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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph has been described as one of Disney’s most innovative animated films to date. This is the story of Ralph, the destructive villain of an 8-bit arcade game who… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…(nothing offensive, although parents may wish to pre-screen selected episodes), Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The tiny, toony, looney, furry, funny, TV-invading cartoon critters of Acme Acres are back for a third… |
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Escape From Planet Earth
…says he’ll complete the mission without his brother’s help. He’s immediately captured, of course, and it’s up to Gary to leave the safety of his computer desk and travel to… |
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The Croods
While perhaps one of the least analyzed part of a film’s production, marketing may be one of the most important pieces in a the success or failure of a movie…. |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…some of the more abstract sights. None of it looks like Franco is really there, and he’s not always adept at “seeing” the eyeline of some of the creatures, such… |
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Despicable Me 2
…non-Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks movie on the list of the top 20 animated films of all time at the box office, earning over a quarter of a billion dollars domestically. Since this isn’t… |
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Free Birds
…antagonist, and most of the rest of the film is the turkeys trying to get the better of him and his men. We do get some nice backstory and character… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…Broadway history in creating The Little Shop Of Horrors, and film history in creating The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. But our story starts before that time…. |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…Three, Persistence Of Vision, Storyboard, and Tomart’s Disneyana Update. He also is the co-author of Disneyland Paris – From Sketch to Reality, runs the Disney History blog, the Disney Books… |
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The Nut Job
…selfish squirrel who’s only interest is looking out for himself. The rest of the creatures of the city park have formed a community where they work together to take care… |
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Oscar nominated animated shorts of 2013
…archival sound recordings for dialogue. A lot of my complaints may have more to do with the 1920s era storytelling they were mimicking, but copying weak storytelling well doesn’t change… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season
…of AT already having been largely built, of course they have more of a chance to play around with the series’ conventions and develop its characters, but there is still… |
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Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints
…like the story of Wicked, which is the prequel to The Wizard Of Oz, and then Oz The Great & Powerful, which is the Wizard’s side of the story –… |
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Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise
…story was too complicated in the final product. A number of things led to that, from the type of story that Pete [Laird] wanted told, to my way of constructing… |
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The Boxtrolls
I may not be the person you want to trust reviewing The Boxtrolls! First of all, unlike most other animation fans I’ve never been a fan of any of Laika’s… |
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Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
…coldest day in history has his frozen heart replaced with a cuckoo clock. One of the rules of living with this fragile mechanical heart is that he may never fall… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…loving fighter planes but hating war. The story presents a tough balancing act, before settling into a story of how we are all swept up by the tides history. Amusingly,… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…of fancy. And, maybe worse, trippy acid fueled flights of fancy with just a tenuous connection of a story. All that said, the bits of plot that make up the… |
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Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast
…story, look, and sounds. It’s very, very concise for a “Making of” featurette, but it’s as much as a movie like this really needs. My Dad’s Movie: The True Story… |
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Cinderella
…an update so much as a retelling, Cinderella is exactly what you expect for it to be, providing all of the story beats one associates with the tale without offering… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…the Masters of the Universe and She-Ra: Princess of Power, released a movie called Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night on Christmas Day, 1987. Unlike some of the theatrical… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…story. AV: In that perspective, how did you build your story? GK: For me, that short, little poem of Nephtali has something of a symphony, in three movements. Psalm 42… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…rampaging dinos of the biggest film of the summer, Jurassic World, had had their fill of the creatures (and were waiting for the spectacle of Star Wars: The Force Awakens)?… |
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Only Yesterday
…adults instead of a fantasy venture that could appeal to children. It is perhaps because of this that the film took roughly 15 years for it to be released officially… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…was in the original novel The Iron Man, but with the added last name of Hughes in a tribute to author Ted Hughes (the writer of the story on which… |
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Around the world with Mila: Additional Character Designer Matthew Bates
Our journey accompanying the creation of Mila continues. After the story is set, it is time to give the characters their definite look. That’s when the character designers come. On… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…gets a lot of credit for originality. Which is a good thing in a story about storytelling! Kubo is unique, full of surprises, and infused with sincere emotions. Don’t go… |
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The Jungle Book
…anachronistic setting, with Favreau showing off his knowledge of cinema outside of the Disney realm by evoking Colonel Kurtz of Apocalypse Now and bringing that extra layer of depth to… |
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Storks
…near the end that feels very out of place. Instead of working it in a more organic way, the filmmakers stop everything to show us a virtual slideshow of perfectly-cast… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…Sweatbox Review: I guess the question of which of Disney Animation’s two 2016 offerings was the “best” was answered by default during the recent awards season, when the contemporary comedy-thriller… |
