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Jerry Seinfeld in Yellow and Black Pinstripes
Kristin Cheddar gives us the heads-up about an article on Variety.com regarding an upcoming CGI animated feature starring uber-famous standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld and entitled “Bee Movie.” I wonder if… |
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More on Seinfeld's \\Bee Movie\\
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9786 AWN}} has more on the upcoming computer-animated feature film project with comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The DreamWorks film is “set in the anthropomorphized world of bees… a Manhattan-like setting… |
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Variety on next year's short film candidates…
…whom we might see in the running. {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20031210/va_sp_ev/animated_shorts_discover_fest_route_is_1 The interesting article}} also touches more on Pixar’s mysterious short Boundin’, as well as Sony’s Early Bloomer (which played with Daddy… |
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How do Superheroes spend Christmas, anyway?
…Cartoon Network’s popular animated series based on the the joining up of DC Comics’ biggest guns, reports {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9822 AWN}}. The half-hour Comfort And Joy, which premieres at 10pm on… |
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Spider-Man 2 trailer debut
As we reported last week, Yahoo Webevents has landed the rights to bring you the first look at the teaser for next summer’s {{link http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/sony/spiderman2/ Spider-Man 2}}. Though the clip… |
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Christopher Reeve to direct animated feature
…an urban fable set in the 1930s, and is expected to be completed in early 2005”. Digital Production Solutions, the animation unit of IDT Entertainment, “will provide complete production services… |
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Challenges of \\El Cid, The Legend\\
{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1950 AWN}} has a story about “the most ambitious Spanish animated theatrical film ever produced”, \\El Cid, The Legend\\, set to be released in Spain tomorrow. The article looks… |
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Has the Animated Feature Oscar changed anything?
{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1956&page=1 AWN}} asks “Has the Oscar for Animated Feature Affected the Industry?” The article looks at the previous and current contenders, their fates, and some of the controversies the… |
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Christmas Nightmare
…tenth year celebrations come to a close, Alex Weitzman at The Big Cartoon Database’s {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view&post=16860 The Animated Word}} takes a look back at the 1993 stop-motion musical and finds… |
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More on the Trouble at the Mouse House
…as “Disney Crisis 2004.” I know it’s not even 2004 yet but, from what Jim’s saying and from indicators at Save Disney.com, things are going to start really picking up… |
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Clerks: Sell Out Test Footage
Viewaskew.com brings us test footage from Clerks: Sell Out, which is to be completely Flash-animated. As the website reminds us, “Mind you, none of this material will be in the… |
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Looking Forward, Looking Back . . . Waaaaay Back
…way back to the ancient year of 1996). For fun, try looking up big landmark sites such as Disney.com or Yahoo! and see how archaic they used to look compared… |
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Animation across the pond…
…http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=98545 Toon Zone}} links to an article featured over at {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1959&page=1 The Animated World Network Magazine}} that looks at the burgeoning European animated market, its past, and its future…… |
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Parent Trap set for television twins
…TV show, produced by the company’s Touchstone Television in association with Smallville production company Tollin/Robbins Productions. The update, which shifts the story’s emphasis away from the twins, will be a… |
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Return Of The Fish
The {{link http://forum.bcdb.com/gforum.cgi?post=17522 Big Cartoon DataBase}} announces that Finding Nemo has become the second biggest hit of 2003 in the UK, following the huge opening of the third Lord Of… |
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\\Nemo\\ eligible for Sound Editing award
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9951 AWN}} reports that \\Finding Nemo\\ has made the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences short list for the Best Achievement in Sound Editing category. The other potential… |
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Roy and Stan comment on Eisner's recent speech
The Fabulous Disney Babe points out that Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold have commented on Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s recent speech and have posted their comments at their rallying… |
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Spain's El Cid: Variety reviews the legend…
…{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1941&ncid=2020&e=3&u=/variety/20040105/va_fi_re/el_cid__the_legend__el_cid__la_leyenda Variety}} (via Yahoo). Jonathan Holland calls the film “engaging, if unadventurous, [it] succeeds as lighthearted kids’ entertainment, but refuses to break through into darker, more challenging terrain, which… |
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Annie Award Voting Reference Guide online
AWN has posted an {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?article_no=1965 Annie Award Voting Reference Guide}}. The “reference and resource list for all the nominated properties” has links to official websites, trailers, clips, pictures, and… |
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Closing of WDFA-Florida a signal of upcoming Disney/Pixar deal?
…them down. “It infers that Disney will be producing a lower number of animated films in the coming years. Where is the film production going to come from? Most likely… |
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It's not just "synthespians" – now computers can do voice overs too!
{{link http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/15/robot.actor.ap/index.html CNN Online}} reports that Astro Boy got the help of a real life little boy robot recently, when Sony’s humanoid Qrio entered a voice booth to record lines… |
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\\Garfield\\ release date change confirmed
{{link http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808468770 Greg’s Prevews}} confirms that \\Garfield\\ has been moved back a week and will be released on June 25th. This “puts it closer to the 4th of July, as… |
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Beck looks back, and forward
{{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1971 AWN}} and Jerry Beck take a look back at “the surprises and failures of the 2003 animated features in the US”. He also takes a look at what… |
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On Broadway… soon
{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/20040109/en_usatoday/disneyraisingcurtainsonnewprojects&e=5 USA Today}} looks at what’s in the pipeline from Disney Theatricals. While much of the info has been reported in this space previously, Thomas Schumacher (president of Disney… |
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Another Invader Zim interview, plus preview pics!!
The Invader Zim fan site, BadBadRubberPiggy.com, has posted a new interview with Medias Blasters representative Meredith Mulroney about the upcoming Zim DVD release. Put up against very specific, detailed questions,… |
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Roy Disney speaks to Disney fans
{{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=493&e=4&u=/ap/20040117/ap_en_mo/disney_speech Yahoo news}} reports on last night’s appearence of Roy Disney and his talk to around 200 collectors of Disney memorabilia at the semi-annual NFFC: The Club for Disneyana… |
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Possible new director for \\The Fantastic Four\\
{{link http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=10076 VFXWorld}} reports that Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee in \\The Lord of the Rings\\) has mentioned in an interview that he is in the running to direct the film… |
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Top 100… Simpson's Sports Moments
{{link http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=Simpsons%20Sports%20Moments1 ESPN}} counts down the top 100 sports moments from the 14 seasons of \\The Simpsons\\, a show that “regularly packs more memorable sports moments into its episodes than… |
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Gundam Seed and Detective Conan on CN
Animation World Network {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10092 reports}} two popular Japanese Anime series will debut on Cartoon Network in April. Gundam Seed will air on the network’s weekend Action Block. The debut… |
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Disney Loses Federal Appeal in Pooh Copyright Case
Animation World Network {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10093 reports}} The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied an appeal by Clare Milne and Disney to recapture the rights under… |
