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Beauty and the Beast enchanting its way onto Blu-ray June 6th; cover art and trailer revealed
…Mrs. Potts. Directed by Bill Condon and based on the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, the screenplay is written by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos. Alan Menken provides… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…who again goes a little short again here in just a two page overview that focuses mostly on his work for the film. If being really picky, there are a… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…animator (notably on Fievel Goes West and Balto) before moving to DreamWorks. He started working as a Supervising Animator on Prince Of Egypt and after doing that on several pictures,… |
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Miss Hokusai
…then more things happen. And life goes on. Or sometimes it doesn’t. There is a theme, though, that is spelled out almost too clearly at the end of the film…. |
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Mickey And The Roadster Racers
…is made out of metal) is impressive. Also included are inserts for the Disney Movie Club and Disney Movie Rewards. Ink And Paint: You all know how this goes. Mickey… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…switches between no less than twenty-four different dialects and just goes to show how perfectly the Studio continues to dub its films into not only near mouth-accurate translations but how… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…instantly goes out to her (Deschanel received an Annie Award nomination for the role). Working as a good contrast to them is Timberlake, who gets to voice an almost consistently… |
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Homer meets his biggest fan in special Robot Chicken couch gag
As The Simpsons goes on (and on), its couch gags have become longer and much more elaborate affairs. The latest one crosses over with Robot Chicken, with Homer coming face-to-face… |
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Disney announces Moana to set sail for Blu-ray combo pack and 3D edition March 7
…beautiful, curly hair on Moana and Maui. Take a look at the hair-raising detail that goes into animating each strand, adding performance to the movie that has never been seen… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…to be dynamic characters that change, evolve, and carry the story forward. Mila is a character that goes through a lot of emotions during the film. We have sequences of… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…though Rowan goes in search of trouble often enough too, either in his quest for Kyber Saber fragments, or simply in his efforts to become a Jedi. The Freemakers also… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…small but brave donkey named Bo yearns for a life beyond his daily grind at the village mill. One day he finds the courage to break free, and finally goes… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Picks It goes without saying that 2016 was a dominant year for Disney, producing not one but two fantastic animated films in Zootopia and Moana, both so good I still… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…far as shedding light on the production goes, with the four participants engaging in much good-matured banter and information. Despite its summer release and leafy setting, Pete’s Dragon is the… |
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The Secret Life Of Pets
…Despicable Me series. The latest in a long line of animated doggie pictures, Pets forgoes the temptation to view its world from the dogs’ eye level and only show its… |
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Paddington 2 officially begins production
…has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hundredth birthday, Paddington spots… |
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The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember
…brings the book up to date with mentions of the Pirates Of The Caribbean series and Saving Mr Banks, the latter of which, of course, filmed extensively in, and provided… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…Bugsy Malone of Indiana Jones movies! – there was still one scene that proved too costly and elaborate to emulate. With renewed interest in The Adaptation thanks to its discovery… |
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April And The Extraordinary World
…with Prussia, thereby evading war. Just as important to that twist, the top scientists of the world begin to disappear, and this goes on for decades. Scientific progress halts, and… |
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Sausage Party
…near the end that goes on way too long (you’ll know it when you see it, and that phrase couldn’t be more apt in this case), but beyond that and… |
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Anomalisa
…work in Team America: World Police, although the costuming goes back earlier to that film’s original Thunderbirds inspiration, where the clothes don’t quite fit properly and come off a little… |
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Elstree 1976
…own making, being that, during production on the films, Lucas was consistently frustrated by his blabbing of plot points and a certain disregard for the material. The story goes that… |
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Finding Dory
…that film the emotion comes from the lengths that a dad goes through to get his son back, but in the end Marlin’s son is only missing for a week… |
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Kachow! The Cars 2: Agents On A Mission Tour
…with Up‘s Carl Fredricksen, the studio goes to great lengths in immersing potential audiences into the worlds of Pixar’s characters. Of course, families interacting with Disney characters and settings is… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…a joke goes to far or simply doesn’t work like I’d hoped. The story reel is the best tool I have as a filmmaker. It contains all my answers. It’s… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad, but both Walt and his public yearned for a return of the greatness seen in his previous full-length stories. Due to Wartime economics, Disney… |
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Osmosis Jones
…keeps Osmosis and his team busy fending off viruses, bugs and other illness-inducing invaders. Like Disney’s Tron (where the action takes place within a computer) the concept is that inside… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…the bottom left-hand corner FOR THE WHOLE VIDEO! As it goes, these are pretty average examples of current music promotional clips anyway and probably only one time plays at that…. |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…direct-to-video Buzz Lightyear and Scamp’s Adventure. As far as any DVD-ROM action goes, it seems the all-powerful Cauldron has sucked the very added-interaction life from this DVD – there are… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…earlier live-action Sherlock film for a couple of lines of Holmes’ dialogue, though Rathbone himself had also featured in a Disney film, narrating the Mr Toad segment in The Adventures… |