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Cartoon Network to launch new action/adventure block
…are intended to bridge the gap between real life action/adventure and animation”. The lineup includes \\Totally Spies\\, \\Code LYOKO\\, \\Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\\, and \\Teen Titans\\. (paid subscription required for… |
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Sony Gets Nasty
According to Done Deal’s Script Sales page, Sony has tapped Don D. Scott (Barbershop) to pen a CGI film called Big Nasty, which is described as a sci-fi musical set… |
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Hanks speaks on Polar Express and Toy Story 3
…question, “Will you be involved in the Toy Story sequels Disney is planning without Pixar?” Hanks’ response is, “I don’t know. The creative team that put together the original Toy… |
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CritterPix Studios reaches $2.1 million for financing of future projects
…Company (UK) Ltd. This makes the total seed financing for the studio approximately $4.45 million. Proceeds will go toward script development and the installation of software animation tools and hardware… |
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The Film Programme interviews author Helen McCarthy
BBC Radio Four’s The Film Programme, via Stone Bridge Press, speaks to Helen McCarthy, author of Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation and co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide… |
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Other release dates revealed
Ultimate Disney has discovered a slew of more Disney-related 2007 release dates at Box Office Mojo, including: Bridge to Terabithia (February 16), Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (May 25), Ratatouille… |
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Burny Mattinson podcast interview
Clay Kaytis’ Animation Podcast site fires back up with part one of an interview with long-time Disney animation worker Burny Mattinson. As a bridge between generations of animators Burny Mattinson… |
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\\Dungeons & Dragons\\ coming to DVD
…full stats, magic items and a brand new adventure. The adventure is a prelude to the episode “The Dragon’s Graveyard” and is designed to bridge the gap between the game… |
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AWN launches Flushed Away micro-site
…first-hand from directors David Bowers and Sam Fell about what it was like to bridge the styles of DreamWorks and Aardman. Supervising animators Simon Otto and Jason Spencer-Galsworthy discuss bringing… |
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Enchanted
…hag, luring the innocent Giselle to a magic waterfall: actually a portal to another dimension…ours! Flinging the now damsel in distress through space to present-day New York City, Giselle discovers… |
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The Astro Boy Essays
…Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), considered to be the “God of Manga”, has earned the title due to the massive output of comics he drew (estimated to be around 150,000 pages) in… |
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o-meon enjoys a dish of Ratatouille
o-meon goes to drama class and dissects a rat, Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille, that is. According to o-meon’s head writer, Chuck Oberleitner, “Technically and artistically, the film is prepared as brilliantly and… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight details
…major Japanese studios, will bridge the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and explore “different facets of Batman often seen in comics but never really explored in animation… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…September 21st, prior to opening on Broadway in the Fall of 2008. Preview performances will begin in early November at a theater to be announced.” The full press release and… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight inside peek
…Knight consists of six new stories done in anime style by three major Japanese studios and will bridge the gap between Batman Begins and the upcoming Dark Knight while exploring… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight DVD package
…are expected to be available soon as well. Serving as a bridge between the live-action Batman Begins and this summer’s The Dark Knight, Gotham Knight will hit shelves on July… |
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Bolt comes to life, plus new Narnia contest!
More from the production of Disney’s latest today: with the art developed and the characters designed, it’s time for the animation to begin! As such, Jeremie exclusively talks to Bolt… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…sure to look fantastic on the new Blu-ray edition. The new Horton was released just too soon to our compiling our list for us to review the two-disc set, but… |
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Bert and Ernie get claymated
…television. The educational intent behind the program, made up of five-minute segments, will be to take children beyond counting to building math and computational skills. “According to Sesame Workshop, the… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…tape was extraordinarily long thanks to a reissue in 1996 – I wanted to fast-forward straight to that scene, eager to see if it held up on screen as it… |
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Monsters vs Aliens
…to come up with a good film while the “B Team” is given a tight deadline and the former high school class clowns are let loose to try to put… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…moon where the Republic hopes to forge a new alliance with the Toydarian Kingdom. There, Ventress tries to persuade the Toydarian King of the Republic’s weakness when she is interrupted… |
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Race To Witch Mountain
…sent by the aliens to despatch of the kids before they can complete their mission, for reasons too convoluted to go into here. Though this creature might provide a few… |
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Heavy Metal: Collector’s Edition
…took a long time for this movie to come to home video, as it took years to sort out the music rights. Instead, fans had to go to countless midnight… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…for someone to handle the documentary, and then Mendelson happened to hear Guaraldi’s composition Cast Your Fate To The Wind over the radio while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. It… |
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Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic
…my mind that I was going to get back to America one day, and sure enough I did. AV: How did Walt Disney happen to know you as you were… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…supremo Thomas Schelesny, about Enchanted’s enchanting 2D and 3D animated touches. James Baxter: Animating A Traditional Disney Heroine Literally, “animating” means to give “anima”, to give soul to a drawing…. |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…little on some older techniques like string portamento – although today’s musicians resist it – to give some sentiment, and tried as much as possible to stay away from a… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…had the chance to work at Amblimation for the completion of Balto. That was a wonderful opportunity to work in such a creative environment, with so many talented people. I… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…I decided to write lyrics to one of these Fats Waller pieces. It was called Smashing Thirds. I didn’t know anyone who could actually play the music, so I took… |
