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Totally original and not at all a rip-off Wings now on store shelves
…the exact same plot. It’s fitting that Wings shares a title with the first movie to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture, as those who watch the film’s trailer… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…in the 30s, and was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for Best Short. Mickey’s short looks the better of the two here, but it’s unfortunate that the BD uses the… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…regular Oscars, but also help promote it on the radio and in the singles chart at the same time. Thus Katzenberg lined up a still impressive number of musical talents… |
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Now Playing: The World’s End and more
…glut of those already. Fun, but disappointing. The highlight once again is Chloe Grace Moretz, who will have an Oscar for something within the decade. August 16, 2013 / 103… |
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John Kahrs of Paperman leaves Disney
In an astounding move, John Kahrs, director of the Oscar-winning animated short Paperman, is set to leave Disney. An unofficial resignation came from a post on the Disney Animators Twitter… |
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John Kahrs explains why he left Disney
Anyone would think John Kahrs was crazy for leaving Disney after his Paperman short won the Oscar, thus abandoning a promising career. Kahrs offers us curious fans a statement about… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…an iPhone app. We have a long-running Oscar contest that has given away over $1,000 in prizes over the years. Our forum, also turning ten this year, has been the… |
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Snowman and the Snowdog nominated for Children’s BAFTA
…its Oscar-nominated predecessor, The Snowman, which won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Children’s Programme in 1983. For its own BAFTA, The Snowman and the Snowdog will face The Amazing… |
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The Academy speculates about special effects and animation
…would change their rigid constraints on what qualifies for an animated film in his editorial, “Oscars: With Films Like Gravity, Where Does Animation Branch Draw the Line?” Debruge points out… |
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Criterion Collection edition of Fantastic Mr. Fox on the way
The Criterion Collection will be releasing a special deluxe edition of Wes Anderson’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated comedy Fantastic Mr. Fox on Blu-Ray and DVD, Blu-Ray.Com is reporting. Among the all-new… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
Ten years ago, Brother Bear, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 44th feature, entered theaters nationwide. Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature, the traditionally animated film grossed more than $250 million worldwide, becoming… |
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Gollum creator Letteri talks evolution of computer animation
With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug now in theatres, Joe Letteri, the Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, writes for the journal Nature about the evolution of computer animation…. |
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Saving Mr Banks
…I didn’t think they truly inhabit their characters apart from two or three moments each, and the film may have too light a touch to really win over Oscar voters… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…all manner of photos, from film sets, to movie marquees, to behind-the-scenes shots from the films, to Pal posing with his Oscar, Robert Wise, and Ray Harryhausen. Reminiscing With Puppetoon… |
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Peek behind scenes of Pacific Rim, Star Trek, Lone Ranger with ILM
Over the past two weeks (and probably in anticipation of the recent end of Oscar nomination voting) the Industrial Light & Magic YouTube channel has posted almost 30 minutes worth… |
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Paperman director goes to Paramount’s Shedd
Variety reports that Oscar winner John Kahrs, of Paperman fame, has been chosen to direct Paramount Pictures’ Shedd. “Tripper Clancy is writing the script, which is based on an original… |
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Animated Van Gogh movie now in the works
…at BreakThru Films, the studio responsible for the Oscar-winning 2008 animated short Peter and the Wolf. The aim of the film is to tell the story of Van Gogh in… |
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American trailer and poster for Ernest and Celestine now online
The Oscar-nominated Ernest and Celestine will be getting its US release soon, and Collider has a trailer for the English-language dub as well as the film’s American poster. The movie… |
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Ernest & Celestine director discusses how he started
…would change everything. Didier Brunner, the French producer behind Oscar-nominated films The Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells, had liked one of Mr. Renner’s short films and invited… |
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Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep Movie gets its first teaser trailer
…Shaun, who was first seen in the Oscar winning Wallace & Gromit short film A Close Shave and got its own TV show later, proving to be one of Aardman’s… |
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Prolific animation composer Powell profiled
Variety looks at the career of composer John Powell. “Twenty of his 54 features have been animated. And with a resume that also includes a 2010 Oscar nomination for his… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…announced it would deduct $47 million off its previously-reported fourth-quarter earnings. Treasure Planet received a boost in recognition with an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. However, the notice was… |
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Updated: Studio Ghibli may no longer make feature films
…would be, of course, remains a question. The news is not completely surprising. Last year, studio founder and celebrated Oscar-winning animation director Hayao Miyazaki retired after finishing production on The… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…anyone else to take over the film. As we now know, the film was completed and was even nominated for an Oscar.) Takahata is often discussed, but only shows up… |
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Big Hero 6
…first time the same studio has taken away both the Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Oscars on the same night since the inception of the Feature award in… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…announcement that Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow would helm Episode IX. Abrams appearing along with the new faces of Star Wars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, and Oscar Isaac to reveal… |
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
…the new leads–which really are the focus here–are extremely likable and appealing. Daisy Ridley and John Boyega are both great as Rey and Finn, respectively, and Oscar Isaac, while not… |
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How John Williams brought The Force Awakens to musical life
In this new video released by Disney, the legendary John Williams discusses returning to a galaxy far, far away with his Oscar-nominated score for The Force Awakens. Williams, of course,… |
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A marriage proposal does not go as planned in new trailer for Bling
…supervillain Oscar shows up with an evil scheme involving a ring of his own, Sam’s plans are thrown into utter disarray. After mistaking each other’s rings for their own, Sam… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…did make such a splash that The Good Dinosaur wound up not even being Oscar nominated against it, almost unheard of for Pixar’s track record and probably the last time… |
