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Clone Wars wins first Emmys
The Doctor and the Master picked up the first ever Emmy Awards for Star Wars: The Clone Wars this past weekend. George Lucas earned his first Emmy as producer of… |
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Composer Zuckerman answers anything
Jeremy Zuckerman, the composer behind The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, did an AMA (“ask me anything”) session on Reddit yesterday…. |
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Catch up on Disney reading
If you’re in the mood to settle in with a book, MiceChat has you covered for the rest of the year. They’ve compiled a list of books about Disney being… |
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Tom Hiddleston to voice a young Captain Hook in upcoming Tinker Bell movie
…be heard as the voice of the mischievous Vexy in The Smurfs 2, while Hiddleston will be reprising his role as another villain, Loki, in the upcoming Thor: The Dark… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
…The Phantom, a skull-faced ghoul who has begun terrorizing the theater, with demands that a certain contestant must win. Then, of course, they meet an array of folks who have… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…stroke of luck, he ran into a high-level member of the Roger Rabbit crew at the Elstree Studios bar, who offered to get them into Disney. They met with Don… |
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Nineteen animated films up for Oscar noms
…– Rebellion, Rio: 2096 A Story of Love and Fury, The Smurfs 2, Turbo, and The Wind Rises Several of the films still need to have their required Los Angeles… |
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Is Kaguya-hime appropriate for a global audience?
No one can deny that Isao Takahata’s The Legend of Princess Kaguya has beautiful animation, but ANN found a piece by Newsweek journalist Akihiko Reizei that suggests some scenes are… |
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Saving Mr. Banks roundup
Saving Mr. Banks opens next week in the United States, but it’s already made its debut overseas. The Mirror has photos from the premiere, including some of the stars of… |
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The Smurfs 2
…Smurfs to seek the aid of their friends the Winslows, then they all smurf to Paris to smurf Gargamel, smurf the disillusioned Smurfette, and smurf the day. And they all… |
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Phase 4 copies Disney’s Frozen
…left to their own devices, but sometimes Disney finds issues to sue. Phase 4 Films changed the title of its 3D animated film from The Legend of Sarila to Frozen… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…And The Magic Lamp, The Magic Atlas, Jasper And The Haunted House, The Philips Broadcast Of 1938, and The Ship Of The Ether. There are several little masterpieces in there,… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…the little things to happen, especially as the film comes to its ending. The American tightening of these scenes (for reasons unknown) robs The Muppet Movie of much of its… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…three awards, for Animated Effects, Character Design, and Character Animation. On the TV side, Disney’s Mickey Mouse won three awards for Character Design, Music, and Editorial. The full list of… |
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Justice League: War
…52 movie. As always, the success of these adaptations hinges on the greatness or mediocrity of the source material, and… well, I was not a huge fan of the New… |
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The Pirate Fairy
…Is This Thing Loaded? The disc begins with a Trailer for the next Disney Fairies movie (looks like they’ve lost the Tinker Bell branding for good), Legend Of The NeverBeast,… |
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Princess Mononoke
…a similar fashion to the Lord Of The Rings trilogy: it is the end of an age, and we can see how the end of one world led to the… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…sets out with her black cat Jiji. She eventually finds the perfect city— a bustling place sitting on the edge of the ocean. The people of the town do not… |
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 wins big at Annie Awards
…Dejan Momcilovic – ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ – Weta Digital Character Animation in a Video Game ___ Mike Mennillo – ‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ – Ubisoft Character Design… |
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Big Hero 6
…the disc something of a historic release is the inclusion of the Studio’s latest animated short Feast, the Academy Award winner which gives Disney the unique distinction of being the… |
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Batman Vs. Robin: Exclusive Figure Edition
…of the comics. In the case of Batman Vs. Robin, the springboard might appear to be the writing of Grant Morrison, who introduced us to bat-spawn Damian Wayne a few… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…on the front of the return to hand-drawn features The Princess And The Frog, until the mesh of a CG short in front of the much publicised traditionally animated movie… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…about the film’s vibrant colors, or the brightness of the exposure (some of the backgrounds look like they were intended to drop off into crushed blacks when the paper pigmentation… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…hands with the release of The Beatles: 1 collection. Off the screen, JB Kaufman’s Pinocchio: The Making Of The Disney Epic followed up wonderfully on his Snow White book from… |
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Watch the first full trailer for Voltron: Legendary Defender
DreamWorks and Netflix have posted the first full trailer for Voltron: Legendary Defender. The remake of the popular Japanese animated series from the 1980s is animated by Studio Mir, which… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…A parody of the cult B-movie science fiction films of the 1950s, it told the story of Susan Murphy. On the day of her wedding, she would be struck by… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…with the actors providing voices to mascots of the present characters before switching to the panel proper. They aired a trailer of the show’s “second season” and then the actors… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…more experience and, essentially, money and resources behind them. Although they are the same people, these aren’t the kids that often evoke the feeling of their own Amblin-style story (The… |
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Paddington 2 officially begins production
…THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM). Paul King and David Heyman comment”It has been a complete joy to return to the world of… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…into the list of more lackluster Disney productions of the 1970s. On the other side of the fence, you’ll find a whole generation who saw the film on original release… |
