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Ratatouille wins PGA award
IHT.com reports that Ratatouille was named the best animated film at the Producers Guild of America awards on Saturday. No Country for Old Men was declared the best feature film… |
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Why Ratatouille could have been nominated for Best Picture
…it above this year’s best picture candidates including No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. In total, Ratatouille has been nominated for 5 academy awards: Best Animated… |
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WALL•E: Angus MacLane’s burning love for BURN•E!
…like M•O, but he is in the feature a lot already, so I did not feel like his story needed to be told as urgently. Also I liked the idea… |
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BAFTA The Future…
…for Actress Marion Cotillard, Christopher Gunning’s Music, Marit Allen’s Costuming and Jan Archibald/Didier Lavergne’s Make-Up) and No Country For Old Men, which picked up nods for Joel and Ethan Coen’s… |
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Clone Wars extends its battle to Cartoon Network
…thrilling, 30-minute “mini-movie†created by the talented artists at Lucasfilm Animation. On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such… |
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Toshio Suzuki talks Ponyo on a Cliff, Takahata's new film
…old boy who finds a little fish, Ponyo, washed ashore. Direct link to the interview can be found here. In addition to this, GhibliWorld also shares some information on a… |
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The title song from One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
Mark Evanier has posted an interesting story about a song he heard when he was eight years old. It was from a 78 RPM Little Golden Record that he won… |
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Calling All Robots!
…and The Polar Express. The project is “a throwback to old Godzilla movies”, and is being penned by Dougherty, Breehn Burns, and Simeon Wilkins. Dougherty also wrote X2: X-Men United… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old… |
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Wall•E meets a hula hoop
A new vignette featuring the title character from Disney/Pixar’s Wall•E can be viewed on SlashFilm. The short clip features the rusty robot playing with an old hula hoop. The video… |
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English cast announced for Spain's Spirit of the Forest
…forest to build a highway. With the help of an old oak tree (Perlman), the animals and their friends fight back with a vengeance. A teaser site is already up… |
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Randy Newman writing songs for Toy Story 3
The 64-year-old singer-songwriter revealed earlier this month to The Gazette that he is currently writing songs for the third chapter of Pixar’s Toy Story franchise in addition to working on… |
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Interview with Ghatothkach director
Sify Movies recently sat down with 75-year old veteran director Indian to discuss his new animated film Ghatothkach and the state of the animation industry in his home country of… |
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New Year's Surprise — Peanuts treats!
…been delayed until ol’ Ben gets himself a new computer to replace his old, regrettably fried, unit. He promises us that the replacement model will be one sweet machine, including… |
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Beowulf and Shrek the Third coming to Blu-ray this summer
…Transformers will get the Blu-ray treatment on September 2nd while season 1 & 2 of Duckmann will be released by Paramount in the ogre’s shadow and on good old-fashioned DVD… |
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Disney and Pixar: a Hollywood marriage that works?
…are also revealed in the article about Pixar’s Up, “a comedy about a cranky, cane-wielding 78-year-old who transports his home to exotic locales by attaching hundreds of helium-filled balloons.” As… |
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Dustin Hoffman discusses Kung Fu Panda, The Tale of Despereaux
…have real emotional issues and I hope you get help.” And if his Panda performance didn’t work? Hoffman smiles. “It’s the animators’ fault!” The 70-year-old, two-time Academy Award winner seems… |
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3-D "a revelation" for Sigourney Weaver
…picked up as if we’d never been apart – like an old married couple.” While filming Avatar, in which she plays an inter-planetary botanist named Dr. Grace Augustine, Sigourney loved… |
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Sylvain Chomet picks Edinburgh for The Illusionist
…by legendary French comic filmmaker Jacques Tati, The Illusionist tells the story of a performer who has to go further and further afield to survive as the old music halls… |
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Bernie Mac and Alec Baldwin onboard Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, more images surface
…2 Africa, the transplants from the Central Park Zoo made famous in 2005’s original try to get back to New York using an old plane. As the title suggests, the… |
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Behind the scenes of Wall•E
…out the whole film on the spot. “He gave me the private show,” laughs the 59-year-old, who ended up working on Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull at the same… |
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Stills and production update on new Wallace & Gromit film
…old-fashioned windmill. The transformation is perfect. Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have ‘disappeared’ this year – but Wallace isn’t worried. He’s… |
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Meet the man behind Big Bird
AP offers an interesting profile 74-year-old Caroll Spinney who has been playing both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch in Sesame Street for nearly four decades now…. |
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Teaser trailer for Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo on the Cliff
…Ponyo who desperately wants to be a human. In pursuing her goal, she befriends a five-year-old human boy, Sosuke-who ironically Miyazaki-san based on his own son Goro when he was… |
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Hello, Dolly! composer moved by Wall•E
…away by the fact that two songs of mine that are close to 50 years old have been used as the underpinning. My eyes were really wet at both the… |
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New trailer for Ponyo on the Cliff unveiled, Miyazaki talks
…available the trailer online. Ponyo on the Cliff tells the tale of Ponyo, a goldfish princess who wishes to become human and in the process, befriends a 5 year old… |
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Only Yesterday amongst top movies not available in US
…re-evaluating her life, as memories from her childhood unfold. Only yesterday, which was a surprise box-office success in Japan in 1991, remains the only film of the Disney-Tokuma Deal that… |
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Poster for $9.99
…feature $9.99. Based on the Short Stories of Etgar Keret, in $9.99, an ad alters the life of Dave Peck, an unemployed, 28 years old and still living at home…. |
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Waltz with Bashir wins British Independent Film Award
Ari Folman’s critically acclaimed animated feature Waltz with Bashir was adjudged best foreign independent film at the eleventh annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) on Sunday 30 November at Old… |
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Keanu Reeves talks Cowboy Bebop
…Spiegel, 27-year-old bounty hunter, who leaves Red Dragons, the Chinese Mafia group, and teams up with Jet Black to roam the solar system in search of bounty and adventure. The… |

