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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…Retail: $19.99 Storyboard: Mickey and his friends at the clubhouse are asked by Mrs. Claus to help save Santa in time for Christmas. Two more episodes see Mickey and Goofy… |
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New Minions short to be shown with The Grinch?
…Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous holiday spirit. Funny, heartwarming and visually stunning, it’s a universal story about the spirit of Christmas and the… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…the computer animated Arthur Christmas. Written by co-director Sarah Smith and Pete Baynham, the film portrays the title character’s attempt to complete a high-tech mission on Christmas Eve. “The reason… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…seen. Everyone is in the film. It’s sort of Shrek’s first Christmas, and something that’s entirely foreign to him – you know, a family Christmas and what that means and… |
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Shrek The Halls holiday special to premiere on ABC
…rat did creep As mother and babe played kazoo in their sleep….†From Shrek the Halls ABC, home of the beloved Christmas classics A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch… |
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Frankenweenie
…home to Pee Wee, Beetlejuice and Batman. Burton first returned to Disney for 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, produced at a time when Disney Animation under Jeffrey Katzenberg was undergoing… |
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The Animated Views Looney Launch Winners!
…at both Animated News and Animated Views! About Looney Tunes: Bah, Humduck In a hilarious take on the holiday classic A Christmas Carol, A Looney Tunes Christmas: Bah, Humduck follows… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…promotional filler (for “filler”, read “cr*p”!). Moving into the Classic Backstage Disney section, one might really be hoping that The Walt Disney Christmas Show, a 1951 special that was promised… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Sweatbox Review: A Charlie Brown Christmas had been a huge, surprise hit when it was released in December of 1965. CBS was encouraged enough to order another special, and Charlie… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…Special Gold-styled DVD versions, with only the mysterious Walt Disney Christmas Show from 1951 holding any intrigue. I became very excited when it dawned on me that this show was… |
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Princess winners, and a Curious new contest!
…your details now! And we’re still not done! Thanks to Universal Home Entertainment, we have one Curious George Christmas Prize Pack up for grabs, which features A Very Monkey Christmas… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…mixed up version of The Night Before Christmas – with the Tasmanian Devil as Santy Claus – ending with a final Christmas carol singalong. Who said the Looney Tunes didn’t… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3
…In The Night Before Christmas, one of the first handful of shorts directed by Hanna-Barbera duo, Jerry wakes up on Christmas Eve to find presents under the Christmas tree and… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…from Mickey’s Christmas Carol, which had recently been released. I called it, Oh What A Lousy Christmas Day and you can see the actual, type written text (no computers then)… |
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The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town: Deluxe Edition
…cronies and meanies. But this year is going to be different: this year, Sunny and his pals are going to brighten up Town for good! The Sweatbox Review: For Christmas… |
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Merry Madagascar
…right?) and stuffing them all into Santa’s sleigh for a Christmas special? Proving to be a television hit, Shrek The Halls from a couple of years ago was DreamWorks attempt… |
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Prep & Landing landing again
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ holiday hit Prep & Landing is about to become a Christmas television franchise with not one but two follow-ups in the works. Full details can be… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…featuring Filmation’s own Quackula joined the classic characters. A Snow White Christmas Special was a one-hour 1980 show done for CBS. Contrary to tradition, Snow was joined by seven giants… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…Zemeckis will be a CG performance capture version of that perennial chestnut A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey in the leads. Why a CG interpretation? Zemeckis has Carrey, one of… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…realise that The Nightmare Before Christmas is now approaching its 20th birthday and yet the stop-motion animation feature has really only recently started to breath again, much of it down… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #56: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Santa Hates Misfits
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Go along with Chelsea, Morgan and Mason as they dive into the Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer Christmas… |
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Pixar and Princess rule our latest updates!
November 23, 2009 — Tinker Bell Nintendo winners, Pixar reviews for Monsters, Inc. and Up, plus our Views on Merry Madagascar, A Christmas Carol and a chance to win The… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…the imaginative to the downright wearisome. Theodore Geisel, Dr Seuss himself, collaborated directly with Chuck Jones to create cartoons in the 1940s before taking on How The Grinch Stole Christmas,… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…wilderness, again as an “actor for hire” in Mickey’s Christmas Carol, the Oscar-nominated featurette which featured Mickey as Bob Cratchit, with Donald and Goofy in supporting roles. Though again, it… |
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Peanuts: 1960’s Collection
…Christmas seems so empty to him, and he wonders what he’s missing. Lucy tries to buoy him by asking him to direct the Christmas play, but it is the wisdom… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…the first wave such as Little Hiawatha, El Terrible Torreador, Santa’s Workshop, Merbabies, and The Night Before Christmas. It seems that since the second wave was announced, there was always… |
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New Year's Surprise — Peanuts treats!
…Charlie Brown Christmas, including the terrific Making Of A Charlie Brown Christmas, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, with lots of vintage footage of early Peanuts car commercials and more. This disc… |
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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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Henry Selick talks 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 &… |
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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… |
