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Disney magic flies again!
Let’s fly back to a more innocent age, back to when Disney’s live-action films were not particularly admired but that have stood the test of time to be rediscovered again…. |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…comments, the explanations why. A Make-Up Test With Tom Cruise is a particular surprise highlight: Cruise garnered good will for spoofing himself as a ruthless studio chief, and while his… |
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The Odd Couple: Centennial Collection
…up for a total of ten movie comedies, but it’s arguably The Odd Couple that stands the test of time better than any of them. The concept is brilliantly simple:… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…used and extensively tested in the 1937 short The Old Mill, while another cartoon, The Goddess Of Spring, was basically an experiment to see if a human figure could be… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…a lot of research on Marc’s work. I pulled Marc’s original model sheets, looked at pencil tests and interviews, and tried to capture Marc’s influence. In fact we used all… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…revenge against his greatest adversary. After Luthor convinces the world— including the superhuman community— that Superman has gone rogue, only Batman stands beside him. The Sweatbox Review: DC Comics had… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…end credits, Fall Out and Living In Harmony without those superimpositions, as well as what appears to be stock and test shots, and several foreign language versions of the Resigned… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…give their feedback to help the reels. Then we also have a test audience watch it and we ask them what they thought of the movie. It’s a long, long… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…Pixar’s competing film of that season that has stood the test of time more solidly, unhampered by the diminishing returns of the sequels upon sequels that the not-so-jolly green ogre… |
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Up
…of thousands of helium filled balloons and setting course for the almost mythical Paradise Falls… The Sweatbox Review: Pixar’s latest computer animated feature may sound like an overcomplicated slice of… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…buy a six-wheel-drive car that’s loaded with gadgets. That new car smell doesn’t last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…Native Americans, and it seemed amusing to me that almost one hundred years later the hottest blockbuster of our time would be mining the very same elements. Of course, the… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…storytelling than this legendary artist? In the climax of our five-part series of interviews, Mark talks about his latest creation, Tiana, for Disney’s current theatrical release The Princess And The… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…film. Now this may sound like something really cool – and it kind of is – but sadly this entire pencil test animation edition of the film has been shunted… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…come. Although this led to a series of high-profile “stunt castings”, Toy Story ran with the idea, producing a test sequence of a prototype Woody to enlist the services of… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…an animator. This time Musker turned it down, opting instead to complete the second year of his training. In 1977, Musker started work at Disney, where his two training tests… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…and Glen Keane were working on their test based on Where the Wild Things Are. I’ve been writing about CG for a long time. And Pixar consistently produces some of… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Season 2 in October
…with director and artist commentary, a unique 68-page Production Journal with original sketches and artist notes and a BD Exclusive: The Jedi Temple Archives: Extensive database of early test animation,… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…storyboard and pencil test, is intriguing (I’d still love to see the juicy graphic moments cut to avoid an R rating), but it’s been nicely tied together with original and… |
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Specs on How To Train Your Dragon
…Original Voice Cast Celebrate Dragon Weekend With Contest For Kids To Create Their Own Dragon, Store Events, The Launch Of Exclusive BD-Live Content And More! A winner with audiences and… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…in again for the reissue, is shown again in concept form, with different and separate introductions from Hahn and Menken, and there are more development material with Animation Tests, The… |
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Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story
…MA: We did do a test screening of the film when it was mostly complete — about 9 months before it was released — in front of a recruited audience… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
…is confronted with the true meaning of Christmas when he spends time with the children. He then faces the ultimate test when he must turn the children over to Horde… |
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Alpha and Omega DVD and Blu-ray in January
…featurettes (“Wolves in the Wild”, “The Alpha of Animation”, “Voicing the Wolves”, “From Alpha to Omega”), a Log Sliding interactive game, “Are You and Alpha or an Omega” personality test,… |
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Toy Story 3
…that the greatest special editions manage to locate. That said, there’s a terrific amount to see over the two BDs, the single-disc DVD, and the bundled in Digital Copy that… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…got me on board after they saw some test images I created for them. Usually, I do a presentation, the artwork gets printed and I get feedback. It was really… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…Studio’s achievements and its latest film, in a wonderfully serious examination of the artists’ craft that I would dearly love to see released on home video. In 1988, the UK’s… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…innovations that would ultimately mean the film couldn’t make back its production costs, at least initially. And this is where the discrepancies in Fantasia’s many reissues – and this latest… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…young child. There, as a three-year-old, he was taught to tap dance by a neighbor and entered a talent contest at the local Orpheum Theatre. Donnie won the $100 prize… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…later, I decided to send a reel to Blue Sky Studios. They contacted me a few weeks later, they sent me an animation test that I did over the course… |
