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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…incarnation)? It’s definitely nowhere near the inventiveness of my own personal pick of last year, Flushed Away, and the PG rating is here for a reason, with several questionable “gags”… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…to an all-CG environment. Here, and for all the epic quality Miller and his team bring to the screen, he also seems to get carried away with the 360-degree capabilities… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…beloved Aardman features Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away would lead to the partnership between the two studios to dissolve. And even Shrek The Third… |
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Jane Jetson passes away
‘dtemplar’ in the {{link http://forums.toontitan.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=17831#post17831 DVD Toons Forum}} posted that “Penny Singleton, who brought Jane to life on Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 primetime cartoon The Jetsons, died in California Wednesday two weeks… |
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The One That Got Away: The Disney/Comcast Story
Jim Hill throws in his two cents on the Comcast bidding issue – with a slightly regretful tone. Apparently he knew about the story weeks before it broke today, and… |
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Gold still plugging away
The “Your Money” section of yesterday’s Orange County Register reports that Save Disney partner Stanley Gold is trying to help out shareholders who hold stocks in other companies besides just… |
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Disney gives away 72,000 theme park tickets
…park ticket to promote the 50th anniversary of Disneyland. Disney spokesman Duncan Wardle said, “It is the biggest giveaway ever for our company”. If every ticket is redeemed, which must… |
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Howard Morris and Marie Johnston pass away
More sad news comes in following Henry Corden’s death, with {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2005_05.html#001108 Cartoon Brew’s reports}} of the recent passing of Hanna-Barbera voice artist Howard Morris and Ollie Johnston’s wife Marie…. |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…EG: Well, he’s a name. And, sadly, a lot of the other people are passing away this year. AN: Did you work on that thing where he’s interacting with Donald… |
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Were-Rabbit hops away with ten Annies
Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by DreamWorks/Aardman Animation was the clear winner at last night’s {{link http://www.annieawards.com/ 33rd Annual Annie Awards}} ceremony held at the… |
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Layout of Disney/Pixar merger meeting; Disney throwing away junk food
Jim Hill Media provides a rundown of the minutes from last Friday’s short meeting at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, where Pixar stockholders approved Disney’s merge with the computer… |
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Shrek fun not so Far, Far Away
Shrek.com is now open for business. Self-described as “a place for all things Shrek,” the site includes a multitude of activities concerning the three movies and upcoming Holiday special starring… |
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Robot Chicken goes to a galaxy far, far away
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Robot Chicken creators, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are making a Robot Chicken: Star Wars Special for Adult Swim. The 30-minute stop-motion animation special, directed… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration
Since its release in 1959, Sleeping Beauty has been hailed as one of Disney’s most lavish animated pictures. Previously restored for LaserDisc and a recent DVD edition, Sleeping Beauty has… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…the film, who pops up in a picture-in-picture window to watch along, comment, and even ask questions that require remote button presses. As for picking a High Definition Reference Disc… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…our mind and we said: “ok, we need to stay away from that.” Also, when we started working on this movie, I guess we were about probably a year/a year… |
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Star Trek alum boldly goes to a galaxy far, far, away
George Takei, best known as Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek TV series and films, discusses his new role as part of another iconic sci-fi franchise with the Great… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…washed away from its intended confines and starts to spill across the image. Imagine watching an edge-enhanced version of a very blurred picture, and you’re probably half-way there to witnessing… |
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Richard M. Sherman on Bedknobs And Broomsticks: a Solid Songwriter!
…picture called The Old Home Guard, and there were these old, aged guys with their pickaxes and everything, ready to fight the Germans on the beaches and never surrender. And… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…the other people are passing away this year. AV: Did you work on that thing where he’s interacting with Donald Duck that’s playing at the Opera House now? EG: I… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…Studio. Would we write a title song for it? –Sure! Of course! It was our job. So we wrote a title song which was not used in the picture but… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…Animation to directing the live-action 102 Dalmatians for Walt Disney Pictures and the two Eloise TV movies for ABC. Now, for an artist with so many strings to his bow,… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two
Walt Disney Pictures (1928-1935), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 7 2004), 2 disc set, 334 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $32.99… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…in… Episode 22 starts off Season Two from 1986, and Up, Up And Away continues the “other Gummi” theme previously set up at the end of the last show. When… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…which he elaborates on WALL•E and WALL•E in solo mode. On Blu-ray Disc Stanton’s comments are accompanied, in Cine-Explore mode, by extra picture in picture elements, but those yet to… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…good standing when producer Hugh Welchman, later the visual effects producer of the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose, came looking for someone to helm a new interpretation of… |
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Disney Legend Richard Todd passes away at 90
…been made [pictured] just last year as part of The Elstree Film Festival, when he reminisced about making the film and his Disney experiences. He was made a Disney Legend… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…reflected in these choices from the past year… Ben’s Pick: The Prisoner: The Complete Series (5-disc Blu-ray) I can’t say that I’ve picked up many of the new releases on… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…during Kiki’s flying scenes. The animators never shied away from having her fly towards or away from the camera in perspective. It is done so well that most people would… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…the event picture he saw unfolding on screen that he vowed to remake the film when he became a world class director. The film was, of course, the 1976 version… |
