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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection Lionsgate Home Entertainment (September 22 2009) Single-disc, 100 mins plus supplements, $30 Released previously in various incarnations, Nick Park’s initial three Wallace & Gromit… |
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Phineas & Ferb are going to a galaxy far, far away…
…special seems to be going the Family Guy route of “casting” its characters as beloved Star Wars icons. It is set to air on the Disney Channel in late 2014…. |
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Happy Feet Two
Warner Bros. Pictures (November 18 2011), Warner Home Video (March 13 2011), 1 Blu-ray and 1 DVD, 99 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 2.40:1 widescreen, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season
Cartoon Network Studios (2011-2012), Warner Home Video (February 25, 2014), 1 Disc, 286 minutes, 16:9 ratio, Dolby Stereo 2.0, Rated TV-PG, Retail: $32.07 Storyboard: Finn the human and Jake the… |
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Trolls World Tour
…which have chosen to delay the theatrical runs of their would-be blockbusters, Universal decided to skip that route entirely, choosing to release the follow-up straight-to-streaming as a digital rental. This… |
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Avengers: Endgame
…(no offense, one guy in the crowd who clapped). Time will tell if this was the appropriate route for the franchise to take–going by the rare “A+” CinemaScore, it would… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…internet came along and made ordering online the easier route, practically wiping out such brick and mortar stores in the process. Amazon and the like replaced the smaller book chains… |
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Storks
…there is always a chance of getting too sentimental. Thankfully Storks, while not ignoring the emotional aspects of its subject matter, avoids going that route — until a short section… |
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The Jungle Book
Walt Disney Pictures (April 15 2016), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 30 2016), Blu-ray plus DVD, 106 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition widescreen 1.78:1, DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Rated PG,… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…He’s married to an animator and loves videogames. So pretty much 100% of the time he’s either doing graphics, talking about graphics, or enjoying graphics! As a Surfacing Artist at… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…attractions and historical items from the 60-year history of Disneyland as well as a look at what we can expect to see at Shanghai Disneyland. And I got to meet… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…variant book, which they limited to 200 copies. They ended up having a couple problems getting the signing to run smoothly, as it turned out that 200 people was much… |
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Big Hero 6
…When Superman Returned, he was little more than the same kind of cartoon that Kirk Alyn morphed into for the flying scenes in his serial outings over 50 years before,… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…playing on from Woody’s pal Jessie’s established fears of confinement and abandonment, we find the gang en route in the truck of Bonnie’s Mom’s car, stopping off at a motel… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
Warner Bros (1959 / 2009), single disc, 2.40:1, 109 mins, Not Rated, $19.98 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: In the August of 2009, Warner Bros…. |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Florida expanded to about 400 artists in a new $70 million, 200,000-square-foot, four-story animation building. “A great way to spend your life” But Mulan had taken its toll on Cook,… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…hit of the three. Interestingly, by design or not, these titles represent three consecutive years of Disney pictures, the first two being released in 2000 and 2001, respectively, with Lilo… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Swiss Family Robinson styled adventure never truly before attempted in animation on a major scale. In many ways, and despite the resulting Atlantis not… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…this new Oz film was a glint in a franchise producer’s eye, fans will want to jump to the excellent featurette Walt Disney And The Road To Oz (10:20), which… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…answer to The Lord Of The Rings, exploring the 10,000-year history of the dwarfs and their culture in an epic quest. He met with Evan Spiliotopoulos, then one of DisneyToons’… |
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MoviePass – How It Works
…may have finally found a way to make it work for everyone. For a flat $30-40 monthly fee (based on your home location) MoviePass allows you to see one movie… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…not reaching, the original film’s standard, and a running time which surpasses the usual 66-minute length that places such endeavours firmly in the destined-for-TV movie category. With that longer run… |
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New Views on Wreck-It Ralph
…on io9 and each offers a fresh perspective on the popular movie. First up is a 60 second live-action short by Kial Natale. Casting choices were spot on. Next is… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…feature for SpongeBob SquarePants, It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!, premiering on Nickelodeon Thursday, Dec. 6, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT), following its CBS television premiere (11/23). The brand-new half-hour short is inspired… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…of the stickers on slipcover offers $10 off the title when purchased with another concurrent releases, good up to September 30 2012. Ink And Paint: I could bemoan the fact… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…their aims, obviously, with most of them deserving their ultimate routes to the bargain bins and eventual television-trapped futures. However, as with Return To Never-Land and here with Scamp’s Adventure,… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…John Carter’s under-performance, led Disney to take stock of its big budget productions, halting the progress of its 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea remake (good, the Douglas/Mason film is a… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad
…of remastering, or the absence of extras, and especially the $20 price point. But I say “phooey!” to that: I remember a time back in the LaserDisc days when an… |
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Florida Bullet Train to Run to Disney Resort
…en route to Tampa, a state panel voted Monday. The Florida High Speed Rail Authority’s 7-1 decision ended a debate that has simmered since voters, in a constitutional amendment passed… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…that was scored in a more “traditional” Carl Stalling style: [flv:http://animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Tigre-119B-1.flv 320 240] [flv:http://animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Tigre-119B-2.flv 320 240] It’s one of the only times in my career where I was asked to… |
