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Disney says out with the old and in with the old?
…characters in the Disney library, the opportunities for future movies or television shows are extensive. A movie that started with a relatively small announcement by Disney could end up being… |
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Disney highlights Frozen music on big and little screens
…a film still going remarkably strong in its third month since release. The studio has announced that a special sing-along version of the movie will be released to more than… |
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Angelina Jolie makes evil look beautiful in new Maleifcent trailer
Disney’s classic Sleeping Beauty doesn’t delve into the evil enchantress Maleficent’s past. After 55 years, Disney is revealing Maleficent’s backstory in a live-action movie starring Angelina Jolie as the wicked… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman opens
DreamWorks Animation’s latest movie, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, opens today on 3,470 screens, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The film is scoring pretty well with critics, earning a 77% “freshness”… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…Amos Sussigan. Amos has always been a restless, creative soul, never interested in the obvious. After studies in Languages in his native country of Switzerland, he enrolled at Woodbury University,… |
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Rio 2 box office, Blue Sky’s big foreign appeal
…it eventually matches the first movie’s $143.6 million total. But the bigger prize for Blue Sky Studios may come oversees. Buzzfeed reports that while none of their movies “have made… |
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Enjoy the first five minutes of How to Train Your Dragon 2
DreamWorks has been getting fans excited about its newest feature How to Train Your Dragon 2 by releasing tidbits as the premiere date draws closer. The trailers hint at a… |
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Where Did These AWOL Animated Movies Get To?
…VHS, let alone DVD! And yet, now all the Disney classics have been released to the format in one way or another, there to be viewed whenever we like. But…what… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #65: Balto – Streetdog
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers go on a journey to watch Amblimation’s final movie, Balto. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6785765925.mp3 Highlights: • Main discussion: Balto • Live-action beginning with pigeon lady from… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…under whelmed, the movie under performed, and the toy sales stank. However, the film did beget one great thing: it inspired the creation of a superb animated series. That the… |
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Maleficent curses the box office
…the $79 million that Oz: The Great and Powerful made in 2013, but neither of those movies came out during the crowded summer movie marketplace. Final numbers are due tomorrow…. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants sequel details surface
The upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants movie finally has a name, a website, and a poster. The name for the followup to the 2004 film is The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of… |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 cast and crew discuss film
Early buzz around DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon 2, opening tomorrow, is high, and the cast and crew have been out promoting the film. Jay Baruchel finds joy in… |
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Dragon 2 still not quite taking flight at box office
Despite strong critical reception and being pretty much the only animated movie playing in theaters right now, How to Train Your Dragon 2 has more or less underwhelmed at the… |
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Transformers transform box office
The fourth Transformers movie was able to pull off what no other movie has done so far this year: a $100 million opening. Despite savage reviews from critics (which is… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
Less than a year after the first Cars spinoff Planes, DisneyToon Studios has released its sequel Planes: Fire & Rescue. Where the previous movie was originally intended as a straight… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…the story has been greatly expanded. A young cat is abandoned by its owners, who are moving away, in the city of Boston, USA. After a rough introduction to the… |
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…there are inserts for Disney Movie Rewards and the Disney Movie Club. Unlike the Warner sets of previous seasons, there is unfortunately no episode guide or booklet. Ink And Paint:… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #86: Once Upon a Forest – How Alvin and the Chipmunks Save the Forest
…Message of the movie: stop driving cars and killing all the owls. • The owls in this film remind of the movie. • How many people are actually trying to… |
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The Boxtrolls
…right from the opening scenes, in their latest movie, The Boxtrolls, an elaborate fantasy which actually seems to have more of a visual and tonal connection to Nightmare than even… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #88: Shrek – The Anti-Fairytale
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers review DreamWorks’ second CGI animated film–the amazing, hilarious, irreverent Shrek. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5168624634.mp3 Highlights Main Discussion: Shrek (2001) Morgan and Chelsea saw this movie in… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #90: Kung Fu Panda – How to Train Your Dragon Warrior
…Fu Panda Drama at the Annie Awards. Panda sweeps! First thoughts and recollections about the movie. Is it easier to do martial arts in animation? The 2D opening sequence is… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…a couple of weeks ago. We like to get together for movie nights when he’s in town, as we both write film reviews— I for this humble site, and he… |
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Minions
…carry a 90 minute movie? Minions, it turns out, have been on the planet longer than humans, and their goal in life is to find the biggest bad guy they… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…me, have been surfacing more and more over the years. The seeds of what I’m doing now have been planted like a decade before. These are so many elements in… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One
…joy that accompanied the end of the Clone Wars has been replaced with something else. To many, there is little doubt that the Empire is a fascist outfit led by… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
…best for them. What makes both these movies so surprising is that anyone who has been a father will completely sympathize with the character, despite the actual settings and circumstances,… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…shorts. But the features were never touched: sure there might have been more of the same (what is The Three Caballeros if nothing than a continuation of Saludos Amigos‘ South… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #110: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman Interview
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The animation world has been abuzz since animation legends Don Bluth and Gary Goldman announced they were doing a crowdfunding campaign for a sizzle reel… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…going to a hallway where panels were taking place, attendees had to place their badge against a security post so that it would beep them in. But they also needed… |
