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Fist Of The North Star director Toyoo Ashida dies
…many others. He was also one of the co-founders of the Japanese Animation Creators Association and a mentor to many notable animators. Give our regards to Disney, Tezuka, and Jones…. |
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Mars Needs Moms
…the imaginative to the downright wearisome. Theodore Geisel, Dr Seuss himself, collaborated directly with Chuck Jones to create cartoons in the 1940s before taking on How The Grinch Stole Christmas,… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…The Pixie Hollow Games, Jake And The Neverland Pirates, Beauty And The Beast’s Enchanted Christmas, Lady And The Tramp, the next Indiana Jones-light styled TreasureBuddies (when will it ever end!?),… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…Collections couldn’t continue to four or five volumes. There’s at least another two to be had in the remainder of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, after which Chuck Jones took over the… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
…like every other kid growing up, but I continued enjoying them as I grew older. I received a copy of Chuck Jones’s autobiography Chuck Amuck when I was still at… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…a Dean Jones type, and even though the film came before the actor’s association with the Studio and he never voiced an animated creation at Disney’s, there’s more than a… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…ironic in that the movie was pitched at one point as “Indiana Jones on Mars”. It isn’t quite that exciting, but there are some nice touches: the editing early on… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…string of Merlin Jones/Medfield College mis-adventures continuing for a couple of decades. Lady And The Tramp itself was followed by a number of additional stories in printed comic book form,… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Dalmatians, crossed not with Lady And The Tramp as is often stated, but by way of Chuck Jones’ earlier UPA feature Gay Purr-ee, in which Judy Garland’s pampered feline is… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Jones specials featuring Bugs and the gang, a long series of patched together television specials and a bunch of compilation feature films. The unit had been trying to push new… |
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The Halloween Tree
…remains a Cartoon Network staple). The original concept was for Bradbury to work with Chuck Jones, back in 1967 when the animation director was in the midst of his popular… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…Secret of the Wings — DisneyToon Studios Nicholas A. Smith, ACE, Robert Graham Jones, ACE, David Suther Brave — Pixar Animation Studios Tim Mertens Wreck-It Ralph — Walt Disney Animation… |
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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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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…series, Adventures In ToonTown didn’t pan out; Disney went ahead with its own adaptation, Bonkers). Perhaps tiring of attempting to live up to the greatness of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng,… |
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Katzenberg plans The Tibet Code
…to the big screen, Deadline is reporting. Described as an “Indiana Jones-style adventure,” the movie is based on a series of Chinese novels set in 9th century Tibet. “We will… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle was first published in 1986. Though it was not all that recognized at the time, it grew in stature over the years and was given a… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…in 2014. From Fish Hooks creator Noah Z. Jones, the traditionally animated series gives the seven dwarfs a contemporary makeover and places them into the world of Jollywood, where they… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…the balloon (an ongoing Indiana Jones-style lift that plays throughout). Other parts are more predictable: fireworks shooting right for us will play to 3D’s strengths like it or not, but… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Sherman brothers’-composed Bedknobs And Broomsticks that Walt had optioned should Mary Poppins not go ahead, and a continuation of the Herbie series and the silly but fun Dean Jones and… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. I was given a Kermit puppet by Jim Henson and encouraged to make my own 8mm puppet films, which I still have. Moving… |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
…an Animated Production • Alen Lai, David Quirus, Diego Garzon Sanchez, Ilan Gabai – Epic – Blue Sky Studios • David Jones – Dragons: Defenders of Berk – DreamWorks Animation… |
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2014 Emmy Award nominees announced
…Christopher Lance, David Beedon, Adam Stern, Jared Jones • COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey — The Immortals — Rainer Gombos, Addie Manis, Natasha Francis, Luke McDonald, Sam Edwards, Michael Maher, Dominic… |
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2014 San Diego Comic-Con schedule highlights
…Dillon, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Carla Gugino, and Terrance Howard. Can’t have a Comic Con without a panel on Game of Thrones, can you? Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Natalie Dormer,… |
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Annie Awards nominations for 2014 films revealed
…in an Animated Production Michael Kaschalk, Peter DeMund, David Hutchins, Henrik Falt, John Kosnik – Big Hero 6 – Walt Disney Animation Studios James Jackson, Lucas Janin, Tobin Jones, Baptiste… |
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Big Hero 6
…of LucasFilm and the Star Wars and Indiana Jones properties – to pick up more of a male audience to compliment the largely female-centric audiences the company already enjoyed through… |
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Star Wars Rebels on Blu-Ray and DVD September 1st
…entertainment properties including the legendary STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES franchises. Lucasfilm Ltd. is headquartered in northern California. Lucasfilm, the Lucasfilm logo, STAR WARS and related properties are trademarks and/or… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…to defeat a villain voiced by James Earl Jones. Even though the film was a financial disaster, Filmation decided to try the same strategy again regardless, starting work on a… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #104: Hotel Transylvania – Everyone Killed the Wife
…Jack film?, panned Popeye film, animation icon, master of timing 6 directors for this film Animation style of Hotel Transylvania: Chuck Jones/Tex Avery… Wait, no live action reference? Morgan’s Motion… |
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The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar
…The Lion King by heart, it’s hard not to feel nostalgic about the whole thing on at least some level, especially when James Earl Jones shows up to make a… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…Aguilera, Johnny Mathis, Toni Braxton, John Williams, Natalie Cole, David Foster, Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, Brian McKnight and Quincy Jones are just a few of the artists with whom he… |
