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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
The Hollywood Reporter published an interesting article this morning outlining the huge success of Disney merchandise, driven by franchises such as Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Cars and the Disney… |
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Wall•E scores 100% positive reviews from top critics
…and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity” (NY Times); “some day, there will be college courses devoted to this movie,” says the NY Post, with the Dallas Morning… |
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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
…Stories, Bolt, Monsters Inc, the Roy Disney boat race documentary Morning Light, plus Disney Movie Rewards and DisneyXD online in HD. The main menu is perfectly adequate, and I’d wager… |
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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
…documentary Morning Light, Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure and the DisneyXD gaming platform. First of the slim – and short – bonuses presented is Until Gravity Do Us Part,… |
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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
…homages to Christmas specials and movies gives way to the story of a fiendish plan by The Monarch to destroy the Ventures on Christmas morning. After that, there are about… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…the CFQ Trailer Park on Thursday morning. Furthermore, a shirt transfer for Shrek The Third, as well as a trading card promo, were given, lending a look at the project’s… |
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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
…down in a different scene. They did those shots. I would split my days. I would work at Tippett in the morning, getting their day started, and as soon as… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…like? RR: The days could be a little hectic. We would have a story meeting in the morning to go over pages and scenes that I had worked on from… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…inspiration. I was assigned the scene where WALL•E wakes up in the morning and is trying to put his treads on like shoes. I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…it’s too late, and the ship has taken her “second star to the right and straight on ’till morning” to Never-Land itself! Peter and Tinkerbell soon hear about the young… |
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The Lion King 1½
…are awoken next morning by Simba’s belting out of the Just Can’t Wait To Be King number. As the meerkat emerges from the cave to complain, we see that the… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…being almost totally animated during the course of production, and here it has been finally inked and painted, and inserted, Human Again and Morning Report style, back into the film,… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…on Good Morning Norway in 2003 (11 min), while TV excerpts on a life-size drivable version of the winning car “Il Tempo Gigante” yields another 10 minutes or so. There’s… |
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Cars
…sit down for a morning to spend a couple of hours discussing the film even though he was able to spend a day promoting it to journalists at a recent… |
