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DreamWorks buys Classic Media
…live entertainment channels.” Classic Media holds the rights to over 450 properties including Frosty the Snowman, George of the Jungle, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Casper the Friendly Ghost, VeggieTales, Lassie, and… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…cartoons for Joe Barbera at Hanna-Barbera. He worked with Steven Spielberg on Amblin Entertainment’s Casper, as a key pose animator. He even landed a job on Bakshi’s 1992 directorial effort… |
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DreamWorks remakes itself with deals
…up a company that controls such iconic characters as Lassie and Casper the Friendly Ghost. It acquired the rights to the Troll toy franchise and in June, signed a deal… |
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Pottermania mach 5, plus The In-Complete Pluto
…Rand’s views on The Hardy Boys. I also wanted to let you guys know that we still haven’t announced the winners of our Casper Contest for a good reason: we… |
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Going, going, gone: Big Idea sold for $19.3 million
…release of the feature film Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie and filed for bankruptcy. Classic Media owns the copyright on characters such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, Richie Rich and Casper…. |
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Join the 300 on DVD and online!
Don’t forget that tonight sees the close of our two most recent giveaways, for The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh and The Best Of Casper Volumes 1 and 2…. |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
Still fresh on the site this week are our bunch of Contest Corner giveaways, including chances to win The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh and The Best Of Casper…. |
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The Reef
…Reef again for younger visitors or curious Nemo/Shark Tale fans. Is This Thing Loaded? The disc kicks off with previews for the Genius DTV Casper’s Scare School (which goes some… |
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Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection
…sold off most of its own characters (like Casper The Friendly Ghost) to Harvey Comics in the late 1950s, and had seen its new attempts at creating cartoon stars fail… |
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Hey Rocky, Watch Me Pull A Cell Phone Out of My Hat
Animation World Network updates with a report on Sennari Inc. and Bullwinkle Studios partnering to bring characters such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, Sherman and Peabody, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…The Flintstones, as well as theatrical compilations like The Porky Pig Show and Casper. The success of Superman in particular spawned several more superhero type of shows the next year… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…replaced by lower grade color comedy versions, while the emphasis was on bringing newer comic book characters – most notably Casper The Friendly Ghost – to the screen. But Paramount… |
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Jack's back! NB4X's Skellington returns for Halloween!
…Rodney Figueiredo’s back, too, with a look at the original friendly ghost and his pal in Casper And Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures, a collection of fourteen Famous Studios shorts dating from… |
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Ten of the best animated/live-action flicks
…Appearing on the list are The Three Caballeros, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cool World, The Pagemaster, Casper, Joe’s Apartment, Space Jam, Little Otik and Monkeybone. Enchanted hits… |
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Under the sea with Robert Reece; plus yuletide Shrek, more Popeye and new disc announcements!
…might be expecting all the usual public domain shorts to turn up yet again, especially with the inclusion of cartoons featuring Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, Felix, Casper, The Three Stooges, Baby… |
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UPDATED: Looking forward to the WABAC
…among others. Classic Media manages some of the world’s most recognizable family properties, including Casper the Friendly Ghost, Mr. Magoo, Richie Rich, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Lone Ranger, Lassie,… |
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RIP, Myron Waldman
…congestive heart failure, his family stated. During his career, Waldman worked on such classic characters as Betty Boop, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Popeye and Superman. The artist is survived by… |
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Google Video Store to offer classic cartoon titles
The Big Cartoon Database reports that coming soon to Google Video are such cartoon favorites as Felix the Cat, Casper The Friendly Ghost and Rocky and Bullwinkle, among other Classic… |
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Coming events
…Hornby. On Saturday ASIFA-Hollywood will be screening old Paramount cartoons (Casper, Herman & Katnip, Baby Huey et al) at the Warner Bros. Screening Room in the American Film Institute building… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…(a successor to Fleischer’s Color Classics) series to provide one-shot entertainment, or to be the launch pad for new characters. Out of Noveltoons would come Casper and Baby Huey, but… |
