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D23 Expo 2024 Exclusive
…of the series that tickled the interest of fans. But what pulled them in was the sudden performance of “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” by the cast Kathryn Hahn… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…period and beyond, the two directed some of the most popular and beloved titles in the Disney catalog: The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…and a dazzling extended preview clip ahead of the film’s release later in the year. Closing the presentation would be the official announcement of the feature to be released the… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…of Pixar veterans and the personal journeys they took before landing their roles at the Studio. A handful of Studio Stories are next, continuing the Pixar family theme, and John… |
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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…update fans on their animated programs. There were previews for the third season of The Legend of Vox Machina, the series adapting their first campaign, and even showed off animatics… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…is also a combination of the principles of classical animation, the principles of romantic comedy and the principles of action-adventure films. How did you manage to mix and, most of… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…them before, since of after. Before Superman, cartoon animation had been of the cutesy Disney variety, the slightly surreal Fleischer output of Betty Boop and Popeye, or the lunacy of… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…of the eyes and the shape… Okay, the toad. One of the toads in Thumbelina, and I know that sounds weird, but when you look at the mouths and the… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Robles (Luz), Cissy Jones (Lilith), Avi Roque (Raine), and Elizabeth Grullon (Camila). The swag attendees of the Sand Land world premiere received. The gift bag of goodies attendees of The… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…voice talent on hand, and the expert services of the various composers and mixers, these tracks raised the bar in this terms and, though they can sometimes be front heavy… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…we loved in the first film. The slightly “off” nature of the film continues throughout the rest of the soundtrack, never really becoming truly enveloping. The savannah doesn’t have the… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…explain the fact that you got down to the bottom of the ride and you find the skeleton pirates? How did they get there? And why? They went down there… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…throughout the company were addressed and reassured their jobs were safe – but, no mention of the fate of the Circle 7 employees. Then a lone voice from the back… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Hopefully in 2022, we can put most of the dystopia behind us. But until then, dystopia was the theme of some of the best animated films released in 2021. The… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…Setting The Scene, The Voices Of Atlantis and Creating The Characters delve deep into the environments, visual creation and eventual vocalists of the film’s cast, speaking to animators and actors… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…away many of the best moments. Trey Parker and Matt Stone run you through the movie, sharing their ideas on the team, the film, the characters and their attitude toward… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…the 1980s realm of Michael Eisner and George Lucas covers such groundbreakers as Star Tours and the Indiana Jones And The Temple Of The Forbidden Eye adventure. Secrets, Stories And… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…Zorro logo at the end of the opening credits (matching the echo of the name in the song, the logo multiply fades back against the silhouette of Zorro on Tornado… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…screen legend’s 90th birthday. Mickey Mouse flickered across the screen in the November of 1928 and changed the course of animation and the movies themselves forever after. The first true… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…of them will be on this disc. Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves I found in the BFI. They didn’t even know they had it. And that’s the problem. A… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…a score of 25/100. It was on 36% of the ballots and received 14% of the first place votes. And The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part took the fifth… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…design the interior of the space craft with a little tinge of color. What’s the best alien color? Green. So, there’s a little bit of green in the space ships… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…probably agree that Nomadland was the only “winner” in a quite subdued group. Mank was everything but about the writing of Citizen Kane, and The News Of The World and… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…just seen these shows yesterday, as well as the popular theme song. The Sherman Brothers of the 1980s television department, the husband and wife team of Michael and Patti Silversher… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…and, my favorite, the ultra-hilarious X-Terminators. Randall’s Picks Like the real world, the entertainment industry is feeling the effects of huge change. The worst of the Covid pandemic seems to… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…features of the time (which also inspired the feel of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow), and decided to make their film, Star… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…then hearing this, the depth of the score, just starting with Bells Of Notre Dame and going in to the Latin music, and something like Out There which is I… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…on 12% of ballots. Well, in the oft-quoted words of a certain cartoon pig (and a star of the upcoming The Day The Earth Blew Up), “That’s all, folks!” —… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…with the times. Warnings about this appear at the back of the booklet and at the beginning of the discs. Racial caricatures aside, Flip was picking up steam… just in… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…from the process and introduced us to some members of this unlikely team to better understand the specificities and advantages of the process. Production Manager Siddhartha Maganti was born and… |