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Pixar Graphics Art Director Craig Foster on Toy Story 4
…care for the kids in that environment. I did that through hand-created labels like the ones teachers could make, and other things that they could buy, like educational posters, but… |
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The Secret Life of Pets 2’s bark proves worse than its box office bite
…weekend? That is, of course, a very broad and potentially unlikely assessment. Kids usually don’t mind that sort of thing, and they are a big part of the target audience… |
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Wonder Park’s $16 million opening beats expectations, but did it ride high enough?
…serve as a pilot for a new TV series for Nickelodeon, so aiming for the kids made sense, even as the film faced competition not only from How to Train… |
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Watch the trailer for Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures animated series of shorts
Disney and LucasFilm have launched a trailer for Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures. The animated series of shorts will be released to the recently launched Star Wars Kids YouTube channel… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…to kids. This gave us a lot of opportunity to create areas of warm local light for our characters to act in, and it gave the movie a pleasant warm… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Studio Ponoc (2017), Universal/GKids (May 1, 2018), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 103 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (for Japanese and English), Rated PG, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: A… |
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Incredibles 2 drowns Finding Dory’s opening weekend record
…of all time, eclipsing the title Finding Dory held by more than $40 million. Incredibles 2 was a massive hit with audiences, earning a rare “A+” CinemaScore (for you kids… |
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Early Man
…Younger kids will love it and everyone else will at least get a few laughs out of it. But it could have been more. Aardman is still on top of… |
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Playmobil: The Movie
…choices were very grating to me. OK, let’s be honest. This is not going to win any Academy Awards. But if given the chance to watch, kids will probably love… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…museum which houses, amongst other things, a great collection of pretty ancient marionettes and puppets. We both hadn’t been up there since we were kids so we thought we might… |
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The Star
…joy to their target audience — kids — during the Christmas season. (Based on the crowd I saw it with, they have wildly succeeded in that regard.) So if you… |
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Coco
…that in mind! Coco is a beautiful film in a lot of ways — artistically, musically, and culturally. But the plot is a bit too dry for kids and a… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Three
…for a kids’ show, there is enough drama to maintain adult interest, as well as great visuals. Fans will also enjoy the bountiful bonus features on this release. One more… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn
…somehow finds a way to parody student films), and kids should at least be pleased with it. Having said that, the subversive humor of the original is almost nowhere to… |
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DuckTales
…promises: plenty of adventure and a ton of fun. In fact, there’s a good chance adults might end up loving this even more than kids. The series doesn’t throw bones… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…of course easily be argued Tangled: Before Ever After is intended for kids, but as a herald for a major new Disney series promoted as a television event, and featuring… |
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Sing
…fluffy chance to learn some of the dance moves choreographed for the movie, in a strictly for kids six and a half minutes. The Sing Network serves up a handful… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…Their building sets have been huge sellers, being marketed both to kids and adult collectors. Direct-to-video and cable broadcast specials have been popular among fans. But this is the first… |
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The Secret Life Of Pets
…characters, a minor doggie treat in itself. Is This Thing Loaded? Trailers for Illumination’s Sing, Laika’s Kubo And The Two Strings, G-Kids’ Phantom Boy and the Minions ride at Universal… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…a whole lot of weirdness right there, spread over two discs. After just a few episodes, I need my brain to cool down for a bit. My kids love the… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…blot twists — which Kubo does have too — but subverting the way we expect life to play out in typical animated movies. Your kids probably aren’t used to a… |
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DC Superhero Girls: Hero of the Year
…isn’t to say that DC Superhero Girls isn’t offering anything aimed directly at the “big kids” who might be watching. While the sophistication and adult-pleasing humor of My Little Pony:… |
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Frozen II lets it go to record-breaking $350 million global opening
…benefit of opening during the summer when kids are off from school on Fridays. And there’s still a slight chance that Anna and Elsa could eclipse Dory once actuals come… |
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Finding Santa: A Christmas Adventure
…when some other kids bully him and make fun of him for liking Christmas (because that happens?), Julias declares that Santa Claus isn’t real and says that he must be… |
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Elstree 1976
…Star Wars came along, especially for British kids of the 70s who will remember him for the road safety campaign as the Green Cross Code Man, which his superhero bodybuilder… |
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Immerse yourself in the stunning Avatar: The Way of Water teaser
…more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids),… |
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Night of the Zoopocalypse opens
…a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes so far, with many praising it as a beginner horror movie for kids. Opening in only a third of the number of theatres a typical… |
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New trailer for Pixar’s first long-form animated series Win or Lose
…it actually feels like to be in the shoes of each character — the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire — with incredibly funny, very emotional and… |
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The Wild Robot
…behind everything in The Wild Robot. It’s a wonderful movie with positive messaging which, like the best animated films, both kids and adults can benefit from. I’m afraid I did… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…late 1993, via my first purchase from the Whole Toon Catalog. (That would be mail order, kids.) I was enjoying my time living away from home after university, and was… |
