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Bravestarr: Volume Two
…including its “Best Of” release, the movie-only release, and the first volume of the complete series. Well, this is it. With the release of this volume, we see the final… |
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Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection 6 – Winner!
…handful of previously unreleased cartoons from Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2. Both collections are in stores now! Read our full review of the Golden Collection DVD here! The Looney… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…Storyboards’ Behemoth Singing features an extra verse of Making Christmas (0:53), as does Oogie Boogie With Dancing Bugs (0:37), and the Alternate Identity Of Oogie Boogie (1:22) reveals a more… |
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TV to DVD: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Woody Woodpecker
…an update on The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection: Volume 2, including a detailed list of the 75 cartoons featured on the 3-disc set. Woody’s 2nd DVD is… |
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MyToons Animation site inks deal with YouTube Channel
…of animators on the new MyToons branded YouTube channel. MyToons.com provides a global platform for animators to design and share their original animated videos, cartoons, and other content with animators… |
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Japan names anime ambassador
…Japan”. The cat has promised “through my cartoons, I hope to convey to people abroad what ordinary Japanese people think, our lifestyles and what kind of future we want to… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales DVD art
The DVD cover art for the fifth volume of Tom And Jerry Tales can be seen at TV Shows On DVD. The single-disk release will include twelve different cartoons from… |
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How Jeffrey Katzenberg came to animation
Jeffrey Katzenberg, 57, admitted to The Associated Press during an interview this week in Cannes to promote Kung Fu Panda that he never set out to make cartoons. “I knew… |
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Kung Fu Panda kicking into theaters tomorrow
…frustrated Hoffman, it also affirmed his appreciation for the genre’s painstaking craftsmanship. Far from the cartoons he knew as a kid, he says he now considers animation “an art-form” on… |
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Casper the friendly ghost celebrates 60 years in 2009
…to retail in time for Halloween. Classic Media and Genius Products will also be releasing this Halloween the first two volumes in an all-new Casper DVD collection; each themed DVD… |
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Presto clip
…of a magician and his rabbit. The short was helmed by first-time director Doug Sweetland, and is an ode to slapstick cartoons such as Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes…. |
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Step in time! Poppins is back, plus new discs and more!
…will come packaged with an exclusive CD featuring 20 tracks from the show, and I’m loving the retro box art (pictured right) that convincingly recreates the old Atari 2600 console… |
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Python's Gilliam honored, Gulliver's details, plus new discs!
…the mysterious Koch Vision debut of Max Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travels on March 10, which promises an anamorphic widescreen presentation. Seeing as the film was made way back in 1939 (the… |
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Two new series for Nickelodeon; Mighty B renewal
…comic book fan and his loyal friend, is a spin-off of one of the Random! Cartoons, while Team Umizoon is a math-centered childrens’ program set to air on Nick Jr…. |
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Tom and Jerry Tales and You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown DVD details
DVDActive reports that Warner Home Video has announced Tom and Jerry Tales Volume 6 for release on the 3rd February, 2009. The single disc release will include 15 cartoons from… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…animated superhero comedy Captain Toontastic for Warner Brothers. Under a different name, the character – as seen right – has apparently been a popular animated host in linking classic cartoons… |
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Tom & Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection DVD in June
…and 2 bonus documentaries titled, “Tom and Jerry…and Chuck” and “Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood.” List of the cartoons along with the official package artwork can be found here…. |
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Dallas McKennon 1919-2009
…the voice of Archie Andrew in the Archie cartoons, as well as a voice actor for many Disney films, including Sleeping Beauty and Lady & the Tramp. He was 89…. |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…just 3000 copies worldwide, so be quick. I’ve already ordered my copies! Howsabout a couple of new announcements? The ludicrously entertaining all-out actioner Air Force One is set to come… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
Tele-Cartoon Japan/Delphi Associates (1966), E1 Entertainment (May 5, 2009), 4 discs, 650 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $39.98 Storyboard: The original… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…Rodney takes on Hanna-Barbera’s famed cat and mouse for Tom & Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2, a belated follow up to the original 2000 disc. Containing fourteen original animated shorts,… |
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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
Hanna-Barbera (1983), Warner Home Video (August 11, 2009), 2 discs, 172 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: A kid-friendly… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…through this jumbled mess. Oh well, it’s only an hour long… Picking up almost 50 years since she last graced screens in Walt’s ambitious, modern-styled Sleeping Beauty, Aurora’s episode Keys… |
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Astro Boy And Anime Come To The Americas
…222 pages $35.00 It’s really kind of amazing to consider that, as popular as Japanese anime has become over the years, that many young admirers of the form may not… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…mix of recycled Golden Age cartoons and Hanna-Barbera product, alternative animation of a different kind came to the screen in a series of action shows imported from oversees. A major… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
The second part of our survey on Filmation sees the studio once again enjoy some major successes in the 1970’s and 1980’s, only to fall prey to changing economic realities…. |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…with that darn landlady, who demands $150,000 in repair money. Meanwhile, Ben signs with MTV. Marvel at such lines as, “What humans lack in intelligence, they make up for in… |
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Drawn Together: Season One
Comedy Central (2004), Paramount Home Video (October 4, 2005), 2 discs, 152 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated TV-MA, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: Reality television… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
United Features Syndicate/Lee Mendelson Films/Cinema Center 100 Productions (December 4, 1969), CBS DVD/Paramount Home Entertainment (March 28, 2006), single disc, 86 mins, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G,… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
Walt Disney Television Animation/DQ Enterprises, Limited (2006), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 14, 2006), single disc, 72 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated G,… |
