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Stop Mo Expo Tomorrow
…years ago to promote and encourage the art and craft of animation. ASIFA-Hollywood offers screenings of current and rare animated films, supports film preservation, and hosts the Annie Awards, an… |
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Scooby-Doo prequel coming in 2008
…Journal article also features a list of Disney’s top-grossing direct-to-video films in the past five years. With approximately $153.2 million, The Lion King 1 1/2 takes the top of the… |
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Two Shrek the Third clips
…Third, in which a dying King Harold reveals royal plans for Shrek and Fiona. Likewise, Blackfilm offers an extended peek at a scene shown in some of the film’s trailers…. |
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Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!
…James is pretty comfortable in the USA, but Randall’s a lot further North, in Canada, while yours truly is stuck in the sticks of the old country, England! But the… |
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Bridge to Terabithia DVD press release
…Terabithia, where they are crowned king and queen, help them face the challenges of growing up. Rounding out the cast are Zooey Deschanel (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), the beautiful… |
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Andreas Deja at Van Eaton Galleries
…Eaton Galleries! Andreas’ animation has had a huge impact on American popular culture over the past couple of decades. Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King are among the most popular… |
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Burny Mattinson podcast interview concludes
After a long absence, Clay Kaytis’ Animation Podcast returns with part four of the Burny Mattinson interview. In this final segment, Burny “talks about his work on various films including… |
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Ariel’s Song: Jeanine Tesori and James Dooley, two fortunate composers under the sea!
…Studios resumed that part of the process within their own movies, especially when they’re derived from one of those earlier successes. If the original Little Mermaid featured one of the… |
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Jungle Book DVD Clips
…from recent classics like The Lion King, Aladdin and Lilo and Stitch. The next two clips feature Bruce Reitherman (voice of Mowgli) discussing his father, Woolie Reitherman, director of The… |
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AN&V DVD reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Transformers
At Animated Views, the site’s own Ben Simon examines the Meet the Robinsons DVD, giving the overall package a score of 7/10. “While the movie isn’t a straight home run… |
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Jack Frost: Deluxe Edition
…of these specials myself over the years, their legacy is clearly felt in the inspirations for the likes of Tim Burton’s stop-motion features and the very reasons that Burton continues… |
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Burton to direct Alice, Frankenweenie
Variety indicates that Tim Burton will direct two 3-D films for Disney: Alice in Wonderland and Frankenweenie. Penned by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast), Alice will… |
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Disney musicals set records in last week of 2007
BroadwayWorld.com reports that Disney Theatrical Productions’ three shows currently running on Broadway all set box office records for the week ending December 30, 2007. The Lion King, a six time… |
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Ratatouille is Golden
Despite the writer’s strike shutting down their more usual glitzy awards show, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out their annual Golden Globes awards tonight. Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille picked up this… |
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Shrek the Musical opens Sunday 12/14/08 at Broadway Theatre
…grossing movie of all time and highest grossing animated film of all time. The latest chapter of the Shrek story, Shrek the Third, is the 2nd highest grossing film of… |
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Interview with Andreas Deja
…Deja’s animation principles and also what the studio’s animation team has in store for the future, which includes his work on this winter’s How to Hook Up Your Home Theater…. |
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Box office and sales charts – week ending March 23, 2008
…Hollywood Reporter) 1. Bee Movie 4. 101 Dalmations 6. Beowulf BROADWAY (weekly box office from Broadway.com) 2. The Lion King ($1,323,304) 3. The Little Mermaid ($1,186,297) 4. Mary Poppins ($1,162,183)… |
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Fox greenlights two new animated shows
The L.A. Times reports that the Fox network has picked up two more animated comedies: The Cleveland Show, the much talked-about Family Guy spin-off centered on Peter Griffith’s accident-prone neighbor,… |
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Christmas Contest: The Tale Of Despereaux goodies – Winner!
…Despereaux Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup. But an accident left the King… |
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Few humans and some live action in Wall•E, says Kathy Najimy
Asked by Movieweb about her role in the upcoming Pixar movie while promoting King of the Hill, the talented actress revealed that “I play a character named Mary and I… |
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The Tale of Despereaux
…combination of these two problems leads to the the audience not caring about the characters, and no film can succeed when that happens. The third issue is the worst since… |
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James Cameron discusses 3D motion-capture Avatar
…for a 2.5 hour movie. It’s not with a single CGI character, like King Kong or Gollum. We have hundreds of photo-realistic CG characters. The essence of storytelling stays the… |
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Hans Zimmer and Will.i.am teaming up on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
The Lion King and The Simpsons Movie composer Hans Zimmer revealed a very interesting bit of news in an August 2007 interview with MP3.com which has been flying under everyone’s… |
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Bernie Mac and Alec Baldwin onboard Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, more images surface
…of the lead characters to find out a lot about themselves.” The entire menagerie from the first film, which grossed $194 million in North America alone, is back: Alex the… |
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Yahoo! users rate the top 30 animated films of all time
…time. Not surprisingly, their top 12 is strictly comprised of movies released in the past 20 years, with half of them being Pixar features. This is sure to enfuriate quite… |
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AFI's top 10 animated films
…and the Beast (1991) #6. Toy Story (1995) #5. Fantasia (1940) #4. The Lion King (1994) #3. Bambi (1942) #2. Pinocchio (1940) #1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)… |
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2008 Emmy nominees announced
…King Of The Hill • Robot Chicken • SpongeBob SquarePants • The Simpsons Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More) • Blue Harvest (Family Guy) • Imaginationland (South… |
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Don Hahn panel at Woodbury University
…date details, follow the ‘More’ link: The panel will be comprised of: James Baxter (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, Enchanted) Mike… |
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Kung Fu Panda leads 36th Annie Awards nominations
…Spectacular Spider-Man – Sony Pictures Television Jorge Gutierrez – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “The Good, The Bad, The Tigre” – Nickelodeon Nico Marlet Secrets of the Furious… |
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Pixar's first digital 3D short to be shown with Bolt
…the Cable Guy, after towing a stranded car to Japan gets challenged to a race and becomes the drifting king of Tokyo. In addition, high-resolution images from the short can… |
