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Review Roundup: Up flies high, plus Hanna-Barbera classics
…to be impressive, not to mention Miyazaki’s Ponyo On The Cliff and Disney’s The Princess And The Frog coming yet, it looks like animation fans will be the clear winners… |
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Planes doesn’t lead weekend after all, but still has strong debut
…theaters until late September, Disney executive distribution president Dave Hollis confidently told The Hollywood Reporter that they “have an all-audience picture that will be the primary option for families until… |
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Exclusive: Going Up with Pixar director Pete Docter!
…over the Disney shorts? It’s all in here, folks, as well as a lot more besides, in an insightful discussion that delves behind the scenes of Pixar’s latest smash, currently… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…Snyder, an “immersive exploration of Watchmen while you watch the movie”. Each studio has their own nickname for the picture-in-picture commentary tracks that now accompany BDs (such as Disney’s Cine-Explore,… |
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Miyazaki on Ponyo, plus Green Lantern's First Flight
…superheroes can be as cool as anything when treated right”. Also new today is the latest from Jeremie Noyer, just back from a whirlwind international vacation. With Disney striving to… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…pop classic Yellow Submarine is about to be touched…by Robert Zemeckis and his infernal motion capture of all things. Industry bible Variety has announced that Disney has been hard at… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…this weekend’s announcement that Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro is set to team with the Mouse House on a new Disney Double Dares You label, animation seems to be… |
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Totally original and not at all a rip-off Wings now on store shelves
By sheer coincidence, we have two animated movies about talking planes made available to the public this week. The first, of course, is Disney’s Planes, currently in theaters. But most… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…impressive two-disc “Collectors Series” version. (This is one of the few Studio Ghibli films not distributed on DVD by Disney.) Now, Region 1 fans of the film can view it… |
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The Good Dinosaur voice cast announced
Fresh from Disney’s D23 Expo is the official voice cast for next year’s The Good Dinosaur. Cinema Blend has a brief rundown, with the cast including Lucas Neff, John Lithgow,… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
…were voiced entirely by Hispanic actors, a first for American television. Henry Darrow portrays Zorro here, just as he later would in Disney’s live action Zorro And Son; he also… |
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Monsters University opens
Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University opens today in 4,004 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is doing well with critics, earning a 76% Freshness rating from Rotten Tomatoes. A big… |
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Monsters University gets enthusiastic response at CinemaCon
On Wednesday, Disney treated CinemaCon attendees to an early cut of Monsters University – and the responses have been overwhelmingly positive! Peter Sciretta of /Film tweets that the prequel is… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss on DVD
…at a screening a couple of months ago, is a charming little outing with primary character animation that’s as good as you would expect from a top-notch Disney animator. The… |
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Animated Trek; store deals, and Cinderella's new director!
…has taken on one of Disney’s most cherished films to provide it with a new angle in Cinderella III: A Twist In Time, and here he talks about following in… |
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Win My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle
Animated Views and Disney are giving you a chance to win the new Blu-ray editions of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle!… |
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Tinker Bell scribe revealed as Planes screenwriter
Over the past few months, more and more members of the creative team behind DisneyToon Studios’ Planes have been revealed, from the director to producers to story artists. However, one… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…and a win for Best Animated Feature did little to push sales of the DVD, where it even lost out to Disney’s direct-to-video offering Bambi II in their joint first… |
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Merida gets unappreciated and unwanted makeover
Brave heroine Merida was officially inducted as a Disney princess this past Sunday and to complement the official coronation she was given a makeover to match her ten cohorts. The… |
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Exclusive: The Art of Planes book to coincide with Planes 2
When Amazon.com recently listed their upcoming books based on Disney’s Planes, one anticipated title was noticeably missing: The Art of Planes. Now an inside source has revealed to Animated Views… |
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Monsters University gets MPAA rating
Disney and Pixar’s Monsters University has been given its MPAA rating and, not surprisingly, the movie has been rated G, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The anticipated release comes to… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…pair of Disney spots, for the Tim Allen-John Travolta road comedy Wild Hogs, out March 2, and their second computer animated feature, Meet The Robinsons, which opens March 30 and… |
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Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh coming to Blu-ray
Disney has confirmed that The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh will arrive on Blu-ray on August 27. Bonus features for the release will include the classic theatrical short A… |
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Cinderella III review and director interview
As promised, this morning sees my take on Disney’s latest direct-to-video offering, Cinderella III: A Twist In Time, which will no doubt cause purists to raise their fists in uproar…. |
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Win Peter Pan, plus more archive reviews and site updates
Today marks the release of Walt Disney’s classic Peter Pan on DVD. The film is probably my favorite of the “middle-Walt” period of the 1950s, and I’ll be posting a… |
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Ghibli reviews; Animatrix revisited; and win Pan!
…Of The Heart from 1995, the bonkers but brilliant 1994 offering Pom Poko, and the less successful My Neighbors The Yamadas from 1999. All three versions are the Disney dubbed… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…the pigeons in the Disney-distributed Vanguard Animation movie Valiant. These guys don’t look as real as “Jack’s” power animal in Fight Club and I wondered if you showed this to… |
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We need your help!
Morning folks! You might have noticed our alternating banners above? One of them still leads to our exclusive chat with Disney animators Andreas Deja and Mark Henn on the return… |
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Rotoscopers YouTube: Frozen facts, rumors, and spoilers
Morgan and Chelsea discuss what they know about Disney’s Frozen — from rumors, officially released info, and a video accidentally posted online and quickly removed. Spoilers abound, so beware!… |
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Meet the Small Potatoes on DVD today…but only at Wal-Mart
…the story of the Small Potatoes’ rise to fame, and features the voice of Malcolm McDowell as the band’s manager. The film aired on Disney Junior a number of times… |
