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Covers revealed for movie-based books
…and Viewer. The style of the latter book has also been adopted for a Ratatouille reading, as discovered by Upcoming Pixar. The Pixar pic also has an Art of venture… |
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[Press release] AOL to launch Shrek online interactive game
…an online interactive game based on the popular Shrek franchise on April 26, three weeks before Shrek the Third hits the movie theaters. The game is co-produced by AOL, DreamWorks… |
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9-minute Ratatouille preview announced, new movie-stills online
…high resolution images for Ratatouille have been discovered at El Blog De Superhéroes. Thanks to “JV PIXAR” at the Animated News & Views Forum for the notice of this news…. |
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Surf's Up for movie's animators
Surf’s Up producer Chris Jenkins tells SCI FI Wire that to help capture the feel of the film’s sport, several animators actually learned to surf. “I think it was real… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…Edition of the movie, it’s time to go back to the essentials, to the origins of the myth. That’s why we turned to Mike Cachuela [right, below], who was one… |
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Cauldron book made into "not-so-good" movie?
A.V. Club presents the countdown “Lost In Translation: 20 Good Books Made Into Not-So-Good Movies.” Animation is represented in the list by Disney’s The Black Cauldron, with the article referring… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
…featured Goofy living with his son, Max, and their crazy adventures. Three years later the same characters appeared in the movie A Goofy Movie which became a surprise hit. A… |
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Smurfs movie finds a director
Variety reports that Raja Gosnell has signed on to direct Sony and Columbia Pictures’ live action/animated Smurfs. The editor turned director is best known for helming Scooby-Doo movies. Produced by… |
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Star Trekkin' across the universe! Plus Venture Bros. and Tiny Toons!
Phew! It’s true what people are saying…JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek movie sets its phasers for stunning and delivers a whole starshipload of pure entertainment at top warp. I wouldn’t… |
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Shrek the Third
…throughout the movie. So in an obviously important scene, like when Fiona is ready to tell here husband she is pregnant, you would think they would take the time to… |
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Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”
…going back again? Randy Newman: It’s been a very good collaboration. They’re good people to work for. They made four good pictures in a row which is a real thing!… |
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Winnie The Pooh and new announcements too!
Another of Disney’s recent Winnie The Pooh reissues has joined our site line up with Rodney Figueiredo’s review of Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie: Limited Edition, which sports the same 2005… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…produced to secure financing for the 1984 movie version, although this is disputed in other accounts I have read. Regardless, the story in the film version differs significantly from the… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…would actually see two Fantastic Four projects. There was a low-budget theatrical movie, available now only in bootleg copies, and also the cartoon show. While the live-action movie is notorious… |
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Monster House: Widescreen Edition
…Even in all the annals of theatrical features, how many animated movies have been horror-adventure-comedies? The use of the term “Animation”, however, is in some dispute. While computer technology was… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…be sure. But, back in the 1960s, Pooh was not a large property. He had been published in the U.S. for some time, but the Milne characters had only been… |
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Bravestarr: Volume One
…of the studio. Of course, with budgetary pressures ever worsening, the studio’s closure may have only been a matter of time anyway, so long as Lou Scheimer insisted on keeping… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…the actor’s eye movements, adding to the graphic quality featured in the film. Its black and white color palette only enhances the noir-like feel of the movie. The movie won… |
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Disney On Ice: The Incredibles Magic Kingdom Adventure
…was a, needless to say, “Incredible” performance. The Incredibles On Ice is actually in celebration of both the movie and Disney’s recent 50th anniversary. Taking place shortly after the movie’s… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…features. Rather confusingly, the sleeve’s back jacket notes “this film has been modified from its original version and has been formatted to fit your TV”. Well, be assured that whatever… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…changes in theatrical release, the resulting movie finally reaches the shiny disc video format in its original incarnation of The Great Mouse Detective on the sleeve, but as The Adventures… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…wider ratio, but the clip is an important little addition that shows just how much would have been lost had Sleeping Beauty’s transfer to disc been compromised. Side six features… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…with a strong background in graphic arts, comic books, or “albums” as they are know there, have always been a choice way of passing the time and their home-grown characters… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…been the better choice in describing the movie, but overall the designs, style (by, among others, Mary Blair) and concept behind the feature works well enough, and it simply ends… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…over the odds would have been a great incentive to the movie going public in picking Dumbo as a movie to go and see. As ever, Walt was right: Dumbo… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…French mafia, where he and his co-riders have been set up in some sort of race for life. They’ve been placed on non-moving bikes in front of a movie screen,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…the same soundtrack has been utilized for both editions. Clara Cluck receives the least change to her character’s look, while Donald’s “Am I mortified!” Jimmy Durante impression has been toned… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…country. Though never mentioned in the film, the four young human child protagonists of the story have been sent away from war torn London to live with a kindly old… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…problems and one can imagine that there must have been some tension involved and that wiring up for sound at some points must have been the last thing on anyone’s… |

