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Summer box office soaring toward new record
The Hollywood Reporter reports that due to the success of such films as Shrek 2 ($429.2 million cumulative), Spider-Man 2 ($328.5 million cumulative), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of… |
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U.S. weekend box office estimates: July 7-9, 2006
Disney’s \\Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest\\ took in a record $132 million in its opening weekend, easily topping the previous best of $114.8 million by \\Spider-Man\\ in 2002,… |
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"Thrilled beyond words!" – Nemo tops home video sales…
…leaders Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which each sold around 14 million discs in their year-long release. Buena Vista Video president Robert Chapek… |
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\\Toy Story\\ to be first animated Disney UMD; animation flourishing on new disc format
…Within\\; \\Ghost in the Shell\\; \\Best of He-Man & The Masters of the Universe 1 & 2\\; \\South Park: When Technology Attacks\\; \\South Park: Volume 1, Spider-Man – The New… |
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Long wait for Cats And Dogs 2?
…Lou the Beagle “has become slightly more well-known” thanks to his starring role as Spider-Man and would not be returning to the film, still officially in pre-production as Tinkles’ Revenge…. |
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Tarzan's Broadway debut review
…Tarzan’s battles with a ferocious leopard and a giant spider. The second act, concentrating on the love story, sags considerably. Ultimately, whatever problems the show has, including the fact that… |
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Animated coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards
…past characters and their vehicles took to the streets of Hollywood, in a visual effects extravaganza. Found among the crowd were the Incredibles, Spider-Man, and the Batmobile, to name a… |
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New exclusive shorts at the Studio Ghibli Museum
…Saturn Theater, House-hunting, Mon-mon the Water Spider, and The Day I Harvested A Star will be showing alternatively to the visitor’s choice, rather than the usual single short. They will… |
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Disney's summer blockbuster found in Princess Diaries 2?
…between $8 million and $9 million on Wednesday, when the film opened. This would make Princess Diaries 2 have the third largest Wednesday opening of the year, only behind Spider-Man… |
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AnimationHQ to host chat with Gregg Berger
…Haul, Outback #2, Skyfire, and TORQ III in \\Transformers\\; Kraven the Hunter and Mysterio in the \\Spider-Man\\ series; Cornfed Pig in \\Duckman\\, Motorviper in \\G.I. Joe: The Movie\\; Odie in… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…are maybe one or two coincidences that are hard to overlook, but taken at the “kids cartoon” level it works well enough. I was pleased with the whole notion of… |
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An author named Charles Solomon about a boy named Charlie Brown…
…specials as kids and they clearly had a lasting impression. If you’ll pause, you can still hear Linus’ recitation of St. Luke in your head. AV: How did you gather… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…Panther, so it’s a pretty all-encompassing program. Again illustrating the point is a 45-minute selection of five Friz At MGM cartoons featuring his Captain And The Kids characters: Poultry Pirates,… |
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Michael Eisner Is Back in the Game with Universal Pictures
…has recently signed a film distribution deal with Universal Pictures. He plans to bring The Garbage Pail Kids to the silver screen, based off the popular trading cards/stickers drawn by… |
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The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 1
…what with Fred and Barney fighting and their kids helping to bring them together. On the other hand, Rockula And Frankenstone offers a monstrously nice change of pace, and is… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…Lanny is totally, tinselly in awe of the new elf on the block, but family squabbles must be placed to one side when one of the naughty kids discovers the… |
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Two New Series Coming to NickToons
…Toons and other classics, both new series work on two levels, according to Schwarz. Action packed with slapstick, over-the-top, cartoon comedy, they appeal to kids. Older viewers will also be… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…First Class. Snafu is given his own command to address his gripes. The result is more babes on base, but no discipline. Spies – Snafu as a blabber. Adolf Hitler… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…earnest sea sponge who lives in a two-story pineapple in the sub-surface city of Bikini Bottom, and has been the number-one animated program with kids 2-11 for more than 12… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…was gravely mistaken. In February 2005, the first image from the Kids’ WB! series Loonatics Unleashed went online, sparking an outcry from Looney Tunes fans. The controversial original designs for… |
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The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Vol. 1 – Heroes Assemble & Vol. 2 – Captain America Reborn
…to older kids. I can imagine that with the release of Captain America and Thor, the popularity of the show will increase as it goes into its second season. It… |
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\\The Three Musketeers\\ director campaigns for theatrical release
…kids to see a high quality, classic and funny Disney movie staring Mickey Mouse and friends, send Dick Cook an e-mail at… dick.cook@disney.com For your convenience, a sample letter is… |
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Batman screen captures
Comics Continuum has pics from last Saturday’s sneak peek of The Batman, on Kids’ WB!…. |
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Osbournes get animated
…Coffee Studios’ president and show creator Adam Shaheen notes, rather unnecessarily, that “although it is a cartoon, [The F’n Osbournes] is certainly not one for little kids, bearing in mind… |
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Will Christmas holidays save Monsters, Inc. 3-D?
…is reporting. The film was originally set to relaunch in theaters next January, until Disney had the (bizarre) decission to release it during the busy Christmas season instead. With kids… |
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\\Home on the Range\\ reviews mild, but critics love music
…Daily News says that the film offers “enough catchy songs to make you want to buy the soundtrack (and tolerate your kids listening to it a couple of hundred times).”… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…is a lot more adult humor incorporated in animated films like Gnomeo & Juliet. When writing these types of jokes that are supposed to go over the heads of kids… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…a heart of gold. He’s a real softie inside, which is what motivates him to use all this fierce energy and passion on behalf of kids. So, thinking about it… |
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Monsters vs. Aliens TV series trailer premieres
…vs. Aliens on March 23 with the episode Welcome to Area Fifty-Something, immediately following the Kids’ Choice Awards. The series will begin its regular run on April 6 at 11:30/10:30c…. |
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Fox picks up two new animated series
…to the Fox network: Allen Gregory, which follows the “adventures of the world’s most celebrated seven-year-old going to school with normal kids”, and Napoleon Dynamite, based on the popular film…. |
