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Maui Film Festival Animation Report – UPDATED
…could, which turned out to be not very much but a little bit. On Thursday, June 16, a day before its wide release in North America, Howl’s Moving Castle was… |
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Japanese Animated Film Draws Over 3 Million Korean Viewers
Asia Pulse, via Yahoo! Australia, reports the stunning numbers that Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film Howl’s Moving Castle has drawn in South Korea. “The film’s national audience reached the 3 million… |
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A look at the world of Ponyo
…to the film’s production diary the number of the animation cels in Ponyo exceeds 160,000. That compares to about 148,000 for Howl’s Moving Castle, 140,000 for Princess Mononoke, and 112,000… |
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Official Walt Disney Pictures website updated
Though the films have yet to receive full websites, splash pages for Howl’s Moving Castle and Valiant are now up at the official Walt Disney Pictures website…. |
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Hayao Miyazaki wins Oscar invitation
The Internet Movie Database’s Studio Briefing reveals that Hayao Miyazaki, director of the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and the Oscar-nominated Howl’s Moving Castle, has been invited to join the Academy of… |
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Ponyo
…port village that the Ghibli crew had gone to while on retreat after completing Howl’s Moving Castle. This combination of elements makes for a unique film that seems destined to… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…adventures Belle had in the enchanted castle before the Beast transformed back into a human? In these animated adventures, Belle, the Beast, and the enchanted servants learn how to get… |
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Sleeping Beauty's Castle to reawaken
According to The Orange County Register the iconic Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, CA, will reopen its walkthrough attraction, originally opened in 1957 but closed in 2001,… |
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Shrek 3 and 4 moving ahead "one at a time"
DreamWorks animation head Ann Daly has said that plans for the continuation of the Shrek franchise are moving ahead, with the company taking on each future sequel “one at a… |
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Pixar exhibition to hit Australian Centre for the Moving Image
The popular Pixar: 20 Years of Animation exhibition is coming to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Opening June 28, the event will present over 500 original works of… |
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Nike's Knight moving into feature animation
…USA Today reports. Knight’s company, now called Laika, is moving ahead with a $70 million feature, Caroline, that will combine computer and stop-motion animation and could be in theaters by… |
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Zemeckis' ImageMovers moving to Disney?
TMZ.com breaks the news that Robert Zemeckis may be moving his ImageMovers production company to Disney, in a multi-year deal. In fact, the online publication calls the action “a cat’s… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…Ho-hum…it’s obviously not for me anyway. Much more like it is heading to the Castle for a wealth of Backstage Disney material; first and most impressive is the 43 minute… |
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Miyazaki to receive Cartoon Network tribute
…of the battle. * Saturday, April 1, at 7:30pm (ET, PT): Castle in the Sky – In Castle in the Sky, Sheeta, an orphaned girl wearing a crystal pendant with… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…have been to these castles I’m drawing from, I have walked and felt these places. I generally study thoroughly the architectural, cultural and historical characteristics of the time period. Above… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…movie was already into production since a year in Scotland before moving to London where I joined the team for two years. There was already a generic visual direction established:… |
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Pixar exhibit moving to Korea
The Korea Times walks us through the traveling Pixar exhibit, now in Seoul on time for the studio’s 20th anniversary…. |
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Quick Draw McGraw moving to DVD?
Rumor has it that the 1959 television series of Quick Draw McGraw, which also featured segments from Augie Doggie & Doggy Daddy, and Super Snooper & Blabber Mouse, will be… |
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Minimates movie moving to stores in 2006
Superhero Times indicates that Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum have banded together to bring Minimate fans Darktide, described as the Minimate’s first “full-length mini-movie.” Arriving in stores with the… |
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Fraggle Rock moving to the big screen
Muppet Central News indicates that a feature-length version of Fraggle Rock may soon be heading to theaters. Already in the early stages of development, the film will see the characters… |
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Disney moving in the right direction?
At MSN Money, Michael Brush offers a commentary regarding the future of the Walt Disney Company. With its ABC television network currently doing well, its theme parks enjoying large crowds,… |
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Jakers! moving to weekdays on PBS this September
AWN reports that starting on September 5, 2005, Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks will begin airing Mondays through Fridays on PBS Kids, after playing on weekends for two years…. |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…story and we weren’t going to let any perceived limitations of the medium stop us from telling it.” Faced with the challenge of moving the characters in a realistic fashion,… |
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Shaun The Sheep moving to big screen
A feature film version of Aardman Animations’ TV series Shaun The Sheep is in the works according to Deadline. Studiocanal is financing the film. “The family film, written and directed… |
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Ratchet & Clank moving from game consoles to the big screen
Rainmaker Entertainment and Blockade Entertainment are teaming to give the popular video game duo Ratchet and Clank their own 3D computer animated movie, says Variety. The characters were introduced in… |
