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Santa Inc.
Candy Smalls is a feisty Christmas Elf who has risen up the ranks of Santa’s workshop to become his number two helper. With the current Santa approaching retirement, it’s time… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…Empire Strikes Out’ — Threshold Animation Studios Penguins of Madagascar ‘Action Reaction’ — Nickelodeon Animation Studios SpongeBob SquarePants ‘It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!’ — Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Amazing World of… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #53: Charlie Brown Holiday Specials – 1/2 Star for Nostalgia
…Charlie Brown Christmas. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3813010135.mp3 Highlights • Guest host: Alissa Roy! Getting to know her and “Catch & Fire!” • Vote for the show in the Podcast Awards. • News: 500… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…the look of the show. While the abomination that was Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas truly showed why Mickey Mouse shouldn’t be let anywhere near a computer mouse, this version… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…appeared on the first DVD season set of this series. Is This Thing Loaded? The most substantial extra on this set is the 2002 Christmas special A Scooby-Doo Christmas. It’s… |
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ABC to air classic and new \\Charlie Brown\\ specials
…the hour long special will also include a series of Christmas-themed animated stories entitled \\Charlie Brown Christmas\\ Tales, based on Schulz’s work, in which several of the characters – Charlie… |
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ParaNorman
…remain known best for their Christmas programs, but check out some of their other work and it’s not always all snow and jingle bells, and remember they made the original… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…and impressive locations. Like Arthur Christmas before it, Sony’s disc didn’t plunder the depths of the production but the presentation was superb. Support Animated Views and buy The Pirates! from… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…Dr Suess specials How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Horton Hears A Who, and the feature The Phantom Tollbooth, the low grosses for which put the final nail in MGM’s… |
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Three Warner animated classics coming to Blu-ray
…A Charlie Brown Christmas will include a bonus Peanuts TV special, It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown, and a featurette. Cover art can be seen here, courtesy of TV Shows… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…of the crop in terms of animation releases has to be the Disney trio of Sleeping Beauty, The Nightmare Before Christmas and WALL-E. You’ll find those titles – and a… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
…on the right. Promising “fun and interactive holiday-themed bonus material to get the whole family celebrating, including a sing-along version of The Twelve Days Of Christmas starring the entire gang… |
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Stop-motion Holidaze coming in mid-November
…city to find his role in Christmas. He eventually discovers his role, but in the most unexpected of places—a church basement housing an anonymous support group for Holiday Icons.” Christmas… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…the D23 show. I was very happy to finally make a purchase of his uniquely engaging From All Of Us To All Of You: The Disney Christmas Card book, as… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…there, too. So, I started quite early, around about Christmas last year. Just after Christmas, I left the States with all my gear, my studio, I set up and about… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…A second Oscar nomination came their way with The Night Before Christmas, a classic that still gets a lot of airings today, from the December of 1941. The film begins… |
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The Animated Seuss
…special Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol. The Television Specials Dr. Seuss forever was immortalized on celluloid when his 1957 book How The Grinch Stole Christmas was adapted by Chuck Jones for… |
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The Grinch
Believe it or not, we’re just a few days away from Christmas! If you have a family tradition of going to the movies this week, you have several good options… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
As part of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days Of Christmas programming, the network is set to host Walt Disney Pictures Presents Pixar Short Films, a collection of 20 of the… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News about… |
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Shrek the Halls premieres tonight
…Shrek Goes Fourth, Shrek the Halls tells the tale of one year’s Christmas in a swamp not too far away from the land of Far Far Away with Donkey excited… |
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Lists offer Holiday fun for "inner Scrooge"
Entertainment Weekly humorously presents two lists that Santa is more likely to ignore rather than check twice. In “Christmas with the Cranks,” ten Christmas movies with an edge are presented,… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…the Studio to produce high-profile digital or 3D movies – the most obvious example being Robert Zemeckis, who strangely never got the Burton-level contractual credit on A Christmas Carol. In… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…the most beloved by children. The 1969 Rankin/Bass Christmas special, Frosty the Snowman, has become a perennial holiday favorite ever since its original television debut. Based on the hit Gene… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…Brown Christmas, except this time it is Lucy who tries her hand at directing the Christmas play. Aside from an unnecessary framing sequence of Charlie Brown writing about the event,… |
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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
…THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, G-FORCE and CHICKEN LITTLE. These titles will join Walt Disney Studios’ recent 2010 Blu-ray 3D releases ALICE IN WONDERLAND, DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL and STEP UP… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…for Beauty And The Beast (in the form of an Enchanted Christmas mid-quel) and The Lion King (Simba’s Pride, which showed great promise), the unit that would eventually become known… |
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The Grinch steals $66 million
…Panther, mind you, but it could certainly show some sturdy legs as Christmas draws nearer. Christmas, however, probably won’t be enough to save Disney’s The Nutcracker & the Four Realms,… |
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Nightmare at El Capitan Theatre
…Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Also playing with Nightmare will be two Tim Burton shorts, Vincent and Frankenweenie. Meanwhile, exclusive limited edition collectible Nightmare Before Christmas buttons will be provided… |
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The UK's 100 Greatest Cartoons!
…(1978) 85 = Droopy Dog (1943-55) 84 = Roobarb (1974) 83 = Dumbo (1941) 82 = How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) 81 = Babaar (1989-91) 80 = Yogi Bear… |