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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…previous attempts (a 1970s animated special, an embarrassing 1980s movie, and an aborted Hanna-Barbera show) didn’t really stick, and the 1995 to 2008 live-action Fox series MADtv may have run… |
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DC Nation Block – Week 1
…aired a few months earlier in November as a feature movie combining the first two episodes. The movie was exciting and entertaining with much promise for the new show, but… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…brought into the mix, and livens the movie up with his trademark homicidal glee. After Joker gets into the picture the movie picks up the pace and heightens the drama…. |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
Who better than the filmmakers could talk about all the art – and the heart – put into a movie? That’s the idea of some “Art of” books published these… |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
…my CG environments. I have been very fortunate in terms of how the industry has progressed and I’ve been able to keep pace with it as an illustrator working in… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…credit in The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and Jones offering a more pragmatic view in his Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. With the death of Clampett, Tex Avery and… |
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From Paris to home video: A Monster finally arrives!
Fans of offbeat animated movies rejoice: Bibo (Shark Tale) Bergeron’s Euro-animated feature A Monster In Paris is finally headed to the US, when Shout! Factory unleashes the film on Blu-ray… |
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The Turkeys get exchanged for Free Birds
The new movie from Reel FX has changed its title from Turkeys to Free Birds, according to Animation Magazine. The movie is about two turkeys from different walks of life,… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…the same time making the audience accept what they once thought to be impossible. It’s a neat trick. This simple movie generally keeps a quiet tone, and its plotting may… |
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Monsters University
…Monsters University they have absolutely done it again. Toy Story 3 and Up had adults in tears. But don’t worry, if you’re crying during this movie it will be from… |
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Despicable Me 2
…non-Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks movie on the list of the top 20 animated films of all time at the box office, earning over a quarter of a billion dollars domestically. Since this isn’t… |
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Now Playing: The Lone Ranger and more
…have been a lot better had a figurative pair of scissors been taken to the digital film. Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp have good chemistry and Gore Verbinski can fill… |
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Turbo
There are good movies — movies that will be around for years to come, entertaining audiences of all ages, moving them to tears or laughter, that filmmakers will be proud… |
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Now Playing: Pacific Rim and more
We love animation, but there are a lot of other movies out there. Now Playing features brief mostly spoiler free critiques of non-animated films currently in theatres that you can… |
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Monsters University coming home in October
Blu-Ray.com is reporting that Monsters University now has an official Blu-Ray date, and will be available to own on October 29th. The movie will be able to be purchased as… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…designers was great. We invented animation styles based off the designs we were given. For the large foodimals we treated them like a VFX monster movie and gave them weight… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
Any composer would tell you this: the first notes you hear in a movie are certainly the most important ones in order to set the tone and the musical identity… |
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Rio 2
…• A cookie cutter story — The whole movie feels like it was written by executives using the least original ideas from every other animated film: let’s give the main… |
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return opens
…Wizard of Oz, the movie finds Dorothy returning to the Yellow Brick Road to take down an evil jester (voiced by Martin Short). So far, the musical has been getting… |
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No happy ending for Legends of Oz
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return–the first movie from new production company Summertime Entertainment–saw a record-breaking weekend, but not in a good way. Cartoon Brew is reporting that the movie had… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…Jun Falkenstein had been involved with the sequel for about 8 or 9 months. Her previous film, The Tigger Movie, was a hit with critics and audiences, becoming Winnie the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #68: One Hundred and One Dalmatians – Do You Got Any Chloroform?
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers review Disney’s first modern animated movie, the 1961 canine classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3221331810.mp3 Highlights: • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Animated henchman… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #75: Quest for Camelot – Draw That Axe in a Chicken Suit
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers head back to medieval times to discover King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and a really bizarre movie: Quest for Camelot…. |
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The Book of Life
…have a big battle to end the movie, a bad guy is mustered, but he barely figures in the rest of the film and so the audience really doesn’t care… |
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Maleficent
…of our current century. The decline hasn’t just been a result of changing audience trends: that seven-year cycle concept switched its design to the home video market in the 1990s… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…that movie, it was nevertheless huge, and even in our post-Frozen era still holds the record for biggest opening weekend for an animated movie of all time. It made sense… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #84: Best of 2014
…the Animation Addicts podcast. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9489499380.mp3 Highlights • Looking back at 2014. What were some of our favorite moments and movies? • Time to announce the winners of the 2014 Rotoscopers… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…years, working my way around the cutting rooms and learning the job properly. It must have been about five years. AV: Right. TR: So I must have been in the… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
In his first piece for our site, Daniel Short, who has been to the convention frequently in the past, writes about what he experienced and saw, including meeting Lilo &… |
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Turbo: F.A.S.T.
…to be, it couldn’t hold its own during what proved to be a very competitive summer movie season for family audiences, going against films like Monsters University, Despicable Me 2… |
