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Jackman's kids finally get to see Daddy's work
…Oscar and Ava, stated. “Oscar has never seen any of my movies”. Jackman will voice the role of Roddy in DreamWorks/Aardman’s \\Flushed Away\\ and Memphis in Warner Brothers’ \\Happy Feet\\…. |
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Dawn Taubin new head of DreamWorks Animation marketing
…Deadline is reporting. Taubin has a pretty strong track record going for her, including a number of the Harry Potter movies, Happy Feet, The Help, War Horse, the upcoming 300:… |
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King Con! News from San Diego…
…-Warner Bros. Animated Features: a look at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Ant Bully and Happy Feet, with filmmaker appearances. -Spotlight on Greg Weisman: the Gargoyles creator talks comic books… |
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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…characters we met in last summer’s teaser trailer for Pixar’s sure-to-be mega-hit, Ratatouille. Funny how when it rains, it pours. A Bug’s Life/Antz, Madagascar/The Wild, Over The Hedge/Open Season, Happy… |
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Academy unveils animated film finalists
…George (Universal), Everyone’s Hero (Fox), Flushed Away (DreamWorks/Aardman), Happy Feet (Warner Bros.), Ice Age: The Meltdown (20th Century Fox), Monster House (Sony), Open Season (Sony), Over the Hedge (DreamWorks), Paprika… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…in July 2010. Subsequent short Rabid Rider followed in December 2010, attached to Yogi Bear. I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat played in front of Happy Feet 2 in… |
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Toontown heads for double trouble
…Happy Feet), Julia Pistor (Nickelodeon) and Yair Landau (Sony). The verdict? Too many movies, too few ideas, too much product. As Miller observes, “The similarity of some cartoons this year… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: November 24–26, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 1) Happy Feet with $37,038,046, averaging $9,736 over 3,804 theaters ($99,256,766 total; 2nd week) 7) Flushed Away with $5,756,455, averaging $2,196 over 2,621 theaters ($57,266,350… |
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Prolific animation composer Powell profiled
…soaring How to Train Your Dragon score and music for such hits as Happy Feet, three of the Ice Age movies, two Dr. Seuss entries, Kung Fu Panda and the… |
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Logic in animation
Variety spotlights digital effects company Animal Logic, which is looking to move further into animated features after its success with Happy Feet. Transitioning into a studio similar to Pixar and… |
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Box Office: 1/12/2007 Weekend
…in its second weekend for a 12th place finish – and a two week total of $10.8 million. Happy Feet danced to a 17th place finish in its 9th week… |
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BREAKING… 2007 Annie Award Nominations
…a total if 17 nominations, while DW’s Flushed Away and Pixar’s Cars lead all films with 9 nods. Full list coming soon… Best Animated Feature Cars Happy Feet Monster House… |
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The Lorax
…Wall-E showed the right way to do it, where the message is there if you want to take it, but telling a good story trumps proselytizing the audience. Happy Feet… |
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Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition
…opens with ads for Scooby-Doo: Music Of The Vampire, Happy Feet Two, Lion Of Judah, and the Happiness Is… Peanuts: Friends Forever DVD. The DVD included in this set begins… |
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Sneak a peek: New York Licensing Show images
…New York Licensing Show including promotional art for such upcoming animated films as Bee Movie, Where the Wild Things Are, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Happy Feet, and Kung Fu Panda…. |
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Foodfight! to begin in 2007
…section at the Internet Movie Database. The movie was previously scheduled to open on November 17, 2006, where it would have faced-off with the Warner Bros. CGI comedy Happy Feet…. |
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Songs vie for Oscar gold
…Down” from Curious George “The Best” from Everyone’s Hero “The Song of the Heart” from Happy Feet “I Belong” from Open Season “Family of Me” from Over the Hedge “Heist”… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: December 8–10, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 2) Happy Feet with $12,904,413, averaging $3,535 over 3,650 theaters ($137,932,841 total; 4th week) 16) Flushed Away with $835,368, averaging $797 over 1,048 theaters ($61,214,583… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…that loaded. Previews play automatically for Big Top Scooby-Doo, Tom And Jerry In the Dog House, and Lion Of Judah. Trailers from the menu include for Zoink Points, Happy Feet… |
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Cars wins Golden Tomato award
…score of 70.78, Happy Feet follows close behind, in second place. Flushed Away (69.41), Over the Hedge (68.92), Monster House (68.05), Curious George (64.44), A Scanner Darkly (62.25), The Ant… |
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The Reef
…The environmental message, if it’s even intended to be there, isn’t rammed down our throats the way it was so clumsily in Happy Feet, and essentially the film is a… |
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U.S. box office actuals: March 23-25, 2007
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 1) TMNT with $24,255,205, averaging $7,799 over 3,110 theaters (1st week) 23) Happy Feet with $395,313, averaging $976 over 405 theaters ($197,207,309 total; 19th week)… |
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Marketing Surf's Up
…a brand-new experience rather than a copy of March of the Penguins or Happy Feet. Nonetheless, the movie’s creators are hoping Surf’s Up has similar success to its penguin predecessors…. |
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Justice League captured
IESB.net reports that the upcoming Justice League movie directed by George “Mad Max/Happy Feet” Miller will likely be animated with motion capture technology. Meanwhile, Cinema Confidential states that “neither Christian… |
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Cars takes PGA Award
Disney/Pixar’s Cars added more hardware to its shelf with Darla K. Anderson winning the Producers Guild’s Animated Feature award. The film raced past Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…any of their movies… until now. Having scored the music of some of the popular animated films of our times, from Ice Age: The Meltdown, Happy Feet, Horton Hears a… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…most notably Happy Feet of course, Sony could have much more of a hit on their hands this second time out, especially since they seem to be selling this one… |
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Pixar makes "Best of" lists
…Nemo and 5) Toy Story 2. Nominees that failed to make the final list are Monsters Inc., Ice Age, Over the Hedge, Happy Feet, Chicken Little, Robots and Shrek 2…. |
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Surf’s Up
…animated penguins of Happy Feet, who went on to pick up the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at a very “green” Oscar ceremony. In 2007 we have the best… |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…could feed on the totally unpredicted popularity of surprise smash Happy Feet. Whatever happened to keeping back the “special” films until Christmas? This past holiday was especially flat, for me… |
