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IFC centre to host Studio Ghibli retrospective
…Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Kiki’s Delivery Service. GKIDS, which recently entered into agreement with… |
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Chicken Little
…with The Wild and Cars theatrical trailers (both in anamorphic widescreen no less), Dumbo (oddly using score cues from The Rocketeer) and The Little Mermaid’s DVD reissues, plus AirBuddies, Howl’s… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…version can be found in Jean Cocteau’s 1946 La Belle et la Bête, which first suggested objects in the Beast’s castle could be enchanted and that the Disney film takes… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…invokes the power of Castle Greyskull and becomes She-Ra, Princess of Power! Together with her band of rebels and her flying unicorn Swift Wind, she battles against the Horde led… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…masterpiece Spirited Away, we were blessed with both Castle in the Sky, and a DVD version of Kiki’s Delivery Service. And, given Disney’s typical seven-year cycle for reissues, they have… |
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Hotel Transylvania Art Director Noëlle Triaureau sheds light on the monsters’ domain
…colors help tell the story? NT: The colors enhance the emotions of the characters. They also stress the contrast between the city, the human world at daytime, and the castle,… |
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Mad Monster Party
…inviting his fellow monster friends and partners in crime to his castle lair to reveal his new discovery. Making their way to the castle during the opening credits (with many… |
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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Three
…part of the story that began in last season’s cliff-hanger. With Skeletor and his new Evil Warriors approaching Castle Grayskull, and all of the Masters either gone or captured, it… |
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Beauty and the Beast enchanting its way onto Blu-ray June 6th; cover art and trailer revealed
…to see Agathe, the village beggar woman. Storming the Ice Gates — The angry mob of villagers, led by Gaston, overwhelms the castle’s defenses. Lumière Torches LeFou — As the… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…described as Nightmare Before Christmas meets Looney Tunes, House Of Monsters follows these creatures and their friends through adventures in an ominous castle and its neighboring village. Dawn Brown kindly… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…Toy Story was going gangbusters to present something new to audiences, from the newly three-dimensional Disney castle logo and, in particular, the different approach to the song sequences: instead of… |
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Frankenweenie
…that ultimately failed to find much of an audience. The team disbanded again, Selick and his team moving on to other stop-motion work (including sequences for Wes Anderson’s The Life… |
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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…the assurance that things were moving along. To compensate, they roped her into reading a page from the standalone graphic novel The Bounter Hunter and The Tea Brewer. They closed… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…I felt it was a cheap use of Walt’s philosophy to whitewash the move to CG-created features (“Keep moving forward”). But in the context of the movie itself, coming as… |
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The Incredibles
…musical style, here not even present on Disney’s CGI animated castle logo, making way for another debuting Pixar fixture, composer Michael Giacchino, who can seemingly do no wrong and whose… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…and following in Nemo’s footsteps, is Randy Newman’s usual jaunty musical style, here not even present on Disney’s CGI animated castle logo. Stepping in is Michael Giacchino’s big ‘n’ brassy… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…legally possible while also recalling a certain fairytale castle, whereas elsewhere the sledgehammer values of modern moviemaking (swirling and dizzying camera moves, actually a Raimi trademark, and 3D-friendly tracking shots)… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…the DVD of his film was released. “Keep moving forward!” Animated Views: How did you come to Disney animation? Steve Anderson: I’ve always been interested in animation, in drawing, filmmaking… |
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2016 Los Angeles Comic Con Exclusive
…known as Comikaze, it was rechristened Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con a couple months ago and will be known as such moving forward. While it’s not quite the pop… |
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Toy Story 3
…themes, Toy Story 3 really cranks up things. Growing up, losing loved ones, moving on with ones life, loyalty, facing death head on, and knowing when (and being able) to… |