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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…Disney releases did show that there was an audience for new family product earlier in the year than was felt traditional. Into both camps fell Hoodwinked, a “fractured fairytale” that… |
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Updated: Weinstein catches Igor
…“On the heels of the great success of Hoodwinked, my brother and I are thrilled to be involved with another exciting independent animation project with outstanding filmmakers.” “With such an… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…Hoodwinked Too!: Hood Vs. Evil, the sequel to the 2005 surprise hit Hoodwinked, for The Weinstein Co. However, Disa notes that viewers should not expect to see his version of… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…Red Riding Hoodwinked and The Trial Of Mr Wolf (with another Kathryn Hepburn Riding Hood) which retells the often plundered story from the “innocent” Wolf’s perspective; an earlier and also… |
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No fairy tale ending for Hoodwnked Too!
Things have ended up becoming pretty grim for the Weinstein Company’s long delayed Hoodwinked sequel Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil. Although the original movie became a surprise hit when it… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…of films such as Ant Bully, Hoodwinked, Monster House and Open Season, as well as live action fare like Kicking and Screaming and Cheaper by the Dozen. For more information,… |
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Planet Earth shatters Weinstein Co. record
…the Weinstein Co. Thus far, Earth has collected more than $52 million during its theatrical run. The studio’s previous top CGI earner was Hoodwinked, which collected $51.4 million in 2005…. |
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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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Frog and Toad are coming to the big screen
…The Jim Henson Company is set to begin production on a fully animated feature, with Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked!) directing. “Frog and Toad has tremendous value with parents who read these… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…spongebob squarepants movie 122 meet the robinsons 122 47 the girl who leapt through time 115 48 waltz with bashir 114 49 madagascar 111 50 hoodwinked 96 51 metropolis 92… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…when there was no clear-cut consensus choice for #3, we have given this spot over to what I like to think of as our “Hoodwinked Award” — what film came… |
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Escape from Escape From Planet Earth
…behind the surprise hit Hoodwinked claim that The Weinstein Co. have “sabotaged” their followup project, Escape From Planet Earth, and cost them millions. The Weinstein’s say the pair are just… |
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Escape From Planet Earth
We here at Animated Views were some of the earliest advocates for Hoodwinked — a low budget film that based on the trailers looked to be a disaster with its… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol.1
…over his foe. There’s a bit of irony with Robin Hoodwinked (1958) and the “side character introduction theme.” Tuffy, the little, diapered gray mouse who pals around with Jerry, is… |
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The Nut Job
…The most an audience member can do is buy their ticket and take their chances hoping the next film is more Hoodwinked and less Happily N’Ever After. Surley is a… |
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No happy ending for Legends of Oz
…the lowest opening for an animated film playing on more than 2,500 screens ever, “beating” 2011’s Hoodwinked Too! The movie made just $3.7 million, which is especially unfortunate when the… |
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Cars 2
…leading status. And who hasn’t, or isn’t, doing spy comedies these days? It’s a sub-genre being done to death, especially in animation, and I had hoped the likes of Hoodwinked… |
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Independent studios spark a change of 'toon
Today’s LA Times has an interesting article about the new wave of animated features made possible by the dropping costs of computer equipment. Projects like Valiant, Delgo, Foodfight! and Hoodwinked… |
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Toy Story 3
…Hoodwinked, for example). Pixar is apparently incapable of writing a bad story, so I didn’t think there would be any suspense in saving this for last! Toy Story 3 has… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…properties Hoodwinked and the awful, awful Doogal, but skip that one, get yourself a multi-region player and grab the much funnier and more cohesive original version The Magic Roundabout from… |
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Happily N'Ever After n'ow on DVD…
…found Hoodwinked to be a small surprise. The Happily DVD adds a full-length audio commentary with director Paul J. Bolger, an alternative ending along with seven Lost In Fairy Tale… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…Pigs And A Baby and Goldilocks And The Three Bears, plus the sole Weinstein animated success story Hoodwinked. Unbelievably we also get a featurette to accompany the main feature, the… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…The Vanishing Duck recalls The Invisible Mouse as Little Quaker joins Jerry in harassing Tom (though with a very different outcome!); Robin Hoodwinked sees the mice planning to sneak past… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…is in Hollywood, with Cecil very concerned that he will “go Hollywood” if they stay too long; before you know it, Dishonest John has hoodwinked him into performing a publicity… |
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Corey Edwards to direct Fraggle Rock movie
Hot off the press! The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock into a live-action musical feature, reports Variety. Cory Edwards, who directed the animated Hoodwinked! for… |
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Breathed's magnum opus
…Bloom County’s comic artist Berkeley Breathed (rhymes with “method”). The movie is also mentioned at Market Wire, which refers to other Weinstein Company future releases such as a Hoodwinked sequel… |
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Lionsgate lives Happily N'Ever After
Lionsgate has purchased domestic and Canadian rights to Happily N’Ever After, a CGI family film that poses a satirical Hoodwinked-type spin on the story of Cinderella. The news comes courtesy… |
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Weinstein’s plan Escape from Planet Earth
Arriving from the writers of Hoodwinked, Tony Leech and Cory Edwards, is a new computer animated comedy that’s far from down-to-earth. The rights for Escape from Planet Earth have been… |
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U.S. weekend box office estimates: January 20-22, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 2. Hoodwinked with $11,078,000 ($29,304,000 total in its 2nd week, over 3,002 theaters) 7. The Chronicles of Narnia with $6,067,000 ($271,682,000 total in its 7th… |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: January 13-16, 2006
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo: 2. Hoodwinked with $16,879,402 (1st week over 2,394 theaters) 4. The Chronicles of Narnia with $12,809,767 ($264,020,859 total in its 6th week, over 3,224 theaters)… |
