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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…story trainee for Tarzan. This lead to his Annie-nominated work as a storyboard artist on Groove, before earning a second Annie Award nomination as the head of story on Robinsons…. |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…feature on this DVD is a featurette called “Frosty and the Story of the Snowman” (9:22). The featurette mostly consists of author Bob Eckstein (“The History of the Snowman”) talking… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…film of the year, the third film to hit $1 billion at the box office, and Disney’s highest-grossing film of all time. It also claimed an Oscar for the groundbreaking… |
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Justice League: Doom
…organizations as the Injustice League of the comics, or the Legion Of Doom from the Challenge Of The Super Friends TV show (and later the final season of Justice League:… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…that do nothing to detract from the story. The inclusion of these songs is what may bring on the stronger feelings of a reminder of Fox’s animated sci-fi attempt Titan… |
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Blade Anime
…itself wonderfully to a certain type of anime, with its elements of gory horror and the lack of spandex. In fact, the choice of adding Blade to the project was… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…of it true, most of it embellished, of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman is told through the use of his autobiographical audiobook recordings and several different animation methods to create a… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…computer aided systems of today have great trouble in replicating. Somewhere in the middle of all of this was The Sword In The Stone, an often underrated Disney picture that… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…play, and a whole lot of back story, but the film does its best to bring viewers up to speed. Unfortunately, this means heaps of expository dialog and clunky storytelling…. |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…their wings and explore the world without you. And that starts with the first day of school. But when a bully mocks Sherman’s unconventianal family it starts a chain of… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #74: We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story
…Story (1993) • The early ’90s were the era of the dinosaur. • Vorb tops the list for annoying side character. • Is this movie just a giant commercial for… |
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Big Hero 6
…felt it might be better suited to one of the rush of super-TV programs currently playing on small screens everywhere rather than a large feature. Possibly it’s a case of… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…in large, work with the original songs and the structure of the storytelling. The stand-outs are “Top of the World,” where Esmeralda expresses her admiration of the view of the… |
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Zootopia
…of the art. Any moral to be found in them is in service to the story they wanted to tell — unlike here where the story is in service to… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…keep up as well, and a nice featurette on the making of the film polishes things off, to make this one of the more satisfying Blu-ray releases of the year…. |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…it’s often been standard practice to compare Beauty to Snow White, by way of its story approach and suggestion of Beauty being the new generation of artists’ answer to Walt’s… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…of years of history, so I tried to feature each instrument in a way that honored its tradition and range. One of the most challenging aspects of combining east and… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Four
…episodes provide great Star Wars fun and excitement, they are just prelude to the real story of the season – the Rebels’ attempt to liberate Ezra’s home planet of Lothal…. |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…starts to participate in the story, just like the audience, I hope, in terms of investment. At the end of the story, he becomes part of this family. That arc… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…tried to do on any part of the story that deals with Din and Li Na, which is kind of a friendship-romance-present-day-story, we balanced that kind of thematic identity and… |
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Oscar nominees for 2021 films announced
…list of nominees follows… The Animated Short nominees are Affairs of the Art, Bestia, Boxballet, Robin Robin, and The Windshield Wiper. The Visual Effects nominees are Dune, Free Guy, No… |
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Elemental
…more often than not based on the personal stories of filmmakers. And since the stories are personal, maybe there’s a fear of being offensive when trying to critique. So when… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…of animation, from the depths of a floundering comic book industry was the revival of the Ultimate Marvel Universe. Going in unique directions, these books offered some fresh air that… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…characters on the show never appeared in the comics.) While the first episode offered intros for an assortment of dysfunctional heroes and a group of mumbling adversaries, the second episode,… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…Legion of Doom storyline. They liked having half of the villains taking out the other half of the villains. Once again, we get to see some of the storyboards from… |
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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
…becomes Superman. Next, malevolent aliens package themselves as toys in Invasion Of The Space Dolls . Aquaman and Black Vulcan encounter Terror On The Titanic when the famed sunken ship… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…starring any number of characters) within their half-hour slots. With the opening credits taking care of Dexter Douglas’ backstory, this two-disc collection of the series’ first season starts in full… |
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Pixar's \\Tin Toy\\ and WB's \\One Froggy Evening\\ added to the National Film Registry
…Film Registry}} according to the head of Library of Congress, James Billington. Each year the Librarian of Congress, advised by the National Film Preservation Board, selects up to 25 films… |
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More toy updates
The Toy section of About.com has the rundown on some of the Madagascar toys about to be released and Amazon.co.uk is already selling Madagascar plushes. Also, Toy Globe has some… |
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Toy biz more than child's play
In an summarization of recent toy sales, MSNBC notes that with her Fairytopia line, including computer animated films, Barbie found her domestic popularity down 21 percent in the first quarter…. |
