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Wreck It-Ralph sequel happening?
…record for Disney animated movies on opening weekend. If that’s any indication that we’ll be doing a sequel… I bet we’ll be doing a sequel. And director Rick Moore stated… |
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Pixar’s “Mind” movie gets a title?
…girl’s emotions, will be titled The Inside Out. After getting that scoop, the site did some research and discovered that Disney’s head of distribution in Italy had actually called it… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…45 70 disney’s a christmas carol 40 71 waking life 33 72 monsters vs. aliens 32 73 shrek forever after 31 74 astro boy 29 75 idiots and angels 27… |
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AFI honors Coraline and Up
Both Henry Selick’s Coraline and Disney/Pixar’s Up made the AFI’s list of the Ten Most Outstanding Movies of 2009. The two animated films were listed among top Oscar contenders such… |
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Van Dyke honored at SAGs
Disney Legend Dick Van Dyke accepted his previously announced SAG Life Achievement Award this past weekend according to CBS News. The 87 year-old told the audience giving him a standing… |
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Download Oz character posters
Disney has released five new character posters from their upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful. The posters feature James Franco as Oscar Diggs, Rachel Weisz as Evanora, Mila Kunis… |
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With animated Oscar up for grabs, nominees in the spotlight
…hopes children today are inspired by his work the same way he was when watching Disney classics a kid. • The Oregonian talks with Chris Butler, one of the Paranorman… |
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New Views on Wreck-It Ralph
In a Disney first, Wreck-It Ralph is available to download before it reaches DVD and Blu-ray. But before it hits the mass market a couple interesting tidbits have popped up… |
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Exclusive interview with Snow White herself!
…photo of Disney Legend Marge Champion, the live-action reference model for Snow White herself. Well, Jeremie’s gone one better than even that, speaking exclusively to Marge Champion about her experiences… |
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Snow White‘s musical legacy explored…
…Walt Disney’s production of Snow White, from 1934 to 1937, particularly picking out the impressive nature of the film’s groundbreaking music with his usual insight. Aside from the serious analysis… |
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USA Today looks into “open race” for Best Animated Feature Oscar
…against live-action. Why is animation considered less?” The website also has an article regarding the nominations in the Best Animated Short category, declaring Disney’s Paperman the frontrunner of the batch…. |
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Deja blog educates and inspires
If you’re not checking out former Disney animator Andreas Deja’s blog Deja View you need to bookmark it now. A supervising animator on such classic films as The Little Mermaid,… |
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Beck to score Frozen
Christophe Beck has been hired to score Disney’s upcoming film Frozen, according to Film Music Reporter. Beck previously scored The Hangover, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Muppets, and Paperman… |
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Some Day My Prints Will Come…!
…live. As one of the most important titles in the Disney line-up, and a big release in terms of home video and its high definition debut on the Blu-ray format,… |
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New announcements and Saturday Morning clips!
…Disney’s Winnie The Pooh: A Valentine For You will serve up the same contents as the 2004 DVD on January 5 2010, while nearer in time is Universal’s frustrating Coraline… |
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Superman, Batman…and Tink!
…is Jeremie, who today speaks with art director Ellen Jin Over on how she achieved a very feminine approach to Tinkerbell And The Lost Treasure, the latest in the Disney… |
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Wreck-It Ralph wins Golden Reel Award
The Golden Reel Awards honored Wreck-It Ralph in the category of Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in an Animation Feature Film. The Walt Disney Animation Studios… |
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Brave wins Cinema Audio Society and ACE Eddie awards
Over the weekend, Disney/Pixar’s Brave added two more awards to its collection: the Cinema Audio Society Award for outstanding sound mixing and the American Cinema Editor’s Eddie Award. Other CAS… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
…director Kenny Ortega, he of the Disney musical factory (Newsies, all three High School Musicals) had fashioned a coherent movie from over 120 hours of footage taken during the rehearsal… |
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Joe Jump back on the drawing board?
The Animation Guild Blog notes that the rumored and then dropped Disney project Joe Jump (mentioned here back in 2006) may be back in development…. |
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Paperman progression reel breaks down animation behind pivotal shot
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive progression reel for Disney’s Annie-winning short Paperman, showing how animators placed hand-drawn layers upon computer animated imagery to achieve the film’s stunning look. One might… |
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Epic game designer Spector talks Mickey Mouse
…Spector about the game’s Cartoon Wasteland storyline, which will see the return of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit in his first major new role since Disney’s re-acquisition, and how Mickey is… |
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Up For Grabs: Free Retro Printable Pixar Posters!
In anticipation of the release of Disney/Pixar’s Up on Blu-ray and DVD, the Studio has made available eight high resolution images of some of the terrific retro poster art created… |
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First full Monsters University trailer debuts
The first full trailer for Monsters University has been posted to the Disney’s UK YouTube page. According to Deadline, the trailer was attached to Wreck-it Ralph while in the United… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…series, Adventures In ToonTown didn’t pan out; Disney went ahead with its own adaptation, Bonkers). Perhaps tiring of attempting to live up to the greatness of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng,… |
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More new holiday animation on TV
In addition to the previously mentioned Merry Madagascar, airing November 17th on NBC, at least two more new animated holiday specials will premiere this season. Disney will bring Prep &… |
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The music of The Princess and the Frog
Disney has posted a feature on the music of The Princess and the Frog, hosted by the voice of Princess Tiana, Anika Noni Rose. Check out the full video here:… |
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A Christmas Carol opens today
Disney and ImageMovers Digital’s A Christmas Carol opens today, in 3,683 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is getting mixed reviews, garnering a 57% Tomatometer rating from Rotten… |
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Henry Selick presses forward with The Shadow King
Stop-motion director Henry Selick was disappointed when Disney pulled the plug on his The Shadow King movie. Instead of nursing his wounds, he’s found a new partner. K5 International is… |
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Growing Up with Nine Old Men clip and interview
…Pan was this idea of family, much more so really than growing up or not growing up. That led to, ‘What was it like growing up as a Disney brat?’”… |
