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Pixarian interviews, book and DVD reviews
…the Pixar Short Film Collection: Volume 1 DVD. The assessment is, “It’s just a minor shame that consumers will have to pony up the same price they would for a… |
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New Pirates poster
…an entire month. Originally set to set sail on March 30th, it will now open on April 27th, just one week before a little movie called The Avengers is released…. |
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Finding Dory swimming onto Blu-ray in November
…to follow two fish that remind her of her parents, leaving Nemo all alone. –Little Tension in Clown Town – In this alternate version of the film, Dory tries to… |
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Beauty & the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition coming to Blu-ray this year
…and the Beast – Disney Channel’s Gus Kamp and Kayla Maisonet host this entertaining countdown featuring little-known fun facts, anecdotes and hidden Easter Eggs (references to Disney animated films and… |
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Me & My Shadow cast set
…Train Your Dragon), with a screenplay by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember based on a draft by Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman (Brother Bear, Chicken Little, Open Season)…. |
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Sausage Party
…the writers wanted a little more than that and tried to tack on a message at the end, and there they fell flat. In a movie where the whole thing… |
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Virus scare stops Onward in its tracks
…(and that’s not including marketing). Perhaps to calm things down a little with fans, the studio did place Frozen II on Disney+ three months earlier than they were intending to… |
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Disney announces Sofia the First
…to repeat the formula with a different theme. CinemaBlend is reporting that Disney has a princess show in production, featuring a brand new character, Sofia, who is a little kid…. |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
…possibility to air on the Hub, home to other American Greetings cartoons. We hope it receives the same TLC as Thunder Cats and My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic reboots…. |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Oscar, a low-level fish who dreamed of living the high-life. But when he would be falsely identified as a sharkslayer, the fame would go to his head and his little… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…
…not have any material about his mother. The other told me: “I have very little, just a few autobiographical notes.” I was excited about those, of course, since autobiographical notes,… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…grandfather, though it is April who is working on her parent’s formula. Little does she realize that their last attempt at the formula is even now filling the fluid of… |
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember
…are a little more sketchily drawn – although it’s always fun to see the Studio used as the Medfield College campus in the Dexter Riley comedies of the ’70s –… |
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Get Connected to the first trailer for Sony’s upcoming cyber comedy
…a family one last time. Katie and Rick are joined by the rest of the family, including Katie’s wildly positive mom Linda (voiced by Maya Rudolph), her quirky little brother… |
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You can now watch Millennium Actress legally online for free
…isolation. He also learns that in spite of her advanced age, she has lost little of her famed charm or elegance. As he interviews her, Genya learns of Chiyoko’s troubled… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…of the Megalis production team that we worked with, our CG partners. All of the forest was created procedurally. Rather than building every little tree of the forest, they basically… |
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Watch Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman draw various cartoons in his show’s style
…other modern cartoons and draws them in the style of his show, including Gravity Falls, TMNT, and more. It’s a fun little clip that fans of his work should appreciate…. |
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Godzilla stomps softer than expected
…going to be very happy about. And, as was noted last week, this is after months of so-called “negative buzz” surrounding the movie’s release, which emphasizes how little stock studios… |
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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…collaborated on over fifty films, and I learned a great deal during our time together. A little more than five years ago now, I moved into my own studio and… |
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Cruising with Hotel Transylvania 3 vis dev artist Lizzie Nichols
…to shine. The underwater volcano scene, for example, has very little dialogue, so it makes for a very dreamlike, fun sequence. Also, there are similar low levels of dialogue in… |
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The first Aladdin trailer is here
…as The Genie might be a little disappointed, however, as this preview is very strictly a teaser. The movie opens everywhere Memorial Day. Aladdin is the exciting tale of the… |
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Pixar to go Onward in 2020
…in a suburban fantasy world, Disney•Pixar’s Onward introduces two teenage elf brothers who embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there…. |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
…Miles’ family a little more, such as a closer understanding of the strained relationship between his father and Uncle Aaron for audiences that aren’t familiar with the comic books. Directors… |
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Oscar shortlist finalists for animated shorts, visual effects, and music announced
…The Hate U Give The Place Where Lost Things Go from Mary Poppins Returns Trip A Little Light Fantastic from Mary Poppins Returns Keep Reachin’ from Quincy I’ll Fight from… |
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Dragon Ball Super: Broly explodes at box office with surprising third place finish
…reports that the film made $10 million over the three day weekend, giving it an astonishingly high per-venue average of $22,800. To provide a little comparison to just how big… |
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Spider-Man, Bao win animation Oscars, First Man wins VFX award
…Effects. Paul Lambert said, “What a truly magnificent moment. We did things a little bit differently on First Man and being recognized by the Academy is all the more special.”… |
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The birds and pigs team up in The Angry Birds Movie 2 trailer
Sony has launched a new trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 2 that reveals a little more of the film’s plot. The film will be directed by Thurop Van Orman… |
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Unconventionality rules in final Uglydolls trailer
…Trolls and Toy Story, with a little bit of The Greatest Showman thrown in for good measure. The “animated musical event of the year” (well, unless you count Frozen II)… |
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Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel
…After pitching the concept to a number of studios with little to no results, it took a gag promoting one of their livestream sponsors D&D Beyond to finally achieve an… |
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Endgame passes $600 million mark stateside, $2.1 billion globally in second weekend
…they’ve been marketing the film fairly heavily since attaching a teaser to The Grinch, the numbers have to be a little disappointing. Uglydolls faced the hurdle of being from a… |