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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…or their rival, DreamWorks. But since Ice Age, Robots and, especially, Horton Hears A Who! I’ve been particularly impressed with the Studio headed up by Bunny Oscar-winner Chris Wedge, and… |
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Despicable Hollywood
…don’t count Despicable out yet…if there’s one film that looks like it’s going to pick up The Incredibles‘ cape and run with it, it’s DreamWorks’ OoberMind. Often derided as the… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Animation Studios, Blue Sky Studios and DreamWorks Animation. Disney’s theatrical animation department, often hailed as the cornerstone of the company, was no longer the leader in the industry. Eisner believed… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Pixar Animation, The Muppets, Steven Spielberg’s new DreamWorks, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and perhaps most excitingly of all, the return of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit to the Studio and the ending… |
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Tangled
…scope of Beauty And The Beast, but quickly thrown off target by the then supposedly hip Disney executives that, smarting from the barrage of pop-culture smashes from rival DreamWorks, demanded… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
Welcome to a new week! We’ve official word from DreamWorks this morning, on that stand-alone release of Shrek The Halls on DVD, the cover art for which can be seen… |
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Changes in store for ASIFA-Hollywood, Annie Awards
…writer and teacher, first managing his own studio, and then working in management positions for Disney, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks, among others. He is currently the CEO of the animation… |
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Abominable opens to $20 million
…Universal’s focus isn’t on America, but on China, where they’re hoping the movie will be huge. Abominable was a co-production between DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studios (formally Oriental DreamWorks), with… |
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Happy Feet Two
…from Sony Animation’s own penguin “mockumentary” Surf’s Up, DreamWorks got in on the act with their Madagascar spin-offs, while Happy Feet’s phenomenal success even propelled it to walk away with… |
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Kung Fu Panda opening a strong #1 at the U.S. box office
Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that very early box office numbers show that DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda punched out at least a $17 million debut Friday in very wide release… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
Our friends from Madagascar are back! The first film was madcap and entertaining. The second was a little grim and busy. Did the zookeepers at DreamWorks get things back on… |
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The View 2017 program and guests now announced
…DreamWorks Animation MADAGASCAR films with Tom McGrath, as well as directing ANTZ. VIEW Conference has also announced the opening of submissions for the show’s highly competitive‘VIEW Awards.’ Celebrating the best… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…resulted in Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. Disney also had to contend with the growing rivalry of DreamWorks, co-founded by Disney’s previous Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg,… |
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More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!
…is it any wonder that Paramount/DreamWorks have greenlit a sequel to Michael Bay’s Transformers? I’ve yet to see the film, but its box-office dominance is sure to continue the momentum… |
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Flushed Away Giveaway – Winners Announced!
We gave away one widescreen edition and one fullscreen of Flushed Away courtesy of DreamWorks Home Entertainment. The winners have now been picked and we can say congratulations to… •… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Review: Just as DreamWorks’ Rise Of The Guardians has been getting good notices for almost being everything a DreamWorks film usually is not, so does Pixar’s first foray into the… |
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Trolls
…him to join her on a quest to save them before they all become snacks. Of all of the projects that DreamWorks Animation has announced over the years, Trolls was… |
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Turbo
…falls apart. Pixar did this almost effortlessly. Here, DreamWorks doesn’t even come close. By the climax the ridiculousness of it all piles so high it is almost laughable. The animation… |
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Marketing budgets for animated features are on the rise
Wall•E is expected to easily become the year’s most marketed movie, with DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda coming close behind. Last year, Ratatouille topped the marketing charts, with Disney spending $54… |
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Planes, Turbo praised in test screening reviews
…poster at IMDb suggests DreamWorks has another feel-good hit on their hands, with Turbo. “It’s very funny with the same Dreamworks type humor that adults can enjoy as well,” he… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…at dipping into the animation pool. Fox announced its first project and DreamWorks was being formed, but at that time no one was is a better position than Warner Bros…. |
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Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris
…Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, and Disney’s A Goofy Movie. At DreamWorks Animation, Bergeron co-directed The Road to El Dorado and Shark Tale. In October 2011, he unveiled his latest directorial… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Flushed Away for DreamWorks and in Batman & Robin, her second Batman movie since she made her debut working at… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…for direction and writing. Afterward, Brannon pursued independent interests, selling a film pitch titled Space Monkey (2002) to DreamWorks Animation. That led to his assisting with the company’s Over the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #38: How To Train Your Dragonite…I Mean, Dragon
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Morgan, Chelsea, and Mason are flying high as they discuss DreamWorks’ How to Train your Dragon! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9579314210.mp3 Highlights: • What’s going on in everyone’s life?… |
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The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
…That’s the single word that comes to mind when I think of Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit. Park is an integral part of Aardman Animation, the studio responsible for Dreamworks’… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…and, in what may be a new low for crude humor in an animated film, a masturbation joke. The art side is up to DreamWorks usual standard: bright colors, cool… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer – The Croods – DreamWorks Animation Animated Effects in a Live Action Production Michael Balog, Ryan Hopkins, Patrick Conran, Florian Witzel –… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…them airing the first episode in full to an enthusiastic response. Thunderbirds Are Go will steam in North America on Amazon Prime April 22. DreamWorks Animation’s Voltron: Legendary Defender It… |
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The Wild Robot
…to proclaim it an instant classic based off of its visuals alone. Universal Pictures–which owns DreamWorks Animation–clearly became alert to this, amplifying the marketing and essentially launching an early Oscar… |
