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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…It was in 1952 that she became Sleeping Beauty, and while working on the movie, she also took part in several movies directed by her husband, the late Frank Tashlin,… |
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Surf's Up now in theaters!
…How will Surf’s Up do at the box office this weekend? Lee’s Movie Info believes the movie will capture close to $19.2 million. However, both Box Office Guru and Box… |
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Early Oscar talk for best animated film
Though the event is still several months away, early Oscar talk at The Envelope predicts that The Simpsons Movie and the Parisian-set Ratatouille will be the the main contenders this… |
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Bravestarr: Volume Two
…including its “Best Of” release, the movie-only release, and the first volume of the complete series. Well, this is it. With the release of this volume, we see the final… |
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The Los Angeles Animation Festival 2007
For 2 days in October 2007 Hollywood gets its first animation festival in over 5 years- The Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAAF) at the beautifully renovated art deco “Silent Movie… |
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Twelve films submitted for animated Oscar
…Theaters, Bee Movie, Beowulf, Meet the Robinsons, Persepolis, Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, The Simpsons Movie, Surf’s Up, Tekkonkinkreet, and TMNT Three films (Alvin and the Chipmunks, Beowulf, and Persepolis) have… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…we remember with the he-he-he laugh. Most unusual is the original opening, not seen since original airings and eventually replaced with the third season’s “Meet The Flintstones at the movies”… |
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Beowulf #1 in DVD sales charts
Internet Movie Database reports that the CGI epic Beowulf took top spot in this week’s DVD sales charts. The movie had an intake of $10.9 million in rentals, beating American… |
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Behind the scenes of Wall•E
…a very charming, romantic movie. The power those animators have to give life to non-human things, to make you love what is basically two eyes on a stick, was thrilling.”… |
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Panda directors discuss kung fu
…a broad audience. But we saw it as a great opportunity. We wanted to make as real a kung fu movie as we could while also making a funny movie.”… |
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Wall•E worldwide premiere and early buzz
…“That’s why you go to the movies: to see something different. I spend four years on these movies. I don’t want to do them twice.” John Lasseter added, “Every Pixar… |
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Fly Me To The Moon producer interview
…and released only in 3-D. It’s a great little G-rated movie, pure G, as G as any movie you’ll ever see. Great cast, with Tim Curry and Nicolette Sheridan and… |
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No new scenes for Toy Story 3D re-releases
…next year. Jim Morris, producer of Wall-e, adds, “We’re not changing a thing in the movies. We’re doing it that completely preserves the original movie in terms of everything about… |
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Monsters vs Aliens trailer online
…DreamWorks’ Monsters vs Aliens is the studio’s first movie produced using 3D technology. Directed by Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon, the movie is slated for a March 27, 2009 release…. |
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Batman, WALL-E, Simpsons winners at PCA
…won for Favorite Animated Comedy. The Dark Knight was the big winner picking up five trophies: Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, Favorite Cast, Favorite On Screen Match-up, and Favorite Superhero…. |
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Bolt, Lilo, Stitch…plus their creators!
…next film, a canine road movie that went under the name American Dog. Of course, the movie changed dramatically under new Disney honcho John Lasseter and eventually emerged – sans… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…though this movie did disregard some of the continuity of the original show by showing Jonny’s mother. In some ways, it presented a “re-imagined” origin for the characters, but it… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight soars into stores in July
Warner Home Video has formally announced their next animated project to come out of the Warner Premiere line of direct-to-video movies. The mythological hero Wonder Woman has her own movie… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…a lengthy book to a film. And sometimes the hardest films to make are actually the ones based on the shortest stories (look at some of those Dr. Seuss movies)…. |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Volume Two: Bump in the Night
…is filming a monster movie. The movie features a costumed actor playing an Ape Man, but when what seems to be the real Ape Man begins to terrorize the set,… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…brought to the shorts, such as the idea of spoofing popular trends and other films, which was a popular movie concept at the time when the comic Cat Balloo aped… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…may appeal to our more usual movie sensibilities, especially the likes of Captains Sindbad and Nemo, and the pulp novel adaptation of the Doc Savage books. You’ll find my full… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…their previous TV shows had been successful, they all had featured the types of antics seen on movie screens for decades. A move to prime time needed a fresh idea… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…is rather plain— nice, but plain. I would have suggested that the image of each scene appear on a movie screen, in an old-style movie theater. Oh, well. Maybe they… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…region from which the folktale originated. The result is a movie with a Victorian outlook and an eastern European visual— sort of like an old horror movie, now that I… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…movie series was spawned, whose success in turn led to spin-off television series, the first of which also got its own movies. Along the way, there were also countless magazines,… |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…movie, it makes an even bigger difference. The animation was actually farmed out to Topcraft in Japan, a studio that has brought along many talented artists, but the low budget… |
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Justice League: New Frontier
…I bought a Blu-ray player in order to be able to appreciate movies in both formats. I have no regrets, as I already am well stocked with movies in both… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
…“Kermit”) to the Henson company. It was also the year that Jim Henson (with daughter Cheryl) wrote the story for The Dark Crystal, and of course The Muppet Movie began… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…it was a popular cartoon when it opened opposite the Frank Capra movie, Flight in September of 1929. Some of the most notable cartoons from this first phase include Springtime,… |
