusive products, talent appearances, panels and much more. From bringing the first action figure to life with G.I. JOE, to creating a world where robots are truly… |
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Underdog revealed
…character of Underdog, Disney’s live–action adaptation of the 60’s cartoon. The site also hosts a screen capture from the movie, revealing the high-flying canine, voiced by Jason Lee, in action…. |
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The Blazing Dragons of Monty Python’s Terry Jones
…in a live–action adaption of The Wind in the Willows but, while the film was well received, it suffered from a lack of distribution support and was not widely seen…. |
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Composer Jerry Goldsmith has died
…as The Secret of NIMH, Mulan, Small Soldiers and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. Despite recovering from cancer, he continued to work through 2002-03 and still had projects ready to… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…Free Birds on time. Those efforts include the aforementioned Horton Hears A Who as well as his 2010 live–action endeavor, Jonah Hex – two dissimilar films that were received very… |
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Miyazaki’s first is revisted by a new contributor!
…in animation since it would have been prohibitively expensive to film in live action (and most probably beyond the ability of all but a few directors…it isn’t for nothing that… |
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The Tune Squad is back for more in the Space Jam: A New Legacy trailer
…this July. Welcome to the Jam! Basketball champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live–action event Space Jam: A… |
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11 Animated Movies Eligible for Oscar
…the animation category because it uses a brand new technique called performance capture, for which Tom Hanks and costars acted out their roles in live action, while technicians later converted… |
