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Babe 3 to be CGI?
While promoting his most recent venture, Happy Feet, George Miller told Moviehole that a third Babe adventure is definitely being considered. However, the “gallant pig” might look a little different… |
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The year in animation
…by the Los Angeles Times, in “Do’s and don’t’s from the year in animation.” From Curious George to Happy Feet, the article reviews what it refers to as “animation saturation.”… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: December 29-31, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 9) Happy Feet with $7,650,181, averaging $2,982 over 2,565 theaters ($175,967,627 total; 7th week) 31) The Polar Express (IMAX) with $179,513, averaging $5,279 over 34… |
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Producers Guild announces animation nominees
The Producers Guild of America has announced its nominees for “Animated theatrical motion pictures.” Competing for the honor will be Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: January 5-7, 2007
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 6) Happily N’Ever After with $6,608,244, averaging $2,775 over 2,381 theaters ($6,608,244 total; 1st week) 13) Happy Feet with $4,004,462, averaging $1,810 over 2,212 theaters… |
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Cars wins Golden Tomato award
…score of 70.78, Happy Feet follows close behind, in second place. Flushed Away (69.41), Over the Hedge (68.92), Monster House (68.05), Curious George (64.44), A Scanner Darkly (62.25), The Ant… |
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Box Office: 1/12/2007 Weekend
…in its second weekend for a 12th place finish – and a two week total of $10.8 million. Happy Feet danced to a 17th place finish in its 9th week… |
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Cars takes PGA Award
Disney/Pixar’s Cars added more hardware to its shelf with Darla K. Anderson winning the Producers Guild’s Animated Feature award. The film raced past Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The… |
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2007 Oscar nominations announced
…• Disney/Pixar’s Cars – John Lasseter • Warner Bros.’ Happy Feet – George Miller • Sony/Columbia’s Monster House – Gil Kenan The nominees for Best Animated Short are • Mikrofilm… |
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Kids' Choice nominees for "Best Animated Movie"
Reuters via Yahoo! News reveals the “Best Animated Movie” nominees for Nickelodeon’s 20th annual Kids’ Choice Awards. The competition includes Cars, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Over the… |
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U.S. box office actuals: February 2-4, 2007
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 20) Arthur and the Invisibles with $1,015,026, averaging $815 over 1,245 theaters ($12,777,894 total; 6th week) 25) Happy Feet with $591,291, averaging $1,028 over 575… |
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Animated entries for 33rd Saturn Awards
With three nominations, Monster House is the top animated title among the nominees for the 33rd annual Saturn Awards. The film will go against Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Over… |
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U.S. box office actuals: March 23-25, 2007
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 1) TMNT with $24,255,205, averaging $7,799 over 3,110 theaters (1st week) 23) Happy Feet with $395,313, averaging $976 over 405 theaters ($197,207,309 total; 19th week)… |
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U.S. box office actuals: March 23-25, 2007
…with $3,005,175, averaging $3,426 over 877 theaters (1st week) 15) TMNT with $2,259,322, averaging $1,217 over 1,855 theaters ($50,819,085 total; 4th week) 48) Happy Feet with $55,605, averaging $394 over… |
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Jones joins Rainmaker to Escape from Planet Earth
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Ed Jones, who recently served as an executive producer for Happy Feet, will produce Escape from Planet Earth for Rainmaker Animation. Directed by Steve Nichols,… |
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Cars wins Best Animated Film Saturn
…Animated Film at the 33rd annual Saturn Awards, held Thursday evening, May 10. Other nominees for the prize included Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Over the Hedge and A Scanner Darkly…. |
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Pixar makes "Best of" lists
…Nemo and 5) Toy Story 2. Nominees that failed to make the final list are Monsters Inc., Ice Age, Over the Hedge, Happy Feet, Chicken Little, Robots and Shrek 2…. |
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Marketing Surf's Up
…a brand-new experience rather than a copy of March of the Penguins or Happy Feet. Nonetheless, the movie’s creators are hoping Surf’s Up has similar success to its penguin predecessors…. |
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WALL-E
…to say instead of cramming it down your throat like Happy Feet, any message in WALL-E is seamlessly weaved into the fabric of the story there for the taking for… |
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Shrek, Simpsons up for U.K. National Movie Awards
…U.K. TV network ITV is launching after the success of the National Television Awards. The Best Animation nominees include Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Shrek the Third and The Simpsons Movie…. |
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Justice League captured
IESB.net reports that the upcoming Justice League movie directed by George “Mad Max/Happy Feet” Miller will likely be animated with motion capture technology. Meanwhile, Cinema Confidential states that “neither Christian… |
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DVD charts: November 19-25, 2007
…Ratatouille, the Disney/Pixar hit dropped to 4th place in its third week. Interestingly, Black Friday discounts saw Happy Feet jump back into the top ten, with the Oscar-winning penguin pic… |
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Bolt debuts below expectations
…other November toons in recent years have opened to – 2005’s Chicken Little, 2006’s Happy Feet, and last year’s Bee Movie all bowed in the $38-42M range. The canine flick… |
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Surf’s Up
…animated penguins of Happy Feet, who went on to pick up the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at a very “green” Oscar ceremony. In 2007 we have the best… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
… Happy Feet • released on Blu-ray and a combo DVD/HD DVD in 2007. re-issued on HD DVD later in 2007 • same features as DVD. Meet the Robinsons… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…most notably Happy Feet of course, Sony could have much more of a hit on their hands this second time out, especially since they seem to be selling this one… |
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The Reef
…The environmental message, if it’s even intended to be there, isn’t rammed down our throats the way it was so clumsily in Happy Feet, and essentially the film is a… |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…could feed on the totally unpredicted popularity of surprise smash Happy Feet. Whatever happened to keeping back the “special” films until Christmas? This past holiday was especially flat, for me… |
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Goofy's new animators spill the beans; plus dancing penguins and other new reviews
…Award, the cute but creepy Happy Feet, George (Babe) Miller’s mix up of strange ideas clashing with too many themes and not enough restraint. Monster House was robbed, I tell… |
