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Wall•E articles keep flooding in
…The L.A. Times’ Envelope explains why Wall•E “needs no help to win next year’s Oscar for best animated feature” while Coming Soon posted exclusive video interviews with writer/director Andrew Stanton… |
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Wall•E expected to open around $55M this weekend
…sell tickets, but what is so special about this robot?” However many already predict that Wall•E is a lock for the next Best Animated Feature Film of the Year Oscar…. |
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Wall•E headed off to a $60+M opening weekend
…likely winner of the next animation Oscar, will almost certainly top $20M on opening day. One source told the site $60M+ for the weekend and the other says that early… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…a remake of the black and white short Mickey’s Pal Pluto, though it did win an Oscar for Pluto in 1941 and marked one of the few occasions when Pluto’s… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…Oscar winning – performance, or Dick Van Dyke’s hysterically so-bad-it’s-all-part-of-the-fun “Cock-er-nee” English accent, nor even about the protracted history behind the book to screen adaptation. Yes, the film can seem… |
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Back to Back
AWN has a new interview now with Frédéric Back, independent animator of the 1987 Oscar-winning animated short, The Man Who Planted Trees. In the interview Back discusses his current work… |
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Academy salutes NFB cartoons
…event, hosted by animation critic and historian Charles Solomon, will celebrate more than five decades of the NFB’s Oscar-nominated and winning pics with screenings of their acclaimed films such as… |
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The Art Of Pixar Short Films
…Oscar nominations. Getting past the studio’s early history, perhaps the most engaging story concerns the creation of Boundin’, the brainchild of senior Pixar member Bud Luckey. Luckey already had a… |
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Disney pushes Wall-E for best picture nomination
/Film reports that Disney has launched a campaign to get Wall-E nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, an award never won by an animated film. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast… |
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M-I-C-K-E-Y…Happy Birthday, Mr Mouse!
…the likes of Bugs Bunny and Kermit The Frog, and starred in the Oscar-nominated Runaway Brain (1995) before seeing his entire filmography of short films released chronologically to DVD in… |
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Shaun the Sheep wins International Emmy
…Shaun and his flock, was the only animated program recognized at this year’s International Emmy Awards. Shaun was first introduced in director Nick Park’s Oscar-winning 1995 Wallace & Gromit short,… |
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Ari Folman on Waltz with Bashir
…here? I might die in the next hour and why?’”. Waltz with Bashir, which is Israel’s official Oscar entry, will see a limited release in US theatres starting December 25…. |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…Another great bonus feature is Super Rhino. Will it be theatrically screened so that it can be considered for the Best Short Oscar? MW: Sadly, no, but hey – if… |
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Paul & The Dragon: Cartoon Laugh-O-Therapy with the Film’s Creators!
…of the film and we were kinda proud of it. Then we took it to longtime animator and Oscar winner Borge Ring to view it. After like, 20 seconds he… |
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Britain’s Biggest Red Carpet Rolled Out To Celebrate The BAFTA Awards 2009
…in film. Although the awards are often further pointers to the Oscars a couple of weeks later, this year was a very British event with film of the moment Slumdog… |
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Paul & The Dragon
…our world has long been rich in strong animation connection, from Ivo Caprino’s mechanical and stop-motion puppetry and the work of talented artists such as Best Animated Short Oscar winners… |
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DreamWorks' Truckers trucking ahead
Academy Awards can be handy things for screenwriters wanting to get into animation: after Michael Arndt, who won the original screenplay Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, was picked to work… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…unfortunate first cartoon Superman / The Mad Scientist’s really quite awful quality: as one of my favorites, and indeed an Oscar-nominated debut, that this is by far the worse looking… |
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Ponyo to open on 800 screens
…Miyazaki’s Spirited Away topped out at 600 screens the weekend after its Oscar win in 2003 while Howl’s Moving Castle finished with 202 screens in 2005. Ponyo opens in theaters… |
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Academy to double Best Picture nominations
…fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize.” In the past two years Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…together to create the Oscar-nominated song Faithful Forever. Assisting Gulliver through his adventures in Lilliput is Gabby, the town crier and token animated sidekick, while three comedy villains, Sneak, Snoop… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…an entertaining story. Arthur And The Invisibles isn’t going to win any awards – especially now that the Academy has pulled it from consideration for the Animated Oscar. But it… |
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Surf’s Up
…animated penguins of Happy Feet, who went on to pick up the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at a very “green” Oscar ceremony. In 2007 we have the best… |
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Ratatouille
…film would have quite literally earned him an Oscar nomination. It wouldn’t be a proper film set in Paris if the introduction of a woman didn’t complicate things for our… |
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Hardware and software on the way!
…film related entity in the world is handing out the hardware! Oscar has just announced that Ed Catmull (co-founder of Pixar) and Mark Kimball (longtime Disney technical wizard) have been… |
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Cannes you dig it? Plus Disney ditches the Platinums…
…Quixote to the screen. Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas will partner with Gilliam on the film, the first round of filming of which was documented in the devastating documentary Lost In… |
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Review Roundup: Up flies high, plus Hanna-Barbera classics
…these items to your attention before the week ended. First up is Up, James’ review of Pixar’s latest theatrical feature. As usual for Pixar, there’s already lots of Oscar buzz… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…Jerry catches on to the danger and sets out to create as much noise as he can to get Tom into trouble. This was the second straight Oscar win for… |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
…voice and the Oscar-nominated song itself, and refreshing in this overly quick cut age. The extras on the new disc are big fun too, especially the hilariously dated promo record… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…his original Oscar-nominated short into a feature by Tim Burton, has opened at number two at the box-office, with a $15m take. This is healthy for Universal’s indie label Focus… |
