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Eloise in Hollywood to Premiere at Teen & KidFilm Festival in Dallas
…KidFilm Festival, the oldest and largest children’s film festival in the United States. The festival will feature a diverse line-up of programs that appeal to audiences of all ages. Tickets… |
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Eloise in Hollywood in Dallas
…Mouser as Eloise. Wes Archer (Supervising director of The Simpsons and King of the Hill) directs. In Eloise in Hollywood, Eloise’s mother can’t make it home to The Plaza so… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…of dross, many of these films have stood the test of time in their own way. These early Harmon-Ising (before their move to MGM) shorts may not have the spark… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…Friends (aside from some good theatricals and lesser-known eyesores, the biggest prize here was the made-for TV sequel Duck Dodgers And The Return Of The 24 1/2th Century). The special… |
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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…local wizard) and Papa Smurf to help awaken the king. The second part of the story features Cloderic, using the Black Hellebore to conquer the kingdom. He uses the flower… |
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Richard M. Sherman on Bedknobs And Broomsticks: a Solid Songwriter!
…Also, it was a salute to the bravery of the Brits who held the one country that fought the Nazis off. This was the whole thing in the Battle of… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940
…much better, being a vintage 1939 theatrical short that is subtitled The Max Fleischer Studios In Miami, Florida And The Art Of Creating A Popeye Cartoon. The making of the… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…of renting them because they can squeeze one more showing of the feature in per day. That’s why they all died in the first place. First the block booking was… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…until recently, a philosophy that the Studio upheld, breaking the rule but twice, for theatrical follow-ups to The Rescuers and Fantasia, but when Aladdin and The Lion King proved such… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…the differences between traditional and digital production, his inspiration for the films and animated plans for the future. The Making Of Tropic Island Hum is perhaps the most traditional of… |
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Mulan II
…on the more epic toes of the original. Part of the reason it doesn’t build on the first film is down to the occasional moments of déjà vu and the… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker-slaves under the power of the black-caped evil overlord Zygon (who’s obviously a fan of the Temple Of Doom’s decorator) continue to hack… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…film often contributes to the marking out of the 1930s as animation’s Golden Age, the 1950s could arguably be labelled the Studio’s most prolific. With a return to full-length feature… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…character shorts and rarely seen curios and oddities making their way back to the (small) screen courtesy of professionally packaged compilations that often do the bigger studios shame. While the… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…in the linking material – the creation of a “second” Cinderella storybook filled with the mice’s recollections of when Cinders helped them out in the past. Cue the three flashback… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…when the need arises. The rest of the cast, too, essentially continue the Jungle Book trend of playing caricatured versions of their established personalities, the most notable of which is… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…rough edged animation approach and the angular, block-colored backgrounds created for the film. The Xerox process also contributed heavily to the free-wheeling, loose feel of The Jungle Book (making the… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…Universal, The Tale Of Despereaux is a CG animated adaptation of the first of four books that was at one point to be directed by The Triplets Of Belleville‘s Sylvain… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…they become family. Most of them are introduced in the first movie, and the rest are seen in the sequels or in the series. The Care Bears got a series… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…to see them, and to judge for myself whether or not they deserved their reputations. With Disney’s DVD release of Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind in 2005, I… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…action when the need arises. The rest of the cast, too, essentially continue the Jungle Book trend of playing caricatured versions of their established personalities, the most notable of which… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…The Prince of Egypt was the first hand-drawn animated feature from DreamWorks Animation. Adapted from the Book of Exodus, it was a retelling of the story of Moses. The film… |
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Disney DVD news update
…Donald, Goofy and Pete, The Many Hats Of Mickey Mouse and The Making Of The Three Musketeers featurettes, deleted scenes, a Disney Song Selection, and the Build Your Own Opera… |
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Apple and Walt Disney Records finally reach agreement on adding Disney catalog to iTunes
…label in the world and is part of The Buena Vista Music Group, the recorded music and music publishing arm of The Walt Disney Company. Apple ignited the personal computer… |
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Disney DVD release and discontinue dates
…scheduled for October 4, 2005. Meanwhile, The Lion King, The Lion King 1½, and the upcoming The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride Special Edition will be discontinued in January 2005…. |
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EXCLUSIVE! Shrek 2 DVD menu descriptions and screen shots!
…the North and South of the image): Going for more of the pop-culture references as featured in the film itself, the disc’s animated menu kicks off with a Brady Bunch-styled… |
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Globetrotting meerkat and warthog star in upcoming DVD
…to DVD. Originally released on home video following the success of The Lion King, this compilation of the Timon And Pumbaa television show features the tiny Timon and his portly… |
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Ultimate Disney reviews Simba's Pride
Ultimate Disney has a new DVD review up today – this time around it’s for the Special Edition 2-discer of Simba’s Pride. “Lacking the power and prestige of its predecessor… |
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Harryhausen Goes Ape Over Kong
…made King Kong popular was the girl and the ape, and that’s not true. The original had so much fantasy and the whole thing hinges on fantasy. [But Jackson’s] in… |
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Timberlake joins Shrek 3; Sequel's plot revealed
…who adds that “in teaching Artie to be king, Shrek has to overcome his deep-seated fear of being a father.” However, though “there is a baby involved,” it may not… |
