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DIC enhances international profile
…company, a leader in the kids television animation field, has expanded its licensing and merchandising opportunities by signing up a number of top companies to partner DIC in sales of… |
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Wood Talks About Feet
…why there’s a fish shortage. Ultimately, it’s about being accepted for who I am. It’s a beautiful story, and I think people will love it. It was a lot of… |
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Box Office Guru's Brother Bear Prediction
Concerning Brother Bear‘s performance at the box offce, Box Office Guru says, “Last year around this time, Disney released Treasure Planet, another 2D animated film, and it flopped pretty badly,… |
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Home On The Range and Teacher's Pet trailers!
Following our story yesterday that Home On The Range had been added to the {{link http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/main.html Disney website}}, visitors will today find that the link is now active to a… |
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Going, going, gone: Big Idea sold for $19.3 million
…release of the feature film Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie and filed for bankruptcy. Classic Media owns the copyright on characters such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, Richie Rich and Casper…. |
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Star Wars: Clone Wars Premieres Tonight
…and III, and picks up after the first battle of the wars, where Episode II: Attack of the Clones left off. Lucas chose Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky to be… |
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Keane and Sanders confirmed on new CG Disney projects
Master traditional animator Glen Keane’s take on the Rapunzel legend, retitled Rapunzel Unbraided, has been confirmed as being in active production, in a story at {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9565 Animation World Network}}…. |
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No long wait for SW: Clone Wars fans in the UK!
The new Cartoon Network/Lucasfilm “micro-series” {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9564 Clone Wars}}, which expands the Star Wars universe by way of creating the back story between last summer’s Episode II and 2005’s Episode… |
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Brother Bear, Can You Spare An Interview?
…development of Rutt and Tuke as characters that became increasingly central and important to the story. There’s even a picture that shows the directors with Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis,… |
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Press Release For Delayed Treasures DVDs
Animation historian Jerry Beck comments on the delay of this year’s wave of the Walt Disney Treasures DVDs on his Cartoon Research news page: “Originally scheduled for release on December… |
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Disney's New York flagship store has run aground
Jim Hill returns from NYC with a somewhat depressing story about the 5th Avenue Disney Store. What was once the crown jewel of the entire Disney retail chain is now… |
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Disney plans further moves into Asian markets…
…to be based in Shanghai. The company already has a theme park set to open in Hong Kong in 2006. The news group {{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=TIXK2MKFG2CJMCRBAEKSFFA?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=3812879 Reuters}} has the full story…. |
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Disney boss to be honored by Motion Picture Pioneers
Michael Eisner, the chairman-CEO of the Walt Disney Company since averting the takeover bid of 1984, is to be honored as the 65th “Pioneer Of The Year” at a special… |
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Sequel Toons Go Live-Action
Here’s a couple of news items on a couple of upcoming live-action features based on animated characters. Even though the first film has yet to open, producer Brian Grazer is… |
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Michel Gagné Unveils Parables: An Anthology in February
…sought-after limited edition storybooks: A Search for Meaning: The Story of Rex (B&W edition), The Mystery of He, The Great Shadow Migration and The Bird, the Spider and the Octopus…. |
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Award campaigning immune to budget concerns
\\{{link http://www.latimes.com/la-et-horn16nov16,1,3968503.story The L.A. Times}}\\ takes a look at how cost-cutting at Hollywood studios doesn’t apply to their efforts to win awards. “Disney has pink-slipped scores of animators in Paris,… |
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Mickey Mouse: 75 Years And Still Going Strong!
{{link http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-1117mickeymouse,0,3592155.story?coll=sfla-business-front The Sun-Sentinel}} looks back on the career of one Mr Mouse, who will be celebrating 75 years in the buisiness on Tuesday, November 18th. It was 75 years… |
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Happy 75th Birthday, Mickey!
On the evening of November 18th 1928, a showbiz legend was born – Mickey Mouse flashed across the screen of the Colony Theater in NYC and danced and sung his… |
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Court to rule on whether park rides are "public transportation"
…according to {{link http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-disney18nov18235631,1,4057455.story The L.A. Times}}. Disney believes the higher standard should not apply since amusement park rides are entertainment not public transportation. If the ruling stands park officials… |
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Samuel L. Jackson discusses \\The Incredibles\\
{{link http://www.tiscali.co.za/tiscali/entertainment/entertainment_story.jsp?content=109769 Tiscali Entertainment}} has interviewed Samuel L. Jackson, who discussed his role in the upcoming Pixar movie \\The Incredibles\\. He reveals that he does not play a bad guy,… |
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\\The Simpsons\\ apologizes to Fox News over Groening's comments
…Matt Groening, in an interview with the left-wing radio network NPR, said that “Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of \\The Simpsons\\ over a parody of the channel’s… |
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\\Opus\\ Returns!
For those of us who were fans of Berkeley Breathed’s Pulitzer Prize winning \\Bloom County\\ back when it was originally published and were crushed when he ended the strip, and… |
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\\Chicken Little\\ update
…\\Chicken Little\\ has got in spades”. The film has had a significant number of changes during its development and production, including the cutting of Penn Jillette’s (of Penn and Teller)… |
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Wanted: CG artists
The {{link http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-weta23nov23,1,1140535.story L.A. Times}} has a report on the lack of CG artists in the industry. “Industry observers agree that there are not enough experienced workers to fill the… |
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New \\Shrek 2\\ promo image
{{link http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2497 ComingSoon.net}} has a new promotional image from DreamWorks’ \\Shrek 2\\. Be sure to check out their site for a larger version of the image. UPDATE: I just received… |
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Paul Dini Reveals Batman and Duck Dodgers News
…and Joy,” at Wizard World Texas in Arlington, where he provided updates on the future of Duck Dodgers and the animated Batman. Check out Toon Zone for the full story…. |
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Toon Zone on a couple of interesting New York Times articles…
The {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/index.php? Toon Zone Forums}} today report on a couple of stories that just appeared at {{link http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times.com}}. The first, {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=95782 Studios Sue To… |
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Roy Disney resigns, calls on Eisner to step down
…list of complaints included everything from the performance of the struggling ABC broadcast networks and Disney theme parks to Mr. Eisner’s reputation for ‘micro-management of everyone around you’”. The Disney… |
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\\Valient\\ cast announced
…\\Valient\\. The animated comedy tells the story of a lowly wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain’s Royal Air Force Homing… |
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Eisner already planned to leave Disney?
Could Roy Disney’s attack on Eisner actually keep the CEO and Chairman of the Walt Disney Company around even longer? {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/12012003.1.htm~contentFrame Jim Hill Media}} reports that most of the… |
