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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
The expansive San Diego Convention Center: home each year to Comic-Con International San Diego: Comic-Con International 2008. It was big, it was loud, it was crowded. It was also full… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…Fun Time is perhaps the weak-point, though the random choice of the Die Hard bad guys who wreck a school outing is so bizarre that there’s still a fun factor…. |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…my father. His was an extensive role because I had to die before he came and woke me up! A couple of years later, we did a Broadway show together…. |
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Despicable Hollywood
…their own, will die of their own Kryptonite poisoning. Quick…to the Batcave, and stay tooned! — Ben. Universal’s Despicable Me is set for release in the United States on July… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…later. Most notable in Zorro lore for changing Don Diego Vega’s character name to Don Diego de la Vega (which would remain consistent in screen versions evermore), Disney’s take on… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…become disillusioned with their power, while The Late Mr Kent is another standout show where Kal-El must let Clark “die” when an attempt on his life results in a situation… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…out older shorts again. Theater managers balked at paying for old product and MGM contracted European animator Gene Dietch to create some cheap and nasty cartoons that quickly vanished. More… |
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Ponyo
…partially inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson story of The Little Mermaid, but also took mythical elements from Wagner’s opera Die Walkure. Its seaside setting was based on a Japanese… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…names long-forgotten by the majority of all but the die-hard nostalgic collectors. As one of those kinds of people, I’m lapping it all up, and especially enjoy the mix of… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…rarely seen, theatrical short subjects, with multi-disc sets pulling together a host of collections featuring high-profile names long-forgotten by the majority of all but the die-hard nostalgic collectors. As one… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…will die, but he doesn’t tell Belle that. He lets her go back to see her father. And Cogsworth comes in and says, “You let her go. Why’d you do… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…in an English suburb’s backyard, where the population of garden gnomes become the warring families that the title pair must hide from in order to be together. The Sweatbox Review:… |
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
…I don’t favor such a strong emphasis on the military aspects of the Corps, nor the preoccupation with death. Frequently we get reminded that Corps members die in the line… |
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Cars 2 screenwriter Ben Queen on the race for his “Art Of” book!
From the early pencil sketches and conceptual artwork to the storyboards, color scripts and character designs, the gorgeous Art Of Cars 2 volume celebrates the artistry and imagination behind Lightning… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…when Mariel Hemmingway is lifted almost to the moon it’s just sad and pathetic that she doesn’t die immediately! But even then I’d still argue there’s a lot of enjoyment… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…certainly the under-strain adults aren’t going to be laughing. Maybe they’ll chuckle instead at old, tired lines from Scarface, Terminator 2 or Die Hard 2? No, maybe not. But never… |
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Cars 2
…has been renamed the Hudson Hornet Piston Cup. How come? What happened to the Doc? Did he rust away? What happens to the cars when they die? I get that… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…several films released before he died, Burroughs would, albeit posthumously, get his wish when Tarzan became a hit animated feature from the Disney Studios in 1999, but a satisfactory transference… |
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Home On The Range
…– The Princess And The Frog, Winnie The Pooh – that had sealed its legendary reputation, all fans could look forwards to was a future of “diet Disney”: sequels and… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…going to die (and rather poignantly achieve their aim!). Cheese Chasers (1951) saves the darkest for last and deals with the notion of suicide as only Chuck could handle, with… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…format, but even here the takings suggest a move away from the added cost from families on a big movie night outing. So it’s in the home that we find… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…indie film A Fare to Remember, in which a high-powered business executive enlists a cabbie to drive her from Seattle to Los Angeles over Christmas. Malcolm-Jamal Warner in A Fare… |
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Frankenweenie
…the rest of the film doesn’t really “scream” with memorable moments. Final Cut: It’s a well-known fact that pet dogs should never die in Hollywood movies and although Sparky doesn’t… |
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Planes merchandise, images reveal new plot info
…Day storybook with projector. Meanwhile, Take 5 A Day continues their extensive coverage of Planes by showcasing the initial line of die-cast collectibles, inadvertently revealing characters and plot info from… |
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Escape from Planet Earth tops Monday box office
…Office Mojo. By comparison, weekend champ A Good Day to Die Hard took $3.8 million. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, Escape from Planet Earth has collected $21.1 million thus far…. |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…film for certain TV screenings. The sequence (coming just before Jessica visits Eddie in his office) explains why Eddie is coming out of the shower when she arrives, and it’s… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…for the season in October 2010, but only third in production order. Here, we meet Marceline’s dad, who has been trapped in the Nightosphere. Of course, there may have been… |
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The Good Dinosaur voice cast announced
…is set to stomp into theaters on May 30th, 2014, where the only competition its currently facing will be Seth MacFarlane’s sure-to-be-R-rated A Million Ways to Die in the West…. |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…families would be up for a trip to Treasure Planet. But those hopes were dashed when Treasure Planet opened Thanksgiving 2002. Over the five-day weekend, the movie came in fourth… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #71: The Land Before Time – Fellowship of the Tree Star
…die? • Props to Don Bluth for his stunning hand-drawn effects like bubbles, tar, egg shell fragments, lava, rain, and, of course, the classic Don Bluth sparkle. • 9 minutes… |

