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Box office forecast for Wall•E
Fantasy Moguls predicts a five-day of $58 million-$63 million for Pixar’s latest blockbuster, which would give the Chaplinesque little robot a 10-day domestic cume of about $140 million. Meanwhile Coming… |
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Don Hahn panel at Woodbury University
…Beast, Hercules, Meet the Robinsons, the upcoming The Princess and the Frog) Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:00 p.m Fletcher Jones Foundation Auditorium Woodbury University 7500 Glenoaks Blvd. Burbank, CA 91510… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…knowing, but it turns out to be more along the lines of Shrek: a movie that wanted to spoof a genre but ultimately found itself wanting to be included in… |
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DreamWorks Animation income falls 45%
Variety reports that DreamWorks Animation’s latest earnings are reflecting the current revenue dips being experienced by most of the motion picture studios. Added concern for the Broadway musical Shrek and… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…cover up what they’ve done to the town. A few years ago I read an article by screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean) where he was talking… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
…feature (mentioned above in Cars). A Scanner Darkly • released on Blu-ray and HD DVD in 2007 • same features as DVD. Shrek the Third • released on… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…lot of tickets and DVDs. But classics these films were not. In 2004, the first DWA film that I actually liked a little bit came out — Shrek 2. The… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
Golden Harvest/New Line Cinema/Imagi Studios/Weinstein Company (1990, 1991, 1992, 2007), New Line/Warner Home Video (August 11 2009), 4 disc set, 364 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 1.78:1 – 2.40:1… |
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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
…Shrek The Third was the only HD DVD-exclusive title out there, compared to the Blu-ray exclusive Disney and Pixar movies, plus the dual format release of a few titles from… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…years computer animated movies have been exclusive to the Disney/Pixar collaborations, but lately all studios have been joining the revolution with last year’s Shrek by Dreamworks leading the way along… |
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The Animatrix
…movements, martial art techniques, and fashion used in the movie have been imitated in everything from Shrek to Scary Movie to countless television shows. It really has become an integral… |
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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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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…meals, and gratuitous bonus checks of $100,000. Some of it was a bit tiresome, like the paraphernalia perks that came with each project (“Great, another hat”), but on the whole… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…of looking at story and how to tell a story. On Enchanted, as opposed to something like Shrek which has a very cynical look at fairytale, we both have a… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…to come in, help them finish it and hopefully raise the bar 10% – 20% to make it presentable as a theatrical release. AV: Whereas the original movie focused on… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…White. This 40-minute retrospective is similar to the 50-minute version from the 1993 LaserDisc box set, replacing Corey Burton’s narration with “tour guide” Angela Lansbury. Animation historian John Canemaker draws… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Purr-ee in 1962. In this time of using star names to sell a film (Brad Pitt is Sinbad! Mike Myers is Shrek! Eddie Murphy is a Donkey! Well, not quite,… |
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The Lion King 1½
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 10 2004), 2 discs, 77 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The “untold tale” of… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…of the opening minutes of Walt’s 1940 masterpiece (though how he’d take to his film being warped the way it is here – stylistically and humorously – one can only… |
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Home On The Range
…the $750 needed to save Pearl’s Patch Of Heaven farm! And so they set out, up against a mysterious bounty hunter, Rico, and Buck, a crazy horse from the Sheriff’s… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…essentially setting up the tone for his performances in the Shrek films) is Eddie Murphy, who here is bags of fun, and not nearly half as annoying as Donkey could… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…(Lion King, Pocahontas, Roger Rabbit, Aladdin, Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000), DreamWorks (Prince Of Egypt, Antz, Spirit, Shrek) and Warners (Osmosis Jones, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Son Of The Mask) and is… |
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Chicken Little
…the lines of Shrek, or if it’s trying to be good clean Disney fun. Being a CGI movie, we get ample amounts of comedy, pop-culture references (whenever else are you… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks (September 29 2006), Sony Home Entertainment (January 30 1007), single disc, 86 mins plus supplements including limited-time Amazon-exclusive bonus DVD of The ChubbChubbs, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen,… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…as Meatwad. As Aqua Teen Hunger Force started, the sound I heard wasn’t the heavy metal-ised spoof theater concessions promo, but my heart sinking in that I had another 80… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
Laugh-O-Gram Films (1921-1922), Inkwell Images (November 10 2006), single TDK-branded DVD-R, 40 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $26.95 Storyboard: Walt Disney’s… |
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Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?
…at all) after 6 waves, and 22 volumes. It’s unknown whether the decision is sales-related, but given the worryingly low print run of just 65,000 for the latest collection, one… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…scape by the $100 million barrier, and that was without the onslaught of competition coming at it from all sides as was witnessed by the almost-bloodbath of similar, competitive releases… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
It’s the biggest thing watched on television, with more than 90.7 million viewers tuning in to the game last year. This makes the Super Bowl amazingly attractive to advertisers, and… |
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Flushed Away Giveaway – Winners Announced!
…games and previews for Bee Movie, Shrek The Third and Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, plus much more! Flushed Away (Widescreen Edition) is available to buy from Amazon.com… |
