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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!
…and on signs during shooting, the now-Sony owned studio had no other choice than to license the Ghost Busters name for their movie. All of this, according to who you… |
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Monster House: Widescreen Edition
…a behind-the-scenes look at the movie. Imaginary Heroes (3:30) looks at character design, emphasizing the cartoony look that was chosen. Beginner’s Luck discusses casting the movie. The Best Of Friends… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…his animated films. The documentary on the DVD says that the comic was specifically produced to secure financing for the 1984 movie version, although this is disputed in other accounts… |
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Is Disney making a Magic Kingdom movie?
After making various movies based off of their theme park attractions–some more successful than others–, Variety is reporting that Disney is apparently considering making a film based off of a… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
20th Century Fox (1951 / 2008), 3 discs, 104 mins plus supplements, Rated PG-13 $40 The Movie: The modern, updated remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still is a… |
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New motion capture movie Tarzan 3D trailer premieres
While Russia and Germany are already getting their share of the new Tarzan 3D on the silver screen, English-speaking audiences must make do with a UK trailer. Tarzan 3D is… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…my affection for these costumed heroes, especially specific figures that I’ve continued to follow through television and movie incarnations. When the long-gestating movie version of Spider-Man eventually rolled around in… |
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Smurfs movie finds a director
Variety reports that Raja Gosnell has signed on to direct Sony and Columbia Pictures’ live action/animated Smurfs. The editor turned director is best known for helming Scooby-Doo movies. Produced by… |
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Cauldron book made into "not-so-good" movie?
A.V. Club presents the countdown “Lost In Translation: 20 Good Books Made Into Not-So-Good Movies.” Animation is represented in the list by Disney’s The Black Cauldron, with the article referring… |
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Star Trekkin' across the universe! Plus Venture Bros. and Tiny Toons!
Phew! It’s true what people are saying…JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek movie sets its phasers for stunning and delivers a whole starshipload of pure entertainment at top warp. I wouldn’t… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…were not helped by having to start the movie hopping between Africa (actually Kenya) and back in New York, replaying the first movie plot in seven seconds, and then just… |
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See Sea-Monkey movie
Cinema Confidential reports on a big screen animated film based on the Sea Monkeys, the brine shrimp who can be coaxed out of their cryptobiotic state by just adding water,… |
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Shrek the Third
…throughout the movie. So in an obviously important scene, like when Fiona is ready to tell here husband she is pregnant, you would think they would take the time to… |
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Toonpur Ka Superrhero is Bollywood’s newest animated movie
While Bollywood produces more movies than Hollywood annually, they haven’t developed many animated films. After a couple flops, Roadside Romeo and Ramayana-The Epic, Toonpur Ka Superrhero proves to be a… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
Paramount Pictures (1969), Legend Films/Paramount (June 3 2008), single disc, 125 mins plus supplement, 2:35:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated G, Retail: $14.95 The Movie: They’re off! If Those… |
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The Halloween Tree
…classic. In 1966 perhaps his best known work, Fahrenheit 451, became the much-lauded Francis Truffaut movie, and despite an apparently tough shoot it remains a true classic of cinema and… |
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Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”
…director prevailed. Basically, with the director you have a boss and you try and satisfy the boss. AV: The core of the movie is the Mike and Sully’s friendship. How… |
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Spider-Man 3
The new Spidey does what a lot of “threes” do in that it doesn’t particularly disappoint, but can’t quite match what has come before. As with the Fantastic Four movie,… |
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Super Bowl movie ads
While the Packers won the game, FOX was the big winner with 30 second ads during the Super Bowl last night going for $3 million! Among them were spots for… |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Sweepstakes
…Broadbent, with Liam Neeson as Aslan. Starz is where the new hit movies live. Don’t just see the big movies, experience them. Starz Entertainment is a premium movie service provider… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…things. Sometimes, you know, in filmmaking, for whatever reasons, there are dramas or unnecessary things you have to deal with that have nothing to do with making a movie. This… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…anticipated fall. Actually, for a British-set movie featuring yet more lovable animated critters – plus in this case the hard to sell case of rodent stars – and with a… |
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New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates
…couple of comments on the movie that got caught up in a web phenomenon, Snakes On A Plane, which I finally sat down to watch on DVD last night. I… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…time to submit his movie. There’s some lovely stuff here, such as nods to Donald Duck’s explaining of how cartoons “work” and a surreal “pencil test” gag that gets me… |
