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Animation Addicts Podcast #90: Kung Fu Panda – How to Train Your Dragon Warrior
…Fu Panda Drama at the Annie Awards. Panda sweeps! First thoughts and recollections about the movie. Is it easier to do martial arts in animation? The 2D opening sequence is… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…now dead for sure, and that John Cleese’s Crood Awakaning will now see the light of day purely as a DreamWorks movie, Aardman isn’t losing any time making sure they… |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
…movie was based on the stylized graphic novel by Sin City‘s Frank Miller, and used the same technique as that film to bring the action to life, with the leads… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…scores. For those both for and against the new movie, this is a very insightful read in more ways than one: it seems its strengths and weaknesses are acknowledged by… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…a couple of weeks ago. We like to get together for movie nights when he’s in town, as we both write film reviews— I for this humble site, and he… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…unexpected widescreen transfer that assists the higher than average animation in making this come over as a real movie. One of the first, if not the first, animated television translations… |
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Kirikou et le Fétiche Égaré to premiere at Cannes
{{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=43580 The Big Cartoon Forum}} reports that the sequel to the critically acclaimed French animated movie Kirikou et la Sorciere will be shown at Cannes Film Festival this May…. |
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Starz Kids & Family Campaign
…offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 14.9 million and 26.6 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across… |
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The Muppets' Wizard of Oz a "middling affair"?
…that this may not be the fault of the movie’s production team. Apparently, the team was forced to make last minute changes to the film’s teleplay, as they had to… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…refer to the gigabyte allowance). As for the movie itself, those of you who have read some of my previous reviews and know my aversions to noisy filmmaking may be… |
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Indiana Jones and the alien borefest of doom…
…makes my skin crawl, and if it weren’t for Harrison Ford the film would be unwatchable, but it’s such a flat pancake of a movie that in no way holds… |
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Yogi! Fred! Caspian! All on DVD!
…sequences can have the effect of stopping the movie dead in parts (the result, perhaps, of trying to create a hit soundtrack as well as a hit movie). It should… |
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Pirates continues to plunder box-office booty!
…grosses worldwide to date. Apart from other notable records, At World’s End has become only the 24th film in movie history to have grossed more than $400 million overseas, but… |
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Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, passes away
…was over the age of 18). SpongeBob won critical acclaim for its splashy animation and irrelevant humor, and a theatrical feature–The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie–made the character even more popular when… |
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Happily N'Ever After n'ow on DVD…
…movie (featuring voices including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, George Carlin, Sigourney Weaver and others) didn’t gain much favor in our own James R. Whitson’s theatrical review, the DVD… |
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A Magic Gourd, Chipmunks, Madagascar's Nana and Wonder Woman? It's another packed post!
…it’s a genuine Disney movie in more ways that one and you could do a lot worse (Bedtime Stories, anyone?) than at least give this a rent…you may be surprised… |
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Time To Go Dragon Ball Hunting With Col. Sanders
…Akira Toriyama has been heavily involved with the movie’s story. Masahiro Hosoda, the director of the TV series, will be directing the movie set to premiere March 30 in Japan…. |
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Surf's Up at Animated Views!
…Calling it “a wonderfully original animated film”, James praises the documentary approach that gives the movie its uniqueness before starting to worry that, in copy-cat Hollywood fashion, we’ll now see… |
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It's the great review stack-up, Charlie Brown!
…for Pixar’s second movie. • Schoolhouse Rock: 30th Anniversary Edition – More from Rodney, looking back on this 2002 release in anticipation of the new election collection. • Won Ton… |
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Brad Bird heading into…Tomorrowland
…that the movie is now called Tomorrowland, and that it will feature George Clooney in the lead role. No other information has been provided beyond that, but more details are… |
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The Detective Pikachu trailer is full of Pokemon cameos
The upcoming live-action Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu finally has a teaser trailer, and from the looks of things, this could end up being a pretty funny summer blockbuster. In addition,… |
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Ted song to be performed at Oscars
Everybody Needs a Best Friend, from Seth MacFarlene’s blockbuster animated/live-action film Ted, will be performed by Norah Jones at the Academy Awards this year, ComingSoon.net is reporting. Although the movie… |
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Japan's Appleseed coming to the US!
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=104354 Toon Zone}} reports that “the rights to distribute the Appleseed movie have been aquired by Geneon Entertainment. The movie is planned for release this summer in the US… |
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Another walk in the Park…
…Imaginationland trilogy. This gathering of three episodes from the always outrageous program has been stitched together in a single movie form, presenting about as close as we’re likely to get,… |
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Ricky Gervais To Be Muppet Co-Star
Ty Burrell is set to star as the villain in the next Muppet movie, but he will need a hero to co-star with. The British comedian Ricky Gervais may be… |
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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
…pretty much since Blu-Ray’s debut, where Sony had learned from their bitter loss of Betamax to JVC’s VHS in the 1980s, made movie titles and players seemingly more available in… |
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Get kind of kooky with your first look at The Addams Family
…movie has a pretty impressive cast, including Oscar Issac as Gomez, Charlize Theron as his wife Morticia, and Chloe Grace Moretz as their daughter Wednesday. Other cast members include Bette… |
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Home on the Range sneak peeks
Tonight’s Wonderful World of Disney presentation of Tarzan, on ABC, will feature a special Disney sneak peek of Home on the Range. Also, be sure to check out the movie’s… |
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New "Beef Thief" poster for Home On The Range
…to be unveiled over the next couple of weeks as the film gets ready for its theatrical bow? Take a look over at {{link http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=23834&movie%5Fnss=20049765 MovieGoods.com}}. Thanks for the link!… |
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Marvel heroes to unite on stage
…Universe Live. While various studios have the movie rights to certain characters, Marvel still holds the rights to them in other mediums meaning this version “can deliver something movie fans… |
