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¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!: Speedy Gonzales Set for Guest Appearance
Toon Zone reports that everyone’s favorite fleet-footed Mexican mouse, Speedy Gonzales, will be making a guest appearance on the November 8 episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! on the Kids WB. Set… |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs sizzles at overseas box office
…season’s bigger surprises. Dawn of the Dinosaurs will soon pass The Dark Knight, which cumed $468.6 million internationally. Toon is now the biggest film of all time in Russia and… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…compilation features and television programs galore based around old cartoon output combined with new animation. He took Scrooge McDuck – a comics phenomenon – and put him on the screen… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…little ditties. The collector in me bought this DVD, but the cartoon fan in me enjoyed it. Is This Thing Loaded? And here’s another example of how Image didn’t just… |
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Chicken Little comes to BluRay
…high definition disc, over at our Toon Review section. Chicken Little is far from Disney’s best work, but as a completely CGI film, it does offer an eye-popping presentation in… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…million dollars domestically and has already made over 100 million dollars worldwide. Anyhoo, toon in tomorrow for my review on the last Super Friends series, a review that would have… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…blood was animated in a Disney cartoon. Behind the show were people like Greg Weisman, the creator and producer of the show, and Frank Paur, the show’s co-producer and director… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…group revealed that Silly Dreamer will soon be working with Shorts International, which provides programming to entertainment companies representing television, broadband internet, airlines, home video, mobile phones, and iTunes. Toon… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…eight-minute cartoon called A Monkey’s Tale for a Buddhist cultural center outside of Hong Kong. The Ngong Ping Village attraction (Ngong Ping 360 as they are officially calling it) was… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…on to do some storyboards in Los Angeles for Toon Town, the only sequence when Eddie Valiant is in a cartoon. From there on, Harald had one foot at the… |
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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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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
When continually asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons after the immense success of his 1933 cartoon short, Walt Disney famously quipped “You can’t top pigs with pigs!” It was,… |
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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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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…old west) and even neighboring Belgium’s Tin Tin are among the top selling characters, with cartoon series and live-action films breaking box-office figures in their native countries. In France in… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…are second to none in the popularity stakes. Asterix The Gaul, Lucky Luke the lonesome cowboy and even neighboring Belgium’s Tin Tin are among the top selling characters, with cartoon… |
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Birdman's back! And so are Raggedy Ann and Andy!
As promised, Randall has dropped in with his latest review, for the Cartoon Network spoof Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three, the show that takes classic Hanna-Barbera characters, shoves… |
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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… |
