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Underdog (live-action movie)
…the multiple takes here is to do with getting the animal stars to hit their marks and perform the right tricks at the right time, and while there are only… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
Celebrating the beginning of the international home video roll-out for Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation The Princess And The Frog, Jeremie Noyer joins a roundtable interview directors John Musker and… |
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Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection
…times in screens over the years: The Falcon and Charlie Chan were mainstays in the 1930s and ’40s, and Perry Mason and Columbo would continue the crime-solving on television. But… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…Of Winnie The Pooh and the record setting The Rescuers to the darker realism of The Fox And The Hound and the supernatural fantasy The Black Cauldron, a watershed moment… |
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The Space Kidettes/Young Samson: The Complete Series
…get their treasure map; and a teenage boy and his dog transform into a biblically inspired superhero and a lion to face evil. The Sweatbox Review: As we have mentioned… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…of story theft due to the plots being rather similar, and many more behind-the-scenes drama involving the release dates of the films ending up being about a month apart, the… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…in the show included The Buford Files, The Galloping Ghost, and The Galaxy Goof-Ups. Goof-Ups, starring Yogi and Huckleberry, later got its own time slot in early 1979; and the… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…buyers of this set will need to keep in mind the uneven quality of the video and audio, and the simplicity of the animation; but the stories themselves are fun… |
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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…in the Roaring Twenties. Felix was a marketing phenomenon years before Mickey Mouse made the scene, and for a time was the most popular cartoon character in the world. And,… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…completely scripted thing. You researched and thought about what would work and then you wrote numbers and then they drop a character and you loose the number. We had written… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…that as the co-producer of the new Disney and Walden Media movies that are being produced. After the success of the first in the franchise, The Lion, the Witch and… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…Logan’s Run, The Black Hole, Tron, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and Blade Runner), the animated sci-fi epic on the block was Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin, which… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…and, from their own menu option, previews for Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Secret Of The Magic Gourd, TinkerBell And The Lost Treasure a Think Fast trivia video game, Wizards Of Waverly… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…artwork reflects the split-nature of the show, while the sleeve covers the basics and lists the supplements, commendably admitting that the final disc is a standard DVD. Inside, the reverse… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
…but supposedly “cool” sounding title instead. Apparently, they feared low sales if they titled and promoted it correctly, a la the weak selling Wonder Woman movie, but the title they… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…seen in the format both theatrically and in the home. Brightness and color seem to really favor the medium and even the converted traditionally animated Beauty And The Beast and… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…thin premise. There is an unwritten “rule” than the Lion King films all follow Shakespearian themes, with the 1994 original loosely following the plot and events of Hamlet, and the… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…boundaries, becoming removed from their environment and existing on a plane between the screen and the viewer. The environments themselves (the film’s locations and other items such a props) are… |
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Oscar shortlist finalists for animated shorts, visual effects, and music announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the films shortlisted in several categories for consideration at the upcoming 91st Oscars. The ten films still in the running… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Snow White and the Dwarfs gain an extra companion
…floodgates for more sequels to Walt Disney’s original classics. Following next year’s Bambi And The Great Prince and the in-production Cinderella III and Tinkerbell Movie, it is expected that Disney… |
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Jungle Book's Rocky the Rhino concepts!
…Keane (The Little Mermaid), and Andreas Deja (Beauty and The Beast, The Lion King). In Mowgli’s Return to the Jungle, Bruce Reitherman, the voice of Mowgli and the son of… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…— mammoths don’t talk and all that! But when they tell us we’re underground can they at least avoid putting the sun down there! I understand the decision — “the… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…story department. The new Harman and Ising cartoons were similar to what they had delivered previously: often beautiful, technically proficient, and frequently bland. There were a few exceptions, but the… |
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Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy
…There is not the traditional squash and stretch of the Fleischer shorts, but there is still a bounce and enthusiasm in the animation that one expects. There is also an… |
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Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
…the original negatives, and there is some dust here and there. The biggest problem, though, is the banding seen at the sides of the frame throughout the episodes. Depending on… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…publishing and distribution, and after the 1970s the Gold Key label was largely dropped in favor of the Whitman brand as their distribution model changed. In-between, however, they had a… |
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Wonder Woman
…negotiate a settlement of sorts. The Amazons will be given an island paradise, where they will stand guard over Ares. Years pass on the enchanted island of Themyscira, and the… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…in with the family. I enrolled at AUM and convinced the Dean at the Art Department that I could take the Video Animation class without the prerequisite. AV: When and… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…they had a dynamic. So when I came in, I had to learn and understand very quickly the personalities who were there, and the structure and the dynamic that were… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…full and rich orchestral experience, and Doyle uses the main motifs from the songs in the music, apart from the inclusion of a mysterious Irish-sounding theme that runs throughout the… |
