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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…student films. The nominees for Animated Feature are: Early Man, Incredibles 2, Isle Of Dogs, Ralph Breaks The Internet, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Incredibles 2 leads all productions with… |
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Spider-Verse big winner at Annie Awards
…took home one award. Mirai and Isle of Dogs also earned an award on the Feature Film side. On the television side, Hilda won three awards while BoJack Horseman and… |
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New York goes to the dogs in Clifford The Big Red Dog trailer
Paramount Pictures has released the first full trailer to their hybrid live-action/animation feature adaptation of Clifford The Big Red Dog, which can be viewed above. Based on the beloved series… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…years old. He wrote his first song when he was a little boy, when he was eight or nine, I think. He was always involved with music. As a little… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…while totally absurd, still retain a drop of lifelike realism about them. Odd! Topping them all is Bruno, the dog who’s really gone to the dogs, slipping into exquisitely realized… |
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The Wild
…Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: When young New York Zoo lion Ryan can’t muster up a roar to beat his legendary old man’s, he dreams of escaping into the wild, where his… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…a heart of gold who often fights for just causes on the wrong side of the law, are credited with the development of the “Gentleman Thief” archetype in genre books,… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…with Cats & Dogs, and even though the film had featured any established characters, it was clear to the Studio that these kinds of films were the new de facto… |
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Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell
…She’s afraid that Peter will take the big-ugly girl on adventures with him and forget all about her. She’s not an eleven-year-old girl with a crush on a twelve-year-old boy…. |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…it’s easy to agree with the old Mousetro that the approach is not best suited for the more traditional tales of The Sword In The Stone or Mary Poppins. However,… |
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The Secret Life of Pets
…film is more entertaining, it never reaches any great artistic heights. Potty humor abounds! (Remember the good old days when the potty humor we complained about was implied and not… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…full-grown and very large dogs. DAN: Dad was in the Navy, mom was a travel agent, older brother did have a run doing video game animation before the company he… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…all those years I spent tracking down fuzzy videotapes of perhaps three cartoons each, and the money I paid for those slightly better Limited Gold Edition tapes! Those, my friends,… |
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"Bart Simpson" coming to Toronto
…Life as a Ten Year Old Boy in Toronto this October. Keeping with the theme, audiences will also hear from David Silverman, the Simpsons director who adapted Matt Groening’s characters… |
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Release date for more old-school Turtles?
TV Shows on DVD has obtained a tentative release date for what’s described as a “Season 2” DVD release date for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tv series. According… |
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Combining magic old and new: creating the new Walt Disney Pictures logo
{{link http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002802054 The Hollywood Reporter}} online takes a look at what went into the planning of the new Walt Disney Pictures logo upgrade and reveals rather surprisingly that the new… |
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Fourteen year-old turns down Aardman job due to age
Inspired by the Wallace & Gromit shorts, British filmmaker Lewi Firth Bolton began creating stop-motion animation in his bedroom three years ago. Recently, he submitted his work to Aardman Animations,… |
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For Disney, Something Old (and Short) Is New Again
The New York Times has an exciting article about a potential “renaissance” of animated shorts at Walt Disney Feature Animation. Four shorts are currently in development, including a new Goofy… |
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Pixar, 'old-school at heart'
In a piece that includes spoilers regarding certain Pixar movies such as Ratatouille, the Associated Press via PalmBeachPost.com speculates on the work history of Pixar, noticing the production and reception… |
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Old school 3D making a comeback
In “Depth of a Salesmen” Business Week outlines Jeffrey Katzenberg’s ambitions to bring 3D movies back to the theaters to help counteract the trend of dwindling overall box office numbers…. |
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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle – The Beruna Bridge Sequence
In C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian book, victory is brought to the Old Narnians by the Awakened Trees that push the Telmarine Army back to the Great River where the Beruna… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…monsters, like the old Ed Wood 50s sci-fi movies. That would be the concept where humor and satire would come from. So, I started kind of assembling the team and… |
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Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie (Limited Edition with Plush)
…starts talking about the Gobloon, a monster that can turn creatures into “jaggedy lanterns”, Lumpy suddenly gets cold feet and decides he is too afraid to go out. However, when… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…created by the backgrounds made the show for me, evoking a nice sense of “old dark house” or “dark old bog” or “dodgy little shop”, as needed. It made for… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…the footage and was sold on the show. So, Hanna-Barbera was in business after all. They took over Charlie Chaplin’s old Highland Avenue studio and they got to work producing… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
…a new Secret Society? And hey, let’s throw in Blackhawk Island!) – The title is an allusion to the Legion Of Doom from the old Challenge Of The Superfriends show,… |
