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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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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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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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Enchanted now in theaters!
Opening in 3,632 theaters today is Walt Disney Pictures’ Enchanted. Featuring traditional animation and live-action, as well as new songs from the Oscar-winning duo of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz,… |
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Persepolis screened in Tehran
Variety reports that Oscar nominated animated film Persepolis has finally been shown in public in Tehran. Based on Marjane Satrapi’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis had angered Iranian authorities for its… |
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DVD charts: November 19-25, 2007
…Ratatouille, the Disney/Pixar hit dropped to 4th place in its third week. Interestingly, Black Friday discounts saw Happy Feet jump back into the top ten, with the Oscar-winning penguin pic… |
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Mike Fink on his Golden opportunity
Mike Fink speaks with The Los Angeles Times about his work as visual effects supervisor for The Golden Compass. The Oscar-nominated supervisor especially regards the time constraints and other challenges… |
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Persepolis and Ratatouille share LAFCA award
…award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association annual film awards. The blogsite also talks briefly about the serious competition Ratatouille may face at Annie and Oscar awards, next year…. |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…be called the Tom & Jerry series, leading to almost 120 further cartoons over seventeen years and the first of an incredible eleven Oscar nominations – with seven wins –… |
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First image of The Princess and the Frog revealed
…mark the return of the animated musical with songs composed by seventeen-time Oscar nominee Randy Newman. The animated fairytale is currently scheduled for a US release on December 18th, 2009…. |
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Contest roundup
…Season 5 collection of this… unique series. Last day to enter is February 8th. • The Annual Oscar Contest – The lucky winner will receive a Disney DVD bundle worth… |
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Interview: Marjane Satrapi
…co-director of the animated feature of the same name. The interview elaborates, among other things, on the films’ Oscar-nomination, its upcoming English translation as well as Satrapi’s life as an… |
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Rhythm & Hues opens new facility in India
Culver City-based vfx shop Rhythm & Hues, which won the 2008 best visual effects Oscar for The Golden Compass, has opened a facility in Hyderabad, India. Variety reports that the… |
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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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Sony Pictures Classics to distribute Waltz With Bashir
…in the 1982 war with Lebanon. Last year, Sony Pictures Classics was the domestic distributor of Persepolis, about the Iranian revolution, which was nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar…. |
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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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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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Roy Disney awarded at Cartoons on the Bay; Latest on Destino DVD debut
…1954, when the honoree an became an assistant film editor. Part of the event’s festivities included a screening of the Oscar-nominated short Destino, which Roy Disney executive produced. The film,… |
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Miyazaki to receive Cartoon Network tribute
…home. Spirited Away received an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2002. * Saturday, March 25, at 7:30pm (ET, PT): Princess Mononoke – Princess Mononoke tells the story of… |
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Simpsons director talks The Longest Daycare
Unfortunately, Fox has pulled The Longest Daycare, the final film nominated for the Best Animated Short Oscar, off the web [update: it’s back online!], so hopefully you caught it when… |
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Shark Tale at the Tribeca Film Festival
…the film which were really great. Will’s character, Oscar is great. After the show, Jeffrey ran out, as did the other stars. I caught Mr. Imperioli outside the back door,… |
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A Duo of Triplets News…
The National Public Radio, via Cartoon Research, has a great article about the music of The Triplets of Belleville, and speculates about the film’s chances at the Oscars this year…. |
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THE 76th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – Nemo wins, Rings is King and Krumpet amazes!
The voting is over, the numbers are in, and it’s Oscar night not only in Los Angeles’ capital of film itself, Hollywood, but the world over, with an estimated one… |
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Just who is Sylvain Chomet?
…Best Animated Feature Oscar right up until Andrew Stanton’s name was announced. In addition, animation historian {{link http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Commentary/Belleville/Belleville.htm Michael Barrier writes}} about Belleville and its channelling of “The Ghost Of… |
