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Final John Carter trailer takes off
Only days before the movie’s release, Disney has put out one last trailer for John Carter on the film’s official Youtube page. It’s quite possible that the studio put this… |
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SpongeBob SquarePants returning to theaters in 2014
…starts off our new animation effort,” the Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said. The film is part of the studio’s plan to release animated movies each year with production budgets of… |
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AV introduces website calendar and iPhone app
…features the distributor and studio info and (if you click the image) a link to the film’s website. We obviously plan on keeping both of these updated as new information… |
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Disney songwriting legend Robert Sherman passes away
In news that will be sad to Disney fans around the world, Robert Sherman — who with his brother Richard wrote countless songs for Disney and other movie studios —… |
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Bolivar To Be Animated By Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers and Weed Road have been tagged to animate the Archaia Studio graphic novel Bolivar reports The Animation Magazine. The Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke will direct and write the… |
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Illumination a boon to Universal’s bottom line
The Wall Street Journal looks at the profitable relationship between Universal Pictures and animation studio Illumination Entertainment. While Illumination has only produced three films so far (Despicable Me, Hop, and… |
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VeggieTales: Robin Good And His Not-So-Merry Men
…Hurt – Discussion Guide is a slideshow featurette that shows tips, such as prayer and talking to someone, that can help handle hurt. The studio commentary is a standard commentary,… |
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Happy Feet Two
…studio, where they recorded their lines as a group instead of individually, but it’s unfortunate the spirit doesn’t carry over into the film. If you wanted to know more about… |
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The Cat in the Hat is coming back
…it will be a 3-D computer-animated film from Illumination Entertainment, the same studio responsible for the current box office hit The Lorax. Deadline is also reporting that the same company… |
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New Madagascar 3 trailer
A new trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted mades its way online this week, and can be seen on the studio’s official Youtube page. The sequel… |
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UPA’s continuing influence on animation
…featuring “visually-exciting and rarely seen cartoons in 35mm”. Also in attendance will be Adam Abraham, author of When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA, and animation… |
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Disney Advertises With Anime
…The ad features the character Yumeno Maihama and recounts her experiences at the park. Disney has ventured into anime before co-producing Stitch with Studio Madhouse and the 3D anime Fireball…. |
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Wallace & Gromit’s World Of Invention
…Invention’s production value is also reflected in its sound mix, which one would expect given the close-mic’d majority of the studio-recorded voiceovers. Some of the live, location shot sound can… |
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Jim Henson Company to Make Imaginocean
…curriculum. It will be made using the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio that allows puppeteers to control digital characters in real time. Lisa Henson will produce the show and they are… |
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The Pirates flounder at box office
…$11.1 million according to Box Office Mojo. That tally is the worst ever opening for Aardman on this side of the pond. It’s not all bad news for the studio…. |
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Brad Bird directing top secret project for Disney
Brad Bird is set to helm something called 1952 for Disney, a top secret project that is intended to be a tentpole release for the studio, Deadline is reporting. Nothing… |
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X-Men Anime
…move in 2009 when they reached an agreement with Japanese studio Madhouse to create four Marvel series for the Japanese market. It made good sense. Marvel had the characters, and… |
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Help My Beastly ABC!
Former Disney Supervising Animator Ken Duncan’s Duncan Studio is currently working on an exciting app to teach kids the ABC’s but also about the monsters they fear so much. They… |
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Feeding aliens, feuding mimes, and foodie astronauts
Digital Animation and Visual Effects School The DAVE School was created in the late 1990’s on the back lot of Universal Studios in Orlando by Jeff Scheetz, an animator at… |
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New Disney Studios head not necessarily cutting budgets
The new studio cheif for Walt Disney Pictures says he is not going to shy away from big budget productions according to Reuters. Alan Horn, the former president of Warner… |
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Disney and Oswald preview Epic Mickey 2 at E3
…With the upcoming game, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, scheduled to drop on November 18 — Mickey Mouse’s 84th birthday — the studio is going all out: handing… |
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Pixar’s rules of storytelling
io9 has a list of the 22 rules of storytelling compiled by Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats — the “nuggets of narrative wisdom she’s received working for the animation studio… |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
…as a team – had a palpable impact on me as an animation artist. Whatever studio people work for, and on every project – and people move around quite a… |
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Brave takes aim at the box office
…film marks the 13th time in a row that a Pixar movie has opened at number one, continuing the studio’s perfect track record in that regard. Brave will still have… |
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Disney first to pass billion dollar mark this year
Thanks in large part to a big boost from The Avengers, Disney has become the first studio to surpass a billion dollars domestically at the box office this year according… |
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DreamWorks strikes deal for theme park
…as part of a entertainment and retail mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Jeffrey Katzenberg said the park would involve the studio’s “characters, storytelling and technology in a unique and… |
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Monsters, Inc. 3-D bumped up
…ComingSoon.net is reporting. This will put the film in direct competition with big tentpoles such as The Hobbit, Les Miserables, Django Unchained and Jack Reacher, although the studio may still… |
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Ben Affleck Probably Won’t Helm Justice League
…directors for any project. Just because the studio wants him does not mean he will sign onto the project. Still Justice League is on the radar and talks are underway…. |
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Disney Selick film shut down
…it not being as far along as they needed it to be, according to Variety. They note that he still has the option to take the film to another studio…. |
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Blade Anime
…principally starring four men sitting on stools, there is also lots of studio footage, and glances of original production art. Despite the title, this is mostly about Blade, with minimal… |
