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Magic Gourd box office intake
…Disney Co. is happy with its take, Gourd‘s opening week was much less than the American-released Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (US$10.5 million) and Spider-Man 3 (US$9.2 million)…. |
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Romeo, Romeo…Sealed With A Kiss DVD Special!
…members to voice the characters. Made for just $2m, Nibbelink should be congratulated for putting his money where his mouth is and setting out on a one-man mission to keep… |
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Who revived Roger Rabbit?
…cost-prohibitive special effects.” The new movie would be set in New York City where Roger once worked as a song and dance man. Perhaps Jessica Rabbit will declare in this… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…Tutli-Putli? Marciek Szczerbowski: We wanted to make a kind of iconic figure, a kind of turn-of-the-century, classic lady. It’s a very particular kind of woman. It’s not every woman. Many… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…Original Screenplay should please writer-director Andrew Stanton, while Thomas Newman also gets recognition for his Score (WALL-E also has a pop at Song too) and the film also features in… |
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Richard M. Sherman on Bedknobs And Broomsticks: a Solid Songwriter!
…The Sherman Brothers Songbook 2-CD set is available to pre-order now from Amazon.com With all our gratitude and appreciation to Richard M. Sherman. And many thanks to Olivier Mouroux and… |
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Back to Back
AWN has a new interview now with Frédéric Back, independent animator of the 1987 Oscar-winning animated short, The Man Who Planted Trees. In the interview Back discusses his current work… |
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Bolt
…a contrast the filmmakers wanted to highlight — the exciting life of a superhero dog vs the average life of a house pet. Which is truly the better “man’s best… |
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Cannes you dig it? Plus Disney ditches the Platinums…
…but it’s already proving to be a hit: those that saw a sneak are now offering to stump up the cash to bringh his long-planned The Man Who Killed Don… |
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Airman ready for Zemeckis-assisted flight
…book Airman to the screen, using the same performance-capture technology as before. The plot concerns one Conor Broekhart, a “young man born in a hot air balloon to a family… |
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Up
…classic, unique, and funny film! Pixar continues to soar to new heights with their tenth hit in a row. Carl Fredricksen promised his bride a life of adventure. Instead they… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…live-action filmmaking from Hollywood’s golden age and although I very much appreciate the work of many fine artists in the strip panel world, my many other interests preclude me from… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…feature done like that! Lastly today, click on the “More” link below for a quick blast of bonkers nostalgia as Superman and Batman prepare to battle Octoman and Superfrog (no,… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the recent CGI feature TMNT. The Sweatbox Review: In the late 1980s, Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were everywhere. Big screen… |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
…Man and Avengers from Paramount, more Fantastic Four and X-Men from Fox, and more Spidey from Sony, who recently announced films 4, 5 and 6 in the in-need-of-a-revamp series. The… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…silent films, the Latin American films Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros of the 1940s, and many other film and television examples. In some ways, Pete’s Dragon may seem to… |
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Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!
…somebody really create something in that vein. And Alan Menken was certainly the man. With his dream team – lyricist Glenn Slater and musical director Michael Kosarin – he managed… |
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The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season
…stop hounding the man he considered to be his sworn enemy— Dr. Rusty Venture. (Rusty, meanwhile, remained somewhat ambivalent about The Monarch.) There was a big hullabaloo, what with Dr…. |
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Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1
…to produce sound cartoons, and Schlesinger had just happened to have come into contact with Harman and Ising, who were having trouble selling their Bosko character. Bosko was Harman-Ising’s first… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…Lion, and Gigantor. At about the same time that he was involved in those efforts, however, he was also co-writing (as “Fred Laderman”) and producing a somewhat bizarre feature called… |
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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
…consider this a good thing. Despite the many Scoobyphiles out there, there are probably at least as many people who just do not see the appeal of the show. It… |
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Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset
…after it premiered on television in 1965. Many consider Thunderbirds to be a high point of the Supermarionation shows, a group of series that used marionettes in action-adventure stories. The… |
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Python's Gilliam honored, Gulliver's details, plus new discs!
…is a long-time collaborator, and I’m hoping that his risen stock and a success in Parnassus may yet see Gilliam’s cherished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote enter production once… |
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Oliver & Company's Director George Scribner!
…saw Oliver & Company on release in 1988. It’s another of the Mouse House features that really doesn’t get the recognition it deserves: many of the new talents that would… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…end. Pioneer, the last manufacturer of LaserDisc players, has just announced that it is stopping production of them. Unbeknownst to many of us in the Western world, Pioneer had still… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…come jumping in to inject a little energy into the show. Spy spoofs have come and gone over the years, and while many have been memorable, there are many that… |
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Metropolis
…and Japanese 5.1 DTS tracks, Rated PG-13, Retail: $24.95 Storyboard: Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga is brought to life in a state-of-the-art animated epic. In a future society, a madman’s plan… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…have taken over Man’s cities. Like the denizens of the Disney comic books, some characters are obviously certain animals, while others seem human except for button noses or droopy ears…. |
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Meet The Robinsons
…our emotions, but when the Danny Elfman’s songs and score do the same thing it just works. The film is a mix of the old and the new, and I… |
