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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…it.. The animation on the show is vibrant and features character designs that are very reminiscent of the original special. The movie has a total running time of 25 minutes…. |
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Madagascar 3 gets trailer, title
The first teaser trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Madagascar sequel has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. The movie also has an official subtitle now: Europe’s Most Wanted. The… |
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Cloudy With a Chance of… sequels?
Sony Pictures Animation is apparently moving forward with a sequel to their 2009 animated hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, ComingSoon.net is reporting. Although the project has yet to… |
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Disney’s Snow Queen still happening after all?
…forward with the film, giving it the new title Frozen and setting it up for a Thanksgiving 2013 release date. It’s unknown what format the animation would be done in–or… |
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Bambi Added to the National Film Registry
…was added: Bambi and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s 1972 film A Computer Animated Hand, one of the earliest 3D animation films. The film is one minute long and goes through… |
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Producer Guild Nominations announced
…Puss in Boots, Cars 2 and Rango. Curiously absent from the nominations was Aardman Animation’s Arthur Christmas, which had a “freshness” rating of more than 90% over at the movie… |
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The Lion King Director Signs on for The Prophet
Here’s a project that has several big Hollywood names and animation veterans tied to it or at least the story development phase. The film in question will be based off… |
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PIPA, SOPA, and Animated Views
…reviews about the animation industry. Keep us and other websites from disappearing like the first animated movie ever created. Cartoon Brew, has a video explaining PIPA and SOPA in great… |
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Pirates drops leprosy joke after complaints
According to Deadline, Aardman Animation will be changing a scene shown in the trailer for The Pirates! Band Of Misfits after complaints from leprosy groups. The scene in question featured… |
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Me & My Shadow cast set
…animation film is being directed by Alessandro Carloni (head of story How to Train Your Dragon), with a screenplay by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember based on a draft… |
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New Clip from Justice League: Doom
Attention true believers, oh wait! That’s the wrong comic giant reference. Anyway, while DC Animated Universe fans waiting with baited breath for the newest release from Warner Brothers Animation: Justice… |
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Real Steel
…well realized animation effects. A combination of Animatronics and Digital Domain’s visual effects, the robots of Real Steel really make the movie, although from a story point of view, it… |
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Rango wins at BAFTA’s
…British Academy Film Awards. The Special Visual Effects award went to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, while A Morning Stroll took home the award for Short Animation…. |
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New Rise of the Guardians poster
A brand new poster for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Rise of the Guardians has just found its way to Bleeding Cool. Unlike the film’s teaser poster, this one features a good… |
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North American Premiere of China’s The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven
…by Wan Laiming and produced by his brothers. The film is a classic in Chinese animation and will be restored frame by frame and presented in 3-D. Is based off… |
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Two New DreamWorks Films: Rise of the Guardians and The Croods
Animated films usually coincide with large toy lines, especially if they come from one of the major animation studios. DreamWorks premiered images from two of their upcoming films, Rise of… |
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The Secret World of Arrietty opens
…Ghibli film was originally released in Japan in 2010. Since then Disney has been working their magic to get it ready for American audiences. Animation Magazine has a look at… |
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China opens more to Hollywood, DreamWorks
…their allowable share of the box-office proceeds from 13% to 25%. In related news, China Daily reports DreamWorks Animation and several Chinese media companies are creating a new production studio,… |
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Behind the scenes of The Pirates
…talks the development of the project, the casting of the film’s voice actors, and using computer effects with stop-motion animation. Starring Hugh Grant, The Pirates set sail on April 27th…. |
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del Toro adds animated Day of the Dead to plate
Guillermo del Toro is on board to produce the animated film Day of the Dead for independent animation studio Reel FX, according to Entertainment Weekly. The film is about “a… |
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Turbo speeds forward with voice cast
DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming action comedy Turbo has just been given a full voice cast, ComingSoon.net is reporting. Ryan Reynolds will play the starring role, with Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Giamatti,… |
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SpongeBob SquarePants returning to theaters in 2014
…starts off our new animation effort,” the Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said. The film is part of the studio’s plan to release animated movies each year with production budgets of… |
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore now online
…being found on Cinema Blend. Created by William Joyce of Meet the Robinsons fame, the fantastical 15-minute movie has various animation styles in it. Like this year’s Best Picture winner,… |
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AV introduces website calendar and iPhone app
…start with that movie’s countdown screen. This app is a fun way to get your inner animation geek excited about what’s to come or to just answer your kid’s question… |
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Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers moves forward
…Pictures Animation released a new promotional image for their upcoming slate, which reveals that the sequel’s title will be Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers. The ad also has very… |
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The Lorax
…story, the film was terrifically made! (Which is like that old punchline, “but other than that how did you enjoy the play, Mr. Lincoln?”) The animation was beautiful and had… |
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Kristen Bell is the Snow Queen in Disney’s Frozen
…has been given the role of the mysterious Snow Queen. In addition, the article also confirms that the animation for the film will in fact be done in CGI, presumably… |
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Bolivar To Be Animated By Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers and Weed Road have been tagged to animate the Archaia Studio graphic novel Bolivar reports The Animation Magazine. The Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke will direct and write the… |
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Nick looking for new talent
Variety and the Chicago Tribune report that Nickelodeon has started an animated shorts program with a goal of attracting new talent and ideas. Animation president Brown Johnson said, “The new… |
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Illumination a boon to Universal’s bottom line
The Wall Street Journal looks at the profitable relationship between Universal Pictures and animation studio Illumination Entertainment. While Illumination has only produced three films so far (Despicable Me, Hop, and… |
