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Missing Link goes missing at the box office
…films), but to UA’s credit, they made sure that previews for Missing Link were attached to numerous box office hits, including Aquaman, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World… |
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The Boxtrolls
…for its artists, clearly the best in the business at this point, and this kind of animation artform. However, when it comes to their stories, Laika struggle to compete with… |
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Onward: A Musical Chat with Conductor/Orchestrator Nicholas Dodd
…the dragon. And then, I wanted to push a certain phrase, so I asked them to say it slightly above pitch to bring a certain sonority, a certain feel to… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…film Snake Eyes: G.I Joe Origins—with special content and exclusive interviews from stars Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Úrsula Corberó, Samara Weaving, Haruka Abe, Iko Uwais, Peter Mensah, and Takehiro Hira… |
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Pixar Character Art Director Deanna Marsigliese plunges into the art of Luca
…based in fantasy, you know, with large crests and spines. For Daniela I did look at some dragon work. We tried to get something a little more aggressive in her… |
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First teaser trailer for Spirit Untamed unleashed
…to Train Your Dragon). The film’s co-director is Ennio Torresan (head of story, The Boss Baby), and the film’s score is by composer Amie Doherty (Amazon’s Undone, DreamWorks Animation’s Marooned).”… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…whereas Aardman parlayed whatever concepts they had been nurturing into the slightly similar inventor-caveman stop-motion feature Early Man (with Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton still receiving thanks in The… |
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Mulan
…his father’s death at the hands of the Emperor. Whereas the animated feature saw Mulan have a dragon sidekick in Mushu, the live-action feature has Mulan occasionally guided by a… |
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Disney pushes Soul back to holiday season, Raya to 2021
…out). Not surprisingly, Disney’s Raya & the Last Dragon will no longer open on November 26th, and will now premiere on March 12th, 2012. In Pixar’s Soul, Joe Gardner is… |
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The Call of the Wild barks but doesn’t quite bite at box office
…a veteran animation director–Chris Sanders of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon fame–at the helm. It’s also the first movie to use Disney’s new “20th Century Studios”… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…Dragon Ball Z, and I was asking my mom if I could stay up just a little bit so that I could watch everything. When Domee pitched her ideas, she… |
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Oscar nominations announced; Frozen II shut out of Animated Feature category as I Lost My Body surprises
…it earned a nod for Best Visual Effects as a result. The animation (or animation-related) Oscar nominations are… Best Animated Feature How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (DreamWorks,… |
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Thirty-two films up for Animated Oscar consideration
…Dragon: The Hidden World I Lost My Body Klaus The Last Fiction The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Marona’s Fantastic Tale Missing Link Ne Zha Okko’s Inn Pachamama Promare… |
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Wonder Park’s $16 million opening beats expectations, but did it ride high enough?
…Your Dragon: The Hidden World, but from Captain Marvel as well. Despite all of the so-called “controversy” surrounding Captain Marvel, nothing can stop the Marvel gravy train once it gets… |
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Abominable opens to $20 million
…it, beating the $18 million projection by roughly $2 million. Unlike How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Universal never seemed to give Abominable a full marketing push in… |
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Dumbo takes off with $45 million opening
…Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, by contrast, is quite healthy with a stateside tally of $152 million and more than $500 million globally. Whatever the future holds for the… |
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Abominable
…Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Nevertheless, the visuals on display are breathtaking to behold, realizing key locations of China in a such a way that it beckons viewers to… |
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2019 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…of mine to visit Chris Sanders, the creator/director of Lilo & Stitch and director of the first How to Train Your Dragon. Every year, Sanders sets up a booth and… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…run from this sponge. Raya And The Last Dragon March 5th / FORUM DISCUSSION I reviewed this movie back in March. Read the full review here. BOTTOM LINE: So much… |
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The Bad Guys
…back in 2016. The last time they wowed me? Twelve years ago with How to Train Your Dragon in 2010. They’ve given up their mantle of the “best studio behind… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…of his beloved? Or will Cassio and his band of baby gladiators (yes, baby gladiators!) stop him from being able to even compete? The Sweatbox Review: Let’s start with… |
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Finding Dory
…Third. Looking further down the list finds Ice Age, How To Train Your Dragon, Madagascar, SpongeBob, and Hotel Transylvania sequels. Why do we gobble up every thing those other studios… |
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Big Hero 6 takes home Oscar
…for Visual Effects. Big Hero 6 beat out How To Train Your Dragon 2, Song of the Sea, The Boxtrolls, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya. Feast topped The Bigger… |
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Big Hero 6
…praise too, resulting in its Academy Award win (over DreamWorks’ supposed certainty How To Train Your Dragon 2) just two days before its Blu-ray release hit the stores. Interestingly, although… |
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Spirited Away
…with a feud between Yubaba and her twin sister, assisting a dragon-transformed Haku, and ever more delirious sights and circumstances. As the story progresses, it only gets crazier and more… |
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Dinotrux
…as impressive as DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon show, the animators do find a way to make the dinosaur trucks work. They actually look pretty cool, and have a… |
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Ratchet & Clank
…Clank, Angry Birds, Warcraft, Resident Evil, Assassin’s Creed, Uncharted) with at least four more in various states of production coming later (Dragon’s Lair, Tomb Raider, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sly Cooper)…. |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…the lead, they released films that covered all forms of animation – hand-drawn, stop-motion, and computer generated – in an attempt to compete with the industry elite in Disney, from… |
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Sparks fly at box office thanks to Shazam!
…saw it happen with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle back in 2017, and we saw it as recently as this year with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World…. |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…afraid to be who they are. You can also see that in films, more recent films like Encanto or Raya And The Last Dragon. They’re bringing in new cultures. They’re… |
