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The Muppets express outrage and get a lot of publicity
Disney released another trailer for Muppets Most Wanted and the Muppets were outraged…about not getting nominated for the Golden Globes. They may be outraged about the lack of nominations, but… |
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Shrek 2
…holiday’s The Polar Express. Movement is more natural, though the “lightyears ahead” in production that was banded about at the time of release doesn’t really come across on screen –… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…year, is of the decidedly Barbie/Polar Express zombiefied mannequin look. Hopefully, now that it’s gone back to the drawing board, we’ll get something that’s more in tune with Disney’s high… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…the Barbie videos mentioned earlier, they’re perhaps better equalled to those in The Polar Express, though less creepy, slightly more caricatured and not as well animated. There are some instances… |
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Imageworks announces Imagemotion films
…two of the films: Neanderthals and an untitled feature from the Oscar-nominated Jerome Chen, who served as the visual effects supervisor on The Polar Express and Beowulf. As for the… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
…it that some do. And I’m not alone, judging by all the positive reviews that The Polar Express and Beowulf received. Not everyone succumbs to being creeped out if things… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…for a deeply solid light and dark look, a reminder of the HBO series Rome. Fortunately, 300 sports real life performers and not the dead-eyed zombies of Polar Express or… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
…comparisons. The Pixar Shorts Collection • released on Blu-ray in 2007 • same features as DVD, some upgraded to HD. The Polar Express • released on HD DVD… |
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Calling All Robots!
…and The Polar Express. The project is “a throwback to old Godzilla movies”, and is being penned by Dougherty, Breehn Burns, and Simeon Wilkins. Dougherty also wrote X2: X-Men United… |
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Marketing budgets for animated features are on the rise
…million to cook up ads for the Pixar-produced pic. To put that into perspective, the industry average to promote a pic was $35.9 million last year. And Cars, The Polar… |
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Jon Favreau aiming for 2D look in mo-cap Neanderthals
…work on the animated part of it over the next couple of years. Mo-cap is a misleading term because the animation won’t resemble the animation of Polar Express or Monster… |
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Malkovich joins Zemeckis’ Beowulf
…Wright Penn for Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, reports Dark Horizons. Scheduled for a 2007 release, the film will incorporate the same motion-capture animation technology used by Zemeckis in The Polar Express…. |
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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…
…with their impressive contributions to numerous high-profile special effects pictures, not least this summer’s Spidey 3, and their recent run of features The Polar Express, Monster House, Open Season and… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…Contact ten years ago. There were good tricks and performances in Cast Away and What Lies Beneath, but The Polar Express is such an emotionally cold Christmas fable that it’s… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…review from November 2004, we look back on Mickey’s first foray as a digital character into an animated CGI seasonal offering that’s possibly more “uncanny valley” than The Polar Express…… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…elaborate song and dance that puts the jolly waiters of The Polar Express to shame! As this naturally heartwarming tale came to an end – and yes, of course Eyeore’s… |
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Bee good: Jerry's animated debut is out today, plus good news for Gilliam, and I Am Beowulf!
…Polar Express. Unfortunately, while the ambitions have certainly got grander, the technique remains as frustratingly inexpressive as always, sometimes embarrassingly so for a major motion picture from major director and… |
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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
…pricing is slightly more inviting at $35.99. • The Polar Express: Presented in 3D is just one of Warner’s upcoming double-dips. Featuring four sets of 3D glasses (it’s not clear… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…Alice is Burton’s first motion-capture enhanced film, though for those worrying that this might mean more of the lifeless eerie mannequins of The Polar Express or A Christmas Carol, worry… |
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Mars Needs Moms gets a trailer
…batch of new images from the film. Using the same technology used to create The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol, Mars Needs Moms blasts off into theaters next spring…. |
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Zemeckis To Produce How To Survive A Garden Gnome Attack
After the Mars Needs Moms disaster and the plug was pulled on the Yellow Submarine remake, Robert Zemeckis of The Polar Express and Who Framed Roger Rabbit fame has a… |
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Another Change from the Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is very busy lately. The recently banned performance capture animation (a technique pioneered by Robert Zemeckis with The Polar Express) from the… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: December 29-31, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 9) Happy Feet with $7,650,181, averaging $2,982 over 2,565 theaters ($175,967,627 total; 7th week) 31) The Polar Express (IMAX) with $179,513, averaging $5,279 over 34… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…motion-captured films produced by Spielberg’s one-time protégé Robert Zemeckis. But whereas Zemeckis’ films (Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol among them) simply transposed his mo-cap suited actors’ movements to… |
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Crood song by Owl City and Yuna now on iTunes
…and songwriter Glen Ballard, who also penned the Grammy-winning Believe from The Polar Express. Young is no stranger to animation, either: he wrote songs for Wreck-It Ralph and Legend Of… |
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New motion capture movie Tarzan 3D trailer premieres
…Tarzan yell. It follows in the footsteps of The Polar Express and Avatar by using motion capture. Tarzan 3D has a distinctive visual quality and style that may limit its… |
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Transformers One
…going think it looks like The Polar Express. Hopefully this won’t be the last we see of this take on the characters, as all of the ingredients are in place… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: January 5-7, 2007
…($185,414,182 total; 8th week) 44) The Polar Express (IMAX) with $50,926, averaging $2,037 over 25 theaters ($2,897,449 total; 8th week) 58) Santa Vs. the Snowman – Season 5 with $17,445,… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…39 paprika 156 40 happy feet 152 41 spirit stallion of the cimmaron 136 42 the polar express 132 atlantis the lost empire 132 44 surf’s up 123 45 the… |
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Meltdown heats up video charts
…with approximately $10.3 million. In the meantime, Cars continued to have healthy sales on the DVD First Alert chart, coming in at #4, while The Polar Express rose to #6…. |
