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Batman – The Dark Knight Returns: Parts 1 And 2
…it’s a fine introduction to the legacy of Batman’s (co-)creator. The Bonus Cartoons chosen for this disc come from the Two-Face two-parter from Batman: The Animated Series. (Note that the… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…a frustrating challenge if ever there was one, Disney is long overdue releasing their cartoons in HD). Featuring Mickey and Goofy precursor Dippy Dawg after princess Minnie, this is a… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…cartoons, while there’s definitely been some kind of change of guard at Disney Home Video earlier this year, with somebody new there making all kinds of strange and damaging decisions,… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…Cars world – it just doesn’t make sense! In a magical way, the likes of Little Toot and Susie, The Little Blue Coupe – classic cartoons of their kind from… |
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Penguins of Madagascar
…Best Picture nomination for this film either. The Penguins, like Scrat from the Ice Age franchise and the Minions from Despicable Me series, take me back to the zany cartoons… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
A few admissions up front: I am a huge SpongeBob SquarePants fan. While even as an adult I’ve obviously never stopped watching cartoons, when my first child was born I… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…a hugely personal film for director Sanjay Bakshi (a commentary would be great but I guess we need to wait for the next volume of Pixar cartoons), this is one… |
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Toy Story 4, Hair Love, 1917 win animation Oscars
…representation matters deeply. Especially in cartoons, because in cartoons that’s when we first see our movies and it’s how we shape our lives and think about how we see the… |
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Pixar production designer Don Shank in his element with Elemental
…grew up watching Bugs Bunny cartoons that had all these funky shadows. So, it took them a minute but then they would get behind that idea. It was an amazing… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…records, despite being based on cartoons that were largely dialogue-free. There was also a record for “The King Who Couldn’t Dance,” a song featured in Gene Kelly’s film Anchors Away,… |
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Thad Komorowski on his new Famous Studios Champion Collection Blu-Ray
…to produce slick, enjoyable cartoons, even if they didn’t quite reach the zenith of some of their contemporaries from other studios. Nevertheless, the best of the Famous Studios cartoons could… |
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More Alice than is really necessary?
{{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill Media}} is back this morning with another entertaining look at one of the Walt Disney World cast members-only party films; short movies made by and for… |
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Don't Forget!
A couple of DVD updates for you this morning: today seas the release of Disney/Pixar’s fintastic underwater adventure comedy Finding Nemo, in a special 2-disc edition packed with fun bonus… |
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Manga anime galore: the latest from AICN!
{{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=16504 Ain’t It Cool}} is back this morning with their latest update in the world of Japanese animation. Check out the link for a round up of all the… |
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Jim Hill on Disney's CEO: "denial isn't just some river in Egypt"!
The ever popular (and ever probing!) {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill Media}} is back this morning with another insightful story. To put it in his words, “as more stories leak out… |
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Disney and Fox merge for new Toon channel
…in buying programmes, as well as making them. The name will appear first in the US next month, with Jetix-branded programmes appearing in the morning on the ABC Family network,… |
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Roy Disney responds to Disney Animation closure
{{link http://www.savedisney.com Save Disney.com}} this morning has a slightly new look (a full upgraded site is on the way), with Legacy Animation Studios’ Eddie Pittman offering up a visual take… |
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Jim Hill on the Disney/Pixar break-up…
…morning?), {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/01302004.3.htm Jim chimes in}} with the latest, as well as a report on {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/01302004.2.htm some emails}} Disney Animation head David Stainton has been sending around the company… |
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The State of Animation
Be sure to tune in to CBS News tomorrow morning, February 8 at 9:00 am ET and at 7:00 am PT, for a report on the state of animation. Animators… |
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Pics from \\Chicken Little\\, \\Boundin'\\, and artists' prep work for \\Rapunzel Unbraided\\
As we {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00000826.html reported}} last week, \\CBS News Sunday Morning\\ aired a segment on the state of animation. We have some pictures from the piece, including a logo from… |
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Sony to buy Pixar?
CBS Marketwatch reports that Pixar’s shares jumped this morning on rumor of a Sony buyout. Apparently, the consumer electronic giant wants to offer $75 a share for the house of… |
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Poor little Jonah
…for a short while, the highest grossing Christian movie of all time. Alas, in one day, Mel Gibson’s The Passion pushed the little vegetable to the #2 spot this morning…. |
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UPDATED: Eisner's last stand?
…revised and improved Comcast bid, possibly due to land in Eisner’s lap the morning of the Wednesday meeting, coincidentally enough in Comcast’s home town of Philadelphia. {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=104106 Toon Zone}}… |
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\\Home on the Range\\ reviews mild, but critics love music
…in a 1946 movie with the same name.” Joel Siegel on Good Morning America calls it Menken’s “best score since \\Beauty and the Beast\\.” Gene Seymour in Newsday regards the… |
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Another Shrek in the swamp karaoke; DreamWorks' future; Puss In Boots movie?
…talks to Shrek 2‘s Jeffrey Katzenberg about his past and the future of DreamWorks, while he also praises Pixar’s work in the {{link http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/09/1086749775405.html?oneclick=true Sydney Morning Herald}}. Finally, a red-carpet… |
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The Lion King Tenth Anniversary Reunion
…meant to recall the scene where Simba successfully wakes his father early in the morning early in the movie (you think I would’ve caught on to that before someone had… |
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Proud Of Your Boy sequence will be integrated back into Aladdin
…is biting the bullet and announcing that the song will feature in the movie, as Human Again and Morning Report have done in Beauty And The Beast and The Lion… |
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English French in Narnia; director Adamson interviewed
…Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. In related news, the Sydney Morning Herald talks to Narnia‘s director {{link http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/entertainmentstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3572710&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general Andrew Adamson}}, who is currently out on the promotional… |
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Gillie Potter, animator who turned advertising special effects into an art form, dies…
…films sparked the ‘how did they do that?’ question up and down the country the morning after they were first aired. Gillie was involved in the production of more than… |
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Photos from Donald's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
The following links contain story, photos, and video clips from the event this morning where the irascible Donald Duck was honored with the 2,257th star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame,… |
