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Steinberg gets new Boots
Variety [paid registration required], via Coming Soon, reports that screenwriter David H. Steinberg (Slackers, American Pie 2) has been appointed to pen the Shrek 2 spin-off Puss in Boots, with… |
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ACADEMY AWARDS: And the Oscars go to…
…of this year’s awards. And we’ll see you right here next year! Shrek joins Charlie Chaplin in the opening montage. Edna Mode and Pierce Bronson present for Best Costume Design…. |
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Family Flicks Outperform R-Rated Titles
…years. “Five of 2004’s top-10 moneymakers were rated PG, which means they were open to all audiences, among them Shrek 2, The Incredibles and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of… |
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Animated winners at the 18th annual Kids Choice Awards
…‘Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie,’ and Shrek 2 for ‘Favorite Video Game’. The official site for the Kids Choice Awards has a full list of winners, pics, and videos…. |
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Madagascar seeks help from Madagascar
…tourist brochures as the film enters theaters next month. Meanwhile, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly told analyists last month that Madagascar has performed better with test audiences than Shrek. Madagascar… |
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Raven Moon Entertainment starting new animation division
…producers market, Prime Zone indicates. The studio, located in Orlando, Florida, is ready to offer animation services like those used in the Shrek films and The Incredibles. “Because the cost… |
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Dream On Silly Dreamer report and photos
…films like Shrek and Ice Age from competing studios performed well at the box office, Disney execs strangely assumed that Disney films must be failing due to being hand-drawn and… |
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Madonna not to provide voice for Puss in Boots
…be lending her voice to Puss in Boots. The misunderstanding arrived from The Sun‘s reporting that Madonna would reunite with her Evita co-star Antonio Banderas in the Shrek 2 spin-off…. |
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Bee Movie buzz
…is up at Coming Soon as well. Directed by Steve Hickner (The Prince of Egypt), and Simon J. Smith (Shrek 4-D), and produced by Christina Steinberg (National Treasure), Bee Movie… |
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Rapunzel revamped?
What began as a Shrek-like spoof on fairy tales, followed by a supposed turn into a tale about a squirrel and a bassett hound, the plot for Disney’s Rapunzel Unbraided… |
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Madagascar roars into theatres
…cartoon way, but in a world where the stakes have been raised by \\Finding Nemo\\, \\Shrek\\, and \\The Incredibles\\, it’s a throwback to a more conventional kind of animated entertainment…. |
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DreamWorks stock falls due to lawsuit
…for Shrek 2. On the New York Stock Exchange, shares of DreamWorks fell 56 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $29.19 in midday trading. The stock tumbled to a 52-week low… |
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Spotlight on DreamWorks Animation and Jeffrey Katzenberg
…impossible and dare me to do it. Most of the time I will find a way.” The article also notes that Shrek 4 is scheduled to hit theaters in 2010…. |
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Theatrical animated movie schedule
At the Animation Nation Bulletin Board, ‘Papercut’ has posted a schedule for upcoming animated movie releases, from The Corpse Bride to Shrek 4…. |
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NYC Licensing Show 2005 animated images
…the Were-Rabbit, Shrek 3, Flushed Away, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, and Paramount’s Barnyard), plus banners heralding Disney’s {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20535 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the… |
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DreamWorks Animation at SIGGRAPH 2005
…revealed for Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, Shrek 3, Bee Movie, and Kung Fu Panda, with some of the sneak peeks including spoilers. Thanks to ‘askmike1’ at the Animated-News Forum… |
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Madagascar Gives Some Good News to DreamWorks
…the losses in DVD revenue from Shrek 2 and Shark Tale. While the gains did not fully offset the company’s losses, the net negative 4 cents per share earnings were… |
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SEC launches Pixar inquiry
…sales of \\Shrek 2\\. Analysts contacted by \\The Times\\ seemed to consider the Pixar inquiry a formality. One said that “In our dealings with Pixar, we note that the company… |
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Batman swooping down on Broadway?
A recent article in the http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/09/12/1126377253812.html”>Sydney Morning Herald dicusses animated movies that have become (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) or are becoming (Tarzan, Shrek) Broadway musicals and mentions… |
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Walden Media takes on Tortoise and Hippo
Walden Media has gained the rights to Tortoise and Hippo, which will be written by Shrek co-writer Roger S.H. Schulman, reports Variety [registration required], via Coming Soon. The film, to… |
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The science of animation
…results. These results are then applied to the reactions of the general public to the characters in several recent CGI movies, such as Shrek, The Incredibles, and The Polar Express…. |
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Second Chronicles of Narnia trailer; Director Adamson talks Narnia sequels
…but certainly not for all seven. I wouldn’t like to work on just two franchises [Shrek and Narnia] for the rest of my life.” IGN FilmForce has the full article…. |
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Paramount buys DreamWorks
…Viacom execs last night, stated that “Certainly, Madagascar and Shrek offer great possibilities”, while adding that Nickelodeon is “probably the most far-reaching distribution platform for children in the world. It’s… |
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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sito was animation co-director on Osmosis Jones (2001); a story artist on Antz (1998), Dinosaur (2000) and Shrek (2001); and a storyboard artist, animator… |
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Animated movies found among poll of greatest family films
Courant.com points to a British television poll which lists the greatest family flicks of all time. Animated movies chosen in the poll include: Shrek (#2), Mary Poppins (#3), Toy Story… |
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\\Hoodwinked\\ top of the box office
…though the pop culture riff on Little Red Riding Hood made a fraction of fellow fractured fairy tale \\Shrek\\, the opening more than doubled the last low-rent computer-animated affair, \\Valiant\\”…. |
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Harvard School of Public Health studies ‘G’ rated films
…characters using tobacco or alcohol. It is worth noting that the study seems to have mistaken the Shrek films to be G-rated, though the text is an interesting read nonetheless…. |
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Madagascar teams up with other films in 2-for-1 deals
Beginning March 28, one may buy DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar with either Chicken Run, Shrek 2, or Shark Tale, getting two DVDs for the price of one. The sets are already… |
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Game Developer's Conference to discuss games of film properties
…Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Batman Begins, Shrek, Madagascar, and others. The panelists will be discussing the unique challenges and opportunities afforded by close collaboration between film studios and visual effects… |
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New DreamWorks Animation website
Check out the newly redesigned dreamworksanimation.com for: * information on their films, including Over the Hedge, Shrek the Third, all the way to the Madagascar sequel coming in Fall 2008;… |


