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Cars, Ice Age, Over the Hedge among People's Choice nominees
…the ceremony, as the tunes “Real Gone” and “Life Is a Highway” are two of the three nominees for “Favorite Song from a Movie.” The latter track is likewise in… |
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Miller has Happy Feet
For USA Today, Director George Miller provides a few notes regarding his musical Happy Feet. Utilizing computer and stop-motion animation, the picture also calls upon classic tunes from The Beatles,… |
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Brother Bear 2 sountrack now available
…is now for sale at iTunes. Only tracks of the movie’s score, composed by Dave Metzger, may be bought individually, with Melissa Etheridge’s three new tunes being “Album Only” releases…. |
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Westerberg contributes to Season soundtrack
…Two of which, “Love You in the Fall” and “Right to Arm Bears,” boast the bass skills of Stinson. Other Westerberg tunes on the soundtrack will be performed by Pete… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…and lighter feel to it. Additionally, groovy bubblegum tunes would be inserted into a chase scene around the middle of the story. The lyrics would have nothing to do with… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…filled with catchy tunes and background music. The same songs appear in each show, but they are brief enough to not become irritating. Voice work, by the way, was done… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…left and right of the image? Rounding out the extras is The Best Easter Party Ever sing-along to one of the very catchy tunes from the double-episode length episode. Oddly,… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…own Toy Story 2 remains the best computer animated feature, from any studio. Monsters doesn’t have any of the contemporary pop music tunes that will date Shrek, and skews to… |
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Paul McCartney Web Chat Transcript
…chance you’ll write lullabys for the new generation? Paul McCartney says: I think in these animation pieces there are tunes that seem to appeal to little kids and older kids… |
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Cars
…the spoof on how the Japanese completely fill their TV frames block-solid is laugh-out-loud funny, and the pop tunes work surprisingly well alongside Randy Newman’s otherwise very Randy Newman-esque score)…. |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…powerful moment, drawn and played with maximum impact, the scene fades out and we shoot rather quickly to the next year and the hap-hap-happy tunes of springtime. It’s a moment… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…a little knowing with their references, there are some good tunes on the bill! Needless to say that there are no theatrical trailers for the film itself, though at least… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…a chance to pat Elton on the back for the tunes he composed (this also includes the original crocodile animation from the Can’t Wait To Be King sequence). Orchestral Color… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…This surprising ignorance of the original seeps over into the music as well. One of Disney’s most memorable scores, The Jungle Book contained a number of great tunes and is… |
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AFI names best movie songs
…of yesteryear to contemporary tunes”, with the number one song selected being “Over The Rainbow”, from The Wizard Of Oz. Other placings of interest to Animated News readers: 7. “When… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…One, from LMNT (which does not, I’ve been told, stand for Little Mutant Ninja Turtles!), is a song put to sequences from the movie. A couple of toe-tapping tunes and… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…probably blown your speaker package away, but as a film made up from mostly lengthy non-dialogue scenes and standard pop-music tunes usually only heard in stereo anyway, then the Dolby… |
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Tarzan II review
…at in its predecessor’s ‘Son of Man’ sequence.” Nonetheless, the critic speaks highly of Phil Collins’ new tunes for the feature. Tarzan II will swing into stores on June 14th…. |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Case Study: Standard keepcase, with a bright & shiny, foil embossed slip-sleeve. Inside are two advertising insets, including one with instructions for downloading two Guaraldi tunes. This DVD is also… |
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Interview: Corpse Bride's Danny Elfman; More Bride posters
…Elfman’s tunes, but his vocal role as Bonejangles as well, in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, opening this Friday nationwide. In other Corpse Bride news, the Internet Movie Poster Awards has… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…way. First of all, we had a pop singer, with songs that felt like pop songs ultimately. They didn’t feel like Broadway show tunes. So, this is a different rhythm… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…us to tell you the story of how Cruella de Vil turned out to become one of the most famous classic Disney tunes ever. William Leven, son of the late… |
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Gnomeo now at Miramax
…the duo behind the songs for The Lion King, Aida, and The Road to El Dorado, will pen Gnomeo’s tunes, while Kate Winslet remains attached to star in the movie…. |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…other classic Disney tunes – have all been composed by one of the most famous songwriting teams in music history, the Sherman Brothers. Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman were… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…like to talk about some songs that aren’t in the film, referring to three tunes rumored to have been cut. Is it true that Copper was set to have a… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…contemporary tunes in their sound track. Most of the shorts in this first phase were nature-oriented, but there was a transition to the more urban setting when we get to… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…tunes for Civilization II, Nancy Drew series, and the recent Ultimate Spider-Man game, really does stand out and I hope to see more of his work in the future. The… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…story is surely one of the best Silly Symphonies and the song, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” is one of the catchiest of all Disney tunes. It became… |
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Hans Zimmer and Will.i.am teaming up on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…of tunes on the go. (…) This film takes place in Africa, and I’ve done a lot of things about Africa. And I said to him, ‘Look, let’s go on… |