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Mars Needs Moms
…bring to their characters that the digital puppets just can’t replicate. Often, the picture-in-picture window offers two views of the same shot from different angles; the footage is not the… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…served as a key member of the story team on Disney’s contemporary classics including Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan,… |
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Happy Feet Two
…these kinds of films sort of lost the plot. An emphasis on crazy, out-there concepts emerged: cars that drove themselves, self-made robots, even the original Ice Age was more off-kilter… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…from Knick Knack, and one of the boats the characters fly past in the dock is named Skiff-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (another is The Surly Mermaid). A quick rendition of A Whale Of… |
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Frankenweenie
…the end of the movie. On the regular non-3D Blu-ray, the definition is just as good, but the spotless image doesn’t really help the mechanical feeling of the animation. Non-dimensional… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…realize that the data disc has been left in the seat of the boys’ land speeder, but for the rest of the show the boys try to return it to… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…Then there’s the episode where SpongeBob tries to teach Plankton the meaning of a “team” — complete with a song break. Then there’s the time travel episode. Sprinkled between these… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…(why exactly are they serving Cassio anyway?), and their scenes–of which there are really too many–aren’t nearly as clever as the filmmakers apparently think they are. Similarly, there are several… |
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Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy passes away at age 83
…return to the franchise decades later as Sentinal Prime in 2011’s Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. Disney fans will also remember Nimoy as the mysterious Atlantian King in 2001’s Atlantis:… |
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Cinderella
…this time!) before the ball, and the movie does make the somewhat curious decision of turning the Grand Duke into a villain during the third act. But, for the most… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…feeling that a lot of the story was being revealed for a lot of the films during some of the presentations, reaching dangerously close to spoiling all of the key… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…visions of Po’s past flowed wonderfully with the rest of the film and added depth to the narrative. Speaking of the narrative, the second film managed to be an engaging… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Review: The Walt Disney Signature Collection line returns, after the debut of its initial offering in the more than appropriate first and fairest of them all, Snow White And The… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…bases in detail, from the film’s intricate Japanese inspirations and mythological monsters, to the blending of the model and CG elements and the use of music in the effective score…. |
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The birds and pigs team up in The Angry Birds Movie 2 trailer
…while new to the cast include Leslie Jones as Zeta, Rachel Bloom as Silver, and Awkwafina as Courtney. The film is scheduled for release at the end of the summer…. |
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Endgame drops the hammer with $350 million opening weekend, $1.2 billion worldwide
…return alive and well, the trailers for Endgame didn’t offer that kind of reassurance, offering fans no glimpses of the characters that had perished in the previous outing. Endgame actually… |
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Toy Story 4 leads box office with $118 million debut
…Rise of Skywalker before the year is over. Elsewhere at the box office, The Secret Life of Pets 2 continued to do “fine” at the box office, but it’s going… |
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Rock on with the new Trolls: World Tour trailer
…Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different… |
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The final trailer for Trolls World Tour rocks out
…take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands and… |
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A look back at a wonderful Nightmare!
…of what happens when Halloween meets Christmas! The big Disney holiday season feature offering was originally going to be King Of The Jungle, a small film that you may have… |
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Michael Eisner's open letter to employees
…on making industry history by becoming the first studio to surpass $3 billion in global box office receipts for 2003. With Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black… |
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Thinking of Adopting a Lion?
A new still from Disney’s upcoming The Lion King 1½ has recently been made available and features the ever-lovable duo of Timon and Pumbaa sleeping on the job but otherwise… |
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Empire State Building Turns Green to Celebrate Popeye's 75th Birthday
{{link http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2004/01/14/build/top/TOP004.html The Southern Illinoisan}} reports that to honor the 75th birthday of world famous cartoon character Popeye, the famous tower lights of the Empire State Buidling will turn green… |
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One by One No Longer Part of Fantasia 2006?
The preview for The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride DVD on the Lion King 1½ DVD shows that the animated short One by One will be one of the DVD… |
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CGI Popeye sailing to television
…Fox network special, set to air at the ending of the year. Paul Reiser and Jim Hardison co-wrote the 30-minute special, while Mark Mothersbaugh will create a new version of… |
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What would Shakespeare think? The Timon and Pumbaa/Rosencrantz and Guildenstern connection
Many reviews of The Lion King 1½ have made mention of the similarity between The Lion King‘s Timon and Pumbaa and Hamlet‘s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Now, thanks to an alert… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
…of the characters, wrote the music and lyrics, voices the jackalope, and performs the song. “For some, \\Boundin’\\ is a cross between the vibrancy of Mary Blair and the buoyancy… |
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As WDFA-Florida remains dark, Firefly is ready to shine!
…outlet.” Industry interest in Project Firefly is a direct result of the reputations of the talent it has to offer. Four of the co-founders of Project Firefly, Paulo Alvarado, Gregg… |
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The Animated Games of E3
…a Jedi-cloaked Mickey Mouse as they continue their adventure into other worlds and battle the forces of an evil mummy-wrapped ruler. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories – SQUARE ENIX –… |
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New Shrek 3 plot details
“The Joe Man” at Dark Horizons indicates that Shrek 3 will be written by Jon Zack (Out Cold, The Perfect Score). In the film, “Shrek and Fiona are King and… |
