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The Simpsons to air 450th episode on Sunday
…be followed by a new hourlong special celebrating the show’s history. The documentary, from Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock, goes by the humorous title of The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special… |
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Annecy adds YouTube competition
To help celebrate their 50th anniversary, the international animation festival Annecy has announced an online competition co-sponsored by YouTube. While open to everyone there are specific guidelines entries need to… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…Breakup Notebook, Marc Blitzstein’s opera Regina, Glen Roven’s Norman’s Ark, a revival of Grand Hotel, The Musical, a live action-animation short starring Julie Andrews celebrating the 40th anniversary of Mary… |
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My Life With Charlie Brown
…piece, My Life And Art With Charlie Brown And Others (first printed in a 25th anniversary book), sees Schulz discuss his upbringing and the major events in his life at… |
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2010 Emmy nominations announced
…Dream’s On Me • Saturday Night Live In The 2000s: Time And Again • The Simpsons: 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! • Teddy: In His Own Word… |
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LA Festival honors Will Vinton
As announced by The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Animation Festival, hosted at Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theatre between December 3-7, will honor stop-motion innovator Will Vinton with a 25th anniversary… |
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The Fox and the Hound coming to Blu-ray
Disney has announced that The Fox and the Hound and The Fox and the Hound 2 will be coming to Blu-ray and DVD in a special 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection…. |
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The Fox and the Hound and The Fox and the Hound 2 (trailer)
The Fox and the Hound and The Fox and the Hound 2, in a special 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection for the first time ever in high-definition available August 9, 2011…. |
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Studio Ghibli Protests Nuclear Power
In light of the three month anniversary of the earthquake that rocked Japan and sent the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into a near meltdown, Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli hung… |
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D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets
…summer 2012. Also, as part of the festivities, Buzz and Woody were onboard to help celebrate Pixar’s 25th Anniversary – with enough cupcakes for the entire audience! About D23 Expo… |
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Family Guy Season 10 Clips Premiere in Theaters
…Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Seattle have a chance to see the “Something, Something, Something Anniversary” show featuring clips of the season premiere “Lottery… |
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Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…tenth anniversary release and see if the sound has degraded at all. Final Cut: I am not as excited about Young Justice as I was when I first watched the… |
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Celebrate 20 years of Disneyland Paris with a new book!
As Disneyland Paris begins its twenty-year anniversary celebrations, our very own Jeremie Noyer has been hard at work behind the scenes on a new publication marking this historic birthday! Disneyland… |
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The Fraggle Star in Ben Folds Five New Music Video
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Fraggle Rock, the Henson Company,Ben Folds Five, and The Nerdiest Channel have produced a new music video. Ben Folds Five and the Fraggles perform… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…trailers for other WB product, including a good but strangely 4:3-formatted spot for the Studio’s 90th Anniversary Collections (albeit ones that include a more than suitable bunch of later-acquired MGM… |
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The Stooge confirmed as a development proposal
…March, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? will be released on Blu-ray in celebration of its 25th anniversary, while Wolf’s third Roger Rabbit novel, Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?, will arrive in November…. |
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Oliver and Company Blu-ray in August
Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced the 25th Anniversary Blu-ray release of their 27th animated feature Oliver and Company, reports Blu-ray. Special features on this release will include: The Making… |
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Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Merry Pooh Year coming to Blu-ray
…Carol, its retail description promises “fully-restored classic holiday shorts” will be included with the 26-minute film, celebrating its 30th anniversary. Time will tell how many of those shorts were carried… |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…have the movie released in 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Smurfs, but it took a little longer. We all agreed the film needed to be a mix of… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…and we knocked the final bits into shape, going live a few days after our sixth anniversary in 2009. The concept proved successful. The news posting format was easier, visitors… |
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Snowman and the Snowdog nominated for Children’s BAFTA
The Snowman and the Snowdog has been announced as among the animation nominees for the British Academy Children’s Awards. The short film was created to honor the 30th anniversary of… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…FX’s 20th anniversary. Many directors might buckle under the pressure of tackling a studio’s first feature. But for Hayward, the pressure was no different than that of any other feature…. |
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Lasseter discusses Disney 90th birthday
NPR has more on the 90th anniversary of Disney Animation. In an audio interview with John Lasseter (with some printed excerpts as well) he discusses many topics including: the creation… |
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Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…of animated TV productions. The most notable of these, of course, was 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which approaches its 50th anniversary this year and is quite possibly the most… |
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2014 San Diego Comic-Con schedule highlights
…at the San Diego Comic Con. He’ll be on hand to discuss his newly released album Mandatory Fun. Greg Weisman will return to celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of… |
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Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise
…who left Imagi – the Turtles did, too. In April 2009, The Mirage Group celebrated the Turtles’ 25th anniversary by announcing a new live-action movie would hit theaters in 2011…. |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…on Blu-Ray that included a limited numbered lithograph that celebrated the 15th anniversary of the X-Men films. A unique freebie I got this year came from the Van Eaton Gallery… |
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New TV trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass
A new extended TV spot for Alice Through the Looking Glass was shown last night on ABC during the Disneyland 60th Anniversary Special, and you can now view it online… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly director David Feiss shows how to draw Elliot
As part of the 10th anniversary of the release of the first Sony Pictures Animation feature Open Season, the film’s head of story and director of the upcoming Open Season:… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…but also in part because it’s been unofficially used as a way to “celebrate” the tenth anniversary of Sony Pictures Animation. The good news is that the film will still… |
