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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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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)…. |
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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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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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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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Taking animation seriously
Contactmusic and the AP say it’s time to take the animation category at the oscar seriously. Brave director Mark Andrews says, “I think this year with these films — and… |
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Unique Props from ParaNorman auctioned
Variety – The Children’s Charity of Southern California is hosting the online auction of two props used in LAIKA and Focus Features’ comedy thriller ParaNorman, which is Oscar-nominated for Best… |
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The Longest Daycare now online
Fox’s animated Simpsons short film Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare is now online for your viewing pleasure over on the studio’s official YouTube page. The Oscar-nominated cartoon features Maggie… |
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The art and technology of Paperman
…with standing traditions” and married “the tangibility of CG with the human grit of a pen on paper” to bring home Walt Disney Animation’s first animated short Oscar since 1969…. |
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Animation Guild provides free lunch to VFX house Rhythm & Hues
…of visual effects house Rhythm & Hues. Last month, Rhythm & Hues – whose artists won an Oscar this year for their work on Life of Pi – filed for… |
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Thomas Newman to score Pixar’s Good Dinosaur
…mark Newman’s third collaboration with the studio, having provided Oscar-nominated scores for Finding Nemo and WALL-E. Directed by Bob Peterson, The Good Dinosaur tells of one boy’s friendship with his… |
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Guardians tops home entertainment charts
Rise of the Guardians premiered atop Nielsen Video’s First Alert sales chart, which tracks overall disc sales, and Nielsen’s Blu-ray Disc sales chart. Oscar-winner Life of Pi debuted at No…. |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…phase of Pocahontas and Hunchback’s mid-90s Disney (the result of the earlier Beauty And The Beast being taken seriously by the motion picture Academy and their Oscar nomination for Best… |
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Trailer for The Congress now online
It’s been quite some time since Waltz With Bashir was in theaters, but director Ari Folman is following his Oscar-nominated film this year with The Congress, a motion-capture animated movie… |
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Academy changes Best Animated Feature rules
While many candidates for next year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar have yet to be released, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is already looking ahead to the ceremony,… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…The Oscar nomination, but ultimate losing to The Silence Of The Lambs, for Beauty propelled him to find a project that could win the award, the feeling being that it… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…who had spearheaded the creative impetus that powered Disney to its enormous critical and commercial success in the 1990s. The Oscar nomination, but ultimate losing to The Silence Of The… |
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Monsters University
…a sequel — and it went on to win the the Golden Globe for Best Picture! Their second sequel became just the third animated film ever nominated for an Oscar… |
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Paramount woos Wedge, sets date for SpongeBob
Paramount Animation is trying to woo Blue Sky co-founder and Oscar winner Chris Wedge to direct a new animated project titled Monster Trucks for a planned opening on May 29,… |
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Muppets Most Wanted to feature six or seven songs
Fans of 2011’s The Muppets should be happy to know that songwriter Bret McKenzie–who won an Oscar for the song Man or Muppet–is back to write more songs for the… |
