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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…Earth, but wonderfully different from other animated pictures – especially the cut and paste antics of many shiny CG films – at the same time. Another element towards this reaction… |
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Guillermo del Toro heading to The Haunted Mansion
He may no longer be going to Middle Earth for The Hobbit, but Guillermo del Toro is set to go to another famous location: Disney’s The Haunted Mansion. The man… |
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Super Hero Squad Show: Volume One
…Rated, Retail: $14.93 Storyboard: The Super Hero Squad defends Super Hero City from attacks by Doctor Doom and his henchman who are searching for the powerful Infinity Sword. The Sweatbox… |
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Day & Night
By Teddy Newton From the Disney/Pixar short film Chronicle Books Published: September 2010 Hardcover, 36 color illustrated pages $14.99 How on Earth does one translate an animated short – especially… |
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Black Cauldron DVD details
…Walt Disney Pictures’ 25th animated feature-length film, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Special Edition DVD release September 14 from Walt Disney Home Entertainment. Based on Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of… |
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LA/NY set for Superman/Batman’s Apocalypse
…Steigerwald, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is produced by animation legend Bruce Timm and directed by Lauren Montgomery (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths) from a script by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Tab Murphy… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse – Apokalips (clip)
…is produced by animation legend Bruce Timm and directed by Lauren Montgomery (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths) from a script by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Tab Murphy (Gorillas in the… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…help from his friend Walter Lantz, after moving from Hungary to run his own studio in Berlin, developing his patented stop-motion Puppetoon system. With the threat of war in Europe,… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Volume Four
…the Mystery Inc. gang take on an assortment of would-be ghosts and ghouls in four more episodes from the original incarnation of the long-running series of series. The Sweatbox Review:… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…see colors bloom and we lose detail. It’s not as blurry as the bootlegs I’ve seen, certainly, but it’s far from what one normally expects from DVD. The DVD mastering… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…those that were children at the time, and from archival “narration” from Walt himself. Of course, Walt & El Grupo is still a Disney production, this one produced by the… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…of life on Earth, to the aforementioned centaurs of the Pastoral (actually my favorite piece of music, played to me from before I was even born!), ballet dancing hippos and… |
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Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
…tree from another kid’s yard, which creates some antagonism. Peace On Earth From Lucy finds Lucy naturally coming into conflict with Charlie Brown, Linus, and Schroeder over her interpretation of… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
David Couchariere is originally from Belgium, he’s been a 3D character animator for DreamWorks Animation for over five years now, where he worked on How To Train Your Dragon, Madagascar… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…more on spinach. The animation was also drabber. And yet, there were other qualities that, Bierly contends, made them extremely appealing in their own right. Aside from some increased violence,… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard BD/DVD in May
…features on this release will include, “Worthy: The Making of Thor: Tales of Asgard” featurette, audio commentaries, “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” Bonus Episode from the new hit TV series…. |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…hacker Kevin Flynn who, ousted from his proper seat as the head of a large hardware/software computer company Encom, fights from the outside to prove current company chief Ed Dillinger… |
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Pixar announces two new films
The news keeps rolling in from the D23 Expo, with the latest info being about two new Pixar films in the works. Each come from one of the writers/directors of… |
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Family Guy Season 10 Clips Premiere in Theaters
…Fever,” fan favorite episode “Road to the Multiverse,” and a twenty-two minute “History of the World” that explains the creation of Earth. Collider.com has full details on the times and… |
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Gnomeo director Kelly Asbury gets “pooched” to Sony Pictures Animation
…be dogs – comparing notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into… |
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Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!
…and the Tramp’s co-writer Sonny Burke] was a versatile artist, as talented in popular and jazz music as in cinema. Her introduction to films resulted from being the Benny Goodman… |
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Avatar: The Legend of Korra
…was designed in a style inspired by Japanese anime and also borrowed elements from Asian cultures, such as martial arts and Buddhism principles. It proved that young and older audiences… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…reality playground of QuestWorld. Aside from that CGI land, stories are initially fairly down-to-Earth, with frequent sci-fi elements; but as the end of the season approaches, things get a bit… |
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Shazzan: The Complete Series
…the brother and sister move from place to place, getting into various forms of trouble, and naturally get bailed out by their genie. The stories generally start out fun, presenting… |
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Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur details emerge
LA Times shares details on Pixar’s upcoming prehistoric adventure The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Bob Peterson, in The Good Dinosaur, “an asteroid never hit the Earth and dinosaurs still roam.”… |
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91
…CNN. While his animation-related credentials are few, filmmakers and artists from around the world have taken to Twitter to credit Bradbury as a primary inspiration. Bradbury worked with the 1964… |
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DreamWorks announces Happy Smekday!
…late 2014, and will star Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons and Grammy Award winner Rihanna. “In Happy Smekday! an alien race invades Earth and uses it as a hideout from… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…from The Little Mermaid to The Princess And The Frog, who reveals all about the film’s early development and, in particular, Peopleitis: The Deleted Song (4:41). Even from this brief… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…each line has been individually colored, and if there’s any film (perhaps apart from Pinocchio) from the Walt-era library that looks like it could have been created with the Studio’s… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…from successful elements from Disney’s past. It’s very much a film of two parts; not quite two halves, since the split doesn’t seem to be equal. There are a variety… |
