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21 films up for Best Animated Feature Oscar
…be found below… Adventures in Zambezia Brave Delhi Safari Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax Frankenweenie From Up on Poppy Hill Hey Krishna Hotel Transylvania Ice Age Continental Drift A Liar’s Autobiography:… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…after Back in Action. In 2002, he landed a job at Blue Sky Studios, storyboarding for Robots and Ice Age: The Meltdown. In 2010, he founded Boblab with Mark Greenbaum… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…to have turned into almost being a genre of its own, with additional specials coming from the likes of Blue Sky’s Ice Age franchise joining them on the airwaves. A… |
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Me & My Shadow pushed back
…[Twentieth Century Fox], who has had great success in March with their Ice Age franchise, has recommended we move Mr. Peabody & Sherman to the spring of 2014, which we… |
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Star and critic talk Croods
…“the humor and charm… is too uneven to help it approach [Ice Age’s] mammoth market share. But its mostly fast-moving roller coaster of kinetic action and its menagerie of fantastic… |
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The Longest Daycare now online
…the studio’s official YouTube page. The Oscar-nominated cartoon features Maggie trapped in the dreaded Ayn Rand school for tots. It was shown in theaters before Ice Age 4 last summer…. |
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Kids’ Choice Awards feature Epic preview, animation categories, Monsters vs Aliens debut
…Cartoon (Fairly OddParents, Phineas and Ferb, SpongeBob SquarePants, Tom and Jerry), Favorite Animated Movie (Brave, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, Wreck-It Ralph), and Favorite Voice from… |
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Fox showcases Blue Sky, DreamWorks flicks at CinemaCon
…opening logo, which features Scrat of Ice Age fame. It also treated the audience to teaser trailers for Rio 2 and Peanuts. The latter trailer revealed that the CGI film… |
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Fox has Epic sale for Blu-ray 3-packs
…purchase three Blu-ray 3-packs for $21.99 each: a Blue Sky set containing Robots, Horton Hears a Who, and Rio; an Ice Age set featuring the original hit with sequels The… |
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Despicable Me 2
…a way. Like Scrat in the Ice Age movies, they steal just about every scene they are in. And they are a major part of part of the plot. But… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…shop for other studios and companies, offering animation and visual effects. Reel FX provided significant animation for both direct-to-video Open Season sequels, TV special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, theme… |
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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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Penguins of Madagascar
…Best Picture nomination for this film either. The Penguins, like Scrat from the Ice Age franchise and the Minions from Despicable Me series, take me back to the zany cartoons… |
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Spirited Away
…fact that it was competing with Ice Age, Treasure Planet, and Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron; only Lilo And Stitch really gave it any competition. Regardless, Spirited Away would be… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…heard it was going to be made by the studio that brought you Ice Age, Robots, Rio, and Epic, whatever level of unease you felt probably ratcheted up the scale…. |
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The Secret Life Of Pets
…how ideas are starting to become thinner and thinner on the ground thesedays, there’s also a sausage-induced hallucinogenic dream sequence that anticipates the much more adult Sausage Party, released a… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…but is it happening too soon for moviegoers to care? The animation certainly looks nice (even if I personally don’t understand the need to replace the entire voice cast from… |
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Sing
…June, Fox’s fifth (and hopefully final) Ice Age sequel, Blue Sky’s Collision Course, in July, followed by August’s much more critically acclaimed Kubo And The Two Strings from Laika (technically… |
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Disney buys most of Fox
…animation studio Blue Sky, responsible for such films as Ice Age and The Peanuts Movie. In addition to everything else the Mouse House gets, analysts believe the move to acquire… |
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The Best of the 2010s
…receiving no votes were Ice Age: Collision Course and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. Two write-ins received multiple votes: It’s Such a Beautiful Day and A Silent Voice. The former… |
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Disney to close the doors of Blue Sky Studios
The animation studio–once a powerhouse behind the Ice Age series–was acquired by Disney as part of their purchase of 20th Century Fox…. |
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Disney quietly announces Rio 3, animated Night at the Museum
In an online press kit for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Disney discreetly announced two upcoming projects. In the bio section for screenwriter Jim Hecht, it says that… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…went direct-to-streaming, including adequate sequels like Hotel Transylvania: Transformania and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, and the underwhelming and appropriately named Disenchanted (blending live-action and animation). Rescue Rangers,… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…for The Magnificent Seven among other scores, died sleep at his home in Ojai, California on Wednesday afternoon at 2pm, at the age of 82. Recognized with countless awards for… |
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Post posts commentary on "reimagined" Looney Tunes, "Loonatics"
…in the Internet age, an age of technology, an age of hip, cool animation, and something that we hope will resonate with that age group,” explained Sander Schwartz, president of… |
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Scooby-Doo designer Iwao Takamoto dead at 81
Iwao Takamoto has died at the age of 81 years, in Los Angeles. His passing came as the result of heart failure. Among his many considerable contributions to animation, Takamoto… |
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Earthlight Pictures launches CCTV animation training
…of J.J. Villard, then a high school student in Santa Barbara. Teton reports, “J.J.’s pleas made me see the need for a forum where aspiring animators, regardless of age, could… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…inclusion here is a nice pick, as Saturday mornings never would have seemed complete without some Looney Tunes. Often An Orphan has Porky Pig and Charlie Dog, Mice Follies was… |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…all very simple and very age-appropriate for this disc (ages 7 and up). I enjoyed the brief history, but I particularly liked the stretching techniques. I was worried for a… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…star of his animated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (1951). Although the role was for voice acting, Beaumont found herself also working as a live-action reference model for the Wonderland… |
