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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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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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Official estimates are in: #1 with $62.5M for Wall•E
…the end of its run to become DreamWorks Animation’s second most successful original film domestically behind Shrek. Both Wall•E and Kung Fu Panda are expected to do brisk business overseas…. |
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Ratatouille and Enchanted grab Saturn awards
…Music for Alan Menken) while Ratatouille won for best Writing and unsurprisingly beat Beowulf, Meet the Robinsons, Shrek the Third, The Simpsons Movie and Surf’s Up in the Animated Film… |
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AFI's top 10 animated films
…Brad Garett (Bloat) and #10. Finding Nemo (2003) #9. Cinderella (1950) #8. Shrek (2001) #7. Beauty and the Beast (1991) #6. Toy Story (1995) #5. Fantasia (1940) #4. The Lion… |
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Seann William Scott talks about Planet 51
…like, ‘Oh, my gosh! I told you!’ The script [by Shrek writer Joe Stillman] is amazing. It’s really funny, and it’s right up SCIFI.COM’s alley, because it starts off on… |
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DreamWorks Animation share downgraded from neutral to sell
…the historical average including the highly successful Shrek franchise. The company’s last five films have averaged $191 million in the domestic box office. UBS, however, raised its price target for… |
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Can Kung Fu Panda mark DreamWorks' return to the Oscars?
…was the studio’s last win since 2001’s Shrek but an Aardman production). Tough to digest for the only studio in town to be solely dedicated to animation and releasing two… |
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The Smurfs coming to the big screen
…installments in the Shrek franchise, are in negotiations to pen the screenplay. Kerner secured film rights to the Smurfs property in 2002 and had been developing a 3-D CGI feature… |
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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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…score that pushes all the buttons his Media Ventures partners Hans Zimmer, John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams have pushed in projects as diverse as The Road To El Dorado, Shrek… |
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Golden Globe winners
Animation didn’t fare well at the 62nd Golden Globe Awards with all three animated nominees losing. \\The Incredibles\\ lost for Best Picture (Musical/Comedy) to \\Sideways\\. \\Shrek 2\\’s “\\Accidentally In Love\\”… |
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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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Something for the weekend…?
…readers. Get your names in quick! The big news today is that Pixar’s Ratatouille site got an update and that the Shrek 3 trailer has just gone online, so be… |
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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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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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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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Home On The Range
…partnership with Pixar and the rise of PDI/DreamWorks, their biggest rival. With these two new kids on the block, providing the whiz-bang fireworks of Toy Story and Shrek, no wonder… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…were true… In this time where practically all animation seems to be about self-parody (the Shrek series, The Lion King 1½, many of the Disney sequels), Teacher’s Pet scores big… |
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The Lion King 1½
…with their biggest traditional animated franchise, or whether the whole endeavour smacked of sheer desperation in trying to keep up with the Shrek crowd, and the new trend of having… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…decades of animated films to follow, even being spoofed as recently as in rival studio DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise. Fittingly, the “one that started it all” is the first in line… |
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Robots soundtrack to hit stores on March 1st
…composer John Powell’s (Antz, Chicken Run, Shrek) collaboration with the Blue Man Group, “Robot City”. Cover art for the sountrack is available at Amazon. Robots invades theaters on March 11th…. |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…movie: how much of a parody of Disney is it? How do you make it different from Shrek? How dark can the elements be? And I think that just took… |
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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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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…don’t need you anymore.” When CGI films like Shrek and Ice Age from competing studios performed well at the box office, Disney execs strangely assumed that Disney films must be… |
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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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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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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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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… |
