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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…trip to the theatre. What Did YOU Think? The Animated Views Readers’ Pick Of The Year! For the first time ever, we put the big question over to you, asking… |
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Deja blog educates and inspires
…Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, Deja’s last entry includes an historic photo of some of the Nine Old Men working on The Jungle Book, character designs,… |
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Despicable Me 2 crosses $300 million mark; sequel banned from China
…2 has crossed the $300 million mark, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The sequel is now the sixth highest grossing animated movies of all time, behind only Shrek The Third,… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…brought down. Not that the quality suffered: the 60s brought us Mary Poppins, of course, and the classic The Jungle Book. After the renaissance of the 80s, and the dawn… |
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Final Frozen trailer now online
…to be the studio’s “greatest animated event since The Lion King.” Whether or not it will live up to that claim remains to be seen, but audiences can decide for… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…Blu-ray didn’t quite make it out by the end of the year, so for classic animation fans, The Puppetoon Movie is the clear winner for 2013! Read the full The… |
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Frozen retakes box office crown in 7th week
…The film has made almost $300 million domestically and over $600 million worldwide, which is closing in on the The Lion King — the current highest grossing film from Disney… |
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Animated movie music back in style
The animated movie musical is back in vogue, according to the Los Angeles Times. The biggest sign of the change has been on the music charts. “For the first time… |
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Frozen crosses $400 million mark at domestic box office
There’s yet another Frozen success story to be discussed today, as the Disney movie finally crossed the $400 million mark in the US, The Wrap is reporting. That makes the… |
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Frozen On Ice is coming in September
…and an incredibly popular soundtrack, but what’s curious is that the show will include “special appearances” by characters from Toy Story, The Lion King and Finding Nemo, along with the… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…have an adventure. Their older sister, Candace, is constantly at odds with their ideas, and wishes to “bust” them by tattling on them to their mother. In the “B” story… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Then Shrek 2 became the first animated feature to gross nearly a billion dollars worldwide, positioning the company to possibly dethrone Disney at the top of the industry mountain. The… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…the underwhelming but money-making Finding Dory, plus the teaser for the new live-action Beauty And The Beast (bizarrely almost lost in the added menu option previews) along with Spielberg’s The… |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…the movie’s groundbreaking effects; deleted scenes; a deleted song; hidden Easter Eggs; music video; “Inner Workings,” the theatrical short film directed by Leo Matsuda that spotlights the internal struggle between… |
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Dumbo takes off with $45 million opening
…in 2010. As is often the case with Disney, tracking was all over the place for Dumbo, with some being more conservative with projections of around $40 million while others… |
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Endgame drops the hammer with $350 million opening weekend, $1.2 billion worldwide
…to take the title back with Infinity War, which made $257 million or roughly $10 million more than The Force Awakens managed. Endgame surpassed that record by more than $90… |
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UPDATED: Aladdin flies to a whole new world at box office
…people who are going to Aladdin are Disney fans, many of who saw the original in theaters when they were kids, and in the end they are the ones who… |
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Toy Story 4 leads box office with $118 million debut
…million+ opening weekend they’ve enjoyed in 2019 so far, and they’re almost certainly going to have three more of them with The Lion King, Frozen II and Star Wars: The… |
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Dora recovers $17 million treasure; Toy Story 4 now biggest in franchise
…no way they’re going to stop producing sequels as well. The numbers are simply too lucrative for Disney to want them to cease. And speaking of lucrative, The Lion King… |
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Maleficent fails to conjure up box office spell
…Maleficent made $700 million globally, which is probably the main reason a follow-up was greenlit in the first place). Elsewhere at the box office, The Addams Family had a pretty… |
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Frozen II lets it go to record-breaking $350 million global opening
…the record set by Toy Story 4 earlier this year by more than $100 million. Additionally, Frozen II also gave Disney Feature Animation their first $100 million+ opening in the… |
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The Rise of Skywalker rises to $175 million
…the same cloth as The Force Awakens. Strangely enough, critics were far kinder to The Last Jedi than they were to The Rise of Skywalker, giving the latter the lowest… |
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Frozen II beats original’s stateside gross; Star Wars still hot, Spies fly steady
Frozen II continued its record-breaking run at the box office this week, beating the $400 million mark on Thursday and remaining in the top five over the holiday weekend, The… |
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Frozen II becomes the highest grossing animated feature of all-time
…$1.325 billion world-wide. The previous mark was set by the original Frozen, which had $1.274 billion, followed by Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 with $1.242 billion. The achievement comes on the… |
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Peter Jackson talks hobbits and giant apes!
Peter Jackson, readying himself for the release of the last in his epic special-effects filled Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Return Of The King on December 17th, is already… |
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It's here!
…trilogy, The Return Of The King, which opens worldwide today and has already been voted as possibly the best film of the year. {{link http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#1 The IMDB}} features a round-up… |
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Box office returns
…like this: 1 – The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King – $51.2 million 7 – Peter Pan – $11.4 million 10 – Elf – $4.3 million… |
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Return Of The Fish
…The Rings film, The Return Of The King. Nemo swam to £37.2 million pounds ($67.2 million U.S.) since a November release, while King returned £40 million pounds ($72.25 million U.S.)… |
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Rings scores boffo box-office bonanza!
…the Peter Jackson motion picture behemoth continued to trail blaze through the charts, flying past the $300 million mark this weekend with a $14.2 million take, for a $312.3 million… |
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Empire State Building Turns Green to Celebrate Popeye's 75th Birthday
{{link http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2004/01/14/build/top/TOP004.html The Southern Illinoisan}} reports that to honor the 75th birthday of world famous cartoon character Popeye, the famous tower lights of the Empire State Buidling will turn green… |
