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New special look at Strange World explores family dynamic
…creatures. “Inspired by classic adventure stories,” said director Don Hall, “Strange World is an original animated adventure/comedy about three generations of the Clade family who overcome their differences while exploring… |
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Ratatouille story supervisor discusses research and challenges
…we could look at shots of Paris until our eyes bleed, but you don’t get a sense of the true light there. You don’t get a sense of the people,… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…a lack of Xerox technique-caused scratchiness, compared to the original. Purists don’t want to hear this, but in many ways this movie looks better than the one that inspired it,… |
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The Richie Rich Scooby-Doo Show: Volume One
…this show features the much-hated nephew Scrappy-Doo, with no sign of the more popular members of the mystery, Inc. gang, save for Shaggy. In fact, Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy don’t… |
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Hanna And Barbera: Conversations
…went with grilled cheese and tomato soup like the antics of Fred and Barney! By the time I was done high school, the heyday of Saturday morning cartoons was over… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…apply, though, then you just might find yourself offended. However, even if you are an atheist from Iceland, you may still be offended if you don’t care for animated versions… |
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Inside Inside Out 2 with Pixar Production Designer Jason Deamer
…it would be. In a way, that’s good because that means we’ve never done that before, and it’s gonna be something novel. I don’t mean I’d suggest anything, I would… |
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The Wild Robot
…might sound like a weird statement, and don’t worry, this is still a movie that has a lot of laughs. Veteran director Chris Sanders knows how to properly balance this… |
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Watch the beautiful full trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
…this month before arriving on Netflix in December. People are sometimes afraid of what they don’t know… From the mind of Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning stop-motion… |
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Embark on an epic journey with the Strange World trailer
…uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures. “Inspired by classic adventure stories,” said director Don Hall,… |
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Alchemy of Animation video teaser
Due out next month Don Hahn’s forthcoming book The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age now has a video teaser for it up at YouTube…. |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…that I don’t deserve (laugh). I would walk around my hometown listening to The Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack, the Rushmore soundtrack, and the Bottle Rocket soundtrack. I love Mark Mothersbaugh and… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…Studios. I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed them. They were adaptable and they gave it 110%. I’m not saying other choirs don’t, but I asked them things that were… |
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Polar Bears, WALL-E's BAFTA win, plus the return of our Oscar Contest!
I’m afraid we’ve just a short post today as I attempt to battle off a return bout of a cold that I don’t want to spread back into the flu… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…art director or someone who had established the mood of some Disney features the way Tyrus Wong had done for Bambi. Hans Bacher and his work on Mulan immediately came… |
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Step in time! Poppins is back, plus new discs and more!
…a year’s worth of post-production in store, the results are sure to be stunning! That Peter & The Wolf review should be up later tonight, but don’t forget to catch… |
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Christmas specials scheduled for Cartoon Network
…the kids don’t know how to ice skate, pack a snowball or even use a sled. Frosty teaches everyone to have fun in their winter wonderland and in the process… |
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Bernie Mac and Alec Baldwin onboard Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, more images surface
USA Today unveils this morning nine new photos from DreamWorks Animation’s sequel to Madagascar which will roar in conventional theaters and IMAX on November 7, 2008. Don’t expect a sneek… |
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3-D "a revelation" for Sigourney Weaver
…and they were so beautiful! I don’t know why people haven’t used 3-D for a legitimate picture before – it’s always been something like Flash Gordon. But these scenes were… |
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Disney Book Signing May 17th at Van Eaton Galleries
…are Toby Bluth, Willie Ito, Rik Maki, Chris Buck, Ron Lukas, and Don Peri. Best of all, you don’t have to live in Los Angeles to be a part of… |
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Jack's back! NB4X's Skellington returns for Halloween!
…on DVD (and Blu-ray, don’t forget). Fans with the previous LaserDisc and standard edition DVD will certainly want to check this out, as it features a wealth of material not… |
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Wanna know the Secrets of Kung Fu Panda's Furious Five?
…I still don’t see how it couldn’t simply have been included on the feature disc or as an extra option on the Blu-ray. As for the feature itself, of course,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…off. I love Walt, but I don’t need such scenes twice on the same disc! The lack of thought appears to extend to Disc Two, which essentially houses the movie… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
2021 was another weird year on planet Earth! But I don’t need to tell you! Unfortunately for me that meant taking a bit of a break from reviewing movies here… |
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Space Ace coming to Blu-ray, Artwork revealed
DVDactive reveals the cover artwork for the upcoming Blu-ray release of Space Ace, the classic 1984 lasergame directed by Don Bluth and successor to Dragon’s Lair. The game has been… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…character illustrators, Don Williams, and I were heavily involved in all the things being designed for that new theme park area called Mickey’s Birthdayland. For the Marketing division, I also… |
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Rumored Rumblings: Pixar's Up chasing windmills?
…may be a re-telling of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic 17th century story Don Quixote. Variety wrote in the summer of 2007 that Up was “about a 70-year-old man who teams… |
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35th Annual Annie Award nominees announced
…Jessup, Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) • Marcelo Vignali, Surf’s Up (Sony Pictures Animation) Production Design in an Animated Television Production • NONE Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production • Don… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…I consider seeing a movie I don’t immediately think of as a waste of time a win! But overall the best word that comes to mind to describe Captain Underpants… |
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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
…don’t really provide much insight, merely reeling off a few platitudes about how performing as Shifu has been one of his most challenging processes of his career, and how he… |
