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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…thrown into the mix even when dealing with him specifically. The big-name authoritative interview catch is John Canemaker, here credited not as a historian but as an Oscar Winning Animator,… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…shame it was that the Weinsteins didn’t put Arthur forward for any Oscar consideration, since this track might have been in with a chance. In The Recording Studio With Jewel… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…with the combination of the two Studios most recently producing the Oscar-nominated The Hours. One must also remember that, before heading up Disney from 1984 onwards, the Paramount chiefs were…Michael… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…were popular and Filmation delivered on the requisite action and fanciful bad guys. The writing (primarily by Oscar Bensol, who often explores Superman’s confounding by magic) is pretty intense too,… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…Beery had been a star for over ten years before appearing in The Lost World, and would go on to famously win the Best Actor Oscar for The Champ (1931,… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Oscar time. The Studio artists’ animation is uniformly excellent, apart from the occasional character, and again for such a bustling, crowded film there were not many people on the streets…a… |
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Ratatouille
…For all the toying with gravity, it lacks weight, no pun intended, which could well have contributed to the lack of an Oscar win earlier this year. Long-time Pixar sound… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…small nitpick and again, this wasn’t ever intended to be an Oscar nominee and the movie has a lot of fun getting more right than wrong: a sequence working through… |
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Awards, Neverland's composers, and a 2-disc for the Rat!?
…both. It can only be a matter of time before director Brad Bird adds the ultimate golden statuette – the Oscar, of course – to his growing collection of accolades… |
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Meet Madame Tutli-Putli and one of her directors!
We’ve a great way to end Oscar week, with Jeremie’s latest interview. Today he’s speaking with Marciek Szczerbowski, the co-director of Madame Tutli-Putli, nominated for a Best Animated Short at… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…the stories behind his stories (he’s confirmed to be a Jonathan Swift reader, which explains a bit), including a glimpse at the controversial 1945 Oscar-winning documentary short Hitler Lives, which… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…Osborne’s movie makes it three-for-three in this year’s Oscar worthy run of releases from the majors, easily standing shoulder to shoulder alongside Pixar’s WALL-E and Blue Sky’s Horton Hears A… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…All three of these titles came out from Warners last fall, with Yogi catching up to complete our coverage of that batch! We’ve some new announcements for ya: the Oscar-sweeping… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…I’ve often compared legendary producer-director Irwin Allen’s career to that of Walt Disney’s. In action films, from competing as a purveyor of documentary nature films (and winning an Oscar for… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
…(and before finding renewed recognition in The Rocketeer, Edward Scissorhands and, more recently, his Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine), appears again here, teamed up with The Godfather’s James Caan in a… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…awarded by an Oscar nomination, between score composers Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith. Three characters, three different personalities, three different talents that created together a new artform… |
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DWA: Shrek musical on DVD; no Monsters Vs Aliens sequel; future slate announced
DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg announced Tuesday that Shrek The Musical, the Broadway edition of the company’s Oscar-winning animated film, was DVD bound in “unique packaging”. Grossing $380 worldwide, this year’s… |
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Demme to animate Zeitoun
Jonathan Demme, Oscar winning director of The Silence of the Lambs, is planning to bring the book Zeitoun to the big screen as an animated film, according to the NY… |
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Twice as many Best Pictures choices stump the experts!
The Hollywood Reporter suggests the doubling of entries in the Best Picture Academy Awards race could have a major effect on future Oscar winners…or not. Will it mean more space… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…or their rival, DreamWorks. But since Ice Age, Robots and, especially, Horton Hears A Who! I’ve been particularly impressed with the Studio headed up by Bunny Oscar-winner Chris Wedge, and… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
…Fantastic Mr Fox is unconventional, but it still delivers all the beats for mainstream commercial and critical success, and if the early Oscar buzz ends up being valid, I hope… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…a story supervisor on the film. He did production design on the Academy Award-nominated short film, One Man Band, story work on the Oscar-winning, Ratatouille, and was the Head of… |
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Up
…release being the extremely safe Toy Story 3, might be in danger of feeling like they’re treading water. I wouldn’t really feel too safe putting my Oscar money on Up’s… |
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The Princess And The Frog: Almost There (feature film song clip)
…team of John Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman. The Princess And The Frog began exclusively at the Walt Disney Studios Theater in Burbank and… |
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The Princess And The Frog: A Return To The Animated Musical (featurette)
…team of John Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman. The Princess And The Frog began exclusively at the Walt Disney Studios Theater in Burbank and… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…some excellent swordplay and fighting talk between the leads, and Alfred Newman’s Oscar-nominated Robin Hood score goes some way to play up the (intended) similarities between the two. Indeed, it… |
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Zorro, Zorro, Zorro…and memories of Richard Todd
…to his Oscar-nominated breakthrough The Hasty Heart, with Ronald Reagan, and Rob Roy and The Dam Busters among others), where he was the Studio’s biggest contract star draw throughout the… |
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The Princess And The Frog: Never Knew I Needed Music Video
…Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman. The Princess And The Frog began exclusively at the Walt Disney Studios Theater in Burbank and Ziegfeld Theater in… |
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AFI honors Coraline and Up
Both Henry Selick’s Coraline and Disney/Pixar’s Up made the AFI’s list of the Ten Most Outstanding Movies of 2009. The two animated films were listed among top Oscar contenders such… |
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Brittany Murphy dies at 32
…Luanne Platter on the long running series King of the Hill. She also had roles in the TV shows Futurama and Pepper Ann, and the Oscar winning film Happy Feet…. |
