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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…along with the characters, and trying to write down and make sense of every word they were singing. Now, nearly a decade later, the same feeling of anticipation has returned…. |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…Life, a Making Of The Video clip, and a Sing–Along track. The four-minute full-frame music video is accomplished enough and the music production up to scratch, but the kids don’t… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…film, The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind, in sing–along mode. Presented in full-frame 4×3, this is a heavily truncated version of the song, but it does give a chance to see… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…did make it into the film, a Someone’s Waiting For You Sing–Along doesn’t, for a change, simply select that section of the disc and switch the subtitle track on, but… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…. . . the first one was the Christmas show, of course. And then he did more, and then he got really into it. AN: The Christmas show, is that… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
Just after the sad recent passing of Disney legend Joe Grant on May 6 2005, Animated News & Views’ Christian Ziebarth lunched with famed animator Andreas Deja, who over the… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…traditional animation alongside the CG films, several noses were also put out of joint. With the lead time needed on any animated film, some projects were simply too far along… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…Brown Christmas, except this time it is Lucy who tries her hand at directing the Christmas play. Aside from an unnecessary framing sequence of Charlie Brown writing about the event,… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…alongside a silly soundmixing game and sing–along, while Hunchy II gets the Behind The Scenes With Jennifer Love Hewitt featurette plus A Gargoyle’s Life and set-top game. Across all discs,… |
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Good Grief! It's Christmastime Again?
Here’s your Animated News staff Peanuts specialist, Christian, checking in with a report from the Toon Zone Forum that a third Peanuts Christmas special, I Want a Dog for Christmas,… |
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ABC to air classic and new \\Charlie Brown\\ specials
…the hour long special will also include a series of Christmas-themed animated stories entitled \\Charlie Brown Christmas\\ Tales, based on Schulz’s work, in which several of the characters – Charlie… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News about… |
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Stop-motion Holidaze coming in mid-November
…city to find his role in Christmas. He eventually discovers his role, but in the most unexpected of places—a church basement housing an anonymous support group for Holiday Icons.” Christmas… |
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Lists offer Holiday fun for "inner Scrooge"
Entertainment Weekly humorously presents two lists that Santa is more likely to ignore rather than check twice. In “Christmas with the Cranks,” ten Christmas movies with an edge are presented,… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…there, too. So, I started quite early, around about Christmas last year. Just after Christmas, I left the States with all my gear, my studio, I set up and about… |
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Shrek the Halls premieres tonight
…Shrek Goes Fourth, Shrek the Halls tells the tale of one year’s Christmas in a swamp not too far away from the land of Far Far Away with Donkey excited… |
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New Year's Surprise — Peanuts treats!
…Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown. This extra-long special was done in 2003, after Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had already passed away, but the jokes are straight out of… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News &… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
As part of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days Of Christmas programming, the network is set to host Walt Disney Pictures Presents Pixar Short Films, a collection of 20 of the… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…the Studio to produce high-profile digital or 3D movies – the most obvious example being Robert Zemeckis, who strangely never got the Burton-level contractual credit on A Christmas Carol. In… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…the first time, student films, all showcasing the huge variety of venues, creativity, technical innovation, and story-telling that our art form has to offer.” Winners will be announced at the… |
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ParaNorman
…remain known best for their Christmas programs, but check out some of their other work and it’s not always all snow and jingle bells, and remember they made the original… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #53: Charlie Brown Holiday Specials – 1/2 Star for Nostalgia
…Charlie Brown Christmas. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3813010135.mp3 Highlights • Guest host: Alissa Roy! Getting to know her and “Catch & Fire!” • Vote for the show in the Podcast Awards. • News: 500… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…the announcement of the upcoming Toy Story 4 along with a sequel to Frozen. There used to be a time when Disney shied away from direct sequel releases. “You can’t… |
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The Grinch
…there are a lot of interesting gadgets and gizmos throughout. Musically things are a bit clash-y. There is a good score and some great Christmas songs (including somewhat surprising from… |
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The Rise of Skywalker rises to $175 million
…holidays back in 2013. Almost as curious is that Disney is releasing Blue Sky’s Spies in Disguise on Christmas Day, but will also keep it restricted to smaller venues. In… |
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Santa Inc.
Candy Smalls is a feisty Christmas Elf who has risen up the ranks of Santa’s workshop to become his number two helper. With the current Santa approaching retirement, it’s time… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…supervising the animation along with myself, and both he and I had talked quite a bit about this synthesis between hand-drawn and CG. For us, it would be wonderful if… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…addressing a problem in its actual, scary size is exhausting. It’s so exhausting sometimes that it almost feels like working on the problem. But addressing a problem is not the… |
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The Legend of Vox Machina
…Vax (O’Brien) and Vex (Bailey), meathead goliath barbarian Grog (Willingham), and debauchee gnome bard Scanlan (Riegel), along with Vex’s bear companion Trinket. When they’re introduced, the party is hardly the… |
