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Mars Needs Moms
…against a box office take of less than $40m. Causing much embarrassment for the Studio, Disney accepted that audiences were not as embracing of ImageMovers’ style of motion-capture animation as… |
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Strange Magic
…while ILM was also getting into the feature animation arena by providing the visuals for Rango, a unique, off-kilter western. Headed up by the Pirates Of The Caribbean pairing of… |
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The Willoughbys on Netflix: A Chat with Director Kris Pearn
…to name a few. He was Head of Story on Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, and co-directed Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2. Kris has been nominated for… |
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Witch Hunter Robin Coming to the Cartoon Network
…and dark lipstick crowd as well as to anyone who enjoys a rollicking dark fantasy adventure, which combines teen drama with cool action sequences as the young protagonists take on… |
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Fox's American Dad; Licensing news
There’s a ton of new stuff to get through over at Dark Horizons today, but of most interest is this peek at Fox’s forthcoming animated sitcom, {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040520c.php American Dad}},… |
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Sky Captain CD to be included with DC comic books
…with the trailer and a sample game plus other extras from Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow in both Batman: Legends Of The Dark Knight #182 and Nightwing #96…. |
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The MPire Strikes Back
…have an animated commercial up advertising their new Darth Vader dark chocolate candies featuring colors that seem to be taken from the Dark Lord of the Sith’s robotic chest plate…. |
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Boomerang welcomes Batman, Superman with marathons
…wiping out crime following the death of his parents at the hands of a criminal. In the 1996 series Superman: The Animated Series, the Man of Steel, alias mild-mannered reporter… |
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Making Ginja Ninja Cool at this year's MIPCOM
One of the projects of interest to animation fans being shown and launched at this year’s MIPCOM, the audiovisual content show hosted in Cannes later this month, is \\Ginja Ninja\\… |
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Weinsteins meet Azur & Asmar
…boy with blue eyes; Asmar has dark hair and dark eyes. As kids, they fought and loved each other as brothers do. As grown-ups, they mercilessly become rivals in the… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…too much. I think that most of the music is seen through the point of view of the children. That was the concept of the first score and that’s the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…episode of The Wonderful World Of Color, from the September of 1961, that had new creation Ludwig Von Drake bring us through the history of Disney film, from the silent… |
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David Fincher teaming with Blur on CG project
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Dark Horse Entertainment, David Fincher and animation house Blur Studios (Gopher Broke) are teaming up to bring cult comic The Goon to the movies as… |
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Weekend box office totals
The office earnings for last weekend can now be read at Box Office Mojo. Coming in at number 1 to no one’s surprise is The Dark Knight, which squashed competitors… |
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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…series we all loved. It maybe doesn’t have quite the emotional depth of Mask Of The Phantasm, the humor of The Batman-Superman Movie or the mythos-redefining punch of Return Of… |
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Broken Saints (Original Release)
…disc’s part of the story. Not coincidentally, this Act has some of the most impressive graphic design and special effects of all of Broken Saints. It is not nearly as… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…bride (Helena Bonham Carter) cuts him off, though, and Victor falls unconscious… …and awakes in the Land of the Dead. Victor is totally disoriented, faced with the dead denizens of… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…get to see much of the cartoon versions of the Challengers Of The Unknown or The Suicide Squad, but even as it does rob the story of some of its… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…be one of the most popular and memorable cartoons to come out of the 80s. The Secret Of The Sword (the first five episodes of the series) begins with Adam,… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen, James Cameron’s Ghosts of the Abyss, Holes, his videogame score for Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and James Cameron’s (again!) Dark Angel… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
Jeremie Noyer speaks with art director Olivier Adam about the adaptation of the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup and a spool of thread, The Tale Of Despereaux!… |
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Appreciation for Filmation!
…a new Darkwing Duck giveaway. Get your mits on Volume 2 of the little dark dark’s crimefighting adventures by shooting your entries over to us before next Tuesday! – Ben…. |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…collection of Halloween tales should have been “House Of Spooks”. Or better yet, “House Of Musical Spooks”, as most of the cartoons on show here are less to do with… |
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles on the Road To…San Diego!
…neat comparison of Batman: Gotham Knight, the new manga anime-styled story background for the Dark Knight, on its three various formats: high-def Blu-ray, standard DVD and a 2-disc Special Edition…. |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…Harryhausen and Pal method of inserting extraordinary creatures into a scene, to the resurgence of the claymation of Aardman and the most popular new wave of Burton-esque toned films (from… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…of the audience to catch up. Of course, opening at a time when most of the world was then embroiled in a major war, closing off many of the foreign… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…dynamics of the core characters of Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash, Superman, and Green Lantern. A fun episode that includes many of these characters is Kid Stuff when child versions of… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…the extended toy commercials of the 1980s had all but put me off television animation, though the launch of Batman: The Animated Series, which fed off the hype surrounding Burton’s… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…a heart of gold who often fights for just causes on the wrong side of the law, are credited with the development of the “Gentleman Thief” archetype in genre books,… |
