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The Space Kidettes/Young Samson: The Complete Series
…in past reviews, 1966 is considered the beginning of the golden age for Saturday morning cartoons. This season saw the debuts of The Adventures Of Superman and Space Ghost, as… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…often conniving or lazy straight man, while the shorter and rounder Costello played a bumbling simpleton who nevertheless could often end up getting the better end of things. Most of… |
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Seth MacFarlene to reboot The Flintstones
…been wanting to do a Flintstones remake for a long time. He is currently working on his first live-action project, Ted, an R-rated buddy comedy about a man and his… |
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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…photography. The immensely clever Flushed Away is the very first CG animated film to be produced by Aardman Studios in conjunction with DreamWorks Animation. As I’m sure you know, Aardman… |
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Kachow! The Cars 2: Agents On A Mission Tour
…tires to fit McQueen. During the sculpting process, each vehicle’s body required 6 to 10 days, with a total of 1,000 – 1,600 man-hours. Once the vehicles were carved in… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…the book in a really disagreeable mood, he brings up the atrocious Superman Returns, where he compares Kryptonite-poisoned Superman to spinach-deprived Popeye. (Of all the times this has happened in… |
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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
…and Cop-Tur, manage to escape (all the while, the music composer is amazingly doing his riff on the Superman theme). Meanwhile, a NASA pilot named Matt Hunter is flying in… |
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Cars 2 screenwriter Ben Queen on the race for his “Art Of” book!
From the early pencil sketches and conceptual artwork to the storyboards, color scripts and character designs, the gorgeous Art Of Cars 2 volume celebrates the artistry and imagination behind Lightning… |
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Late Night’s Pale Force unites online!
…in September 2005 and has returned with subsequent episodes on his following two appearances. The animated shorts chronicle the adventures of Gaffifan’s muscle-bound “Pale Man” and his scrawny side-kick “Conan… |
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The Herculoids: The Complete Series
…electrode men, and many, many more. Just looking at the episode titles is enough to make one smile, but the true treat is actually seeing the designs. It’s hard to… |
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Superman revealed
The movie’s not due for almost two years, but director Zack Snyder has treated us to our first image of Henry Cavill as Superman in The Man of Steel. The… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…plot to rid the galaxy of music, just as she improperly receives credit for a new hit song. The new “song” was really a coded message from the maniacal Felonia… |
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The Mantis Parable DVD
…film, and with The Mantis Parable he’s made quite a splash. Even more remarkable is that The Mantis Parable is truly a one-man tour-de-force. Everything – story, visuals, animation, sound… |
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Description of Wreck-It Ralph footage now online
…longs to become a hero, the description also reveals that the movie will include references to classic video games, including Pac-Man. The movie is set for release on November 2nd,… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…Boy. Burton’s frequent collaborators Denise Di Novi and Danny Elfman came on board to flesh out the original poem, which Elfman felt lent itself to musical sensibilities. Elfman, the now… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…around the studio. So when Jeffery Katzenberg announced that the studio would be split in two to make two films simultaneously, many of the top animators wanted to work on… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…upgrade, with “Special Edition” markings for good measure. And in many ways, it’s one of the few direct-to-video titles that may warrant such attention. Not so long ago, the DTVs… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
If there’s one person who was looking forward to the release of Disney’s Tangled, it’s David Gilson (Prince Kido to his friends!). The man is a French drawer and illustrator,… |
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New Thunder Cats Trailer
The anime-inspired Thunder Cats cartoon now has an official trailer. Taking the same revamp path as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe a few years back, the trailer gives… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…given shot is, or who animated what, there’s precious little for aficionados to really pick up on, with Deja speaking from a personality animation viewpoint and Sigman providing many facts,… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…were never completely finished (which you’d only know from reading Evanier’s blog). Evanier, consummate pro that he is, managed to write a script that brought together a large group of… |
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RIP, Shirley Walker (April 10, 1945 – November 29, 2006)
…nomination. After Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) and The New Batman Adventures (1997), Walker finally won a Daytime Emmy for her work on Batman Beyond (1999). Meanwhile, Superman: The… |
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And your Oscar hosts are…
ComingSoon.net has just revealed that the 2011 Oscars will be co-hosted by Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) and James Franco (the Spider-Man films). Franco himself is an interesting choice… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…although “purists” argued against several aspects of that film, it seems many have forgotten that Holmes did use his fists when it came to it, a fact that those three… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…review, or fervently reading on with excitement! Producers Ivan Reiner and Walter Manley certainly were: the pair had made the Gamma 1 films and were eager to make more of… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…has provided priceless guidance and insight on many dozens of projects and issues. His encouragement has helped form the careers of many who have made Disney and its history and… |
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Buena Vista Pictures asks "For Your Consideration"
Buena Vista Pictures has opened its yearly “For Your Consideration” site. This time around, the studio is marketing Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Prestige, Déjà Vu… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…has to endure just one more heartbreak, but then his friends manage to find the Christmas spirit and bring a smile to Charlie’s face. Cue spine tingle. You know, I… |
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Wallace & Gromit honored with children's BAFTA
…Dead Man’s Chest for the coveted prize. This marks the second time Curse of the Were-Rabbit has won a BAFTA, as the movie took the title of “Best British Film”… |
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Young Justice
…fare. Another important note to mention are the producers Greg Weisman and Brandon Veitti. Weisman worked on the groundbreaking cartoon Gargoyles and other DC titles, including The Batman and Batman:… |
