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Cars wins Best Animated Film Saturn
…Animated Film at the 33rd annual Saturn Awards, held Thursday evening, May 10. Other nominees for the prize included Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Over the Hedge and A Scanner Darkly…. |
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Jones joins Rainmaker to Escape from Planet Earth
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Ed Jones, who recently served as an executive producer for Happy Feet, will produce Escape from Planet Earth for Rainmaker Animation. Directed by Steve Nichols,… |
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Goofy's new animators spill the beans; plus dancing penguins and other new reviews
…Award, the cute but creepy Happy Feet, George (Babe) Miller’s mix up of strange ideas clashing with too many themes and not enough restraint. Monster House was robbed, I tell… |
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U.S. box office actuals: March 23-25, 2007
…with $3,005,175, averaging $3,426 over 877 theaters (1st week) 15) TMNT with $2,259,322, averaging $1,217 over 1,855 theaters ($50,819,085 total; 4th week) 48) Happy Feet with $55,605, averaging $394 over… |
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More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!
…setting has been switched for 1930s New Orleans, and the originally proposed Alan Menken music replaced with a jazzier arrangement by Pixar favorite Randy Newman. In DVD sales, Happy Feet… |
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Shrek, Simpsons up for U.K. National Movie Awards
…U.K. TV network ITV is launching after the success of the National Television Awards. The Best Animation nominees include Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Shrek the Third and The Simpsons Movie…. |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…(uh-oh…four Belfrys!), A Cold Winter’s Night (foreshadowing Treasure Planet’s space-ships and Happy Feet’s dancing penguins!), Father Knows Beast, Back To The Past (Dads to the rescue again when the guys… |
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WALL-E
…to say instead of cramming it down your throat like Happy Feet, any message in WALL-E is seamlessly weaved into the fabric of the story there for the taking for… |
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U.S. box office actuals: February 2-4, 2007
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 20) Arthur and the Invisibles with $1,015,026, averaging $815 over 1,245 theaters ($12,777,894 total; 6th week) 25) Happy Feet with $591,291, averaging $1,028 over 575… |
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How To Train Your Dragon
…Dean DeBlois (the head writer of Mulan), Bonnie Arnold (producer on Toy Story and Tarzan), Darren Holmes (film editor of The Iron Giant and Ratatouille), John Powell (composer of Happy… |
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Animated entries for 33rd Saturn Awards
With three nominations, Monster House is the top animated title among the nominees for the 33rd annual Saturn Awards. The film will go against Cars, Flushed Away, Happy Feet, Over… |
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2007 Oscar nominations announced
…• Disney/Pixar’s Cars – John Lasseter • Warner Bros.’ Happy Feet – George Miller • Sony/Columbia’s Monster House – Gil Kenan The nominees for Best Animated Short are • Mikrofilm… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
… Happy Feet • released on Blu-ray and a combo DVD/HD DVD in 2007. re-issued on HD DVD later in 2007 • same features as DVD. Meet the Robinsons… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…that if there is an agenda it’s much more buried than the dreadful Happy Feet, though the BNL name could well be taken for a metaphor of where we humans… |
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DVD charts: November 19-25, 2007
…Ratatouille, the Disney/Pixar hit dropped to 4th place in its third week. Interestingly, Black Friday discounts saw Happy Feet jump back into the top ten, with the Oscar-winning penguin pic… |
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Kids' Choice nominees for "Best Animated Movie"
Reuters via Yahoo! News reveals the “Best Animated Movie” nominees for Nickelodeon’s 20th annual Kids’ Choice Awards. The competition includes Cars, Happy Feet, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Over the… |
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Brittany Murphy dies at 32
…Luanne Platter on the long running series King of the Hill. She also had roles in the TV shows Futurama and Pepper Ann, and the Oscar winning film Happy Feet…. |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…the film’s success, as well as some behind-the-scenes secrets about how the incredible visual effects were brought to life (the entire cast was often hoisted several feet off the ground… |
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Superman Classic creator Robb Pratt unveils Flash Gordon Classic
…For the Classic Lex, I have an idea on how to handle it in a way that I’m happy with, and I hope other people would be happy with it,… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…The Crocadero, Scrap Happy Daffy and Wholly Smoke). 15×4 = 60 Tuneful encounters! The Sweatbox Review: As sure as clockwork, Warner Brothers have delivered another wonderful collection of 60 classic… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…youngest, happy to go with the flow, and the rest of the Never-Landers, including the Lost Boys, are a mixed bunch comprising all humanity, but mostly a feeling of loneliness… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…creating the characters of the Gargoyles. But then I was asked to co-direct Mulan. I wasn’t totally happy with how it turned, but when I was working on it at… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…own accordion style, and I was happy to be able to get his. He did not read music. So, what we did was – I had the guitarist who played… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…and so happy to share it with the team at Tippett that I’m already quite depressed that it’s over! Working on a good one is quite bitter-sweet! AV: I can… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…sure, but the cookie-cutter aspects – the storybook opening, opening song introducing our heroine, the wicked stepmother, comedy sidekicks, sloppy love ballad, happy ending, etc – just feel a little… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…happy to do this as long as the cat and mouse make ’em money, and thankfully Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera’s team are so timeless that they continue to do… |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with art director Alexandra Kavalova
…and gave me little time to dedicate to Mila. I am happy to say that I am now freelancing and thus have a lot more time again to dedicate to… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…you walk down the street with the little touches of Goofy Lane and such – all of these touches are so happy. I was used to working at Columbia and… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…many people, one person designing this character and another designing that one and so on. It can lead to a fractured look. I’m very happy with the consistency that we… |
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Despicable Me 2’s Despicablimp to tour U.S.
To promote Despicable Me 2, Universal Pictures has set the Despicablimp on a 20,000-mile coast-to-coast trip in the U.S., reports MovieWeb. The airship – 165 feet long, 55 feet high… |
