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Disney strengthens corporate governance guidelines after Disney/Gold complaints
\\{{link http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney7jan07,1,4316157.story The L.A. Times}}\\ reports that Disney may be taking some of Roy Disney and Stanley Gold’s complaints to heart. The “board of directors, which has come under fire… |
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Tokyo Godfathers US release
…Pictures. As well as crew bios and story details, the site also features the film’s {{link http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/tokyogodfathers/trailer.html US trailer}}, which goes about sellling the film as a heartwarming family drama… |
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Documentary about South Park creators to air in March
…Hollywood. Copies soon started popping up everywhere and the rest is the stuff of legends. In fact, many different versions of the Stone/Parker story have been passed on through the… |
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Disney To Spend "A Day With Wilbur Robinson"
…want in an animated film and offers our animation team a rich world of possibilities. Steve Anderson has proven himself to be a great storyteller and will make a great… |
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Notorious murderer caught working in very unlikely place
Here’s an offbeat but interesting story from {{link http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/15/crime.haiti.reut/index.html CNN}}. Suppose you’re a former military chief in the Haitian army during the bloody military dictatorship of the early 1990’s. As… |
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On Broadway… soon
{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/20040109/en_usatoday/disneyraisingcurtainsonnewprojects&e=5 USA Today}} looks at what’s in the pipeline from Disney Theatricals. While much of the info has been reported in this space previously, Thomas Schumacher (president of Disney… |
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Children's book awards announced
Several prestigious children’s book awards were announced earlier this week by the American Library Association, {{link http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/01/12/newbery.caldecott.ap/index.html CNN reports}}. Some of the winners included: \\The Tale of Despereaux\\ by Kate… |
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The Moose Hole – Dog Days at the Box Office
The Moose Hole gives a mixed review of the traditionally animated feature based on the Emmy winning animated series, Teacher’s Pet, saying “younger audience members will enjoy this heralding story… |
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Star Trek Animated Adventures Celebrates 30th Aniversary
The official {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/index.html Star Trek website}} is celebrating the 30th aniversary of the Star Trek Cartoon with a {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/cda/html/images/feature/community/contests/031202_animated/detail.jsp contest}}, {{link http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/bst/article/2843.html interview}} with the animated shows story… |
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Top 100… Simpson's Sports Moments
{{link http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=Simpsons%20Sports%20Moments1 ESPN}} counts down the top 100 sports moments from the 14 seasons of \\The Simpsons\\, a show that “regularly packs more memorable sports moments into its episodes than… |
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\\The Little Prince\\ project underway
The {{link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3408799.stm BBC}} reports that a new animated version of the classic children’s story \\The Little Prince\\ has been greenlit by Pathé Pictures, one of the producers behind \\Chicken… |
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India's \\Pandavas – The Five Warriors\\ coming to DVD in North America
…story depicts the eternal fight between good and evil through the tale of the five Pandava brothers and their struggles with their cousins, the Kauravas”. The film was the winner… |
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Children's TV personality Captain Kangaroo dead
{{link http://www.nynewsday.com/ny-kangaroo0123,0,1776938.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-left NY Newsday}} reports that Bob Keeshan, TV’s Captain Kangaroo, has died at the age of 76. \\Captain Kangaroo\\ “premiered on CBS in 1955 and ran for 30 years… |
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Boys Night Out Review
…fallen flat on its face. This is a story best told with all the lines and curves that come from the heart and hand of an animator who knows how… |
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First look at \\SpongeBob SquarePants\\ film
{{link http://filmforce.ign.com Filmforce}} has a {{link http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/SB-Monster_1_happy.jpg promotional shot}} from the upcoming \\SpongeBob Squarepants\\ movie. (I wasn’t able to find the story this pic goes with. If anyone finds it… |
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John Ritter's Final Performance As "Clifford" To Hit Theaters
Toon Zone indicates that John Ritter’s final performance as the voice of “Clifford: The Big Red Dog” will be heard in theaters next month, in Clifford’s Really Big Movie, the… |
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Space Ghost Gets Serious Makeover
Newsarama reveals that a darker twist on the “Space Ghost” character will be the focus of a new, six-part miniseries, which will provide the origin of the hero, and give… |
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\\Thru the Moebius Strip\\ film in post-production, to become TV series
{{link http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=3204 ComingSoon.net}} reports on a \\Variety\\ story about Jean Giraud’s sci-fi fantasy film \\Thru the Moebius Strip\\. Senator International will handle worldwide sales rights of this CG feature written… |
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Eisner may face unfriendly shareholders at March meeting
{{link http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&guid=%7B800A8073%2D730D%2D49A5%2D8ED8%2D88412C14616E%7D& CBSMarketWatch}} has it right when they say that “Disney’s shareholder meeting, scheduled for March 3, just got a little more interesting”. They believe that Roy Disney’s calls for… |
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Roy Disney "highlights" Eisner record in SEC filing
{{link http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&guid=%7B6C7718A8%2DEBE1%2D48B5%2DAAFE%2D326237A63079%7D& CBS Marketwatch}} reports that Roy Disney has made a Securities and Exchange Commission filing outlining what he believes are the mistakes of the Walt Disney Company over the… |
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DreamWorks hires "Unprofessional" writer
According to Variety, in a seven-figure deal with DreamWorks, John Ridley is set to write his first animated feature, The Unprofessionals. The story follows three “hapless” monkeys who, while on… |
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More Information About The Batman
…when he lives in a bachelor pad surrounded by hyper-modern Bat-gadgets and drives a souped-up Batmobile. During the series, he’ll meet each of the story’s famed villains––Penguin, Joker, Catwoman, Riddler… |
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UPDATED! Finding Nemo earns nine Annie Awards, \\The Simpsons\\ earns four
…the art and industry of animation. – Martha Sigall Winsor McCay Award Recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation – Gene Deitch – John Hench –… |
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Pics from \\Chicken Little\\, \\Boundin'\\, and artists' prep work for \\Rapunzel Unbraided\\
…Little\\ \\Boundin’\\ \\Boundin’s\\ Bud Luckey, who pitched the original story, created the conceptual drawings of the characters, wrote the music and lyrics, and performs the song These two pictures appear… |
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Eisner's days at Disney numbered?
{{link http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BA40FD307%2D4CC2%2D4629%2DA751%2DFB16F29A69B8%7D CBS MarketWatch}} believes that no matter what happens with the Comcast deal Eisner’s days at the helm of Disney may be numbered. The article also points out the… |
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L'Île de Black Mor opens in France
…story is based on the book that Laguionie wrote inspired by his youth’s favourite writers, from Joseph Conrad to Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in 1803, It narrates the adventures of… |
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Curious George update
…and Rob Baird (Monsters, Inc.), Curious George will be directed by Jun Falkenstein (The Tigger Movie). The movie will conatin an original story, instead of one from the books, and… |
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New VeggieTales: An Easter Carol review
…Easter Carol wows me. It is much stronger in story and the moral lesson than Star of Christmas and is sure to become a holiday family favorite for decades to… |
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Germany Goes Back to Gaya
Warner Bros and Ambient Entertainment are releasing the first CG movie ever produced in Germany. Back to Gaya is the story of two gnomes, Boo and Sinu, who live in… |
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Disney prepares takeover action; Animators back Roy Disney
…guru to add respectability to the board’s decisions’.” In related news, the IMBD continues with a story on Roy Disney’s chances of winning an Oscar for Destino, the short film… |
