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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…and clever counterpoint to that universe. During his 27-year career as an animation artist, Asbury has served many creative capacities on some of Hollywood’s most popular animated films, including Shrek… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…they’re not real, Pixar debates, instead choosing the “caricatured” look as opposed to the “real” attempts of a Final Fantasy or Shrek. That they don’t look quite real is all… |
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Shareholders sue DreamWorks
{{link http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/news/midcaps/dreamworks.reut/index.htm CNN}} reports that DreamWorks Animation is facing a shareholder lawsuit that accuses the company of misrepresenting DVD sales for \\Shrek 2\\. The lawsuit, which could become a class-action… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…Shrek or Monsters Inc, going here for more of an obviously “cartoony” look, a change in design that is nonetheless welcome. Using a combination of off-the-shelf software, the guys at… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots had become a hero when he had set off on an adventure with the tough… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…Smith was going to be the director. It was going to be very cool. This was before Shrek. Stinky Cheese Man would have been the first one of these animated… |
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Valiant
…but its founder is no newbie. John H. Williams had already produced the Shrek movies for DreamWorks when he set up Vanguard in London. Certainly, he had had success with… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…more recent also-quels, along the lines of DisneyToon Studio’s own Cinderella III or DreamWorks’ reset-switch setting Shrek 4. Kind of. Because The Lion King 1½ is also unlike any animated… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…well-known stars. Unlike such films as Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas, or Shrek, the voices don’t overbalance the characters, with even Rutt and Tuke escaping being weighed down by… |
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Despicable Me 2 crosses $300 million mark; sequel banned from China
…2 has crossed the $300 million mark, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The sequel is now the sixth highest grossing animated movies of all time, behind only Shrek The Third,… |
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Meet the flockers: the Animated-News Valiant review
…Shrek and Shrek 2 fame – and being made not by DreamWorks in LA, but by his own, newly opened facility in London’s Ealing Studios, home to many classic Alec… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…curious that the studio behind acclaimed hits like Shrek and How to Train Your Dragon decided to make a major motion picture about them some two decades after the height… |
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More voice work for Cleese and Curry as they join Valiant
…the addition of John Cleese (who obviously enjoyed his stint on DreamWorks’ Shrek 2) and Tim Curry (the “serial vocalist” who’ll lend his voice to anything animated). No news on… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…tested higher with test audiences than either Shrek film Over the Hedge appears to be in for a good showing at this weekend’s box office. Chris Hewitt of the St…. |
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Finding Dory
…not just expected but accepted and indiscriminately supported. The top animated film of all time is Shrek 2, and the top ten includes Despicable Me 2, Minions, and Shrek the… |
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The Simpsons Movie rules weekend Box Office, Smashes Records
…ever for a non-CG animated movie and the third-biggest opening ever for an animated movie of any kind, behind only Shrek the Third‘s $121.6 million and Shrek 2’s $108 million…. |
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Here's to victory: Wallace and Gromit soak up the adulation
…a total of eleven animated feature films, including Antz, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Madagascar and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. DreamWorks Animation’s newest release, Over the… |
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Trolls
…one of them as a kid, which I got as a favor at a birthday party), so it’s a bit curious that the studio behind acclaimed hits like Shrek and… |
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Slater, Buscemi and Cleese meet Igor
…role of “Igor,” Dr. Glickenstein’s hunchbacked lab assistant; Buscemi (Charlotte’s Web, Fargo) will voice “Scamper,” a super intelligent and ill-tempered lab rabbit; with Cleese (Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, A… |
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Six-minute preview, trailer, updated synopsis, and images for Valiant
…– LARGE – FULLSCREEN Windows Media: SMALL – MEDIUM – LARGE Real Player: SMALL – MEDIUM – LARGE Synopsis “From the producer of Shrek and Shrek 2, comes this high-flying… |
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DreamWorks Animation's Siggraph Presentations
…were cast for Over the Hedge and Shrek the Third to facilitate tree lighting. * Procedural Modeling Workflow for Over the Hedge Foliage (Presented by Bruce Tartaglia with Rob Wilson,… |
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Fear the Puss in Boots: The Last Wish trailer if you dare
…fun, but some audiences may be taken aback a notably more “stylized” animation style than the more realistic look of the previous Shrek films. The movie opens everywhere this fall…. |
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DVD news: DreamWorks' falling sales and marketing ploys
…is DreamWorks’ recent Madagascar Animal Trivia, which will be followed up by a Shrek activity disc in the fall, and is described as “the first of several deals with entertainment… |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Sweepstakes
…film marks the first live action directorial effort for Andrew Adamson (Academy Award®-nominated for Shrek, Shrek 2), who also co-wrote the film’s screenplay adaptation with Ann Peacock and Christopher Markus… |
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Pixar CEO, animators invited to join Academy
…\\Shrek\\, \\Shrek 2\\, \\The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\\), Kathy Altieri (art director \\The Prince of Egypt\\, production designer \\Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron\\), Signe… |
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DreamWorks Animation Preview
…DreamWorks will preview their upcoming animation slate at the event. “DreamWorks will be hosting a booth featuring art from the animated films Shrek 2, Shark Tale and Millennium Actress. Also… |
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Puss sets out to cheat death in action-packed The Last Wish trailer
…long, so if you don’t want to get spoiled, you might want to steer clear. The animation is also much more “stylized” than it has been in the previous Shrek… |
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DreamWorks Animation, Activision launch new deal
…exclusive video game rights to DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming slate, including Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Rex Havoc, and How to Train Your Dragon. Shrek 3 and any other future Shrek… |
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Disney to distribute Chronicles of Narnia
…the upcoming Around The World In 80 Days remake) to co-finance and distribute the live-action film, which is being directed by Andrew Adamson (Shrek, Shrek 2) and is set to… |
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Press release: Wallace & Gromit and Oscar
…feature films, including Antz, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Madagascar and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. DreamWorks Animation’s newest release, Over the Hedge, opens in theaters May… |