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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…vs. The Machines? MR: In many ways. I learned so many storytelling lessons from Gravity Falls. Primary, among them, is just to have characters that you love and respect as… |
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Despicable Me 3
…when a one-eyed man in a bar tells her they are real. Still meanwhile, Margot finds herself being stalked by a chubby boy who has become obsessed with her. In… |
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Bill Plympton's Idiots and Angels getting rave reviews
…using monochromatic digital coloring and no dialogues, follows a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself—which manifests itself in a pair of angel wings that just won’t… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist Enrico Casarosa!
…means of a grumpy old man and a turbulent little kid! Up-solutely winning! Animated Views: How did the writing process of Up start for you? Enrico Casarosa: When I started… |
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\\Toy Story\\ to be first animated Disney UMD; animation flourishing on new disc format
…Within\\; \\Ghost in the Shell\\; \\Best of He-Man & The Masters of the Universe 1 & 2\\; \\South Park: When Technology Attacks\\; \\South Park: Volume 1, Spider-Man – The New… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…recipient of many other honors including Drama Desk and Obie awards, and was cited by ASCAP as being the first woman composer to have “two new musicals running concurrently on… |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
…man for the job. His credits include the revolutionary Seven Up! documentaries and many fine films, such as Gorky Park, Gorillas In The Mist and The Coal Miner’s Daughter, as… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
…others…” “\\Harvie Krumpet\\ is the biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck”. We see him grow to an old man while throughout his life he copes… |
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Avengers ready for new, animated, direct-to-video feature
…Home Entertainment will present the 66-minute film. Other characters awaiting similar features include Captain America, the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man and Wasp, with these movies being based on… |
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Annie Awards results – \\The Incredibles\\ wins big
…\\Disney’s Dave the Barbarian\\, \\Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow\\ Butch Hartman & Steve Marmel – \\The FairlyOddParents\\, \\Channel Chasers\\ Brandon Sawyer – \\Disney’s Brandy and Mr. Whiskers\\, \\Cyranosaurus Rex\\ … |
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Coverage of the Comic-Con coverage
…was the premiere of a complete episode of The Batman on Friday afternoon. Attendees treated the episode, which features the Man-Bat, with “polite but strong applause”. Register stated that he… |
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An Incredibles super-feature!!
…methods of fighting villainous goons, and extensive profiles of each character. In related news, Norn Iron Man has posted the Japanese trailer via the Animation Nation boards. It reveals a… |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…certain design problems. One of the coolest things about the visual development department and Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, is how inter-generational the workflow is. Good art is good… |
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The Boxtrolls
…their closes rivals Aardman, and here again I wasn’t sure why Eggs, the human boy the trolls have taken in and raised as one of their own, wore a box… |
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Futurama cancelled (not a repeat from 2003)
As the Professor might say when delivering not so good news, “Good news, everybody!” Futurama has been cancelled… again. Entertainment Weekly reports that the now Comedy Central program will come… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…gets a lot of credit for originality. Which is a good thing in a story about storytelling! Kubo is unique, full of surprises, and infused with sincere emotions. Don’t go… |
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MoviePass – How It Works
…are the payment option of choice for many anyway, and checking in to locations via phone has been popularized by social apps like Foursquare. It’s good for theatres who get… |
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Now Playing: The Lone Ranger and more
…they just took too long to tell it. The movie suffers a bit from trying to be too many things at the same time — serious and silly, historical and… |
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Pixar Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire reveals the “incredible” art behind I2
…Incredibles and Up, as well as The Good Dinosaur, and most recently on Coco, a winner of two Academy Awards. On Disney•Pixar’s The Incredibles 2, scheduled for release on June… |
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The Willoughbys
…design, and a lot to the voice acting. Will Forte is at his best as the oldest Willoughby and wannabe provider, Tim. I wasn’t sure Alessia Cara was a good… |
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Ratchet & Clank
…with Chairman Drek. Sylvester Stallone was all but unrecognizable as Victor Von Ion; whether that is good or bad I’ll leave to you. Bella Thorne as Cora and Rosario Dawson… |
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Ralph Breaks the Internet
…Disney properties go a lot deeper than just the princesses. I do have one minor quibble with this type of humor though. Will it age well? The many, many, many… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
…have built. The good news is everything is still pretty awesome. It doesn’t have the same feel as the original because of the new settings. There also isn’t as much… |
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Maleficent fails to conjure up box office spell
…then Mistress of Evil might be thought of as a sacrificial bunt. Still, it’s also worth noting that Maleficent has a confusing marketing campaign, with trailers not very well explaining… |
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Inside Out 2
…movie at all. It’s actually very good. But I thought the universal acclaim was a bit much. When everyone else is calling it one of the best of all time,… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…Hurter, Ferdinand Horvath, Gustaf Tenggren and Bianca Majolie, the first woman hired in the Disney Story Department. Each of these artists brought their own personality and experience to the Disney… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…we thought it would be cool to show a more three-dimensional family conflict, but also, any sci-fi story is only as good as the people in it. The people ground… |
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Minions
…their own, find a new villain, and save their tribe. That synopsis actually sounds pretty good, to me at least. Unfortunately it is just the setup for the film and… |
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Elemental
…isn’t working”. Until story is king again in Emeryville, good enough may be good enough for Pixar. I want to stress that this is not a bad film. It’s just…… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: Dragonvine
…Fuente seems to want each page to be dynamic and manages to figure a way to manipulate whatever number of panels he has to work with into creating a full… |
