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Kung Fu Panda 3
…the arrival General Kai, a 500-year-old water bison who’s been robbing kung fu masters of their chi in order to make himself invincible. Will Po be able to defend his… |
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Only Yesterday
…Only Yesterday tells the story of Taeko Okajima. In 1982, she is a 27-year-old, unmarried career woman living in Tokyo. She is going to spend her vacation time visiting the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…A parody of the cult B-movie science fiction films of the 1950s, it told the story of Susan Murphy. On the day of her wedding, she would be struck by… |
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Beauty & the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition coming to Blu-ray this year
…ground as the first animated feature film to receive an Academy Award nomination for best picture, and now this tale as old as time joins the Walt Disney Signature Collection… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…be having trouble launching fresh new properties. They would strike gold with How to Train Your Dragon, which became a big commercial hit that was universally beloved. But an attempt… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…next to a huge selection of old and new original soundtrack vinyl records and newfangled Compact Discs. This was the way us old-school collectors dabbled in their hobby, before the… |
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Finding Dory
…beautiful film, and for many years he resisted calls for a follow-up, feeling the story had been told. And told it was: I loved the original and, for me, it… |
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Moana
…told for a long time” and singing “Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme”. Some of the songs were great and will quickly become Disney classics. But… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…The Giant Peach, directed again by Nightmare‘s (and Burton’s old Disney colleague) Henry Selick, and Selick’s own vastly underrated live-action/stop-motion combo Monkeybone, while Burton himself branched off to create a… |
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The BFG
…just come and go along without ever making themselves felt. When asked how old he is, the BFG says giants are as old as time. “We just go on and… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: Tiara Trouble
…Blossom, fierce Buttercup and adorable-but-not-terribly-bright Bubbles are back to fight old enemies like Mojo Jojo and new foes like Manboy, all while dealing with elementary school, getting hungover on a… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…the gold for being something uniquely different while remaining an entertaining picture. Actually, my biggest “what the…?” moment in Kubo‘s success has been to see the “no spinoffs, no sequels”… |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Cyborg, and Booster Gold battling a group of villains in Metropolis, but Batman realizes that something is off about the whole situation. The second episode finds Booster Gold holding fort… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…old and new, being made available on disc had me catching up with some older catalog titles, filling out gaps in my Criterion Collection wants and wish lists from several… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…the two of us met in a café we both like a lot, in Munich, which is the town we’re both from originally. That place is part of an old… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…few decades is film producer Arnold Leibovit. Leibovit considers his documentary The Fantasy Film Worlds Of George Pal to be his most significant film, and he was also the producer… |
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Director Juan Antin talks about Pachamama on Netflix
…Academy Award nominee Didier Brunner ( The Old Lady And The Pigeons, Kirikou And The Sorceress, The Triplets Of Belleville, The Secret Of Kells and Ernest And Celestine), the visual… |
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SpongeBob celebrates 20 years with a Big Birthday Blowout and the Best Year Ever
…But with the 20th anniversary starting the same week my now 19 year old daughter returned from her college orientation, nostalgia and longing for the good old days when my… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…effects and more. Secondly, however brilliant and amazing the Nine Old Men were, I thought that other people deserved praise too among the animators. When I interviewed artists, I could… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…sound like it was recorded on old magnetic stuff. That was for my sample demo, so the engineer tried to emulate it. AV: What’s interesting in your approach is that,… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
Turning Red is certainly the most unlikely of Pixar’s features. It introduces Meilin Lee, a confident, slightly dorky 13-year-old with a solid group of friends, an admirable record in school,… |
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To Infinity And Beyond with Lightyear Production Designer Tim Evatt
…things; and then Pixar called me and told me they wanted me as a set designer on Toy Story 3. It was a good starting point to learn how to… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…like Raiders Of The Lost Ark and King Kong. He was drawn to films where characters ventured out into the unknown. And he found old maps to be fascinating, “specifically… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…Views: The first thing I noticed in Oni is the animation, which seems a great homage to old fashioned stop-motion animation. Dice Tsutsumi: It’s an interesting process, because we originally… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…of any huge titles, old or new, where repackages were plenty but other anniversaries oddly missed. Kino continued to reissue older Olive and Twilight Time discs, as well as updates… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…bold and daring directions, X-Men ’97 would win over fans both old and new with quality storytelling, excellent animation, and outstanding character development. The voice cast, most notably the returning… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…one called Nutty Numbers – a compilation of silly novelty songs. Then there were the amazing Power Records, including their exciting book & record sets; these told stories of comic… |
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\\Fox and the Hound\\ sequel in the works?
…a new 50-something character with a “big moustache and a nice smile” who runs the circus. The man has a bunch of dogs that “look like the dogs from \\Balto\\”…. |
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More animated series coming to DVD
…a “Storyboard-to-Screen” comparison for the show’s opening title sequence. In other DVD news, full-size cover art for the two upcoming All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series DVDs, Friends to… |
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Starz Kids & Family Campaign
…ET Wednesday, Nov. 1 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. The sweepstakes is open to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older… |
