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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…current live–action hit, The Prestige. When the owners of the house (also Roddy’s caretakers) leave for vacation, he is left alone with nothing but the companionship of a kids’ non-animated… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…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 computer… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…the Mission (as in Impossible) scene, though one assumes it’s intended as a gift to Ellie. Headbutters is an action moment which might have been quite exciting, with Buck saving… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…our lives. STORY: Barney and his friends have grown apart over the years since elementary school, with their online lives seemingly subsuming their real lives in a race to create… |
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Scooby-Doo celebrated in Boomerang marathon
…on CBS in 1969, and over the course of 36 years has spawned multiple animated TV series spin-offs, feature-length television movies, direct-to-video motion pictures and even a blockbuster live–action theatrical… |
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Meet the flockers: the Animated-News Valiant review
…including the part-live–action Dinosaur, while co-pro pacts with other studios will boost their profiles and help Disney secure even more of the market. Valiant, a lower-than-usual budgeted adventure, picked up… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…this new Oz film was a glint in a franchise producer’s eye, fans will want to jump to the excellent featurette Walt Disney And The Road To Oz (10:20), which… |
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Thundarr The Barbarian: The Complete Series
Ruby-Spears (1980), Warner Archive (September 28, 2010), 4 discs, 462 mins, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, Not Rated, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: An impulsive barbarian, a beautiful… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…live–action actors in Animatronic suits. Now since apparently forgotten, Pooh Corner was a charming show that followed on from the last of the animated Pooh featurettes and kept the childlike… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…as Enchanted brought in 35 million dollars. The hybrid, which contains hand-drawn animation as well as live action, marks a partial return to traditional animation by the Disney studio, and… |
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The Invincible Iron Man
…over the past few years, and who could blame them. Their live action films have been blockbusters more often than not, gaining the Marvel characters more fans in the cinema… |
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Kung Fu Panda premeir
…Also screening at the festival will be the highly anticipated live–action sequel Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. More information concerning the festival can be found here…. |
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Ariel’s Song: Tony Pulham, a fortunate art director under the sea!
…Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning? TP: I sat with the director, Peggy Holmes, and she pitched me the whole story. Peggy comes from a live–action background, and she’s a choreographer, so she… |
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Classic Filmation Giveaway – Winner Announced!
…TX! Congratulations…your DVDs will be with you shortly. Stay tooned for more contests and giveaways from Animated Views! • The Secrets Of Isis is the classic 1975 live–action series that… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…a Promotional Presentation (12:33) for the film, which has voiceover by Lou Scheimer and a number of clips from the movie. The black-and-white Live Action Footage For Rotoscoping (0:52) also… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…the enormous popularity of the cartoons, the strip was hugely successful and made him wealthy. A 1936 magazine article placed his annual income at $400,000. The comic strip was taken… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…had got an MBA from Harvard when Disney hired me into Finance and Strategy Planning. I did work for different divisions of the company like the Disney Channel, live–action films… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…earlier live–action Sherlock film for a couple of lines of Holmes’ dialogue, though Rathbone himself had also featured in a Disney film, narrating the Mr Toad segment in The Adventures… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
Warner Bros. (2005), Warner Home Video (March 20, 2007), 2 discs, 299 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The Justice League,… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…an animated film, though live action films have been doing it for years (even as far back as MGM’s heyday, though Galaxy Quest comes most recently to mind). The actual… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
Filmation Associates (September 12 1970), BCI Eclipse (October 24 2006), 3 disc set, 352 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $29.98… |
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A Scanner Darkly
…Richard Linklater chose to use a similar rotoscoping process that he used in his previous effort Waking Life. A Scanner Darkly was entirely filmed in live–action first, with the actors… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight
…pretty darn sharp, and definitely offers suggestions for the upcoming live action version. The redesign that I found most disorienting was that of Kanjar Ro, who is now more alien… |
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M. Night Shyamalan's take on The Last Airbender
The Sixth Sense director told Coming Soon! about his plans for the live action adaptation of the Nickelodeon cartoon, which is set in a world that’s divided up into elemental… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary – Winner!
A timeless classic inspired by Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, Oliver & Company is a fun-filled, action-packed musical adventure voiced and sung by one of the most talented casts in… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…screen live–action Batman adventure currently in development, Warner Bros. Television Animation once again shows how they’ve been getting it right for years. Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman is a direct-to-video… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…answer is so obvious today. Scooby is everywhere. The Great Dane has never been more popular, being seen in new TV shows, two live action films, several direct-to-video features, and… |
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Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Mesmer Classics 1919-1924
Pat Sullivan Productions (1919-1924), Bosko Video/Image Entertainment (April 20, 1999), single disc, 119 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $9.99 Storyboard:… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…She lives in a time 1000 years after a devastating global event that left the planet severely polluted. Humanity seems to be in its last days, as a poisonous jungle… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…and so their first offering in feature animation was the live–action combo Space Jam, in 1996, which had a good third of its animation completed at Warners’ UK Studio in… |
