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Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures
…most cartoons had more-or-less the same plot, Casper managed to outlive all of his Famous Studios friends, with the exception of Herman and Katnip, until his last theatrical cartoon, Casper’s… |
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The DisneyLand Anthology
…Featuring completely new animation, the film attempts to mix fact with fiction, presenting various theories and scientific possibilities on how we might actually reach Mars in a manned spacecraft as… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…and directors back on to the shorter styled cartoons. Many of the sequences that were created for these films were later issued as stand-alone shorts, and in many cases this… |
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Bazooka Joe heading to the big screen
…be the next big hero,” says Eisner, hoping that the character will be as big a hit as other classic comic characters, like Spider-Man and the X-Men, have been lately…. |
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Steven Spielberg to Receive Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement Award
…of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (John Knoll, Jill Brooks, Hal Hickel, Charlie Gibson) for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture and Battlestar Galactica – Episode… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…productions. We’re back to ’Scope for That’s My Mommy, and by this time H-B had adopted the surrealistic and very stylised approach that many studios (including Disney) took to their… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…the films with the full negative exposed, so as to see the entire image. Jones kept many of his Warner Brothers associates on with him at Tower 12, including storyman… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…of Dumbo and Alice In Wonderland shouldn’t have long to wait either! In many respects, the film’s own beauty is both Sleeping Beauty’s blessing and its curse. For all the… |
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The Ten Commandments Giveaway – Winning Names!
…Moses, the reluctant prophet, who was the only man in Biblical history to see the face of God and call him “friend”. This animated version is filled with high adventure,… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…gulped down the formula to switch him from brainy geek to swaggering ladies’ man on his way to a box-office classic, his computer animated grandson is about to do the… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…This went on for many, many years. He had hits. He wrote tremendous songs for Nat King Cole like Tell Me All About Yourself, a great song. At that time,… |
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Comic-Con update, plus Fred 'n' Yogi's movies finally on DVD!
…back. The big news this week to squeeze through the animated grapevine is that the long-delayed US release of The Man Called Flintstone, Hanna-Barbera’s 1966 feature outing for our favorite… |
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Art Stevens, RIP
…animated features such as Fantasia, Song of the South, The Three Caballeros, the Winnie the Pooh shorts and more. He helped Ward Kimball out with the Man in Space series… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…tracks. The first (admittedly shorter) film had three of them, while Dead Man’s Chest only managed one, with the film’s writers. This time around there’s nary a speaker in sight,… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…staid and static approach. Indeed, Mickey isn’t even made up of his usual three body circles here, with a lean, human-like body standing in instead, looking quite odd. It looks… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…Ollie and Disney himself in The Man Behind The Myth. If you enjoyed those tributes, then Hand is a must-see, and the Oswald cartoons themselves an essential purchase for anyone… |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…good for a laugh – like many I didn’t find much magic to write about – though it continues our quest of completing our backlog of pre-Christmas releases that we’re… |
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Hobbits, Floyd Norman, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Moses…what a line-up!
…than Sam Raimi’s, who had also expressed an interest but who seems too tied to the Spider-Man franchise and proved, with the third film, that he’d lost (hopefully only temporarily)… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…London Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita are a happy couple, living in Regent’s Park with their human “pets” Anita and Roger Radcliff. When Anita’s old schoolmate Cruella de Vil learns that… |
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Ollie Johnston…RIP
…link in our news story, the Cartoon Brew site has an exceptional listing of updates and tributes to the great man – be sure to check them out. – Ben…. |
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Indiana Jones and the really slow and talky blockbuster…
…ongoing discussion in our Animated News & Views Forum…once you’ve checked out the man with the hat’s latest, why not drop in and express your views? Stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Richie, Scooby, Caspian, Boba Fett…all in the same post!
…week, and how great it was to be joined by Jan Harlan, Brian Cook and Kubrick’s assistant Tony Frewin for a showing of the great man’s The Shining on Wednesday… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…very special people. Howard Ashman, the original 1989 film’s lyricist and legendary Broadway musical genius, is remembered here by those who loved him: Sarah Gillespie and William Lauch… To our… |
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When good cartoons go bad: review roundup…
…don’t forget our exclusive conversation with the man who makes many of those classic cartoon sets the must-haves they are: animation historian Jerry Beck! Have a great weekend! – Ben…. |
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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
…and Blu-ray, and as we slowly rack up our reviews of recent releases, here’s a quick look to the future for some big upcoming titles. • Iron Man is about… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…remembered shows, a mixture of hilarious comedy and hard-boiled cartoon noir including Taz Mania, Pinky And The Brain, Batman: The Animated Series and, of course, Animaniacs, which had taken the… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…our Best Of 2007 listing last year, and we also ran a heap of Popeye articles in celebration of that release, including the sailor man’s story, interviews and related reviews!… |
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Howard Ashman, and 304 Dalmatians!
…to two people very close to the original 1989’s film lyricist Howard Ashman’s heart: his sister Sarah Gillespie and partner William Lauch. While I was writing my own animated musical… |
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Sonnenfeld to work with Chimps
…cast, actors include Jeff Daniels, Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Kenan Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and Patrick Warburton. Musician Dave Stewart and the Blue Man Group will craft the movie’s… |
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Story info on Pixar's Up
According to Variety, Pixar’s Up, scheduled for a 2009 release, will follow the adventures of a 70-year-old man who teams up with a wilderness ranger to fight beasts and villains…. |
