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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
…recognizable characters like Pete Puma, Chuck Jones’ Three Bears, and Hubie and Bertie. They all wear blue work vests, with Marvin The Martian looking particularly out of place. Daffy seems… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…on a non-action movie related note, I must confess that I’ve always been a sucker for the Bridget Jones series, and if Bridget Jones’s Baby really is the end of… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…career in hand-drawn animation for Disney Feature Animation, Bob Rogers and Company, Bajus-Jones Film Corp, and Reelworks in Minneapolis. Upon arrival at Pixar in May 1990, Pete created and directed… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…We kept asking him to laugh before every line! RI: Could you please share with us some memories of working with James Earl Jones? RA: Ha ha! The very first… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…with a slight Chuck Jones sensibility. Next up is Pixar’s breakthrough, and Lasseter’s pet project, the charming Luxo Jr (2:08, 1.66:1, 1986), the Academy Award-nominated short that introduced Pixar –… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…by the original artists themselves, not all the characters look on model and although I get a recurring gag with James Earl Jones’ Mufasa trying to find the right growl,… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…giant rolling wheels, etc), bigger effects (a wonderfully atmospheric realization of the deep sea terrorising Kraken) and a better villain (the truly revolting Davey Jones), all of which add up… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…came the kind of sensibilities that had carried Jones, Clampett and Avery through Warner’s Looney Tunes: smart, subversive anarchy with a real edge made for the animators’ own enjoyment (future… |
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Hey Seuss! Horton hears our Views! Plus the new League…
…later in the week. Somewhat making up for that, and looking to grab a piece of the Horton pie, Warners have seen fit to release the older Chuck Jones television… |
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Pirates of the Caribbean ride enhancements inspired by movie franchise
…ably played in the film version by Geoffrey Rush, and Davy Jones, will be added to the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney theme park rides in California and Florida. The… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…in the first (the skeleton crew) and second. So Jack’s return from the dead isn’t the frightfully arduous journey from the watery dungeon that we probably all imagined Davy Jones’… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…the beautiful shorts they turned out, while over at Warner Bros, directors such as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett arguably made cartoons, the kind of zip-bang entertainment that has become… |
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The Walt Disney Family Museum: rare and personal memories
…month: {{link http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/waltdisney/whatsnew.html Dean Jones}} looks back on working for Walt, and the {{link http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/waltdisney/filmtheater.html Film Theater}} carries footage on various topics (shot by the team who produced the Walt:… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Howl-Oween Special
…material is glaringly clear. Until Chuck Jones returned to reclaim some kind of part ownership over the Looney Tunes, previous animation unit co-director Friz Freleng was the self-appointed guardian 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!
…Chase a legendary New Orleans restaurateur who started as a waitress and opened the famed Dookie Chase restaurant. Mama Odie was partly inspired by Ava Kay Jones, a Voodoo priestess… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…never before appeared in print. Discover the forgotten agonizing month-by-month tale of legendary Warner Brothers animator and director Chuck Jones as he struggled at the Disney Studio when he was… |
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Looney Tunes 2: Daffy Duck For President stills; no Chuck Amuck
In what will be disappointing news for Looney Tunes fans, we can now confirm that, unless it’s an amazing well hidden feature, the Chuck Jones documentary Chuck Amuck is not… |
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Fantasia will amaze ya: full details
…Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Penn and Teller, Angela Lansbury, Itzhak Perlman and Quincy Jones, the film, like its predecessor, expertly visualizes classical music compositions with various forms of animation… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…Register Producers: James Tucker, Linda M. Steiner Line Producer: Amy McKenna Story Editor: Michael Jelenic Animation Directors: Ben Jones, Brandon Vietti, Michael Chang The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack Launch Date:… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…now-late Suzanne Pleshette, star with Dean Jones in a number of classic live-action comedies for the Studio, and here playing against type as Zira, the villainess of the piece, quickly… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…is presented in conjunction with the citywide “Ring Festival LA” as well as the Academy’s new Chuck Jones exhibition. The evening will include big-screen presentations of the animated shorts Music… |
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More from the Looney's world: layout artist John McGrew
The late John McGrew, who served as Chuck Jones’ layout artist and whom Jones said was “a great student of film techniques, and he had very interesting ideas that I… |
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Drink up me 'earties: A Pirates webcast for everyone
…tongue-in-cheek depiction of high seas lawlessness now featuring Captain Jack Sparrow, Barbossa and Davy Jones – stars from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Captain Jack Sparrow appears in… |
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"Be vewwy vewwy quiet . . . I'm meeting rabbits . . . and the people who draw them."
…of Looney Tunes.” You can also meet “special guests Linda Jones & Craig Kausen,” and view “dozens of Chuck Jones’ favorite Looney Tunes art in the lobby.” And there’s also… |
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Composer Dan Romer dives into the music of Luca and Ciao Alberto
…letting it get into your body through osmosis than through emulation. AV: Among your Italian influences, I detected some touches of Nicola Piovani (La Vita e Bella), all the way… |
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“Daffy Duck For President”
…Sherman Oaks Galleria on Wednesday. “Daffy Duck for President,” a four-minute short based on Chuck Jones’ last book of the same title, will be included in the DVD set, arriving… |
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Video Effects Society award nominations announced
…a Motion Picture The Aviator Spider-Man 2 Van Helsing Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason I, Robot The Phantom of the… |
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TV-Loonland opens up markets; Heidi feature announced
…Dragon’s Rock (26×23′), a coproduction with Germany’s Super-RTL that tells the story of a family of dragons trying to cope with daily life.” Source: Gareth Jones © C21 Media 2004… |
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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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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… |
