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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…it does essentially repeat: this is the Force Awakens or Jurassic World of Poppins pictures. In the music, one can pick out not so much the themes from Walt’s 1964… |
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WALL-E
…to give too much of it away. And two, after nine amazing films we’re to the point now where there isn’t much left to say about how good Pixar is…. |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…seven miniature Oscars – for Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. In 1984, Walt Disney’s nephew Roy E. Disney brought Paramount Pictures’ former senior vice president Michael Eisner and one-time… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…White And The Seven Dwarfs was only two years away. Walt was influenced by that trip in a million different ways: a) He bought hundreds of books, whose stories and… |
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Up
…Audio 5.1 ES, Rated PG, Retail: $45.99 Storyboard: 78 year old balloon salesman Carl Frederickson longs to fulfil a life-long ambition in memory of his recently passed away wife and,… |
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Home On The Range
…catch Disney’s farewell to traditional Burbank-drawn hand animation when it was released just one month ago in the UK. Until the Studio sets itself right and decides to pick up… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…Collection sets on DVD. As such, casual fans who may have picked up that edition may feel satisfied to have the pick of the bunch, with the additional “third” season… |
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A Christmas Carol
…Forrest Gump, Contact, Cast Away and What Lies Beneath? In recent years he has thrown away the rough shot conditions of live-action and confined himself to The Volume, a hideously… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
Les Armateurs/Sony Pictures Classics et al (August 29 2003), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (May 4 2004), single disc, 81 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…deliver an enjoyable and thrilling experience but we all walk away feeling we’ve felt something true about the journey. Q: How much development goes into a Pixar project in terms… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…chair as a centrepiece of a re-creation of the original series’ bridge! Despite the inflated cost, I couldn’t resist having my picture taken there, as when else would I ever… |
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Detailed plot for Shrek 3 revealed
…You get it. Meanwhile, back at the Kingdom of Far, Far Away, Prince Charming decides that it’s time for a coup d’etat. ‘The cat’s away. He will play.’ So Fiona… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…you go through the mummy and vampires etc it gets slim. We used everything we came up with. RI: You once explained that The Man with the Tear Away Face… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…to continue drawing away. Since it’s debut, however, the film has picked up something of a bland reputation, and I’m still rather puzzled as to work out why. I wonder… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…literal in an animated film. You maybe could get away with it in a live-action picture that is a little more subtle. These pictures tend to be not exaggerations, but… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…new wave) to Mickey’s most recent theatrical appearance in 1996’s Runaway Brain. Then there’s Walt the film studio head and television pioneer, presenting peeks into how the magic happens as… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…tried to sell it, showing it to 800 people. It was picked up by two distributors: MarVista Entertainment takes the film into foreign territories, and Indican Pictures takes it out… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…things regarding that which were changed during the movie’s making? MS: As much as I can tell you about it – this is kind of giving away a lot –… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…a guide track. So, in the end, there was a bit of a mismatch between the amount of voiceover I had and the amount of picture I had. I found… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…persistent rodent. Hanna-Barbera’s double-act enjoyed a remarkable seven Academy wins, so they feature fairly heavily in the first handful of cartoons here, and it’s often amazing to see them picking… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…close, not least with the immersive picture-in-picture Cine-Explore option, which I suggested was worthy of making the jump from DVD to Blu-ray for in itself, but is so unfortunately missing… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…them are particularly easy to pick out. Some attention is drawn away by the constant video box manipulation that automatically switches views, usually away from whichever one the viewer might… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…aforementioned bonus features. Added to the Audio Commentary is the Cine-Explore experience, which creates a series of picture in picture streams that play as Maltin, Goldberg and Kaufman speak. It’s… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
…257-494 AKA Don’t Touch That Dial. Control Freak, last seen in a nearly throw-away introduction in Season Two’s Fear Itself, returns to vex the Titans. When the Titans catch up… |
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Pixar news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…added twist: when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda. Turning Red comes to theaters March 11, 2022 pic.twitter.com/2s5NgzqBHP — Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020 Blasting… |
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Marketing budgets for animated features are on the rise
…million to cook up ads for the Pixar-produced pic. To put that into perspective, the industry average to promote a pic was $35.9 million last year. And Cars, The Polar… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
…Ian La Franais (Flushed Away) are penning the script. Courtney Pledger and Sarah Radclyffe are attached as producers. An original story about the origins of Halloween by Selick and John… |
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More on Shrek 3 and upcoming DreamWorks films
…many points about other DreamWorks films}} in development, including Over The Hedge, Bee Movie and Aardman’s first foray into CGI waters, Flushed Away. Release dates given indicate that DreamWorks will… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…a little girl who has run away from her rich but neglectful father. The Sweatbox Review: Sometimes Christmas specials are just stories with your favorite characters doing things at Christmas… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…the Were-Rabbit (2005) and Flushed Away (2006). John Cleese of Monty Python fame signed on to pen Crood Awakening with Kirk DeMicco, a co-writer on such films as Quest for… |