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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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The Secret Life Of Pets
…how ideas are starting to become thinner and thinner on the ground thesedays, there’s also a sausage-induced hallucinogenic dream sequence that anticipates the much more adult Sausage Party, released a… |
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Animated tally for 2006 world box office
The Animation Guild Blog breaks down how animated movies fared among the live-action flicks at the 2006 international box office. Among the top ten films, Ice Age: The Meltdown took… |
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Sing
…June, Fox’s fifth (and hopefully final) Ice Age sequel, Blue Sky’s Collision Course, in July, followed by August’s much more critically acclaimed Kubo And The Two Strings from Laika (technically… |
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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…on Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) and supervising director on the MTV series. Kaplan’s film credits include her work as head of story on Ice Age (2000) and animator… |
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Box Office Weekend : March 11 – 13, 2005
…film, only behind Fox/Blue Sky’s previous collaboration Ice Age, which brought in $46.3 million. Reviews for Robots were mixed but leaning on the positive side with a Rotten Tomatoes score… |
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Hey Seuss! Horton hears our Views! Plus the new League…
…I continue to believe are the closest rivals to Pixar’s unique brand, serving up a mixture of relatively safe franchise Ice Ages and stand-alone properties that jump outside the urban… |
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Disney buys most of Fox
…animation studio Blue Sky, responsible for such films as Ice Age and The Peanuts Movie. In addition to everything else the Mouse House gets, analysts believe the move to acquire… |
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Cars wins Golden Tomato award
…(68.92), Monster House (68.05), Curious George (64.44), A Scanner Darkly (62.25), The Ant Bully (60.73), Ice Age: The Meltdown (55.45) and Open Season (50.81) round out the list’s top ten…. |
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Robots 2 coming down the pipe
…Robots 2 is likely to come after Blue Sky’s big screen adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book Horton Hears a Who, which itself is due out after Ice Age 2…. |
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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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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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Weekend Studio Estimates: March 18 – 20, 2005
…pulled in $66.9 million, looking to end its domestic run in theaters with around $125 million. In comparison to its Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky predecessor Ice Age and last fall’s… |
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Robots receives early mixed reviews
…experience seeing Robots with his 4 1/2 year-old grandson: “Colorful and very fast paced, the funniest thing was the Ice Age short [teaser trailer] beforehand, the film was ultimately as… |
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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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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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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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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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Networks airing computer animated films tonight
…air Twentieth Century Fox/Blue Sky’s \\Ice Age\\. Both begin at 7pm ET (barring sporting events running late). And for those able to receive it, both will air in high definition…. |
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Spirited Away
…fact that it was competing with Ice Age, Treasure Planet, and Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron; only Lilo And Stitch really gave it any competition. Regardless, Spirited Away would be… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…not show up well on a movie screen (I really noticed this when seeing Ice Age in the theater; I thought it looked awful, all grey and dreary, but was… |
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Before The Meltdown
The official Blue Sky Studios page presents a list of gag alternate titles “considered” for their hit Ice Age: The Meltdown by adding an icy spin to the titles of… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…heard it was going to be made by the studio that brought you Ice Age, Robots, Rio, and Epic, whatever level of unease you felt probably ratcheted up the scale…. |
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Valiant
…the film is top-notch, if not quite as spectacular as that seen in Pixar or PDI productions. I would, however, rank it above that seen in Ice Age and certainly… |
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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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Images and plot descriptions from upcoming animated films
…films yet to be released. Included are The Princess And The Frog, $9.99, Monsters Vs Aliens, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, Coraline, and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs…. |
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Regal & RealD rolling out 1,500 more 3D screens
…concluded that “with Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and James Cameron’s Avatar both being released in the not so distant future in the 3D format, we at Fox… |
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Animated disc announcements
…and Jerry: Tales – Volume 1 DVDs. Fox will be releasing an Ice Age: The Meltdown special edition DVD on March 2nd. Paramount/DreamWorks’ Bee Movie will bow on DVD, 2-disc… |
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CityWalk Summer Block Party
Universal CityWalk will be screening classic movies on a gigantic outdoor screen every Thursday night this summer. Animated offerings include Blue Sky’s Ice Age: The Meltdown and DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek… |
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Regal Cinemas Free Family Film Festival
…Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland, Doogal, Curious George, Jonah: A Veggie Tale Movie, Over The Hedge, Charlotte’s Web, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Flushed Away,… |