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George Pal’s Puppetoons to get a hi-def release
Courtesy of a Facebook post by Jerry Beck’s Animation Scoop blog, we learned of an October release of The Puppetoon Movie on Blu-ray, in a deluxe 2-disc set. This compilation… |
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That's "Bill Melendez dot TV"
…Bill is best known for producing 40 years of Peanuts specials and movies and for providing the voice of Snoopy but has also worked with every other major Hollywood studio…. |
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Pirates 5 facing severe budget cuts?
…not do well. And while The Lone Ranger may not have been a blockbuster, Disney has found extreme success this year with Oz the Great and Powerful, Monsters University and… |
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Bee Movie buzz
Coming Soon has the latest on DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie, co-written and produced by Jerry Seinfeld. Bee Movie is “the comedic tale of Barry B. Benson, a graduate bee fresh… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…did make up most of the stuff that I did and certainly it’s all my hand and arched back, and all things that you see Snow White doing, I certainly… |
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Valiant soars on
If you’ve had second thoughts about seeing Valiant take note that animation historian Jerry Beck has given it a favorable rating. “I was expecting a disaster, but the story was… |
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Producer says \\Pirates 3\\ well underway
\\{{link http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-09-18-pirates-DVD_x.htm USA Today}}\\ reports that producer Jerry Bruckheimer says that the third film in the \\Pirates of the Caribbean\\ trilogy, \\At World’s End\\, is “progressing nicely” eight months away… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…(with Timm, Reaves, Kirkland, and composer Shirley Walker), and a video one on House And Garden given by Timm, Dini, and Kirkland, and moderated by Jason Hillhouse. Disc Three offers… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…“Large Format Publicity”, “Broadway Musical Publicity”, and “Costume Design.” The navigation through the galleries is easy and informative. There are hundreds of drawings and sketches, and this makes it one… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…film like that and go: “oh, there should be nothing but accordion and jazz violin and jazz guitar, and then it’ll be good”. The film goes much deeper than that,… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…songwriter and lyricist, is certain the most able person to do that, and to share with us his memories of his beloved father. And so follows an homage to both… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…at their disposal, pushing boundaries while still paying attention to details and story. Even greater heights would be reached with Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, and… |
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The Animated Seuss
…by Geisel and his wife, Helen Palmer (whom he had met during his brief stay at Oxford, and married in 1927). Many of these books were written and illustrated by… |
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Looney Tunes around the world!
Jerry Beck’s {{link http://www.cartoonresearch.com/kaz.html Cartoon Research}} just posted a look at the Brazillian edition of the Looney Tunes Golden DVD Collection, which will probably frustrate those in region one land… |
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Terrytoons artwork for sale
…was original black and white Terrytoon cartoon backgrounds from 1934 to 1936 in their original folders.” Although various auction houses and animation galleries contacted by Beck believe otherwise, the artwork… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…of previous DC Comics animated shows, Lex Luthor and Lois Lane are voiced by previous cast members of Superman: The Animated Series (Clancy Brown and Dana Delaney); and Superman is… |
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Lewis orders another Nutty Professor
The Hollywood Reporter via Coming Soon reports that Jerry Lewis will lend his voice to at least two characters in The Weinstein Company’s animated adaptation of The Nutty Professor. This… |
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N-Bee-C
…Lasting 1 – 2 minutes, each minisode will humorously expand upon Jerry Seinfeld’s work for the film. With the program deal, NBC also landed the rights to air Bee Movie…. |
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Mulan II
…their conversions to DVD often mean no deep lighting and an image that feels too clean and washed out. I tried turning my contrast up and the brightness down and… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…being almost totally animated during the course of production, and here it has been finally inked and painted, and inserted, Human Again and Morning Report style, back into the film,… |
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TV to DVD news: Gargoyles, Thundercats, Fraggle Rock
…which will present a replica of the original pitch book by Jim Henson and illustrated by Michael K. Frith, interviews, and a special tribute for Fraggle Rock co-creator Jerry Juhl…. |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…and Eric Goldberg, radio programs, advertisement films and behind-the-scenes promotional footage. Here things are kept a little simpler, and again that’s understandable. So it came as a great – and… |
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Early buzz on Bee Movie
…picture. The artist found himself “very pleasantly surprised” by the film, commenting on the “very funny” humor Jerry Seinfeld produced. Bee Movie will fly into theaters on November 2, 2007…. |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…displays many of the standardized caricatured and anthropomorphised people and vehicles of the time, and though it looks to have possibly been made with sound, this transfer comes from a… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940
…Features Syndicate, several cartoonists, and animator and DVD producer Steve Stanchfield appear in Poopdeck Pappy: The Nasty Old Man And The Sea (5:09). O-Re-Mi: Mae Questel And The Voices Of… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
…of vintage footage of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Juhl, and Muppet-maker Don Sahlin discussing and demonstrating the art (and history) of puppetry. I would buy the set just for… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…Baby (1951), Spooking About Africa (1956), Puss ’N Boos (1954), Hide And Shriek (1954), Red, White And Boo (1955), and Pig-A-Boo (1952). The animation on the earlier cartoons is much… |
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Seinfield talks trailer for Bee Movie
Jerry Seinfeld speaks with USA Today, regarding the trailer for Bee Movie. The ad, which debuted in theaters and online last week, purposely fails to show any footage from the… |
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Rock talks Bee Movie, Madagascar 2
…barely in Bee Movie. I just did, like, a day. I’m the voice of a mosquito… It’s one of these things, though, where me and Jerry [Seinfeld] were [in the… |
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Bee Movie B trailer
…for the movie’s first anti-trailer in which comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock are wearing bee costumes. Follow the link to find out how Steven Spielberg (the ‘S’ in DreamWorks… |
