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Thirty-two films up for Animated Oscar consideration
…Rezo The Secret Life of Pets 2 Spies in Disguise The Swallows of Kabul This Magnificent Cake! The Tower Toy Story 4 Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris Weathering… |
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Maleficent fails to conjure up box office spell
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil lead the box office as expected this weekend, however, the debut wasn’t nearly as magical as Disney was hoping for. Box Office Mojo is reporting a… |
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Frozen II lets it go to record-breaking $350 million global opening
…the record set by Toy Story 4 earlier this year by more than $100 million. Additionally, Frozen II also gave Disney Feature Animation their first $100 million+ opening in the… |
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The Best of the 2010s
…with their first fully animated feature Rango in 2011. Pixar returned to the world of Toy Story twice — and earned just the third Best Picture Academy Award nomination in… |
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See Onward a week early or in a marathon with other Pixar films
…Marathon featuring Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, and Onward. Lucky Regal fans include those in Irvine CA and Atlanta GA, and AMC fans in San Francisco… |
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Pixar doesn’t quite go Onward at box office
…has become one of the more surprising box office hits of recent memory. After months of fighting off negative reporting, it currently has $140 million in the bank, and should… |
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Critical Role assembles an ensemble voice cast for The Legend of Vox Machina
…(Justice League Unlimited), Stephen Root (King of the Hill), Eugene Byrd (Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures), Tony Hale (Toy Story 4), Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Rory McCann… |
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The sky’s the limit in the final Lightyear trailer
…to launch this June. The definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…of CG, from the cartooniness of the Cloudy films to the quasi-tradigital look of Mitchells and the Spider-Verses. The films haven’t always been the strongest, but I suppose Sony is… |
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Get bewitched by the Hexed trailer
The first trailer for Hexed has magically appeared online, and you can check it out in the player above. It is expected to be attached to all screenings of Toy… |
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Sony eyeing ChubbChubb movie as launcher for new franchise
…the appointment of Dan Wilson and Dave Gilbreth as screenwriters for the project. {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117894445&cs=1 Variety}} first broke the story, {{link http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2011 Coming Soon}} has the full story for non-subscribers…. |
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\\Brother Bear\\ from inception to debut
In an in-depth article, {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1898 AWN}} follows the story behind \\Brother Bear\\, from its inception to its debut. This one is a must read! Besides telling an interesting story,… |
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\\Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman\\ review
{{link http://www.dvdfanatic.com/news.php?id=0310241 DVDFanatic.com}} reviews the direct to video \\Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman\\. The reviewer believes that “the story just isn’t compelling and the supporting cast doesn’t get to support… |
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Brother Bear Two Thumbs Up!
…one. How could you go wrong with “very good”? Roeper calls it a “sweet, little adventure story” with all the classic Disney story elements and humorously warns that “your children… |
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Looney Tunes Golden DVD Collection: Hit Or Miss?
Rushing around the web this morning is a story that originated at {{link http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-film-looney-tunes,0,4463883.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines Newsday}}, which reported that some first day owners of the Looney Tunes Golden DVD Collection were… |
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\\The Lion King\\ DVD sales dwarf VHS sales
{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=794&ncid=790&e=8&u=/eo/20031030/en_movies_eo/12815 E! Online}} reports that the Disney sold 3 million copies of \\The Lion King\\ in its first two days of release. Most surprising was the fact that DVDs… |
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CGNetworks looks at "Women in CG"
…interviews prominent female artists as well as draws on her own experiences to deliver this insightful article” called {{link http://www.cgnetworks.com/story_custom.php?story_id=1752 “From pots and pans to polygons – Women in CG”}}…. |
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Enki Bilal's Trilogy becomes a CG movie
…Enki Bilal was born 1951 in Belgrade and came 1960 to Paris. His first story Le Bol Maudit was published 1972 in the French magazine Pilote. In this utopian history… |
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Former lawyers in O.J. Simpson trials to face off in Disney/Winnie the Pooh trial
The Associated Press reports (via {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=493&e=3&u=/ap/20031202/ap_en_mo/winnie_the_pooh_lawsuit Yahoo! News}}) that “the holders of the North American rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters have hired celebrity attorney Johnnie Cochran to… |
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Parent Trap set for television twins
…series of half-hours “refocusing the story so it is more from the perspective of two very different parents”, according to Brian Robbins, “but the twins will obviously have a prominent… |
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Spain's El Cid: Variety reviews the legend…
…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1941&ncid=2020&e=3&u=/variety/20040105/va_fi_re/el_cid__the_legend__el_cid__la_leyenda Variety}} (via Yahoo). Jonathan Holland calls the film “engaging, if unadventurous, [it] succeeds as lighthearted kids’ entertainment, but refuses to break through into darker, more challenging terrain, which… |
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Roy Disney responds to Disney Animation closure
…Roy Disney has {{link http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-12-2004/0002087971&EDATE= spoken out}} about the closure, with comments similar to those that have appeared on SaveDisney before, and the site also gathers a number of links… |
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Roy Disney speaks to Disney fans
{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=493&e=4&u=/ap/20040117/ap_en_mo/disney_speech Yahoo news}} reports on last night’s appearence of Roy Disney and his talk to around 200 collectors of Disney memorabilia at the semi-annual NFFC: The Club for Disneyana… |
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UPDATED! Sneak peak at \\Boundin'\\
…already laughing out loud! The film was directed by veteran animator Bud Luckey, who also pitched the original story, created the conceptual drawings of the characters, wrote the music and… |
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Court reinstates \\Roger Rabbit\\ case
The {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=790&e=2&u=/ap/20040125/ap_en_mo/brf_disney_roger_rabbit AP reports}} that a lawsuit against Disney brought by Gary K. Wolf, the author of the novel on which the \\Who Framed Roger Rabbit\\ was based, has… |
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Warner Brothers, Pixar a good fit?
According to {{link http://www.quicken.com/investments/news_center/story/?story=NewsStory/dowJones/20040129/ON200401291955001877.var&column=P0DFP Dow Jones Newswire}}, Warner Brothers may be the most natural fit for Pixar “based on their domestic and international film-distribution strengths”. If a Time Warner/Pixar deal… |
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Sony greenlights first animated film
…pic’s story and characters were the first to gel”. The humor of \\In the Bleachers\\ cartoonist Steve Moore inspired the film, and he will be a co-executive producer of the… |
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Calvez vs. Disney: the "fishy" case continues
{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040223/film_nm/france_nemo_dc_3 Yahoo News}} reports that author Franck Le Calvez is continuing with his crusade against Disney and Pixar, whom he says stole the core idea for Finding Nemo from… |
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Nation's largest public pension fund to withhold its votes for Eisner
…annual shareholder meeting. Sean Harrigan, president of the CalPERS board of administration said “We have lost complete confidence in Mr. Eisner’s strategic vision and leadership in creating shareholder value in… |
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Disney "dweebs": fighting the cause
MLive’s {{link http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0037_BC_WSJ–Disney-Fans&&news&newsflash-financial Business News Flash}} has a great little story on the kinds of Disney fans who are standing up to help Roy Disney’s fight against the current Disney… |
