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RIP, Steve 'The Crocodile Hunter' Irwin
At the age of 44 years old, wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin was killed on Monday, due to a stingray attack. Known worldwide as ‘The Crocodile Hunter,’ Irwin starred in such… |
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Disney New Release Tuesday: The Fox and the Hound
Today marks the release to DVD of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Disney classic The Fox and the Hound, the animated film where Walt’s old guard of “Nine Old… |
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Beowulf graphic novel set for April release
…fanatical devotees among those trying to make a 1000-year-old Old English poem attractive to students. Now Candlewick is delighted to help bring Gareth’s Beowulf (slightly revamped) to a larger audience…. |
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Hayao Miyazaki works on Cliff
…Ponyo, who longs to become human, and a five year-old boy named Sosuke. Interestingly, the model for Sosuke is Hayao’s son, Goro Miyazaki, when he was five years old. As… |
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The Animated Seuss
…over fifty books that sold millions of copies (over 200 million at the time of his death, and still counting!). His Green Eggs And Ham is one of the best-selling… |
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Justice League: Season One
…greatest heroes unite to battle the forces of evil and injustice, in a series that brings the old Super Friends into the modern DC Animated universe. And now they’re in… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…Movie Club exclusives worth trying to nab when it makes the Rewards list, from Donald In Mathmagic Land, the Duck Tales movie and Richard Todd-starring adventures of old, to such… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration
…was what basically, if you own a VHS or you own some of the older DVDs prior to the 2005 release of Bambi, that’s what you got.” Then, paradoxically, the… |
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Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures
…has an orange border, I suppose to tie the release in for Halloween. Ink And Paint: I have found it to be normal for fifty-year-old theatrical cartoons to have a… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…and theatre. Theatre productions: world premieres of stage version of Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother by Samuel Adamson at the Old Vic Theatre starring Diana Rigg; David Hare’s The… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…items that were sold to the guests. One item I designed and painted that sold for many years at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland was a Snow White candy… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…and even the old New York woman gets some screen time as she tries to lead lost tourists after their vehicles are commandeered by the penguins. And all that is… |
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Interview with Ponyo on a Cliff singers, Unseen Miyazaki art
…duo of 55-year-old men who sing songs that focus on the sadness and hardships of middle-aged and older men. The song, written by Katsuya Kondo, the film’s supervising animator with… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943
…you view how this took over the direction of the series. The animation is still quite good through this period, but the same old bounce is already being lost. As… |
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New Orleans artist to sing The Princess and the Frog theme song
A NY Times article profiling Mac Rebennack, the 67-year-old New Orleans pianist, guitarist and songwriter better known as Dr. John, drops an interesting piece of news: the artist recently recorded… |
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Arthur and the Minimoys sequels update
Freddie Highmore told SCI FI Wire he just completed the final voice work for two more Arthur and the Minimoys films, inspired by the popular children’s fantasy books of Luc… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
…version of 1850s London. The hero is a 12-year-old who’s grown up in an underground world beneath the city that is full of monsters but must find his way in… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
Everything in Lilo & Stitch, be it the story, the characters, the old school watercolor backgrounds, the incredible Elvis music and even the production process, is extraordinary. Just like Stitch… |
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Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
…an alternate version of the eighties in New York City, Nixon is serving his fifth term as president, America has won the war in Vietnam, the Cold War is at… |
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Max and Mary trailer; clips
…the story of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz, a severely obese,… |
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The Zeta Project: Season One
…Selig to an old employer. The trail has gone cold, but Zeta finds himself taken over by a young electronics wizard named Bucky. Change Of Heart – Dr. Selig is… |
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To Revise or not to Revise: Stan, Kyle and Cartman's Broadening Influence
…can of worms. Star Wars and ET were not the only movies to have old footage added back in. It actually happened many times before that and since in cases… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…Rated PG, Retail: $23.99 Storyboard: In these 16 classic episodes from X-Men: The Animated Series, the X-Men encounter new enemies and old foes in their quest for peaceful coexistence with… |
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Star Trekkin' across the universe! Plus Venture Bros. and Tiny Toons!
…for me, was the jump “three years later” after Kirk has joined Starfleet Academy, and the slightly old feel of a worn out franchise. This was supposedly a movie about… |
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Happily N’Ever After
…is downright old-fashioned at times. From the first minute of the film you know something is not quite right. After the Lionsgate production logo the screen goes dark and you… |
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Ponyo, or Hayao Miyazaki’s Inner Child
…who dreams to be with Sosuke, a five-year old boy who promised to take care of her. It is also about how Sosuke will be able to be true to… |
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Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!
…Ashman’s and Alan Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors distinguished itself by being a true, complete theatrical score but based on pop music idioms from the good old time of rock… |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…pair of books by Mary Norton that had been combined into one volume, called Bedknob And Broomstick. The first story, The Magic Bed-Knob, had been released in 1943, and told… |
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The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
…like old friends, having a fantastic adventure in a surreally mundane way. In this case, mundane does not mean boring; it means is that Wallace and Gromit are completely accepting… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…Secrets of the Caribbean was also made but was shelved for reasons unknown. All told, the Snafu cartoons cost nearly $300,000. The name “Snafu” came from an acronym that was… |
