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Planet Earth producers and Weinstein Co. settle lawsuit
The Weinstein Company has settled the $50 million lawsuit filed by Escape from Planet Earth producers Brian Inerfeld and Tony Leech nearly two years ago. The distributor came to a… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…although none from Thunderbean Animation, for whom 2020 marked yet another annual date missed for an order from a few years back (c’mon Steve)! It was weird not to have… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…from the first 13-episode story arc, The Sign Of Zorro (1958) was released internationally in theaters, while an arc from the second season was re-cut and shown around the world… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…Kiara turns out to be just as mischievous as young Simba was, and ventures out into the Elephant Graveyard for adventure. Once there, she meets Kovu, a young cub from… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…hard at work finishing and promoting the first Treasure Planet, which was months away from release. In October 2002, Thomas Schumacher, then-President of Walt Disney Feature Animation, spoke with Cinescape… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…when I was 12. Coming from a family of doctors and businessmen, I found myself as the first artist in the family and unique from everyone else. After graduating from… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…late 1993, via my first purchase from the Whole Toon Catalog. (That would be mail order, kids.) I was enjoying my time living away from home after university, and was… |
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Planet Earth shatters Weinstein Co. record
Cartoon Brew reports that Escape from Planet Earth is the highest-grossing computer animated movie distributed by the Weinstein Co. Thus far, Earth has collected more than $52 million during its… |
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The Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary Edition)
Transformers divided into Autobots and Decepticons battle for the planet Cybertron but wake up millions of years later on the planet Earth. There, the Decepticons vow to deplete the planet… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…that was, with our staff’s favorites from what pop culture had to give us, along with your picks for what you chose as the best animated movies of 2022 from… |
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Boomerang readies Captain Planet unseen episodes
…environmental concern that resonates to this day – will play in order from 7:30-11:30 a.m., and from 3:30-7:30 p.m. (ET). “Captain Planet and the Planeteers represents Ted’s first foray into… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…The Secrets, Stories And Magic Of The Happiest Place On Earth. Rumored to have undergone some re-editing since being pulled from the 50th Anniversary schedules, some odd facts remain intact,… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…mouth a bit on the side, as he always drew his characters from 3/4 or profile, never straight on. For the movie, the mouth placement would change from being centered… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…a kid. Anything sci-fi from the 80s, we studied it, we looked at it, we got inspired by it, from artefacts to lenses, from compositing to matte painting, it has… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…The Heights, and Nobody came from the writer of John Wick, who should sue himself for plagiarism. Bigger and more bombast came from the (second!) almighty showdown between Godzilla Vs… |
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Warning From Space
…Pal, from 1951)! Mankind will undoubtedly perish, unless the aliens can work with an Earth scientist, who has a secret formula which can potentially destroy the hurtling planet. If it… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…the ensemble character cast and prolonged trip from our planet’s surface to the ocean floor and further excavation through the center of the Earth to find Atlantis itself allows for… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…all of the actors standing in front of similar backdrops to provide a feeling of more visual unity between everyone despite them all ultimately speaking from their houses. From there,… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…fireball coming at you from down the street. Lots of on-set footage and run-downs from SFX supervisor Joseph Viskocil, who here used the same team as performed the same operations… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…cartoon shows. This allowed for experimentation with darker graphical designs one might expect from its title. From the presence of a cursed skeleton warrior to the varying magical attacks from… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…credits to anybody, even the janitor! AV: What memories do you have from Ward Kimball? XA: Ward was a very creative man, and very clever. He was completely different from… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…Meanwhile, the independently-produced compilation The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3, from producer Arnold Leibovit, thrilled fans with more spectacular restorations of over twenty animated films from film legend George Pal. I… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…you wish to be gouged by aftermarket sellers on eBay. More easily found are the offerings from Warner Archive, either from their own site, Amazon, or a few other online… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One
…her true roots in the follow-up serial). The first episode of Defenders Of The Earth, named Escape From Mongo, sees Flash returning to Earth in order to ask Mandrake The… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…when we bring on a new volunteer from a country that isn’t represented yet. My ultimate bucket list would be to have at least one person volunteering on Mila from… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
With awards season now in full swing, it’s time once again for our site’s annual look back at the year that was, with our staff’s favorites from what the world… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…from Moana, You’ll Be In My Heart from Tarzan, the Tarzan and Frozen soundtracks, and the cast album from The Lion King. In the world of theatre, Dave was nominated… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…1985, The Black Cauldron, which although plagued with production problems and was somewhat dumped into theaters unfairly, obviously struck a design chord with the Studio, who were perhaps hoping from… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…season. AnimatedViews: In every way, from the animated feature to the New York musical, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame seems to have taken a prominent place in music history, don’t… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…sequences for each feature. So, I launched a poll in 2009, with the help of Didier Ghez, and I received answers from various countries. They came from historians, Disney artists,… |
