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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…said: “I wonder if you would go with me tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock to the Walt Disney Studios because Walt Disney has been searching for a voice for the… |
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Regal Cinemas Free Family Film Festival
…morning in the summer.” Almost all the movies listed are animated and include many hits from the last ten years, such as: Everyone’s Hero, Ant Bully, Open Season, Wallace &… |
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Animated 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards nominees
This morning, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. Coming Soon has posted the full list of nominees. This year’s animation-related nominees may… |
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Ariel’s Song: Jeanine Tesori and James Dooley, two fortunate composers under the sea!
…20 songs. Here, you only have three or four. AV: Even if she appears on screen for the first time, we don’t learn very much about Ariel’s mother Athena. Most… |
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Shorts Reports
…this month are Mr. Reaper’s Really Bad Morning, Birdcalls, Lapsus, I Like Pandas, and La memoria dei cani (The Memories of Dogs). A 30-second clip of each short is included…. |
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Brad Bird on fostering innovation
…don’t play it safe—you do something that scares you, that’s at the edge of your capabilities, where you might fail,” Bird explains. “That’s what gets you up in the morning.”… |
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Listen to rare Disney songs
While writing about “Faith, Home and Pixie Dust,” the new album of Disney covers by Broadway star (and, since this morning, Tony Award nominee) Kerry Butler, Jim Hill points to… |
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New cast and more updates on Tinker Bell movie
…fireflies their light or tracing beautiful patterns into a winter morning’s frost. Tinker Bell thinks her fairy talent as a “tinker” isn’t as special or important, because tinkers don’t go… |
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Reports from Kung Fu Panda's L.A. premiere
…I made it happen.” Animation Magazine’s Ryan Ball, like the majority of journalists so far, politely applauded the film in an editorial note this morning noting that “it’s quite good.”… |
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More Wall•E photos sent in cyberspace
Slash Film unveiled 8 new images from the upcoming Pixar film this morning. Enjoy!… |
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Bernie Mac and Alec Baldwin onboard Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, more images surface
USA Today unveils this morning nine new photos from DreamWorks Animation’s sequel to Madagascar which will roar in conventional theaters and IMAX on November 7, 2008. Don’t expect a sneek… |
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The use of celebrity voices in DreamWorks Animation films
The Globe and Mail takes a very interesting look this morning at celebrity voices in animated feature films, noting that “em>Kung Fu Panda was in production for four years, but… |
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Disney projecting $30 billion in branded retail sales for 2008
…Scooby-Doo…) and 6 times Nickelodeon’s (SpongeBob SquarePants). For Disney, the $30 billion target for this year-40% of which come from North America-compares to $13 billion just five years ago. The… |
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Wall•E scores 100% positive reviews from top critics
…60 years ago.” says the Hollywood Reporter. “One of the best films of the summer” (USA Today), “Pixar’s ninth consecutive wonder of the animated world” (Variety) has “a disarmingly sweet… |
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The return of Ariel and the Super Friends!
We’ve a couple of varied reviews for you this morning, beginning with Randall swooping in from Justice League HQ to comment on the “pretty hokey” second and final helping of… |
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Happy Feet to tap some more
According to the Sydney Morning Herald director George “Mad Max” Miller is looking to produce a sequel to his award-winning animated feature Happy Feet the Ugly Duckling-esque tale of a… |
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Animation veteran John Ahern passes away
AWN reports that veteran Disney and Hanna-Barbera animator and teacher John Ahern passed away Wednesday morning after a yearlong battle with leukemia. Ahern’s animation career started at Disney with movies… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…even more complex way for the sequence of the town coming to life the following morning, with twelve levels of depth that grasp at random, simple moments of the people’s… |
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Walt Disney Pictures (October 3 2008), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 3 2009), single disc, 91 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 2.40:1, Dolby Digital 5.1 Uncompressed, Rated PG, Retail:… |
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Ari Folman on Waltz with Bashir
…morning in a remote city, far away from home, far away from his family, his love; then he starts asking himself questions like, ‘What the hell am I doing here?… |
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2009 Oscar Nominations, WALL-E up for six awards
The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced this morning. Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, and WALL-E were the picks for Animated Feature. WALL-E was also nominated for Original Screenplay,… |
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Nick All Nite: What Happens When Nickelodeon and Holiday Inn Collide
…Nick characters and interactive stage entertainment.” So, if you ever wished for The Fairly OddParents to call you at 5:30 in the morning or CatDog to guard the pool while… |
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Bedtime Stories
…the front suggests an almost $70 cost if these three discs were bought together – I say you’re being ripped off if you’re paying more than $20. Disney’s pricing structure… |
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That Magnificent Ken Annakin!
How very sad to wake up to the news this morning that celebrated director (and sometimes writer) Ken Annakin has passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, aged 94…. |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
We’ve a couple more new reviews for you this morning, starting the week off with a Race To Witch Mountain on Blu-ray, the Disney Studio’s modern update of their 1975… |
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Chicken Little comes to BluRay
I just wanted to put up a quick blurb this morning to point out that James has posted a look at Disney’s first fully animated film to make it to… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season One
Noodle Soup/Astro Base Go/Cartoon Network (2004), Warner Home Video (May 30, 2006), 2 discs, 291 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated (package… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
To whom it may concern, particularly younger readers: Many of the reports and videos linked in this report contain mild to strong language. On Thursday, July 20th 2006, over 100,000… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…a ukulele! Dad went around town and I remember Dad every day leaving early in the morning and out till the afternoon, going to every publisher, pitching songs, writing songs…. |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…natural arm and the right movement. The goal was that we would have Patrick in a harness, strapped to one end of this 20 foot-long arm and we would then… |

