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Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
…of the animation and live-action Gene Kelly sequence from Anchors Aweigh, with baby Stewie replacing Jerry the mouse in the celebrated song and dance [right], is surely a series highlight…. |
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Is Seinfeld a Moron?
From TV Guide’s “Daily Scoop” email newsletter: “20th Century Fox TV is adapting the book Stories from a Moron, a collection of humorous correspondence between author Ed Broth and assorted… |
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Shrek the Musical opens Sunday 12/14/08 at Broadway Theatre
…whose Broadway credits include Monty Python’s Spamalot, Bombay Dreams, The Blue Room and Art, and sound designer Peter Hylenski (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and upcoming, Cry-Baby). The choreography is… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…the dangers of second-hand smoking, Disney Blu-ray, a peek at the next Platinum: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (from pre-restored clips and oddly using a pastiche of the Jerry… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…have an original painting by Bat-artist Shelly Moldoff, a signed copy of classic Batman/Joker goodness by Jerry Robinson, autographed photos of Catwoman Julie Newmar and Batgirl Yvonne Craig, and a… |
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Bedtime Stories
…Time Machine and Memento) deliciously sending himself up, and joined by celebrated British thesps Richard Griffiths (the Harry Potter series) and Jonathan Pryce (Pirates Of The Caribbean and Bond’s nemesis… |
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We're baaaa-aaaaaaack!!
Hey all! Well, I can’t believe we pulled it off, but James caught his train, and Randall and I managed to not get stuck in various airports as we all… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…many twists and turns which see deals done between various parties on both sides, characters double, triple and quadruple cross each other and pretty much all have underlying plans that… |
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Hello, Dolly! composer moved by Wall•E
…opening and the closing of the film, and just the wonderful way those songs were used to make him more human. That’s really what they did.” Laughing, Herman said it… |
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Bee Movie humming along smoothly
…feature he developed and wrote as the project moves into production. Staffers say he looks at models and designs giving input, and that he’s in the studio every few weeks… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…Light & Magic and the now Bay-owned Digital Domain. Following the process from Design and Animatics, though Production, Animation, Creating Emotion and Transformations, to Paint And Texture and Lighting And… |
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ReFrederator presents classic cartoons
…Consultants include noted animation historian Jerry Beck and writer Melissa Wolfe. The launch programming was edited by Barry Hirschberg. The ReFrederator name and logo were developed and designed by noted… |
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Read Disney CEO Robert Iger's e-mail
…fantastic. Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira [Knightley] all deserve our thanks and praise too. Everyone involved in this project has created a valuable and enduring… |
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Cars reviews roundup
…Picture Academy Award nominee.” Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew highly recommends Pixar’s latest declaring, “Pixar has put a fresh spin on a classic concept and made it their own.” Variety… |
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Shrek The Third
…part and parcel of that genre) had been fixed. The jokes were funnier, and truer. There was less shouting, and the pop music had been scaled back. Shrek’s world had… |
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Remake of The Lion King coming soon
…with signs of dementia, the pair re-creates a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour, Back to the Future and Robocop.” Reuters and Yahoo! News team up… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…follow-ups, through a quasi-budget feature animation approach that took in the sequels to The Lion King, Lady And The Tramp and One Hundred And One Dalmatians, and finally to a… |
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Beck, Worth speak on animation progression
Animation historian Jerry Beck and Stephen Worth, director of the International Animated Film Society’s Hollywood chapter, lend their thoughts to The Mercury News, regarding the journey animation has taken since… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…third time that Jonny Quest came to television, Jonny and his friends were older and took a more active role in solving various mysteries ranging from natural phenomena and evil… |
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Stalling for Time: The Musical Man Behind the Scenes at Warner Bros.
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research page points us to a new article at MSN’s Slate all about Carl Stalling, the genius discovered by Walt Disney in the early 1920’s and the… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
…the emergence of sound and its early days is such a fascinating one. There were competing technologies, competing studios, lots of egos and differences in public taste and perception. Sound… |
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Bee buzz builds at Cannes; Poster debut
The Houston Chronicle and Reuters report of the buzz built for Bee Movie at the Cannes Film Festival, due to a humorous stunt by Jerry Seinfeld. From the top of… |
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Press Release For Delayed Treasures DVDs
…the delay is due to the success of FINDING NEMO, LION KING (SE) and PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN and the desire to meet the public’s demand for these films. Facilities… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…natural (and future host?) Will Smith, “and him having an abnormally large head”, I’ll add. On a related note, I thought it was very brave and a triumph on her… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…scrape injury. Disc Two 1. Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman go to a mysterious spaceship and face mutant beasts and Forbidden Power. The Wonder Twins go to the desert… |
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New Bee Movie Images
…by Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner, Bee Movie features the voices of artists such as Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger and Matthew Broderick. Bee Movie opens nationwide on November 2…. |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…or playing with other musical terms to come up with Merrie Melodies and the like. This one is the first and only from a planned Jingles series, and one can… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…unique to Universal Studios. Out went a tired Oswald and in came the nutty Woodpecker, joined by other, not-quite A-List characters Chilli Willy, Andy Panda and Wally Walrus. It must… |
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When good cartoons go bad: review roundup…
…outings our heroines Aurora and Jasmine were initially made famous from. Neither is a keeper, so save your money and put it towards any of the great sets we’ve been… |
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Disney's Pixar-release Tuesday! Plus: is Bee Movie really a B-movie?
…is Gordon Yarley, from Ontario, Canada, while Andy Ricchio, from Arcadia, California, will find Ratatouille landing on his door step soon. Congratulations to both, and enjoy your discs! Speaking of… |
