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Three Happy Chappies
The Three Caballeros, Donald Duck, Jose Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles, return in glorious hand-drawn animation (I’m hesitating in this instance to call it “2D” animation) to the Mexico Pavilion’s Gran… |
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Un-happy meal for Disney
The Los Angeles Times writes that McDonald’s franchise owners are displeased concerning their deal with the Walt Disney Company, angry that they are being required to promote the company’s theatrical… |
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Eisner and Mitchell not happy about splitting CEO, Chairman positons
In what the {{link http://www.nypost.com/business/26932.htm NY Post}} described as a “gripe session”, Disney CEO Michael Eisner told executives in attendance at a closed-door meeting that he “thinks it’s a bad… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
January 1, 2010 — Animated Views wishes you all the very best for the coming year! Plus thoughts on the season’s big blockbuster, James Cameron’s Avatar… As age begins to… |
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Happy Birthday Toy Story
The 10th Anniversary DVD of Pixar’s first film Toy Story is being released today. If you have previous versions of Toy Story on DVD don’t throw those away or eBay… |
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Bloom happy to set sail again for Pirates 2
Orlando Bloom has been speaking about his imminent return to the high seas for the upcoming sequel to this summer’s surprise hit Pirates Of The Caribbean, based on the Walt… |
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Happy ending for Pixar & Disney?
The Orlando Sentinel has an interesting speculative article about the future of Pixar and Disney’s relationship, especially in the anticipated wake of Pixar’s latest film, The Incredibles. “In an interview,… |
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Happy 75th Birthday, Mickey!
On the evening of November 18th 1928, a showbiz legend was born – Mickey Mouse flashed across the screen of the Colony Theater in NYC and danced and sung… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…the four custom-built screens stood 130 feet wide and 75 feet tall – or five stories high and 15 stories wide, as discerned by the Associated Press. For comparison, Ultimate… |
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20th Century Fox presents World’s Tallest Scrat!
…The Dinosaurs. Measuring in at a Mammoth 48 feet tall, things got a little chilly in Southern California on Tuesday when Scrat, sculpted by innovative ice company Ice Bulb, was… |
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Eighteen 2011 animated films up for Oscar consideration
…Adventures of Tintin Alois Nebel Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Arthur Christmas Cars 2 A Cat in Paris Chico & Rita Gnomeo & Juliet Happy Feet Two Hoodwinked Too! Hood… |
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The year in animation
…by the Los Angeles Times, in “Do’s and don’t’s from the year in animation.” From Curious George to Happy Feet, the article reviews what it refers to as “animation saturation.”… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: December 29-31, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 9) Happy Feet with $7,650,181, averaging $2,982 over 2,565 theaters ($175,967,627 total; 7th week) 31) The Polar Express (IMAX) with $179,513, averaging $5,279 over 34… |
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Producers Guild announces animation nominees
The Producers Guild of America has announced its nominees for “Animated theatrical motion pictures.” Competing for the honor will be Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and… |
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New Arthur Christmas teaser
…Santa Claus, Arthur Christmas is facing pretty fierce competition for the family market this holiday season, including The Muppets, Happy Feet Two and Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s first ever 3-D movie…. |
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Penguin movie media
In QuickTime and Windows Media formats, a couple of new TV spots for Happy Feet have been placed online at The Movie Box, while iKLIPZ contains more of the latest… |
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Babe 3 to be CGI?
While promoting his most recent venture, Happy Feet, George Miller told Moviehole that a third Babe adventure is definitely being considered. However, the “gallant pig” might look a little different… |
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More theatrical Looney Tunes shorts greenlit by Warner Bros.
…other characters from the Tunes cast. The next one, Daffy’s Rhapsody, will feature Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck, and is set to be attached to Happy Feet Two this November…. |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: January 5-7, 2007
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 6) Happily N’Ever After with $6,608,244, averaging $2,775 over 2,381 theaters ($6,608,244 total; 1st week) 13) Happy Feet with $4,004,462, averaging $1,810 over 2,212 theaters… |
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Bolt debuts below expectations
…other November toons in recent years have opened to – 2005’s Chicken Little, 2006’s Happy Feet, and last year’s Bee Movie all bowed in the $38-42M range. The canine flick… |
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Tap dance of the penguins
The first poster image for Happy Feet, “a comedy adventure set in the land of the Emperor Penguins in the heart of Antarctica,” has been revealed at India Times. The… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…answer. According to our site statistics, we have published 19,764 posts, including this one! 5. Make another AV staff member mad with one sentence. DACEY: “I loved Happy Feet“. (I… |
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New Legend of the Guardians poster
Yahoo! Movies has the new one sheet for Zack Snyder’s upcoming film Legend of the Guardians. The animated epic from the studio that made Happy Feet comes to theaters and… |
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Victory once more for Puss in Boots
…million, and should see one more strong weekend before it faces extreme compettition on November 18th, when both The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 and Happy Feet Two open…. |
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For your consideration…
…Campaigning for Oscar gold through these ads are Arthur & the Invisibles, Cars, Curious George, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Monster House, Over the Hedge and Paprika…. |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…no extras. After the disc loads, you can watch ads for Happy Feet Two: The Videogame and the upcoming Happiness Is… Peanuts – Friends Forever DVD. If you want to… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: November 17–19, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 1) Happy Feet with $41,533,432, averaging $10,918 over 3,804 theaters (1st week) 5) Flushed Away with $6,596,962, averaging $1,994 over 3,307 theaters ($48,588,533 total; 3rd… |
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Yet Another Penguin Movie
With this Thanksgiving’s Happy Feet, next summer’s Surf’s Up, and the in-the-works Nickelodeon TV series featuring the “Madagascar” penguins, ThinkFilm felt it was time for yet-another talking penguin movie. In… |
