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Surf's Up at Animated Views!
…Calling it “a wonderfully original animated film”, James praises the documentary approach that gives the movie its uniqueness before starting to worry that, in copy-cat Hollywood fashion, we’ll now see… |
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Scully on Simpsons, plus good reviews galore!
…it took so long, and what we can expect from the finished picture! Many respected publications have already taken their first look: The Hollywood Reporter says the film is “everything… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
As promised (it went up late last night) is my take on the motion-captured graphic novel-styled Renaissance, fresh on DVD from Miramax Films. Does it break the trend of unconvincing… |
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The roar of the 300 and the whimper of the Aqua Teens…
…Widescreen Edition. The film plays with both history and Miller’s original to deliver a pounding experience that, like Sin City before it, was shot in a special effects stage and… |
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Shane Acker’s 9 set for DVD and Blu-ray
The $31.2 million grossing animated adventure 9, directed by Shane Acker from his original short film, has been announced for release on DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray ($39.98) by Universal on… |
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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
…The Wiggles! Also today, I must just make a mention of Film Score Monthly‘s latest scrumptious box set release, Superman: The Music, 1978-1988. The folks that brought us the terrific… |
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Indiana Jones and the really slow and talky blockbuster…
…of my previous concerns seem to have been justified and that I ultimately found the film to be an inevitable disappointment – not badly made, but just unexpectedly run of… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…film: songwriter Jeanine Tesori (also of the upcoming Shrek: The Musical and Glen Keane’s Rapunzel) and composer James Dooley, formerly a collaborator with Hans Zimmer on many major motion picture… |
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Let's start the week off with some new announcements…
…($24.99) and BD ($29.99) flavors. Cast and filmmaker commentaries, featurettes, profiles, MTV Movie Awards footage, documentary, deleted and extended sequences, alternate ending, rehearsals will all be there waiting for you…. |
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Indiana Jones and the alien borefest of doom…
…makes my skin crawl, and if it weren’t for Harrison Ford the film would be unwatchable, but it’s such a flat pancake of a movie that in no way holds… |
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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
…the film’s release, but this is still a very insightful look into the process. Plus we have a new contest gone up to win a copy of Sony’s direct-to-disc sequel… |
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Encrico Casarosa's Venice Chronicles, plus new reviews!
…he celebrated Ratatouille‘s arrival in theaters via a discussion with the film’s storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa. One of the things Enrico mentioned was his personal project The Venice Chronicles, a… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…for the next sixty minutes I’m in control!”) turns up and takes over the NCB Television Network, planning to suck every film and television program into his high tech storage… |
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Tooning In, and tuning up, with composer Shawn Patterson!
Ever since Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs became the first film to have its songs and score released as an original soundtrack album (no compact discs back in those… |
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Toy Story 3 coming to IMAX 3D
…to see some of the movie can tune into ABC Family on Sunday night, when a brand new clip from the film will debut during their showing of The Incredibles…. |
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Brittany Murphy dies at 32
…Luanne Platter on the long running series King of the Hill. She also had roles in the TV shows Futurama and Pepper Ann, and the Oscar winning film Happy Feet…. |
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Inspiration for, and from, Up!
…septuagenarian has made more than 200 expeditions. Next up: El Dorado… Meanwhile, the film continues to inspire others: the newspaper’s G2 printed supplement reports that “in June, 37 year old… |
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Turkeys set for 2011; Rats of NIMH on the way
According to Variety, a new animation house titled Bedrock Studios has plans for creating family-friendly films with budgets under $35 million. Their first project, centered around a pair of turkeys… |
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Lionel Jeffries RIP
…Law, Rocket To The Moon and Ray Harryhausen’s First Men In The Moon, among 70 film titles), who later became a writer-director of the classic adaptation of E. Nesbit’s The… |
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The opening montage of Up
Up director Pete Docter discusses the film’s emotional opening montage with The Envelope. The largely silent sequence takes Carl and his beloved, Ellie, from childhood to old age, giving him… |
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Animated Views’ 6th Annual Oscar Contest – Winner Announced!
…film that wins Best Animated Feature: either Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, or Up. As The Secret of Kells is not yet available, a $25 Amazon… |
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First look: Legend of the Guardians
…Rush, Legend of the Guardians is set to take flight in theaters and IMAX 3D on September 24th. UPDATE: Yahoo! Movies now has a first teaser trailer for the film…. |
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New trailer for Shrek Forever After
DreamWorks Animation has just revealed a brand new trailer for their upcoming movie Shrek Forever After. The fourth film–and reportedly the final one–in the popular series opens in theaters on… |
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Avatar comes to home video in April
…grossing film of all time, taking in over $2.6 billion in worldwide box office. Dates it will be released in other countries follow. FRANCE – April 21 BELGIUM – April… |
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Tim Burton to do animated Addams Family movie
…90s feature films based on the same work, the stop motion animated film will presumably start production once Burton is finished with Frankenweenie. It is currently without a release date…. |
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Michel Gondry talks Megalomania
Director Michel Gondry discussed his forthcoming animated film Megalomania with The Playlist Blog. The movie which is a collaboration with his teenage son, Paul, is in the works since 2007…. |
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The lighting and look of Dragons
…Men, The Village, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption) and had little experience in animation — which made him the perfect person to give this animated film a unique look…. |
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What it takes to make an Oscar nominated short
…Oscar nominated short film. The tongue-in-cheek but funny-becasue-it’s-true “recommendations” range from “going with what works” as in A Matter of Loaf and Death, to “flattering the Academy” as in Granny… |
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How To Train Your Dragon opens today
…number is not a record due to Avatar and Alice In Wonderland still playing in some theaters. Reviews for the new film are extremely positive, garnering a 97% fresh rating… |
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First Yogi Bear images
The Movie Insider has what appear to be the first images from the upcoming Yogi Bear live-action/CGI hybrid. Included on the site are an early poster for the film as… |
