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Five favorite films with John Lasseter
Pixar co-founder and director John Lasseter picks his five favorite movies of all time, speaking with RottenTomatoes. Lasseter lists his favorites along with a bonus Chuck Jones short in front… |
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Behind the scenes of Wall•E
…out the whole film on the spot. “He gave me the private show,” laughs the 59-year-old, who ended up working on Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull at the same… |
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The sound of Wall-E
UpcomingPixar has posted an interview with Ben Burtt, sound designer for Wall-E, best known for his works in Star Wars and Indiana Jones films. Burtt talks about heading the sound… |
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Don Hahn panel at Woodbury University
…Beast, Hercules, Meet the Robinsons, the upcoming The Princess and the Frog) Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:00 p.m Fletcher Jones Foundation Auditorium Woodbury University 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91510… |
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The Art Of Pixar Short Films
…topic of the book he chose to write. Similarly, other landmarks such as Pixar’s work on Star Trek II and Young Indiana Jones, as well as its commercial work, are… |
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More on Wall•E's box office performance
…this year according to Variety, a list currently topped by Paramount’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which has amassed $413 million to date. Finding Nemo is… |
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ReFrederator offers animated shorts from the great directors
…Friday, June 9 – \\Inki and the Mynah Bird\\ Director Chuck Jones flexes his artistic muscles in a film that’s a lot more than O.K. (and something less than P.C.)…. |
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AFI's top 10 animated films
…Ratzenberg, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, Cameron Crowe and more. Like all lists the ranking is highly questionable but still more credible than most. Click more for the full list:… |
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For you Indy fans
Paramount’s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull reportedly opened with a bang on Thursday with a massive though not (yet) record-breaking $25 million in the U.S. alone,… |
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Classic characters to run marathon with Boomerang
…X-2 (played by Marvin the Martian). Note: the kitschy theme song is sung by none other than Tom Jones. * Saturday, July 22 – The Pink Panther: The egocentric panther… |
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Bridging the gap between 2D and CG
The animation team of Angie Jones and Jamie Oliff have written in to inform us of their new book due for release on June 27: Thinking Animation: Bridging the Gap… |
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More talks of Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson co-directing third Tintin movie
Asked by the Dominion Post about the possibility of another Indiana Jones movie, director Steven Spielberg confirmed at the Cannes Film Festival that he would first be adapting Tintin for… |
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Disappointing opening in sight for Narnia sequel
…Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which many analysts expect will break records with a possible 5-day opening north of $160 million! On the animation front, DreamWorks’ Kung… |
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Steven Spielberg directing Tintin next
It’s official! The Indiana Jones director will next tackle the first chapter of the long-delayed Tintin trilogy. Production on the motion capture film is expected to wrap early next year…. |
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Kung Fu Panda premeir
…Also screening at the festival will be the highly anticipated live-action sequel Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. More information concerning the festival can be found here…. |
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Disney alumni pass away
…to animation fans as villain Jim Dale’s sidekick in 1977’s Pete’s Dragon and as the voice of Robespierre in Chuck Jones’ 1962 feature Gay Purr-ee, while {{link http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=barnard+hughes&btnG=Search+News Barnard Hughes}}… |
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Grinch still mean, after fifty years
…the largest private collection of Seuss-related items in the world. This 50th-anniversary retrospective traces the evolution of the drawings, describes Dr Seuss’ collaboration with Chuck Jones on the successful TV… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
…versions of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies in official, widescreen and digital sound versions are plugging up eBay with requests for players and discs. Animation fans, too, are… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…very reminiscent of Chuck Jones’ Duck Amuck (1953) in which another duck, Daffy, is teased by an unknown animator. The show closes with the Night On Bald Mountain sequence from… |
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New images from The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
…voiced by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Toby Jones and Joe Starr respectively. Produced by Peter Jackson, the first film in the trilogy is slated for a December 2011 release…. |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…narration by Holloway. Welchman was aiming to get away from previous animated versions of the story, especially Disney’s and perhaps the second most well-known edition, a Chuck Jones-produced special from… |
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Star Trek (2009)
…the emphasis just on the right word and soothing any fears that this might be “fake Trek“. Far more consistent than any of the Star Wars, Superman or Indiana Jones… |
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Spider-Man 3
…and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker, capped by a third part that goes back to… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…The Huntsman asking why they were all fired from the show! The second half has Freakazoid meeting an invisible mummy, the Indiana Jones-like feel coming primarily from the art direction… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…department at top notch fever pitch; it’s an absolute triumph of animation, color design, lighting, music, vocal performances (Pinocchio’s Dickie Jones’ reading of the line “…and I’m…I’m real” is as… |
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South Park Chihuahua…a new breed? Get Outa Here!
…our fascination with celebrity figures, as well as a frankly brilliant appraisal of the black hole that was last summer’s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, which… |
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Major Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 details revealed
…Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can’t figure a crafty way out of this one, he’ll be cursed to an afterlife… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…to transport often sensitive packages – remind me of the Indiana Joneses…they’re not crude (there’s no nudity) or violent in anything other than a cartoon way, there’s little on screen… |
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Bird to fly with Incredibles sequel?
…of sequels that shouldn’t have been made. Jaws 2, for instance, didn’t benefit humanity in any way. The ones that work, like the second Mad Max and Indiana Jones –… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…a stage magician and his unwilling bunny stooge, this is as fast as cartoons get, a wonderful homage to the likes of Jones and Avery that, like Who Framed Roger… |
