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The making of Disney’s Treasure Planet
A treat for fans of Disney’s underrated, Oscar-nominated animated feature Treasure Planet can be found today on Blu-Ray.com. The site has an excellent–and very long–look at the making of the… |
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Ernest Borgnine passes away at age 95
Legendary actor Ernest Borgnine, who won an Oscar for his performance in the film Marty, has passed away at age 95, The Atlantic Wire is reporting. In recent years, Borgnine… |
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Home On The Range
…Tigger Movie, The AristoCats, Planes, and the too-Forrest Gump, too-quirky, too obvious Oscar-bait The Odd Life Of Timothy Green, already annoying before anyone really knows much about it. The Main… |
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The Elusive Rose of Versailles Finally Comes West
…the web. The anime is about a girl named Oscar who was raised as a boy and serves as a guard during the reign of Marie Antoinette. The DVDs will… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…medium, from theatrical releases and TV feature films to the concert stage and computer games. His first major film score, for the Lawrence Kasdan Silverado, brought him an Oscar nomination…. |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…the end of the 1940s. Although Walt’s color short subjects from 1931 onwards had gained critical applause and an Oscar each year for the Studio, putting it at the forefront… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…Ralph — Walt Disney Animation Studios JURIED AWARDS Winsor McCay Award — Oscar Grillo, Terry Gilliam, Mark Henn June Foray — Howard Green Ub Iwerks – Toon Boom Animation Pipeline… |
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New teaser trailer for Spanish toon Foosball
…get back together after having been dismantled. Juan Jose Campanella is best known for his Spanish thriller The Secret in their Eyes which won the 2009 Best Foreign Film Oscar…. |
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Happy Feet Two
…an Oscar for Best Animated Feature (fairly or unfairly, depending how you look at it, beating the mighty Pixar’s Cars to the finish line). That was a decision that rankled… |
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Brave surprises with Golden Globe win
…Guardians, Hotel Transylvania and Frankenweenie for the prize. The Golden Globes, however, are not always good when it comes to predicting the Oscar race. The winner for Best Animated Feature… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…Disney had already found success in adapting the works of Anderson, with The Little Mermaid in 1989 and the Oscar-nominated short The Little Matchgirl in 2006. But the studio faced… |
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Download Oz character posters
Disney has released five new character posters from their upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful. The posters feature James Franco as Oscar Diggs, Rachel Weisz as Evanora, Mila Kunis… |
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Disney posts Paperman online
Disney Animation’s YouTube channel has posted the full Oscar nomianted short Paperman. “Introducing a groundbreaking technique that seamlessly merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques, first-time director John Kahrs takes the… |
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Frankenweenie
…computer generated toys, cars and animals, however, at least these stop-motion films stand out from the crowd, the recent success and surprise Oscar nomination of Aardman’s The Pirates! being a… |
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40th Annual Annie Award winners revealed
…Animated Feature Production Nicholas C. Smith, A.C.E, Robert Grahamjones, A.C.E., David Suther Brave — Pixar Animation Studios JURIED AWARDS Winsor McCay Award — Oscar Grillo, Terry Gilliam, Mark Henn June… |
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Tim Burton talks Frankenweenie box office and more
…it. It’s a part of life. This is the most sort of life-affirming, fun, positive version of that.” Frankenweenie is nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature this year…. |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…when needed, but also full of big brassy moments including the signature three-note fanfare for our hero. Unbelievably, neither the songs nor score were even nominated for Oscars, although Disney… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…has been dumped directly to a home video release when it deserved so much more (such as an Oscar nomination). The traditional, hand-drawn animation literally sparkles, and is the richest… |
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore now online
The Oscar-winning short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is now viewable online for those who are curious to see it, with the link to the cartoon… |
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New Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer
…reboot will include all computer-animated apes, created by the Oscar-winning special effects company WETA Digital (Avatar, King Kong). Starring James Franco and Brian Cox, and feauring Andy Serkis as Ceaser,… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…a token “fun role” Oscar nomination in the process. By the time of the film’s inevitable sequel Dead Man’s Chest, the cat was out of the back, so to speak,… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…Oscar-winning Hans Zimmer, one of the most successful film composers of the time. This fruitful association has lead to significant credits and contributions on several top-ranking films produced in recent… |
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Animated King Kong movie now in the works?
…well known for. King Kong, of course, has been remade before, both in a critically despised 1976 remake and in an Oscar-winning, mega-budget version of the story from Peter Jackson…. |
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Another Change from the Academy
…are released. They also decided to make the category permanent, meaning the board won’t vote each year to include animated movies in the oscar running. More from the LA Times…. |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…the serious tone. Chief among those bringing a sly humor to the proceedings is Gene Hackman, a then-recent Oscar winner (ironically enough for French Connection) and also bringing some serious… |
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Hanks: Pixar working on Toy Story 4
…a total surprise given the critical and commercial success of the previous Toy Story films, in particular last summer’s Oscar-winning threequel, it was thought the trilogy was complete. This is… |
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Apes Rise at the box office
…much notice, in fact, that there’s even been some talk of Andy Serkis–the actor behind the motion capture behind Ceaser–might score an Oscar nomination for his work in the film…. |
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Disney and Pixar announce four 3-D re-releases
…five Oscar® nominations and winning two. It has grossed $380.4 million worldwide. First released in 2003, Disney•Pixar’s Finding Nemo takes audiences into a whole new world in this undersea adventure… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…Hanks, the then-Oscar winning star of Philadelphia and soon to be another winner for Forrest Gump. Hanks was sold, and the film picked up traction, bringing on board the lead… |
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At long last, The Lone Ranger finally begins production
…Verbinski, who just won an Oscar for Rango, The Lone Ranger is set to shoot silver bullets on the big screen just in time for Memorial Day weekend in 2013…. |
