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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
By Tracey Miller-Zarneke Foreword by Dustin Hoffman Insight Editions May 2, 2011 Hardcover, 156 pages with extensive full color illustrations $39.95 Even just before the movie opens, I’m finding it… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…each issue of the Magazine, the Mad show lines up each episode’s items in fairly routine manner: we get a “main feature” movie or TV pastiche, a fake advertisement or… |
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Batman: Year One
…the groundwork for whatever came next. Warner Premiere’s line of DC animated movies also takes its latest inspiration from Miller, with a direct adaptation of Batman: Year One. The PG-13… |
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Popeye returning to the big screen
…the word.” This won’t be the first time that Popeye has had a movie. He was also the star of a 1980s live-action movie starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall…. |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…of snowmen in history and film along with some trivia. While short, the featurette is entertaining and provides some interesting commentary on the history of snowmen. Case Study: The movie… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…Polanski soon entertained the idea of their own Tintin movie. Warner Bros. negotiated for the rights but lost, unable to promise the “creative integrity” previously offered by Spielberg. In 2001,… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…previous attempts (a 1970s animated special, an embarrassing 1980s movie, and an aborted Hanna-Barbera show) didn’t really stick, and the 1995 to 2008 live-action Fox series MADtv may have run… |
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DC Nation Block – Week 1
…aired a few months earlier in November as a feature movie combining the first two episodes. The movie was exciting and entertaining with much promise for the new show, but… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…brought into the mix, and livens the movie up with his trademark homicidal glee. After Joker gets into the picture the movie picks up the pace and heightens the drama…. |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
Who better than the filmmakers could talk about all the art – and the heart – put into a movie? That’s the idea of some “Art of” books published these… |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
…the Production Designer of Hotel Transylvania, he not only designed Dracula’s place, but the whole world of the movie – a monstrous achievement, no doubt about it! Animated Views: You… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…credit in The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and Jones offering a more pragmatic view in his Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. With the death of Clampett, Tex Avery and… |
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From Paris to home video: A Monster finally arrives!
Fans of offbeat animated movies rejoice: Bibo (Shark Tale) Bergeron’s Euro-animated feature A Monster In Paris is finally headed to the US, when Shout! Factory unleashes the film on Blu-ray… |
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The Turkeys get exchanged for Free Birds
The new movie from Reel FX has changed its title from Turkeys to Free Birds, according to Animation Magazine. The movie is about two turkeys from different walks of life,… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…the same time making the audience accept what they once thought to be impossible. It’s a neat trick. This simple movie generally keeps a quiet tone, and its plotting may… |
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Monsters University
…Monsters University they have absolutely done it again. Toy Story 3 and Up had adults in tears. But don’t worry, if you’re crying during this movie it will be from… |
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Despicable Me 2
…non-Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks movie on the list of the top 20 animated films of all time at the box office, earning over a quarter of a billion dollars domestically. Since this isn’t… |
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Now Playing: The Lone Ranger and more
Welcome to the debut of our Now Playing blog! We love animation,but there are a lot of other movies out there. Now Playing will featurebrief mostly spoiler free critiques of… |
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Turbo
There are good movies — movies that will be around for years to come, entertaining audiences of all ages, moving them to tears or laughter, that filmmakers will be proud… |
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Now Playing: Pacific Rim and more
We love animation, but there are a lot of other movies out there. Now Playing features brief mostly spoiler free critiques of non-animated films currently in theatres that you can… |
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Monsters University coming home in October
Blu-Ray.com is reporting that Monsters University now has an official Blu-Ray date, and will be available to own on October 29th. The movie will be able to be purchased as… |
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Pete Nash talks “wonderfood” animation in Cloudy 2
…designers was great. We invented animation styles based off the designs we were given. For the large foodimals we treated them like a VFX monster movie and gave them weight… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
Any composer would tell you this: the first notes you hear in a movie are certainly the most important ones in order to set the tone and the musical identity… |
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Rio 2
…• A cookie cutter story — The whole movie feels like it was written by executives using the least original ideas from every other animated film: let’s give the main… |
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return opens
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, the first animated movie from new studio Summertime Entertainment, opens today on 2,500 screens, Box Office Mojo is reporting. A “sequel” of sorts to The… |
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No happy ending for Legends of Oz
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return–the first movie from new production company Summertime Entertainment–saw a record-breaking weekend, but not in a good way. Cartoon Brew is reporting that the movie had… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…Jun Falkenstein had been involved with the sequel for about 8 or 9 months. Her previous film, The Tigger Movie, was a hit with critics and audiences, becoming Winnie the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #68: One Hundred and One Dalmatians – Do You Got Any Chloroform?
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers review Disney’s first modern animated movie, the 1961 canine classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3221331810.mp3 Highlights: • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Animated henchman… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…for an Annie award, animation’s highest honor in America, for his work on DreamWorks Animation’s film Bee Movie, voiced and produced by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. His continued long-term working relationship… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #75: Quest for Camelot – Draw That Axe in a Chicken Suit
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers head back to medieval times to discover King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and a really bizarre movie: Quest for Camelot…. |
