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Update on the Family
…sort of waiting on an official word, but to the best of my knowledge, the plan is to start producing a batch of new episodes without necessarily knowing where they’re… |
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L'Île de Black Mor opens in France
Jean-François Laguionie’s new movie L’Île de Black Mor is coming to French theaters this week. The film marks the return of the famed French director to the silver screen. The… |
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Shrek 2 and Home On The Range DVD news
…the green ogre’s return to homes, using the opportunity to cross-promote with their then new theatrical release SharkTale, while Disney is looking at late November/early December to issue it’s final… |
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Cartoon Network Unveils New Shows
…on Friday, July 16, followed by the series premiere on Friday, September 3. Justice League Unlimited – The heroes of the Justice League return in August with a new series,… |
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Animation Unlimited: Innovative Short Films Since 1940
“Designed like a run-of–the-mill graphic design tome, this is more than the sum of its parts. The authors have chosen 50 animators – from around the world, and across generations… |
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Chat session with animator Chris Headrick to continue Sunday
…email we recieved from the organizers at AnimationHQ. However, Headrick will return today, Sunday March 7, tonight at 7pm EST to continue Saturday’s chat session. Follow {{link http://AnimationHQ.net/v2/features/events.htm this link}}… |
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More unannounced DreamWorks animation in the pipeline: Chicken Run 2?
…anything – but are the team at Aardman looking to return to Tweedy country after completing the Wallace and Gromit movie The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (originally titled the much… |
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The Digital Bits on Disney DVD documentaries
…usual {{link http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell032904.html Coming Attractions}} page (which highlights many animated titles in the works), Barrie also gets to grips with a {{link http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews3/disney3.html group of reviews}} on the DVD issues… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Two Pinocchio sequels in the works
…the Caribbean sequels will be done.” According to ‘anonymous,’ Pinocchio II: Chip Off The Old Block will be the first of the sequels and has the storyline of, “Nearly twenty… |
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Disney Channel "May" be on to something
…The Series and Dave the Barbarian; and airings of popular Disney movies, including Tarzan, Atlantis: Milo’s Return, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, The Emperor’s New Groove, Lady and the… |
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Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Animated Series to be re-launched
…TMP original, intellectual properties. The first project will be the completion of new episodes of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn: The Animated Series. Producer/Director Todd McFarlane will serve as the show’s executive… |
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Date set for the next Groove
…Pocahontas II rather than the feature quality of the first film, or even the above standard Return To NeverLand or Jungle Book 2 sequels. The {{link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401398/releaseinfo Internet Movie DataBase}}… |
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Shrek 3 and 4 moving ahead "one at a time"
DreamWorks animation head Ann Daly has said that plans for the continuation of the Shrek franchise are moving ahead, with the company taking on each future sequel “one at a… |
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The Undead Zone – Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy
Slate magazine, over at MSN, has a fascinating new article by Clive Thompson in their Gaming section about the increasing CG uber-realism of human characters in video games, and the… |
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Squarepants Movie marketing
Yahoo! Finance reports that Nickelodeon and Holiday Inn will launch a two-year promotional partnership to support The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie‘s theatrical and DVD debut. The return of the popular Holiday… |
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Kelsey Shannon interview
Kelsey Shannon, a designer on Jimmy Neutron and GI Joe talks to {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=114015 Toon Zone}} about his return to the comic book business with Batman Adventures…. |
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Bride woos Depp
…Corpse Bride will also feature the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Albert Finney, Richard Grant, Joanna Lumley and Christopher Lee. Filmed in London, the movie tells the story… |
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Dead men tell no tales; Living men, on the other hand, tell quite a bit
About.com has a new article where producer Jerry Bruckheimer reveals some more information about the two upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, including the fact that plans to film the… |
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Gillie Potter, animator who turned advertising special effects into an art form, dies…
…seminal in advancing the use of special effects in television advertising. He raised the ‘pack shot’ – the art of displaying the product being sold – from what was often… |
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Pixar CEO has cancer surgery
…employees Sunday, Jobs said “I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic… |
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Cruise and Spielberg all set for War…
…The War Of The Worlds}}, now that Spielberg’s other planned project has also hit a stumbling block. The film is expected to mark a return to the Jurassic Park style… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…he was awarded the Emmy for excellence in television for his score of The Making Of The President. He was the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven… |
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Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.! : press release
…Charlie and Jessie as they head to Australia in search of a new shampoo recipe and land right into the pouch of their old friend Kangaroo Jack. When poachers kidnap… |
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Disney: back to hand-drawn, but out-sourced, animation?
…Disney president Bob Iger has announced a return to hand-drawn feature animation from the company. The catch? Apparently, “another animation company will be brought into Disney” to complete these productions…… |
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Florida animator tours China
…in the world. The Forum took place in China’s Shanxi Province, in the heartland of China. In addition to the events at the forum, the organizing committee also treated the… |
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Truth, Justice and the Middle-American Way: The Politics of The Incredibles
The New York Times [free registration required] has a new article about the more possibly profound themes in the upcoming film The Incredibles. “‘The challenge in the post-9/11 world is… |
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Mulan DVD worth the double dip
…in all, the non-appearance of a redundant full-frame version has meant the filling of the discs with more original content”, says the review. “A solid return to the informatively packed… |
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Halloween comes late this year: New Simpsons season begins with Halloween episode
Animation World Network reports that long-running television series The Simpsons is set to return for its sixteenth season with its fifteenth Treehouse of Horror episode (the first season of The… |
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Pirates sequel captures Crook
In the midst of some news regarding the casting for extras in Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Dark Horizons reveal that Mackenzie Crook has stated he will return as the… |
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Jerry Bruckheimer talks of Pirates' crew
…Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley are all set to return for the sequel(s), while Keith Richards’ involvement in the film as the father of Jack Sparrow is still “premature”…. |

