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Gargoyles Season 2 DVD on the way
Toon Zone points to the Station 8 Comment Room, where Chad Kultgen of 3oh!5 Creative, a company involved in DVD production, reveals that the second season of Gargoyles is coming… |
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Dont forget! The Muppets' Wizard Of OZ premieres tonight!
…and even Quentin Tarantino turning up for the fun! There’s {{link http://muppets.go.com/main.html?dl=oz much more at the official website}}, which points toward the CD soundtrack and DVD release, coming August 9…. |
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Interview: Supervisors for English releases of Studio Ghibli films
Ultimate Disney points to Nausicaa.net, where Cindy Hewitt, Don Hewitt, and Rick Dempsey, supervisors for the English translations and releases of Studio Ghibli films, reveal the aspects of the dubbing… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…the best that the US studios are putting out (fewer points of animation in faces, less convincing effects work, and less thorough blending of objects into backgrounds), but overall the… |
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Miles From Tomorrowland: Let’s Rocket!
…a big deal about it. Both Miles’ mom and especially his sister Loretta are strong and likable female role models, but the series, thankfully, never points out their gender. Trusting… |
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New Narnia pics
IGN FilmForce points to NarniaWeb, where one will find several new pics from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe taken from various international sources. For… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #88: Shrek – The Anti-Fairytale
…better? Donkey or Mushu? This movie works because it points out the ridiculousness of fairy tales. Duloc is a ripoff of Disneyland. But it’s hilarious. Donkey is so dense, but… |
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Tarzan tree-surfing to Broadway; Jim Hill on Tarzan II; the price of Pixar
The Disney Database points to Magical Mountain, a site which explains what is currently going on with the anticipated Tarzan Broadway musical. Currently, the show is scheduled to open sometime… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…SpongeBob. Since then, in my opinion, things have gotten… stupid for lack of a more tactful word! All the characters have lost 50 IQ points and become one-dimensional. The situations… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…conflict of the character, the development, the first act, second act, third act, all the story structure points put up on storyboards. Developing the story immediately posed problems because one… |
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Pink Panther cartoon delays; feature moved to 2006
{{link http://animatedviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5353#5353 Animated News Forum}} member ‘GeorgeC’ points out that new MGM owners Sony have delayed the release of the Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection DVD boxed set, which was… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…Flip’s personality was stifled. It’s perplexing, given all the other attention paid to sound in these cartoons. Still, the shorts had their good points. Stormy Seas followed, with lovely effects… |
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"Hey there Wilbur!" – Mr Ed's Alan Young speaks up!
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=99470 Toon Zone}} points to another Wilbur in the news today – Wilbur Post, the long-suffering human friend to the world’s most famous talking horse, Mr Ed. As MGM… |
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International Madagascar trailer…
The Latino Review points to a new international trailer for Madagascar, opening May 27th…. |
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Disney and Gold respond to the board
…they respond to several of the points raised by the board and conclude “it is not we who are trying to protect executive positions or board seats. As we have… |
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SaveDisney on the Disney-Dali collaboration
Despite leaving the company his father and Uncle Walt built, Roy Disney continues to support the work of the animation division, as ‘PatrickvD’ points out on the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=806#post806 Animated… |
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Vote for the BAFTAS!
‘Disneyaholic’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=871#post871 Animated News Forum}} points to where viewers can vote for the Orange Audience Film Award at this year’s British Academy Awards. “Voting is currently going… |
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\\The Incredibles\\ toys
An {{link http://www.animationnation.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=007545 Animation Nation}} post points out a link to {{link http://207.44.182.109/photo/1/showgallery.php/cat/1022/password/ Figures.com}}, a website with pictures from the 2004 UK Toy Fair with pictures of some of Hasbro’s… |
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Shark Tale sequel named already?
‘MusicFan’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=933#post933 AN Forums}} points out that DreamWorks have “registered the domains ‘anothersharktale.com’, ‘anothersharktale.net’ and ‘anothersharktale.biz’”, so it looks like the upcoming first film’s sequel will go… |
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Adam West Is Commissioner Gordon
Superhero Hype! points to Adam West’s website, where it is revealed that the former Batman will be voicing Commissioner Gordon in the new animated Batman series, which will debut later… |
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The Snowball Is Getting Bigger
Toon Zone has recently posted the content of a letter from Roy Disney and Stanley Gold to the Disney Board of Directors. Many of the points raised in it are… |
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Eisner's days at Disney numbered?
{{link http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BA40FD307%2D4CC2%2D4629%2DA751%2DFB16F29A69B8%7D CBS MarketWatch}} believes that no matter what happens with the Comcast deal Eisner’s days at the helm of Disney may be numbered. The article also points out the… |
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\\Shrek 2\\ theatre banners
{{link http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3029 ComingSoon.net}} points us to {{link http://www.latinoreview.com/films_2004/dreamworks/shrek2/shrek2.html Latino Review}}, who have posted 6 new images of theatre banners from DreamWorks’ upcoming \\Shrek 2\\. The six banners are of Shrek,… |
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Curious George update
…will “emphasize contemporary plot points with ‘edgy’ humor, while sidestepping the ‘not exactly PC’ aspects found in the ‘George’ books (George was kidnapped from the jungle and later put in… |
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Roy Disney and Stanley Gold Speak with USA Today
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research points out a Roy Disney/Stanley Gold interview with USA Today business columnist Jon Swartz at Yahoo! News. Read on for straight talk from two men with… |
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Belleville's director on animation as art
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=103993 Toon Zone}} points to a new editorial at the New York Times, where The Triplets Of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet argues for “the merits of animation as a… |
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UPDATED: Eisner's last stand?
…points to a New York Times piece that puts the Disney board rallying behind Eisner. “The newspaper says the board is already discounting announcements by major pension funds that they… |
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Polar Express release date shift-a-roo
{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040308f.php Dark Horizons}} points to some pretty major movies shifting their original release date orders. Of most interest to animation fans will be the Tom Hanks CGI-fest The Polar… |
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Mickey Mouse: Now Available in Three Dimensions
Animation World Network points out an article at VFXWorld about the process of bringing two-dimensional Mickey and friends into the three dimensional, computer-generated world. The article includes screen grabs from… |
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Original author to adapt his Day With Wilbur
‘MusicFan’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=765#post765 Animated News Forums}} points to a site that announces William Joyce as the writer of Disney’s latest pick-up, A Day With Wilbur Robinson, which Joyce… |
