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Don Hahn on Disney Orlando and the Roy/Michael split, plus "no layoffs for WDW staff"…
The {{link http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#1 Internet Movie Database}} today points out that the Disney Animation Tour at Orlando’s Walt Disney World re-opened on Monday, but that the attraction has one thing missing:… |
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Haunted Mansion not so haunted?
…Haunted Mansion, just released, in what has turned out to be a packed season for family and effects driven films. The {{link http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#2 Internet Movie Database}} also has a run… |
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An incredible box office for The Incredibles?
…IMDB, which does make an interesting point nonetheless. Going against such films in the same genre as The Polar Express, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of… |
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Flushed right back
Forget that business about Flushed Away being retitled Ratropolis. Now it’s back to being called Flushed Away again. The IMDb page also has updated casting information…. |
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Shrek the Third roundup #4
…and salads rather than burgers and fries, says Reuters/Yahoo. Lastly, images from last Sunday’s Shrek the Third premiere in Los Angeles are displayed at Yahoo! News, IMDB and Getty Images…. |
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WB aquires animated \\Ark\\
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=17091 Animation World Network}} reports that Warner Brothers has picked up an animated script from actor {{link http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000729/ Casey Affleck}} titled \\Aardvark Art’s Ark\\. “The story centers on the… |
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Weinsteins meet Azur & Asmar
The Weinstein Company acquired Michel Ocelot’s Azur & Asmar in Berlin last week, reports Twitch. According to the IMDB, the French film follows the plot of, “Azure is a blond… |
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Redstone considered Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation
The IMDB Studio Briefing indicates that the day Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone fired CEO Tom Freston, DreamWorks cofounder David Geffen called Redstone to recommend fellow cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg as Freston’s… |
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Michael Giacchino to score \\The Incredibles\\
…score Pixar’s \\The Incredibles\\. Giacchino’s {{link http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0315974/ previous experience}} is almost completely in scoring video games. His most well known credit is for writing the music for the ABC TV… |
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Disney, Target reach agreement in DVD dispute
…on its iTunes online store,” summarizes the Studio Briefing of the IMDB. In retaliation to Target’s act, Disney threatened not to supply the retailer with DVDs of such titles as… |
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RIP, Tony Jay
…time. More information on his amazing career including his work on these classics, Bruno the Kid, Savage Dragon, Reboot, and many others can be found at his IMDb page. In… |
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Rumor mill: Pinkava replaces Peterson as Ratatouille co-director?
…news. Surprisingly, the site has removed Peterson from the credits, with Pinkava now filling that co-director status. Of course, the user-submitted nature of IMDB calls for this report to be… |
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Study finds animation most profitable genre in recent years
According to the IMDB Studio Briefing, the study “Economics of Motion Pictures 2006,” from Monterey, CA-based Kagan Research, has found animated movies to be the most profitable film genre between… |
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Spring is in the air: Here comes a new Peter Cottontail movie
…Cottontail: The Movie coming Spring 2006. A look at its IMDb page confirms that this movie is in production and features several big name celebrity voices, including Tom Kenny (SpongeBob),… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…He would basically throw anything in that he thought would fly. And I thought, “Well, this is the kind of stuff that follows those lines.” Links: IMDb Page Interview with… |
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Cinderella DVD creates magical sales
…says magazine Home Media Retailing, via the IMDB’s Studio Briefing. The magazine goes on to say that industry insiders are predicting the DVD to become one of the year’s top-ten… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…One of the best short films that I think really has a non-Disney, non-Hollywood look is {{link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093488/ The Man Who Planted Trees}}. That is one astonishing, beautiful, beautiful film…. |
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Rapunzel revamped?
…Unbraided, according to the IMDB via The Disney Database, now has this as its opening: “A woman and her husband lived beside a very beautiful garden, which belonged to a… |
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Clay Aiken out of Rapunzel Unbraided?
For a reason not known at this time, Clay Aiken is no longer listed in the IMDB‘s cast list for Rapunzel Unbraided. Nonetheless, the pop star may still be attached… |
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Joe Grant passes away
…short Lorenzo (original link via Animation Nation). Selected Joe Grant links: IMDb – Joe Grant AWN – A Talk with Disney Legend Joe Grant Variety – Highly animated AWN –… |
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Madagascar activity disc to be included with the Shrek 2 DVD
…Animation “rolled with genuine laughter” at 15 minutes of clips from the film that were screened, Daily Variety reports, via IMDB. Madagascar will travel to theaters on May 27, 2005…. |
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Viewers get Re-Animated, avoid Year Without a Santa Claus
…6-11 years. However, similar success was not introduced to NBC’s live-action remake of The Year Without a Santa Claus. According to the IMDB’s Studio Briefing, the movie’s Monday night premiere… |
