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Ratatouille
…that some parents may want to be aware of with certain kids. Drinking and a bit of drunkenness are portrayed. Guns are used a little more cavalierly than usual in… |
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Walt Disney's Timeless Tales: Volume 1 Review
…four Silly Symphony shorts The Pied Piper, The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Three Little Pigs, as well as the 1990 Mickey Mouse short… |
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Bassett talks about \\The Robinsons\\
Angela Bassett spoke with {{link http://blackfilm.com/20060414/features/angelinabassettnews.shtml Blackfilm.com}} about her role in Disney’s upcoming \\Meet The Robinsons\\. “I’m little Robinson’s foster mother and trying to know him, and love him. He’s… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn
…once again, the day…is not quite saved, as Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup return to do very little saving of the world before bedtime. The Sweatbox Review: Earlier this year, I… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
While research on Disney animation has been particularly vivid and productive over the last decade, very little has been done on Disney music. The work of some prominent historians like… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…general, right from its post-WWII beginnings, and its relationship to Japanese comics. Though there is little actual focus on Gigantor I appreciated the history lesson and found his talk quite… |
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Date set for the sky to fall
Disney’s Chicken Little has been set for a July 1st 2005 release, as reported by {{link http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/c/chickenlittle.php Coming Soon}}. Look for many “the sky has fallen” headlines if the film… |
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Batman Vs. Robin: Exclusive Figure Edition
…a little chat, and make Bruce an offer to have him join the Court. Bruce’s assured refusal is in stark contrast to the conflicted Damian, who prefers Talon’s company to… |
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Apple and Walt Disney Records finally reach agreement on adding Disney catalog to iTunes
…such as \\Alice in Wonderland\\, \\Beauty and the Beast\\, \\The Lion King\\, \\Snow White\\ and \\The Little Mermaid\\; Disney/Pixar’s \\Toy Story\\, \\Toy Story 2\\, \\A Bug’s Life\\, \\Monsters, Inc.\\ and… |
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Release dates, directors revealed for future DisneyToon movies
…III, The Aristocats II, and The Little Mermaid III. Though little information may currently be found at each of the movie’s pages, nonetheless, tentative release dates and directors are noted…. |
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Composers lined up for animated projects
…DreamWorks’ animated Madagascar. The Emperor’s New Groove composer John Debney, who also recently scored a little film called The Passion of The Christ, will write the music to Chicken Little…. |
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Only Yesterday
…the choice to favor the original language track. As this is a quiet drama, there is little opportunity for the audio to make an impression, but there are nice surround… |
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Bee Movie
…than the jumbled story and flat jokes we get in Bee Movie. A bee/human relationship is a little too far-fetched. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Bee Movie follows… |
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More on Mermaid's swim to Broadway
Playbill summarizes the cast, plot and schedule for the Broadway adaptation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Directed by Francesca Zambello, the musical will hit the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 3,… |
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Frozen
…little more cookie-cutter, and could easily take the place of Rapunzel (not just in looks but personality as well), though she is less expressive than her long-haired counterpart. Their characters… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…little introduction with a rhyming song describing the episode. Each one is also littered with music and songs. I will not go into detail about each one, but here are… |
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Fried Chicken
The sequel to Disney’s premiere computer animated feature, Chicken Little, has been cancelled, reveals a post at Animation Nation. In the meantime, the official site for Chicken Little’s DVD debut… |
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Toonacious™ Family Entertainment news release
…combined years of entertainment, business and technical experience, Toonacious was born. Co-founder and Director Tony Bancroft (Mulan, Stuart Little 2) said, “This has been a dream of mine since I… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…previous outings. I have to say that I’m a little surprised at Knight’s Annie nomination for Best Director, since I feel that’s a nod for the film’s different approach than… |
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Smurfs to smurf back to the smurf screen
…little {{link http://www.mushroomvillage.com/smurfs-comeback.html more digging}} on the site reveals that a new Smurf movie and/or TV series is in the works, and Peyo’s little blue characters’ comeback could be “well… |
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Menken, Mear talk Mermaid musical
After its first preview on Broadway recently, composer Alan Menken talked to with Rotten Tomatoes about the difficulties of bringing Disney’s classic film The Little Mermaid to the theatre. “I… |
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Christmas Contest: The Tale Of Despereaux goodies – Winner!
…to serve the jailer (Robbie Coltrane). Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Complete Sixth Season
…to impress her. And The Blue Morpho has his most stunning victory yet, if a little by accident. The Guild makes the fateful decision to take down The Blue Morpho,… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…that, a short film called 9 came on. It was about this little knitted character that was extremely curious. So I watched this and I remember being so infatuated with… |
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Igor trailer at New York Con
…movie at Weinstein, saying “We knew going with the Weinsteins was a chance to do something a little darker, a little more subversive.” Igor will open in theaters this fall…. |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2
…it here. Tiny little almost throwaway movements by the characters can convey big emotions and make them seem like real, feeling people. I can’t say it any better than I… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Sixth Season
…as receiving numerous Annie and Emmy award nominations. Having just stated that there is little continuity in the program, this season does actually pick up where the last season left… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…film to breathe in even just standard definition, but the results here seem to be a little more restricted than usual. Certainly MVD’s Elstree 1976 disc looked as pristine as… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…really feel little). And then as you go through the attraction, we use these enormous custom screens with the highest resolution animation that we’ve ever produced at Pixar using stereo… |
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The Tale of Despereaux
…its rambling story. With too many characters, too many plot lines, and no real center, little Despereaux himself sometimes seems like an afterthought. Things start off badly when we’re told… |