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Joe Grant Life Celebration
…from Dumbo and “Willie the Operatic Whale” from Make Mine Music were shown as well as the entire Mickey’s Gala Premiere short from 1933 for which Joe was responsible for… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…year before Mickey tooted his way across the screen in Steamboat Willie in 1928), but the three-disc set will come packed with a collection of period cartoons, early sound era… |
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Disney/Pixar recent business matters
…o-meon (see the “Mickey and the iSteve” article). Also, see a recent Motley Fool article in which Rick Aristotle Munarriz draws a particularly apropo analogy between Disney and Pixar and… |
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Updated: Weinstein catches Igor
…winning director John Madden starring Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Thomas Jane, Rosario Dawson, and Johnny Knoxville; Awake, starring Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen; School for Scoundrels, directed by Todd Phillips… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…including dramatic live-action, musicals, animation (including, of course, Zemeckis’ Roger Rabbit pal Richard Williams’ version and Disney’s own Mickey-take) and even an all-around applauded Muppets movie. Now rubber face Carrey… |
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Nintendo DS becomes Enchanted
Details on the Enchanted Nintendo DS game have arrived at Mickey News. Coming this fall, the game will allow one to play as Princess Giselle, Prince Edward and chipmunk Pip… |
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Enchanted
…pun intended, but this was awfully flat, and yet another Lion King reference feels extremely tired. Finally, flip back to the first bonus page to locate a small Mickey head… |
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The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town: Deluxe Edition
…see the tricks if it paused for anything longer than a second. But while Santa Claus memorably boasted the likes of Mickey Rooney, and Disney favorites Keenan Wynn and Paul… |
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The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show: The Complete Series
…both names that should be familiar to TV sitcom buffs, did Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. Mickey Stevens replaced Sally Struthers in the Flintstones Comedy Hour episodes. Final Cut: The Pebbles And… |
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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…the 1995 short that features an evil Mickey and even a visual allusion to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Dave Bossert mentioned that the eagle-eyed viewer can find in this short… |
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Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!
…Kingdom in the company of Mickey, Minnie and new inhabitant Captain Jack Sparrow! Needless to say, Animated News is being left in the more than capable hands of our excellent… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…just the right note of enthusiasm, earnestness, and even sweetness. It would have been so eay to make The Tick annoying, but with Coleman, The Tick is only endearing. Mickey… |
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My nose ain't that big! Does Pinocchio's Platinum ring true or false?
…a personality in his own right in additional features (Fun And Fancy Free among them) and was, for a long time, second only to Mickey himself and as important to… |
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Spotlight on Mike Gerard
…Institute of the Arts, Gerard’s credits include: Beauty and the Beast, Mickey’s the Prince & the Pauper, The Simpsons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Angry Beavers, Animaniacs, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and… |
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Walt Disney performs magic tricks
…be available next Tuesday and also features a Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers featurette along with two classic Disney shorts: Goofy’s Knight for a Day and Mickey’s Brave Little Tailor…. |
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Walt Disney World's Pleasure Island closing down
Jim Hill talks about “the real reason WDW’s night club complex is shuttering. Which is Mickey’s desire to create a seamless Guest experience for all those shopping & dining at… |
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The success story of Disney On Ice
…foreign expansion strategy — establishing a Disney Channel outpost to pump Mickey and friends directly into people’s homes — has proceeded slowly because of government restrictions on foreign media. But… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…that there was indeed a sinister reason for it. Just as Rudolph and Frosty get their old voices for this movie, Mickey Rooney returns to voice Santa, having previously played… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…Penn for Best Actor, beating out favorite Mickey Rourke. But in most other areas it was business as usual: Penelope Cruz for Vicky Christina Barcelona, Heath Ledger’s inevitable prize for… |
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Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”
…resembles Rota’s music in some of its incarnations. AV: Your approach to animation seems to largely appeal to Mickey Mousing as your score really sticks to the picture. RN: Yes…. |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres
…article describes the project as, “Imagine if John Waters, Ed Wood and Rob Zombie got sick at Mickey D’s and then collaborated on a project. This would be the hallucinatory… |
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Gearing up for Cars
…quick sellout of all 30,000 seats for the premiere at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Animated News correspondents Mickey and Brandon will be there to report on the event. And over at… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…and the park’s president describes Mickey as a cat with big ears! The best thing? The place has been operating for over 20 years! Unbelievable… Lastly today we’ve got a… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…is essentially a trailer any longer! Other previews, also accessible from the Sneak Peek menu, include the Aladdin PE, The Incredibles teaser, Mickey’s Three Musketeers, the upcoming Mary Poppins SE,… |
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New Peter Pan movie in the works
Mickey News reports that Disney is planning a CGI-animated prequel to Peter Pan. The story will be based on Peter and the Starcatchers by well-known humor columnist Dave Barry and… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…see that, although it didn’t manage to garner any Oscar nominations (I’d have swapped Superman Returns‘ visual effects contender in a heartbeat), the Ben Stiller-Dick Van Dyke-Mickey Rooney triple-hander Night… |
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APRIL FOOL'S DAY – AOL Acquires Animated News
…was previously privately held and financed. Animated News was co-founded by animation journalists Joshua “Mickey” Armstrong, Ben Simon, James R Whitson, and Christian Ziebarth in October 2003. Once Animated News… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…the superb Mickey And The Gang book, plus Don Rosa Scrooge collections, and a new book on Carl Barks all worth a mention. Other classic comics receiving the deluxe treatment… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…well. The songs are great, but the score remains Menken’s blend of musical motif and often heavy-handed “Mickey Mousing” the action. He won another Oscar for it, so can’t have… |
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Disney channels’ animated movies, April 2006
…& Company, An American Tail, The Brave Little Toaster, The Land Before Time, Pocahontas, A Goofy Movie, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy: The Three Musketeers, and Tarzan II may be seen…. |
