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Noodlesoup's \\The Venture Brothers\\ wins Cineme TV Series award
…the series is scheduled to premiere on Cartoon Network this spring. \\The Venture Brothers\\ “parodies the 1960’s favorite \\Jonny Quest\\, featuring brothers Hank and Dean, their top-notch scientist father and… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
…for this release, even if it does little to cover the production of the movie itself, a common problem on these DC Animated discs. The short cartoon film being included… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…creating a contrast between the silly-looking characters and a melodramatic score. Still, the creators do not forget that they are creating a cartoon, and the composer is allowed to get… |
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How do Superheroes spend Christmas, anyway?
…Cartoon Network’s popular animated series based on the the joining up of DC Comics’ biggest guns, reports {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9822 AWN}}. The half-hour Comfort And Joy, which premieres at 10pm on… |
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New Wartime Shorts book…
…like a solid read for anybody interested in understanding the now-controversial animated shorts produced by the major Hollywood cartoon studios during World War II”. Michael S. Shull and David E…. |
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Secret of Kells gets US distribution, Oscar run
US distributor GKIDS has announced they will be bringing Irish director Tomm Moore’s animated film The Secret of Kells to U.S. audiences. Opening March 12, 2010, the film will first… |
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Roger Rabbit sequel to use mo-cap
…A Christmas Carol). “I wouldn’t use it for the cartoon characters, because I think they should stay two-dimensional because that’s what — I wouldn’t dimensonalize Roger”, he said. But the… |
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Epic game designer Spector talks Mickey Mouse
…Spector about the game’s Cartoon Wasteland storyline, which will see the return of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit in his first major new role since Disney’s re-acquisition, and how Mickey is… |
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Pixar celebrates Halloween
The guys at Cartoon Brew have some video to show how Pixar thrilled their employees more than any ghost would ever dare try this past Halloween…. |
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Sofia Vergara Joins the cast of The Smurfs and Happy Feet 2
HeatVision reports that Sofia Vergara has joined the cast of The Smurfs, the big screen adaptation of the cartoon series. Sofia will play Odile, a powerful executive at a high-end… |
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Wartime Animation Special Event: Animation At War
Animation historian and writer Jerry Beck, whose {{link http://www.cartoonresearch.com/screenings.html Cartoon Research}} continues to be a well respected and deep source of news and views on animated topics, writes on our… |
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Disney Says Eisner Stays
The forum at the Big Cartoon DataBase reports that The Walt Disney Company has decided to keep Michael Eisner in his position as CEO despite protests from Roy E. Disney… |
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Fantasia 2000
…Storyboard: When Walt Disney released the original Fantasia in 1940, he envisioned a cartoon that would introduce the general public to classical music. The original included seven different musical sequences… |
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Mighty Mouse movie back in development
…However, with the success of Alvin And The Chipmunks proving classic cartoon characters can still bring in big bucks on the big screen, Paramount has put the creation of Mighty… |
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Inkwell Images add many new titles to their DVD roster!
…compilations featuring the very early work of {{link http://www.inkwellimagesink.com/pages/cartoons/cartoons-WaltDisney.htm Walt Disney}}, such as the Newman Laugh-O-Grams and the Alice Comedies, and the {{link http://www.inkwellimagesink.com/pages/cartoons/cartoons-MaxFleischer.htm Fleischer Brothers}}, including new Out Of… |
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Disney responds
{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=15748 The Big Cartoon Database}} reports on Disney’s official response to the departure of Disney and Gold. In its statement the board said that Gold’s remarks were “untrue and… |
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Mickey Mouse Leaves Disney!!
…Although primarily for amusement, the piece does have serious undertones and makes for fascinating “between the lines” reading – thanks to Jerry Beck’s {{link http://www.cartoonresearch.com/ Cartoon Research}} for the link…. |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…circles. Of course, cartoon characters are corporate properties (as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit proved to be for Walt Disney) that have lives well beyond their “golden years.” Some go into… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…Looney Tunes cartoons, not to mention a show containing old Tom And Jerry theatrical cartoons, when we could have instead seen one of the shows I just mentioned, or one… |
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Disney blocks Roy's website
{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=16232 The Big Cartoon Database}} informs us that “employees at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank will find that Disney’s internal Internet service has already blocked their access to”… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…animated cartoons and a short subject before the main feature, and any one of Warners’ vintage sets will put you right back in time to a 1930s or 40s cinema… |
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Turning up for Tooning In!
…Tom And Jerry, The Strangest Cartoons Ever Made, Van Beuren’s Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parades Cartoons and Cartoon Commercials!), and Rodney has been busy grappling with the invincible Iron Man:… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…action scenes, inspired by the classic Fleischer brothers’ 1941 Superman cartoon Mechanical Monsters (the jewel-robbery scene that opens the episode is an almost shot-for-shot recreation of a similar scene from… |
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Kim Possible duo will script polish Disney's Enchanted
…about a peasant girl who falls for a prince. When the evil queen banishes her from the cartoon kingdom, she lands in live-action New York. She falls in love with… |
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Tintin historian sued
Amid over at Cartoon Brew has the disappointing news that the Tintin estate (or more specifically “the lawyer who married the widow of Tintin creator Hergé and now controls the… |
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Casting news for Yellow Submarine
Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are set to play the Fab Four in Disney’s upcoming Yellow Submarine remake. The CGI-animated movie, based on the cartoon… |
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Robot Chicken greenlit for two more seasons
Cartoon Network’s popular stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken has been greenlit for two more seasons, according to ComingSoon.Net. The sketch comedy show, perhaps best known for its Star Wars parodies,… |
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Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective
…highlights the life and art of legendary artist, animator and director Chuck Jones who not only helped bring to life famous cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck,… |
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"I have a dream . . . about Roy Disney"
…is. Or consult your favorite dream dictionary. Also, Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research page points us to a page started by Roy Disney and Stanley Gold themselves called Save Disney that… |
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Tim Burton to do animated Addams Family movie
Tim Burton is set to direct an animated movie based on artist Charles Adam’s cartoon drawings of the spooky Addams Family. Reportedly unrelated to the 60s TV series and 90s… |
