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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…with the release of The Lion King 3D. It’s been 17 years since I worked on Pumbaa for the film but for me it’s like visiting an old friend. So… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…Al Feldstein became its new editor and ran the show until the mid-1980s, and although Gaines sold off the magazine in the 1960s to the Kinney Company, he remained Mad… |
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Disney and Pixar announce four 3-D re-releases
…and in the case of younger generations, for the first time on the big screen.” Originally released in 1991, Beauty and the Beast is a classic “tale as old as… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…to star in a series of 60s beach movies that were arguably the equivalent of Lizzie McQuire, Hannah Montana and the like – but for old time Disney fans there’s… |
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Jem’s Popularity is Truly Outrageous
…about how Jem would be in 2011. Jem has returned to airwaves on the the cable channel The Hub, which is a nostalgia refuge for many old animated favorites. A… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…Great Mouse Detective. As the only crew member to work on the original Winnie The Pooh featurettes with Walt Disney and the Nine Old Men, Burny proved to be an… |
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Batman: Year One
…as a teenager, I felt like I was reading something that aimed high and I could certainly see that it was something that young and even older adults could be… |
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Puss in Boots is a Rich Kitty
…are at the top of the charts, but the orange tabby saw a bigger take of $34 million than-beating out the old record of $33.6 million held by SAW III…. |
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Popeye returning to the big screen
The spinach-eating, fist-throwing sailor is making a comeback. ComingSoon.net is reporting that Sony Pictures Animation is planning to make an animated movie based on the old cartoon character, with Smurfs… |
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Cars 2
…movie, because given an entire film here it gets pretty old very quickly and never feels as fun as the filmmakers seem to think it is. And that’s Cars 2’s… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…appearance touting his narcissism. Another notable aspect of this show was that each story Belle told used old Disney cartoons, i.e. Silly Symphonies and classic Mickey and Minnie cartoons with… |
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Javier Bardem chooses not to be Despicable
No Country for Old Men’s Javier Bardem is no longer set to lend his voice to Universal’s upcoming Despicable Me 2, Screen Rant is reporting. Bardem was set to play… |
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Tokyo Gets a Gundam Theme Park
…production materials, archives on future and old Gundam projects, displays of models, and “photospots” to take pictures with Gundam characters. Appropriately themed souvenir shops and a cafe will open alongside… |
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Real Steel
…out of town sideshow scrap (against a bull, of all things), he also finds an old girlfriend, recently deceased, has left him a son whose life he never really wanted… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
…Greetings is catching onto the popularity and revenue old eighties cartoons can generate if they are reinvented. Care Bears is the next cartoon on the reboot list with a possibility… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…thoughts of the writers and producers at Cartoon Network when they are told that Warner Bros. wants yet another Scooby-Doo show? To date, we’ve seen the classic original version from… |
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First Look: Ice Age 4
…for Diego voiced by Jennifer Lopez and Sid’s cranky old grandmother, who will be voiced by Wanda Sykes. A trailer for the July 13th release is expected to make its… |
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The Lorax
…trees or nature to get in the way. Everything they need is mass produced and sold to them — including fresh air, which is sold by the bottle, since pollution… |
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VeggieTales: Robin Good And His Not-So-Merry Men
…because everyone has forgotten his birthday. But it’s revealed at the end of the short that he was never told about leap years, and his birthday is the next day…. |
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Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale
…the cartoon is rendered in CGI, but the mouths look like they were pasted on without being seamlessly blended into the environment. Another way to compare it is with old… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…more than grabs from the original. Rounding out the cast is Robert Guillaume, who here seems to have lost his hold on Rafiki and plays him straight as an old… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…to conduct deadly attacks (that’s scary if you really think about it). The Spectre Of The Pine Barons is an intriguing tale involving a centuries-old battle over the Declaration Of… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…mind, willing to let the narrative unfold without any tricks of editing to make you excited, sad, or worried. Here, the story tells itself on its own terms, in beautiful… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…if you thought the whole “circus afro” bit was getting old from the commercials… In the end, Madagascar is all about fun, and there the film delivers — and improves… |
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Foray, animated programs win Emmys
…Foray. The 94 year old won for voicing Mrs. Cauldron on Cartoon Network’s The Garfield Show. Foray has portrayed such classic characters as Looney Tunes’ Granny and Witch Hazel, Rocky… |
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DreamWorks Wants Classic Media
…While DreamWorks has been able to play with Disney Pixar, many of their popular franchises have waned and have not even matched the same success. Could these new-old titles be… |
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Bob Hoskins retires from acting
In news that will probably sadden many, Bob Hoskins has announced that he has retired from acting, Digital Spy is reporting. The 69 year old actor is currently battling Parkinson’s… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…I talked to them about Hotel Transylvania, they told me I got to do it! AV: What did you like about the project? MM: I’ve done this job for long… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…of the Nine Old Men were still around to impart their knowledge alongside the likes of Leonard Maltin, while Chuck was still at the forefront of the Looney Tunes movement… |
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Hotel Transylvania Art Director Noëlle Triaureau sheds light on the monsters’ domain
…his inspiration for those old horror movies, based on expressive contrasts between light and darkness. That allowed us to focus on action while keeping a part of mystery in darker… |
