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Official Chicken Little Site Hatches
…sports the logo, a link to the trailer (which can be viewed in Quicktime in “The sky is falling BIG” size), and the fact that the movie is still on… |
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Family receives Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
The Big Cartoon Database reports that Family Home Entertainment, a division of Vancouver-based Lions Gate Entertainment, has been awarded by Mattel the North American home entertainment rights to the upcoming… |
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Viacom animation to be outsourced to India
Internet Movie Database reports that, according to the Bombay daily Financial Express, Viacom’s MTV and Nickelodeon units will likely outsource animation work from India. Although the U.S. produces most of… |
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More Shark Tale Tribeca talk; retail support
…ever-reliable {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17480 Ain’t It Cool News}}, there’s another version of events, plus a description of the completed scenes that were played from the movie. Meanwhile, the {{link http://animation.dreamworksfansite.com/sharktale/ DreamWorks… |
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Robots with attitude
Independent producer and animator Jeff Haas has single handedly produced a feature length computer animted sci-fi movie, The Dalmarian Chronicles, using off the shelf software to complete the task. Haas,… |
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Home out of the Top Ten
Box Office Guru reports that falling 57%, Home on the Range found its home as the #11 movie for the weekend. The traditionally animated film grossed $1 million, bringing its… |
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Final Fantasy sequel to debut on new format
…an unusual format, in the form of UMD Disc, the media for Sony’s upcoming PSP console”. An official announcement and release date for the movie is still to be confirmed…. |
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New and improved full Incredibles trailer hits the web; new site launched!
…variety of QuickTime sizes at Apple’s {{link http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/the_incredibles/ Movie Trailers}} site. The Pixar film, about a dysfunctional family of superheroes, is director Brad Bird’s first for the company, and Pixar’s… |
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Inside the Aladdin: Platinum Edition giftset
Floating around the web recently has been {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00001495.html this image}} of the forthcoming Aladdin: Platinum Edition giftset. Coming out alongside the standard 2-disc release of the film on October… |
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Kaena: The Prophecy gets early, negative review
…said were so cliche that it didn’t matter if my girlfriend slept through most of it; she knew exactly how the movie would play through. There was the stupid sidekick,… |
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Wrath of Warner Brothers
Variety via FilmForce indicates that Warner Brothers and Robert Zemeckis’ production company ImageMovers have purchased the movie rights to actor/writer Ian Ogilvy’s forthcoming three-book series entitled Measle and Wrathmonk. The… |
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Jaws featured in Shark Tale- sort of
…and at the movie’s official website. Also of note is that the website now contains downloads, including wallpapers and a screensaver. Shark Tale swims into theaters on October 1, 2004…. |
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Shrek 2 sets new opening-day box office record
…theaters, Shrek 2 will become the first movie to play in more than 4,000 theaters simultaneously. DreamWorks distribution president Jim Tharp stated that the opening day audience for the film… |
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Date set for the next Groove
…Pocahontas II rather than the feature quality of the first film, or even the above standard Return To NeverLand or Jungle Book 2 sequels. The {{link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401398/releaseinfo Internet Movie DataBase}}… |
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Fox's American Dad; Licensing news
…Wallace And Gromit: The Movie, Son Of The Mask, The Fantastic Four and Batman Begins. There are also updates on various other comic book character movies on the same page,… |
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Annecy 2004: Official Selection
…feature films, 52 shorts, 40 commercials and 69 student movies. Click on more to find out about the most interesting entries in the competition, or go to the Annecy web… |
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Smurfs to smurf back to the smurf screen
…little {{link http://www.mushroomvillage.com/smurfs-comeback.html more digging}} on the site reveals that a new Smurf movie and/or TV series is in the works, and Peyo’s little blue characters’ comeback could be “well… |
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"Shrek ate our sales!"
…“The International Council of Shopping Centers’ weekly sales report shows sales decreased 0.5 percent” during Shrek 2‘s opening in theaters. However, retail analysts said they doubted that any movie could… |
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New Shrek 2 poster!
United International Pictures has the German poster for Shrek 2. Thanks to the Internet Movie Posters Awards for the heads up!… |
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Jerry Bruckheimer growing mouse ears?
Check out Business Week Online at Yahoo! Finance for a new interview with highly successful movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Lots of Disney talk in there…. |
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An Interview with Ralph Bakshi
…the Cat, based on Robert Crumb’s comic, Heavy Traffic, American Pop, and the animated adaptation of Lord of the Rings that inspired many of the scenes in Peter Jackson’s movie…. |
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International Thunderbirds poster now available
The international poster for Thunderbirds can now be seen at the Internet Movie Poster Awards…. |
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\\Incredibles\\ commercial online
…movie, can be found here: **”First In Line” – An Internet Only Live Action Spot:** Real Player: 100k – 240 x 180 300k – 320 x 240 Windows Media: 100k… |
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Paul Dini leaves Warner Bros Animation!
…that Dini says he “wants to do more writing for live-action features and comics, and is working on a hush-hush ‘Project X’ that is neither a cartoon, movie or comic… |
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Mr Bug! The original "bug's life" Hoppity to air in the UK
…surprisingly hard to find title for animation fans, the last official quality release being a Republic Pictures LaserDisc (right). An engaging little movie that easily stands up today as a… |
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Long wait for Cats And Dogs 2?
{{link http://www.moviehole.net/news/3726.html Moviehole}} is reporting that the sequel to the surprise 2001 hit Cats And Dogs, originally to have been directed by Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians),… |
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Sony's digital future
Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp has {{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=5329072 announced a new system}} that could speed up the time it takes to convert traditional movie theaters over to digital projection. Currently,… |
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More Garfield
{{link http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0406035 Cinema Confidential}} has a full gallery of Garfield: The Movie pictures up, including some new images…. |
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DreamWorks' animation philosophy; upcoming release dates
…release dates for upcoming projects Madagascar (May 2005), the Wallace And Gromit movie (September 2005) and Over The Hedge, which as we reported last week has been moved to 2006…. |
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Animated DVDs offer "franchise extentions"
…a franchise loses money: the planned NBC series that was to extend Van Helsing‘s world has been scrapped because of the $160 million movie’s lacklustre box office showings. So much… |

