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Planes
…woo back the interest of the older crowd the film strives to be as accurate as possible in its depiction of aviation — from the use of terminology to tactics… |
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UPDATED: Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return gets a theatrical trailer
…her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). Wiser… |
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Saving Mr Banks
…first place). Personally, I couldn’t get past Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Hanks portrays the old Mousetro well, and he certainly captures the essence of the role and even manages… |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
…being Lachauer’s professional directorial debut. With his wife and four-year-old daughter, Lang remained in London for most of the production, directing via Skype, while Lachauer worked “on the ground” at… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…told him I remembered he and the rest of Howard Ashman’s cohorts talking about a passion project of his and its catchy demo. AV: Did you meet him personally? DL:… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #56: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Santa Hates Misfits
…• The history behind the longest-running Christmas special of all time! Nearly 50 years old! • The soundtrack: Composer, Jonnny Marks and “Burl Ives, man, what a snowman!” • Communists,… |
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Larry D. Mann, voice of Yukon Cornelius, passes away
…A Canadian actor who made appearances in dozens of television shows and films, Mann died from “complications of old age” at age 91. USA Today has a list of favorite… |
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Compare animation knock-offs to the genuine Disney article
A tale as old as time is that smaller studios have been copying Disney movies since they realized they could turn a profit with cheaply made knock-offs. Disney has been… |
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The Nut Job
…some of the old 1950s Warner Bros. cartoons, which is fun is some places but doesn’t work as well in others. The biggest thing I can think of to praise… |
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Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…one of their most popular hits came in the 80s, when Thundercats debuted in 1985. It lasted more than 100 episodes. Bass was 89 years old when he died. … |
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The Lego Movie
…based on playing in settings like space, medieval times, the old west, and more, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that the movie version of the toy would have so… |
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Ernest & Celestine director discusses how he started
Ernest & Celestine co-director Benjamin Renner talks about the genesis of the film with the Wall Street Journal. The “24-year-old fresh out of film school… got a phone call that… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…went to that old comedy fallback — a heaping dose of the lowbrow. Peabody is filled with the now standard supply of bodily function gags, childish quips (“You said booby”),… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season
…show that operates on its own wavelength altogether… well, you’d have to wonder how long they could keep it up. Fortunately for its fans, even after 52 stories already told,… |
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Behind the animation on Cosmos
…the stories of old scientists and astronomers from history. Yahoo! Movies took a look behind the scenes, revealing that the idea for those scenes came from executive producer Seth MacFarlane… |
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Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints
…audiences. But it made half a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. If you don’t bring new paradigms to old stories, they die. Just like anything in life, if… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…needs a pirate to help catch pirates. They find his old buddy Long John Silver in the Lagoon Nebula, where he is running a smuggling ring. Silver agrees to help… |
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US trailer for Wrinkles now online
…joys and heartbreaks of a man who’s just been sent to an old folks home by his family. The English dub features the voices of Martin Sheen, Matthew Modine, and… |
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Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo!, passes away
…Kasem made headlines a few weeks ago when he suddenly went missing, but we now know that was due to a form of progressive dementia. He was 82 years old…. |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2
…doesn’t seem like it would be a big deal, but it was actually a very bold move by the writers, and the studio for allowing it. In an age where… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…with old friends. And we also had some animators who hadn’t worked on the movie, and for them, it was like working with celebrities! Take for instance Becki Tower, who… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…but not really noteworthy. The only exception was Hal Holbrook as Mayday, the old and rundown firetruck. Of all the characters in the film, his was the only one that… |
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Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
…world. Madeleine does have friends who visit, including two eccentric “aunts” and an older man, but this cannot compare with the opportunities that going to school would bring. Responding to… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #78: The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad – The RotoSPOOKERS
…why do all the women like him? Actually, everyone here is flawed. • The old frolic! • The music makes this film. Bing Crosby is gold! • We rate it!… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season
…the old characters. The season begins with Hot To The Touch, where we follow Finn on his journey to explore the crush he has on Flame Princess. While that episode… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…a need to cover a story point. Now all of this is totally inconsequential to a seven year old boy, the likes of whom the Cars franchise is just a… |
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Maleficent
…Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $36.99 Storyboard: Walt Disney’s classic Sleeping Beauty is retold from an alternate and enlightening new perspective… The Sweatbox Review: With the upcoming Cinderella, another retelling of… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…with chapter stops, which can be watched with either the Japanese or English language track, or subtitles in English or French, or English captions. There is also the old four-minute… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…the other character would be continuing to move around while this character would move the opposite way. Also, I always knew that they were going to grow older at the… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…elements at play as the toys started disappearing one by one at an old hotel, but the fun became bogged down by a subplot involving Jessie dealing with her claustrophobia…. |
