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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…& Animation Department who have created some of the most memorable images in animation history. With nearly 100 years of collective experience in the art and business of animation, exhibiting… |
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David Michael Maurer speaks with Pixar's Jeff Pidgeon
On “The Filmschool Podcast,” Emmy-winning editor and filmmaker David Michael Maurer interviews Pixar story animator and voice actor Jeff Pidgeon (both Toy Story films, Monsters, Inc.). With a running time… |
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\\Cars\\ opens today
…story may not reach the high standards of \\Toy Story\\ and \\The Incredibles\\, viewers of all ages will marvel at the technical brilliance of the animation and come away satisfied”…. |
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Shorts International brings new films to iTunes
…Chris Mais. – \\Butterfly\\: The full-length version of the popular animation used as an early Keane music video. This story of a lonely and desperate boy who finds salvation within… |
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Tour of Pixar unveils interesting tidbits
…soon team with Pixar for a project, while also commenting that the ending of Toy Story 2 hints at the story for its sequel. As for Pixar’s next feature, Ratatouille,… |
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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…Flushed Away to Madagascar, Chicken Run, James Bond, Toy Story, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Caddyshack, Star Wars, Mary Poppins, Superman, Batman, X-Men, Lady and the Tramp,… |
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Working with John Lasseter
The New York Times via The Denver Post expands upon the work ethic of John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar. Containing thoughts from Pixar’s… |
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Bird serves Ratatouille at WonderCon
…numerous questions, unveiling various bits of info concerning The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story in IMAX 3D. It was also announced that a new Ratatouille trailer, as described in the… |
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Reporter's Notebook: Road to the Big Easy – The Walt Disney Company Annual Meeting
…Meet the Robinsons, Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, and Song of the South . . . and, of course, the infamous corporate gadfly Evelyn Davis. Read the full story at: www.o-meon.com…. |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…where several lines of plot exposition have been attempted to be squeezed into just a couple of words’ worth of dialogue. Comparing the original Chinese language edition of The Magic… |
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Monsters vs Aliens
…be a fun premise. The whole film is played as a series of set pieces hooked together with the flimsiest of story lines. That’s not necessarily a knock — it’s… |
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DreamWorks' Truckers trucking ahead
…on Pixar’s Toy Story 3, The Hollywood Reporter announces that this year’s adapted screenplay writer Simon Beaufoy, winner for Slumdog Millionaire, has joined DreamWorks to fashion the script for the… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…you are watching something classic, historic, or something that will last the test of time. Just think back to when you saw Beauty And The Beast or Toy Story in… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…of mind there are plenty of guffaws to be had in Father Of The Pride, though instead of wincing through it with Mom and Pop and the rest of the… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!
…little more tuned to Filmation’s “1980s style”, where boys’ toys had become big business after the rush of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe and She-Ra, Princess Of Power,… |
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Easter goodies, plus a review roundup!
…first two films in their signature Toy Story series, again released as Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. Speaking of The Princess And The Frog, don’t forget that all five parts of Jeremie’s… |
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Why do we cry so easily at animated films?
…easily when watching animated films. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich posits that, “Live action movies are someone else’s story. With animation, audiences can’t think that. Their guards are down.”… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…directing for all the episodes. It ran as part of the weekend syndicated block of programming known as The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera, and was seen on such stations as… |
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Monsters University pushed back to 2013, Official logo revealed
…make his feature-length directorial debut with Monsters University. Scanlon has previously worked as a story artist on Toy Story 3, and helmed the Cars-related Pixar short Mater and the Ghostlight…. |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…at the development of Rango, from concept art to final renders, that The Ballad Of Rango provides: page after page of, quite frankly, striking production art, much of it the… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…to go into that area of music. It’s delightful and innocent and charming. And there is a hell of a lot of woodwinds! You can listen to a lot of… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…Chuck Jones, but they are as just much of the Warner cartoon story and all produced their own (many) moments of brilliance. Maybe in the centenary year of his birth,… |
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ParaNorman
…of the same”. That itself has come, mostly, in the form of ParaNorman, which swaps out the adventures of a young girl for the adventures of a young boy of… |
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The Lego Movie opens
…to become their “second biggest advance ticket seller among all animated films, right behind 2010’s Toy Story 3“. That could mean a record haul — BOM projects The Lego Movie… |
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Frozen crosses $400 million mark at domestic box office
…landmark, with the others being Toy Story 3, The Lion King and Shrek 2. Frozen has also been dominating the box office in Japan, where it has been on top… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…either. Both helped give the story a fresh feeling even if the script itself wasn’t so original. While there were moments of genuine humor, unfortunately too much of the comedy… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…are, it’s the text that often offers more substance, continually providing a certain high level of insight that really explains the thought processes at play and the understanding of these… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…of the story is predictable to anyone who is over 12 years old. While it’s still an enjoyable enough ride, it lacks a lot of the wacky spontaneity that made… |
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UPDATED: Aladdin flies to a whole new world at box office
Another month, another massive box office success for Disney, as Aladdin was able to overcome the uncertainty of the Memorial Day weekend with an extremely healthy debut of $86 million,… |
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First Lightyear teaser trailer takes flight
…film releasing June 17, 2022. The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of… |
