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Animated El Cid to open in Spain December 19th
…story touches on interesting themes, like the importance of tolerance among different cultures and religions. The friendship between Rodrigo and the muslim prince Al-Mutamin is especially touching in light of… |
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Disney and Gold to "educate" the shareholders
\\{{link http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney2dec02,1,6942175.story?coll=la-home-headlines The L.A. Times}}\\ sat down for an interview with now former Disney board members Roy Disney and Stanley Gold. While the two “stopped short of saying they would… |
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Muppets To Aid Disney and Gold?
Jim Hill Media brings us an interesting story of how Roy Disney and Stanley Gold may be trying to make a “Rainbow Connection” with a certain studio, in order to… |
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Spreading the Word: Roy Disney Addresses a Letter to Disney Employees
…that “The focus [of the company] has shifted to the chase for the quick buck instead of a dedication to new and high quality ideas, the development of enduring value.”… |
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Robert Longbottom to direct \\On the Record\\
Robert Longbottom, a 2003 Tony Award nominee for Best Choreographer, has been chosen to direct the new Disney Theatricals show \\On the Record\\, according to {{link http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83091.html Playbill’s}} report of… |
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Tokyo Godfathers trailer
The new movie by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress) that has been nominated for the Academy Awards as Best Animated Picture is a touching story of three Tokyo homeless… |
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Harryhausen to give UK Screen Talk
…O’Brien mentored the young Harryhausen), the aforementioned Argonauts, as well as the first wide showing in the UK of the 50-years-in-the-making short The Story Of The Tortoise And The Hare!… |
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An animated look at the history of cartoons to air on UK TV…
…Pixels starts way back at the beginnings of American animation, with Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and brings the story up to date with Pixar’s latest, Finding Nemo – “from Nemo… |
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Kim Possible duo will script polish Disney's Enchanted
{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/ Dark Horizons}} picks up on a story that originally featured at {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117896739&categoryID=13&cs=1 Variety.com}} (paid subscription required) about the long-in-pre-production Disney live-action/animation fairy-tale skewer Enchanted. “Kim Possible executive… |
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Peter Jackson talks hobbits and giant apes!
Peter Jackson, readying himself for the release of the last in his epic special-effects filled Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Return Of The King on December 17th, is already… |
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Mr. Eisner's Wild Ride
{{link http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031215-557062,00.html Time Magazine}} made available online a story from its December 15th print issue, which looks at the current Mouse chief’s track record and how the the Roy Disney… |
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\\Mulan 2\\ title track completed
{{link http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_845375.html Ananova}} reports that the group Atomic Kitten has finished recording “I Want To Be A Girl”, the title track for Disney’s \\Mulan 2\\…. |
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WB cartoon and comic book heroes ready for the big time again?
{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news03/031210f.php Dark Horizons’ News Bites}} points out a story from today’s edition of {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117896919&categoryID=13&cs=1 Variety}} (paid subscription required), which reports that Warner Brothers’ DC Comics has hired Joel… |
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\\Chicken Little\\ cast
…when he pronounces that ‘the sky is falling down,’ which winds up getting him shipped off to a special camp where he meets other animals with challenges of their own”…. |
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Mickey Mouse Leaves Disney!!
Online joke paper {{link http://www.watleyreview.com/EditorsDesk.html The Watley Review}}, “dedicated to the production of articles completely without journalistic merit or factual basis”, has posted a fun story on {{link http://www.watleyreview.com/2003/120903-3.html Mickey… |
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Jim Hill on Disney's CEO: "denial isn't just some river in Egypt"!
The ever popular (and ever probing!) {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill Media}} is back this morning with another insightful story. To put it in his words, “as more stories leak out… |
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\\The Return of the King\\ CG characters too lifelike?
\\{{link http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/story.asp?id=7530006A-C103-4E13-9A55-F6EFCC111ACC The Montreal Gazette}}\\ reports that the special effects wizards working on the third installment of \\The Lord of the Rings\\ trilogy, \\The Return of the King\\, encountered an… |
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It's here!
Visit any effects or movie-related website today and you’re sure of one thing – a mention of the latest and last film in Peter Jackosn’s epic Lord Of The Rings… |
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Challenges of \\El Cid, The Legend\\
…at: the challenges of overcoming the “hegemony of North American animation in the Spanish screens”, technical aspects of creating the mostly traditionally animated film, the film’s “innovative graphic design”, and… |
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Disney signs writers for \\The Three Pigs\\
…Wiesner’s version of the story “updates the traditional tale and follows the pigs’ adventures” as they escape the Big Bad Wolf by going into other fairy-tale lands. “The film is… |
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Ed's new book…
…Baron Of Glacier Mountain is “a brand new holiday story that explores the possibility of Jack Frost having a female counterpart”. The book, just on sale now through the official… |
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Bruno Bozzetto's new feature: Mammuk
Renowned Italian director Bruno Bozzetto (West & Soda, Allegro non Troppo) is working on a new feature film. Set in the prehistory, Mammuk is the story of a mammoth and… |
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February set as new Pooh trial date
…in the trial’s first major hearing in more than a year – though it’s just another step in the overall 12-year-old legal battle. {{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IK43SDWED55YMCRBAE0CFFA?type=industryNews&storyID=4034498 Reuters}} has the full story…. |
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Spaghetti, Pizza and… Animation
…of Pizza) has the answer. The movie, produced by Lanterna Magica narrates how, in 1700, a Neapolitan minstrel with the dream of becoming a chef invented the extraordinary recipe. The… |
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"Michael Pan?"
…interesting trivia and discover the story behind author James Barrie and his creation of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, in the article “Off to Neverland,” at Jim Hill Media…. |
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Jim Hill Media's Person of the Year
Jim Hill Media has unveiled its “Person of the Year” for 2003! Who is it? Click here to find out. Also, the website provides “Walt Disney and Harvard,” an intriguing… |
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Time Magazine's top ten for 2003
Thanks to ‘ChayaA’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=689#post689 AN Forums}} for pointing out a link to Time Magazine’s revealing of their reviewers’ picks for the {{link http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2003/story.html best and worst}} films… |
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New Looney commercial
…box-office disappointment of the Joe Dante-helmed Back In Action picture (rumored to have been labelled as “the worst film we’ve ever made”, according to an unnamed WB exec), at least… |
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Jim Hill shines spotlight on Disney Feature Animation – Florida situation
…the studio. Today’s installment pulls no punches! “And you know the real beauty part of this plan? Under this scenario, it’s just the artists that get fired. Whereas all of… |
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\\The L.A. Times\\ makes predictions for entertainment industry in 2004
\\{{link http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-predict28dec28,1,3852827.story The L.A. Times}}\\ has made some bold predictions for the entertainment industry in 2004. Some of the interesting ones include: – “The coming year will be the year… |
