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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two
…no indication of their titles on the side, looking out of whack with the previous entries in the series. Added to this is the fact that the set’s contents, usually… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…and Pluto arrive for a getaway and want to start cooking, the chipmunks put up their usual fight to keep their place. The final sequence, with Mickey mistaking a ketchup-covered… |
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Classic feature reviews, Pan deals, and more…
A couple of 1970s animated features get the archive review treatment today: the original animated The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and the special edition DVD of Ralph Bakshi’s… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…as if the release of these historic shorts wasn’t enough, is the promise that the discs will house the DVD debut of the Ub Iwerks documentary feature The Hand Behind… |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
…franchise pictures in there? While Apted is undoubtedly a strong director, the only film that has taken him close to such fare was the 007 adventure The World Is Not… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…there in the end and the payoff is well worth the reward. There remains, however, no real heart in the future, which is what Meet The Robinsons really needed to… |
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Return to Narnia…
…area has been with The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, the first of CS Lewis’ Narnia books that came to screens a couple of years… |
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The Wild
…time for good – with their perhaps inevitable merger. Suddenly, the Studios’ association with “outside” producers wasn’t looking like the kind of insurance they needed anymore, and the future for… |
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We’re off to see the Wizard!
…the extras are pretty limited: just the three theatrical trailers from the original DVD and a What Would Brian Boitano Do? music video from the international DVD release, though they’ve… |
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Troubled MGM heading for the auction block?
…buy the library, to compliment the pre-1986 MGM films it already owns, while Sony may purchase United Artists to keep hold of the 007 franchise, and the famous Leo the… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…& Jerry: The Movie was not one of them, and the film isn’t even highlighted by a theatrical trailer in this collection. With their merging with the Cartoon Network, the… |
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New Thunder Cats Trailer
The anime-inspired Thunder Cats cartoon now has an official trailer. Taking the same revamp path as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe a few years back, the trailer gives… |
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Watch 9 Minutes of the New ThunderCats
ThunderCats, one of the biggest TV animation premieres of the summer, has a new sneak peak. Nine minutes of the pilot episode is available for previewing. Based off the popular… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…intact. That was also the intention when Warners picked up the baton for the DVD Spotlight Collections, although the mixed-up assortment of cartoon offerings and the emergence that there were… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…shadows, far from the enemy’s influence, but the more victories they win they come closer to invading the enemies’ stronghold—sort of like working their way through a spiral until they… |
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Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…approach the film, musically? HGW: The movie was perfect for some thematic material. We see it right away through Arthur’s theme that comes through strongly toward the end of the… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…the biggest opening weekend gross with $135.6 million, becoming the first film to make $100 million in two days. Ultimately, Dead Man’s Chest grossed $1.07 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…Gras Indians marching down the street. They are Creole guys in this ancient part of Mardi Gras, and they wear the most amazing, Liberace-crazy plumage. They’ll spend $20,000 on these… |
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UPDATED: Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return gets a theatrical trailer
…her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). Wiser… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…one of these is funny and ranks up there with what the other studios were doing at the time. At their best, the Noveltoons aspired to greatness, such as with… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…DIC Entertainment (where he did the theme song for the A.L.F. cartoon series in the 80’s), working on the first Open Season during its earliest months of development, and directing… |
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Muppet Babies Composers Andy Bean & Keith Horn Make Your Dreams Come True
…for Muppet Babies,’ and then they’ll listen to them (the demos they receive) without knowing who they’re coming from. And they picked the tune I wrote, which ended up appearing… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…is based on one beautiful theme. How did you create it? TC: The theme is the heart of the score and the voice of the story. It serves as a… |
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Toy Story 4, Hair Love, 1917 win animation Oscars
Read the acceptance speeches and watch the backstage interviews from the animation winners at the 92nd Academy Awards. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: TOY STORY 4 • ONSTAGE SPEECHES JOSH COOLEY: We… |
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And now for some random 'toon trivia…
…Disney animated feature. When Disney was making Alice in Wonderland, there was a segment about the dreaded Jabberwocky and Freberg was called in to do the voice. “I was directed… |
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Comedy Central to air "Kid Notorius" tonight
The LA Times reports the new animated series in which self-mythologizing movie producer Robert Evans lends his voice to an animated version of himself, will premiere tonight at 10:30. Evans,… |
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\\Brother Bear\\ from inception to debut
…on an audition tape with a whole bunch of actors for \\Finding Nemo\\” – The title \\Brother Bear\\ actually had to be licensed from the owners of the \\Berenstain Bears\\…. |
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\\Shark Tale\\ teaser trailer coming soon?
…his best knowledge the teaser will either premiere in front of \\The Cat in the Hat\\ or next month in front of \\Lord of the Rings: Return of the King\\”…. |
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Gollum's next role
{{link http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=9645 VFXWorld}} reports that in an interview with the \\Toronto Star\\, Andy Serkis, the actor behind the CG character Gollum in \\The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers\\,… |
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What makes an animated show a hit?
…the show (\\SpongeBob SquarePants\\), and an appeal to demographics across the board (\\Futurama\\’s problem). The writer concludes that “there probably isn’t a ‘secret ingredient’ that can guarantee, or increase the… |
