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Penguins of Madagascar
…Best Picture nomination for this film either. The Penguins, like Scrat from the Ice Age franchise and the Minions from Despicable Me series, take me back to the zany cartoons… |
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Meltdown heats up video charts
The Hollywood Reporter via Coming Soon reports that Ice Age: The Meltdown enjoyed a first-place finish on the national DVD sales chart, knocking The Da Vinci Code down to the… |
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Disney to close the doors of Blue Sky Studios
The animation studio–once a powerhouse behind the Ice Age series–was acquired by Disney as part of their purchase of 20th Century Fox…. |
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Robots specs
…director/animators commentary, the original Robots short that impressed Fox to make the movie, a look at the making of Ice Age 2 and the previosuly announced Aunt Fanny’s Tour Of… |
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Disney quietly announces Rio 3, animated Night at the Museum
In an online press kit for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Disney discreetly announced two upcoming projects. In the bio section for screenwriter Jim Hecht, it says that… |
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Academy unveils animated film finalists
…George (Universal), Everyone’s Hero (Fox), Flushed Away (DreamWorks/Aardman), Happy Feet (Warner Bros.), Ice Age: The Meltdown (20th Century Fox), Monster House (Sony), Open Season (Sony), Over the Hedge (DreamWorks), Paprika… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…while Disney CEO Michael Eisner increased their wages to encourage fidelity. Things became so sticky that many artists resorted to agents and lawyers. But external damage was not the only… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…went direct-to-streaming, including adequate sequels like Hotel Transylvania: Transformania and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, and the underwhelming and appropriately named Disenchanted (blending live-action and animation). Rescue Rangers,… |
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Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD cover art?; Brother Bear 2 plot known
…Pacific Northwest at the end of the Ice Age. During his adventures, he remains haunted by dreams of his previous life. As a human child, he befriended Nita, the daughter… |
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Meet the flockers: the Animated-News Valiant review
…couldn’t quite be pegged at Pixar or DreamWorks level, obviously, but Valiant surely attains the level of Blue Sky’s Ice Age and is certainly no embarrassment. Director Gary Chapman keeps… |
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Prolific animation composer Powell profiled
…soaring How to Train Your Dragon score and music for such hits as Happy Feet, three of the Ice Age movies, two Dr. Seuss entries, Kung Fu Panda and the… |
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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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Wedge on Robots 2, future projects
Speaking with the Sydney Morning Herald, Robots director Chris Wedge, currently co-producing Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, states that Robots 2 is being considered. Likewise, he is now working on… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: September 1–3, 2006
…total; 12th week) 58) A Scanner Darkly with $36,059, averaging $693 over 52 theaters ($5,354,553 total; 9th week) 84) Ice Age: The Meltdown with $5,386, averaging $414 over 13 theaters… |
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Box office weekend update: October 1 – 3
…of Shark Tale was only a little bit below Ice Age’s $13.7 million take on Friday, March 12, 2002. The Fox CGI flick went on to gross $46.3 million for… |
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Squarepants Movie soundtrack listing; Hasselhoff joins movie's cast; Wedge on Williams' Robots character
…script around to Robin, and he clamped onto the part of Fender,” says Chris Wedge, the director of Robots and Ice Age. Robots opens in theaters on March 11, 2005…. |
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Robots! Madagascar! Hot trailers!
A quick re-cap announcing the joint online debuts for the first-look teasers for Fox/Blue Sky’s {{link http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/robots.html Robots}}, director Chris Wedge’s follow up to Ice Age, and DreamWorks Animation’s {{link… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: August 25–27, 2006
…52) Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties with $45,547, averaging $455 over 100 theaters ($28,280,486 total; 11th week) 76) Ice Age: The Meltdown with $9,860, averaging $547 over 18 theaters… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…more often, but Jimmy Neutron is consistently inventive. Our hero is basically your average, run of the mill genius kid and the film has a lot of mileage in the… |
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Robots debut!
As sent in by many readers of Animated News (thanks!), {{link http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/robots.html Yahoo Movies has debuted the trailer for Robots}}, director Chris Wedge’s highly anticipated follow up to Ice Age,… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…shop for other studios and companies, offering animation and visual effects. Reel FX provided significant animation for both direct-to-video Open Season sequels, TV special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, theme… |
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Despicable Me 2
…a way. Like Scrat in the Ice Age movies, they steal just about every scene they are in. And they are a major part of part of the plot. But… |
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Little marketing change
…title font have been changed to give the poster a feeling similar to that of posters for past CGI hits, such as Monsters, Inc. and Ice Age. In fact, the… |
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Wedge takes on Leaf Men
Yahoo! Movies/Reuters writes that Ice Age director Chris Wedge will helm a computer animated adaptation of William Joyce’s picture book The Leaf Men and Brave Good Bugs. Twentieth Century Fox… |
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More on Robots' DVD
…campaign will be bigger than that for the DVD of Ice Age, which drove that release to one of the Top 5 titles of the 2002 with consumer spending that… |
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Dream On Silly Dreamer report and photos
…films like Shrek and Ice Age from competing studios performed well at the box office, Disney execs strangely assumed that Disney films must be failing due to being hand-drawn and… |
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Fox showcases Blue Sky, DreamWorks flicks at CinemaCon
…opening logo, which features Scrat of Ice Age fame. It also treated the audience to teaser trailers for Rio 2 and Peanuts. The latter trailer revealed that the CGI film… |
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Robots preview on TV tonight
…entitled Assembling ROBOTS: The Magic, The Music and the Comedy. Robots hits theaters next week, March 11, and is 20th Century Fox’s first CGI movie since Ice Age in 2002…. |
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New Robots clip; ten questions with Robots director Chris Wedge
IGN FilmForce has an exclusive clip from Robots, in addition to asking ten questions to Robots and Ice Age director Chris Wedge. Robots marches into theaters on Friday…. |
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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…. |