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DreamWorks, Dragon take home the Annies
…an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, but How To Train Your Dragon won the Best Animated Feature Annie. Pixar’s Day & Night won Best Animated Short Subject and Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob… |
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Newman wins Grammy
Though he didn’t get an Oscar nod for his Toy Story 3 score, Randy Newman was honored by the music industry with a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album… |
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Mila Kunis to join Disney’s Oz: The Great and the Powerful?
…famous wizard who finds himself in the land of Oz. Kunis can currently be seen in the Oscar-nominated Black Swan, and is the voice of Meg on Fox’s Family Guy…. |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…the clip was happy to point out who won what at the Oscars that year but failed to mention Bambi’s three nominations, which also go unmentioned anywhere else too! The… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…real-life Bridges, emoting like the just-Oscar winner that he is (in another choice I found odd, young Flynn/Clu appears to have gained quite a bit of bulk given his much… |
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King Kong lives!
Hot on the heels that Peter Jackson is to direct his long gestating The Hobbit movies comes news that another character he brought to the screen, in 2005’s Oscar-winning King… |
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Newman gets star on Walk of Fame
…animated film — 1995’s Toy Story. Since then he’s become one of the most popular and honored animated film composers around. Ten of Newman’s nineteen Oscar nominations have been for… |
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Dumbo finally on Blu-ray for 70th Anniversary!
…In addition to its Academy Award for BestMusic, Dumbo was also Oscar-nominated for Best Song, for the haunting lullaby, “Baby Mine.” Additional songs from the film, written by renowned composer… |
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Fox challenging Up?
…for the Oscar? The New York TImes makes the case — in their usual in-depth fashion. Awards Daily, however, much more tersely replies “but critics don’t vote on the Oscars”…. |
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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…. |
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Will Avatar sink Titanic?
…of mouth and buzz about potential Oscar nominations. Currently standing at $430 million, Avatar would have to make about $170 million more in order to best Titanic’s $600 million gross…. |
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Blue Sky in the spotlight
…is the last of his kind”; The Leaf Men (directed by Blue Sky co-founder and Oscar winner Chris Wedge) is based on the William Joyce book; and Ice Age 4…. |
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Hoodwinked Too! toys now at Burger King, despite movie’s delay
…desperate need for a hit right now. The studio has been going through financial trouble for a long time, with their Oscar hopeful Nine bombing with a current box office… |
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The Secret of Kells coming to DVD/BD in October
New Video has announced that they have acquired U.S. television, digital, VOD and home video distribution rights to the Oscar nominated animated film The Secret of Kells and will be… |
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Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective
…The White Seal. On March 25, 1996, Jones’ work was celebrated with a special Lifetime Achievement Oscar, presented to him at the Academy Awards by Robin Williams. In addition, Chuck… |
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Trailer and poster for The Secret of Kells
Collider shares the promotional trailer and the first poster for The Secret of Kells. Nominated for best animated film Oscar, The Secret of Kells opens in theatres this spring…. |
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Avatar comes to home video in April
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that it will launch director James Cameron’s Avatar on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Thursday, April 22. The Oscar winning epic is the highest… |
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The lighting and look of Dragons
The New York Times discusses the lighting and overall look of DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon with director Chris Sanders and cinematographer and eight time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins…. |
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How To Train Your Dragon
…Feet and Horton Hears a Who). Also brought in was eight-time Oscar nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou, No Country for Old Men) — a live… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (song clip)
…second was 2009’s Up), Beauty and the Beast earned six Academy Award nominations and won two Oscars in 1992 for Best Original Song (Beauty and the Beast) and Best Original… |
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Pixar’s Newt cancelled
…April 2008. The film was being directed by Gary Rydstrom, sound designer and director of Pixar’s 2006 Oscar-nominated short film Lifted and was scheduled for a summer 2011 release. … |
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Armageddon
…Airport were based on soapy bestselling books, but the all-star cast brought gravitas and the mold was set: the film’s Best Picture Oscar cementing the fact that more of the… |
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The Incredibles
…theatrically, the Oscar-nominated animated short Boundin’ is also included here, being the directorial debut of long-time storyman Bud Luckey, running 4:40 in HD. Presented in 1.85:1, the short split audiences… |
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Happy Feet 2 teaser now online
…voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (Pink), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Sofia Vergara, the sequel to 2007 Oscar winner opens in theaters Novemburr 18th, 2011…. |
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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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Critics’ Choice Awards nominations announced
…winners will be revealed when the Critics Choice Awards air on the CW on January 1oth (which, funnily enough, is the same day that the Oscar nominations will be announced)…. |
