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Toy Story movies coming to Blu-Ray
…features, including Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs, Studio Stories, Paths to Pixar and a tribute to deceased Pixar veteran Joe Ranft. Special sneak peeks at Toy Story 3 will also be… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn: A Career Retrospective
…serving as supervising animator on the Studio’s current contemporary classic! • Part 1 – From Disney Dreams To Disney Animation Florida • Part 2 – The Disney Decade: From Belle… |
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Box office victory for Avatar
Avatar made a very solid $73 million during its opening weekend, according to studio estimates. Were it not for the massive snow storm that was sweeping part of America over… |
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Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!
…Disc – Randall looks at the latest from Troublemaker Studios, the mini-studio founded by Robert Rodriquez that has seen the director turn his hand to everything from dark, ultra-adult entertainment… |
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The Chipmunks make a box office killing
…Chipmunks: The Squeakuel opening to an extremely impressive $19 million yesterday, according to studio estimates. Estimates regarding how Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was affected by this are currently… |
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Third How to Train Your Dragon trailer
…some of the studio’s previous hits before going on to show some new footage from the film. Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois of Lilo and Stitch fame, How… |
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Worldwide box office for Avatar: $700 million in 12 days!
20th Century Fox’s Avatar has become a blockbuster on an epic scale…and at a very fast rate, too. According to the studio, the movie has already earned a jaw-dropping $700… |
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Spidey Vs…?
The Hollywood Reporter announces that the fourth Spider-Man movie under Sam Raimi has hit another stumbling block after the director and the producing studio Sony couldn’t agree on which villains… |
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Sleeping Beauty nods off back to the vault
In addition to the previously announced Disney titles retiring from their current DVD pressings, the Studio has added The Jungle Book (DVD) and Sleeping Beauty (DVD and Blu-ray) Platinum Editions… |
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A look at Waking Sleeping Beauty
…doesn’t paint over the conflicts that not only were inevitable in Disney’s resurgence but also were an outcome of the turnaround itself, as the studio’s most senior executives (Jeffrey Katzenberg,… |
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Blue Sky in the spotlight
The New York Times has a nice piece about Blue Sky Studios, their history, how they upset the major players in 2009, and their future. They note that Ice Age… |
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Hoodwinked Too! toys now at Burger King, despite movie’s delay
…desperate need for a hit right now. The studio has been going through financial trouble for a long time, with their Oscar hopeful Nine bombing with a current box office… |
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Golden Globes for animation, and a teaser for this week…
…at the end of the week; but there are also several DVD reviews coming. In addition to catching up on the latest studio releases, we will soon have in-depth looks… |
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DreamWorks planning for a big year
The Hollywood Reporter looks at DreamWorks’ big year ahead, where they will become the first studio to release three CG animated films in the same calendar year. Many investors are… |
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Gnomeo and Juliet still happening?
Despite the news this week that Disney is shutting down Miramax Films, the studio’s animated Gnomeo & Juliet is apparently still in the works. With reported production problems surrounding it… |
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Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective
…Tempe-based Architekton and award-winning Barton Myers Associates of Los Angeles and houses a state-of-the-art, 600-seat proscenium theater, a 200-seat studio theater and a 3,500 square-foot gallery. About CJCC: The Chuck… |
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Turning up for Tooning In!
…in a number of titles from Steve Stanchfield’s always excellent DVD compilations (this time looking at Uncensored Animation From The Van Beuren Studio, The Complete Animated Adventures Of Van Beuren’s… |
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Teaser for the animated zombie film A.D.
…and director Ben Hibon hope to reinvent the zombie genre by turning A.D. into a feature length movie. The filmmakers are still in search of a studio and are using… |
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Imagi shut down
ABC News reports that Imagi Animation Studios has shut down. The parent company of the studio behind TMNT and Astro Boy is trying to stave off financial problems. But Imagi… |
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Positive buzz for Despicable Me
Despicable Me hits theaters on July 9th, 2010.Several different film sites, including SlashFilm, JoBlo, HitFiz, and Collider, all feature articles describing their author’s experiences while touring the studio responsible for… |
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The Ricky Gervais Show debuts this week
…on it and the animated series from the Toronto Star, but the gist is three funny guys sit in a studio and riff about what ever strikes their fancy. Though,… |
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Third Chipmunks movie confirmed
…Perhaps also unsurprising is the studio’s decision to produce the movie in 3D. Opening just one week before Steven Speilberg’s own 3D film, The Adventures of Tintin, Alvin and the… |
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Disney/Zemeckis’ ImageMovers split
After the high cost and unexpectedly low returns on Disney’s Robert Zemeckis-directed A Christmas Carol, the studio has announced the closing of the ImageMovers Digital facility in Marin County. Currently… |
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Turkeys set for 2011; Rats of NIMH on the way
According to Variety, a new animation house titled Bedrock Studios has plans for creating family-friendly films with budgets under $35 million. Their first project, centered around a pair of turkeys… |
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When Dragons and Titans clash
…an angry message, furious over the studio’s last minute decision to convert their Clash of the Titans remake into 3-D and to release it just one week after Dragon. Meanwhile,… |
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Universal and Illumination ready to Hop
With Despicable Me still to come, Universal has announced that they are ready to develop their next project with animation studio Illumination. I Hop will be an live-action/CG hybrid with… |
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Tron…3 and 4?
…to the studio’s reinvented franchise. Although Legacy is itself a continuation of the original 1982 Tron, the project has been given the confusing working title of Tron 2, and there… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…true animation in Bakshi’s Rings often outclasses the work from any other studio’s animation of the time, from the punk grunge of Heavy Metal to the naturalistic approach of Watership… |
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Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear commercial goes viral
…is just the latest of several viral videos for Toy Story 3 from the studio. In addition, AV reader Grace points out that Barbie’s pal Ken, as seen in the… |
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Hollywood Reporter roundup: Peanuts and Dragon 2
…Dragon is the next of the studio’s properties to become franchised, with a film sequel set for 2013, a television series and other events including an arena show planned. After… |
