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Last Airbender trailer soars online
…tomorrow with prints of the family adventure film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Based on the popular Nickolodeon cartoon series, The Last Aribender is set to take… |
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Anchor Bay sold to…IDT Entertainment
…Simpsons animation producer Film Roman Productions, according to {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=16157 The Big Cartoon Database}}. Anchor Bay serves as a “boutique” producer of rare and cult titles, which it brings to… |
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Stalling for Time: The Musical Man Behind the Scenes at Warner Bros.
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research page points us to a new article at MSN’s Slate all about Carl Stalling, the genius discovered by Walt Disney in the early 1920’s and the… |
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Walt Disney World holiday lay-offs
{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=16011 The Big Cartoon Database}} reports that according to a local TV affiliate Walt Disney World will be laying-off an as yet unknown number of workers over the holiday… |
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Betty Boop musical in planning stages
{{link http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83201.html Playbill}} reports that a musical based on the classic cartoon character Betty Boop is in the works. David Lindsay-Abaire will write the book while Jason Robert Brown will… |
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How the Grinch (and an ogre) Stole Christmas
On Monday night, ABC will air two animated holiday specials starting at 8pm/7c. First, the classic holiday cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas will recieve its annual TV airing. Following… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…Walt Disney Treasures series with season sets of Zorro is a curious one, but one I’ve come to accept as reasonable. With most of the cartoon short subjects covered, and… |
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Lion King 1½ "Hot Tub" Trailer on Pirates of the Caribbean DVD
It might seem a little jarring to go from the very serious news of Roy Disney’s resignation to news about the flatulence of a cartoon warthog, but a post by… |
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The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
…the first to discover a very odd phenomenon. For the first time since she and her cartoon roommates began on their Real World-like reality show, she can hear herself swear… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…drawing cartoons, one scene gags, and they had great fun with these gags. This looks like a scene where they’re brushing their beards or something. I’m not sure what’s happening…. |
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Pixar completes new short!
…piece in the spirit of Disney’s cartoon Pecos Bill. No word yet on when and where it will premiere, though it’s a good guess that it’ll appear at various festivals… |
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Babar heads to the big screen
Deadline reports that the producers of The Twilight Saga are all set to adapt the popular cartoon character Babar for the big screen. Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck… |
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Bakshi's Wizards coming to DVD
Perhaps more known for his infamous animated features Fritz The Cat and the recently DVD-issued live-action/cartoon combo Cool World, director Ralph Bakshi remains an interesting figure on the fringe. Now,… |
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Dan Aykroyd talks Yogi Bear
…agent and said I would love to be a part of this, because it’s a part of me,” Aykroyd said, remembering his love of the cartoon as a child. The… |
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Black Cauldron DVD details
…Duck cartoon from 1952. STREET DATE: September 14, 2010 Rated: PG Run Time: Approx. 80 minutes Video: Widescreen Audio: Digital 5.1 Surround Sound DVD Subtitles: English, Spanish, French SRP: 1-Disc… |
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Final word on Looney Tunes: Back In Action?
The Big Cartoon Database has just kicked off a new feature, {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view&post=14707 The Animated Word}}, which will be a review coulmn on new animated films and DVD releases. Alex… |
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Jane Jetson passes away
‘dtemplar’ in the {{link http://forums.toontitan.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=17831#post17831 DVD Toons Forum}} posted that “Penny Singleton, who brought Jane to life on Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 primetime cartoon The Jetsons, died in California Wednesday two weeks… |
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Christmas Nightmare
…tenth year celebrations come to a close, Alex Weitzman at The Big Cartoon Database’s {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view&post=16860 The Animated Word}} takes a look back at the 1993 stop-motion musical and finds… |
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Trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 3 now online
StarWars.com has just revealed an action-packed new trailer for the third season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The animated series is among the most popular on Cartoon Network, and… |
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'Finding Mick-o' in 2012
The Big Cartoon Database notes that the now rumored release date for The Search for Mickey Mouse is in 2012…. |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…space, traveled around the world on a race, and battled pirates. In what is now the sixth Tom and Jerry direct-to-video cartoon to be released by Warner Brothers, the cat… |
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Green Lantern revealed
TV Guide has an exclusive first look at Green Lantern: The Animated Series. The Warner Bros. Animation series, coming to Cartoon Network in 2011, is being previewed this weekend at… |
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RIP…
…Les Tremayne (heard in many of Chuck Jones’ Tower 12 productions, including The Phantom Tollbooth). The Big Cartoon Database has biog pages dedicated to both {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=16992 Wah Chang}}, who… |
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Fifty Years With Brutus!
…late 1960, the initial batch of Popeye television cartoons, produced by King Features Syndicate, began airing on the small screen. In the new shows, viewers were introduced to characters that… |
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Fantasia 2006 Is a Music Project?
Also noted by The Big Cartoon Database is that Fantasia 2006 may be more simply titled The Music Project…. |
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Brenda Chapman no longer directing Pixar’s Brave?
Cartoon Brew, with their reliable sources, reports that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at Pixar, is no longer directing Brave. The site reports that Brenda was pushed aside from… |
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Looney Tunes are back on the big screen
As has been reported here in the past, the Looney Tunes are making a return to the big screen, beginning today with a Wile E. Coyote cartoon being attached to… |
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THQ and DreamWorks announce deal
…now be called MegaMind instead. The first games of the deal, to be based off of the cartoon series The Penguins of Madagascar, are expected to be released next year…. |
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Belleville screening in Canada
{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=15576 The Big Cartoon Database Forum}} reports that two special upcoming screenings of Les Triplettes De Belleville, Sylvain Chomet’s international co-production, are to be held in Ottawa and Vancouver,… |
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\\The Simpsons\\ apologizes to Fox News over Groening's comments
…right-wing political stance… ‘Now Fox has a new rule that we can’t do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might… |
