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Kung Fu Panda's directors reveal their secrets
…directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne speak to Jeremie Noyer about the making of their $60 million grossing movie! Also newly posted is Animated Views’ Toon Review of the film…. |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…Amblin, but rather a prequel. Originally entitled Roger Rabbit II: Toon Platoon, the script, involving Nazi spies infiltrating Hollywood (and especially radio, where Jessica was working) was soon reworked, following… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
DisneyToon Studios (February 15 2002), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 20 2002), single disc, 73 mins, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The setting… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 26 2008), single disc, 77 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Ever wonder what happened to… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
Okay…time to come clean! Although I’ve been keeping up with this ol’ Tooning In column better than usual, one of the reasons I still haven’t managed to get to that… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…to Toon In for Ben on the front page of Views at times, lives in the somewhat appropriately named Saskatoon, further out in western Canada. And then there’s Ben, the… |
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It's Kung Fu Monday!
…and a very rewarding recipient of its $60 million opening box-office weekend! Kicking us off is James R Whitson’s full Toon Review of the movie, which eagle-eyed readers will spot… |
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Not even a B- for Bee Movie!?
As promised our theatrical Toon Reviewer James R Whitson has posted his thoughts on Bee Movie, the meeting of computer animation giants DreamWorks with giant comedian Jerry Seinfeld. But wait…that… |
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Crazy triple bill: Popeye, The Simpsons, and 300 Spartans!??!
Things couldn’t get any better today as the Popeye: 1933-1938 Collection finally comes to DVD and is in stores right now for you classic cartoon nuts to go and pick… |
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Renaissance
…its native French original, shot in motion-capture and cel-shaded not to look like a cartoon, but to look like the hard inked lines of a black and white comic book…. |
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Mickey quits…
…post our official theatrical Toon Review sometime around Monday morning. And don’t forget that Josh’s interview with the film’s writer-prodocer Mike Scully is still fresh for a good read! In… |
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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…
…and on other projects. You’ll find a little recap on my recent woes and why I haven’t been showing up for these Tooning In… updates here, but rest assured that… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…Bambi had been disappointing. Dumbo, with its brisk pace, low budget and simple cartoon animation, had proved one bright spot during these troubled times and so the emphasis was placed… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…The Tramp’s Scamp was a long-running hit on those pages. Walt made compilation features and television programs galore based around old cartoon output combined with new animation. He took Scrooge… |
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Something for the weekend…?
…we’re – hey! – giving away three copies of the new toon Bah, Humduck! and one set of the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four to a handful of lucky… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…studio’s other releases had been co-productions, pickups or distribution deals). Anastasia first hit screens almost a decade ago, in 1997, and came toward the end of the toon boom of… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
DisneyToon Studios (October 27 1998), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 31 2004), 2 discs, 81 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround, Rated G, Retail:… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…King paved the way for more research and development into animation technologies and the beginning of the animation toon-boom that saw rival companies Warner Bros, Fox Animation and, later, Katzenberg’s… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…compliment) cartoon feature arrived with little fanfare, but with many new bonus extras that will please fans. After the mega success of Snow White in 1937, and the then less… |
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The Rescuers
…had been no less Candle In The Water as pretty much dead in it, and the animators were still under scrutiny. Returning to animated mice (always lucky for the Disney… |
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Ultimate Avengers equipped with PG-13 rating
Toon Zone indicates that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has given a PG-13 rating to the DTV Marvel project Ultimate Avengers, hitting stores next February…. |
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"The Devil and Television's Webster"
…Unaware of the error, they kidnap series’ star Emmanuel Lewis and bring him back to the ship.” PRNewswire has the full press release, while thanks goes to Toon Zone for… |
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Images: Ultimate Avengers: The Movie trailer
Toon Zone points to the Marvel Animation Forum, where 32 screen captures from the Ultimate Avengers: The Movie trailer have been posted. The trailer, lasting approximately 50 seconds, may be… |
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More WB superheroes head to DVD
Jim Harvey over at {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=106390 Toon Zone}} has more info (after the {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00001169.html news}} last week) on several new WB titles coming to DVD, including Batman Beyond, Teen… |
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It's official: Mickey owns Kermit
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=109703 Toon Zone}} reports that Disney CEO Michael Eisner has officially announced that The Jim Henson Company’s Muppets and Bear In The Big Blue House properties are now part… |
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Cartoon Network movie "May-athon"
Airing this May on Cartoon Network will be twenty-two movies, including the premieres of Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico, The King and I, Under the Black Flag, The… |
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Liberty heading to DVD
Toon Zone reveals that Ten-Strike Home Entertainment has acquired the exclusive U.S. distribution rights to PBS’s animated series Liberty’s Kids. The show will be available on DVD on June 29,… |
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Batman and Superfriends DVD details and cover art
…bios, and trailers for Batman: The Animated Series, The Jetsons: Complete First Season, The Flintstones: The Complete First Season, and Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season. Thanks to Toon Zone… |
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Batman: The Animated Series – Season One DVD details
…four disc set are the first twenty-seven episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, in production order, with the two-part episodes being grouped together. Thanks to Toon Zone for the notice…. |
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Macca Cartoons Get Big
…Theatre, April 17 at 2:00 pm. Follow the ‘More’ link for complete information. Thanks to Kristin for the heads up. From the Animation Flash Newsletter: PAUL MCCARTNEY’S MUSIC & TOON… |
