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Mr. Peabody and Sherman opens
DreamWorks Animation’s latest movie, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, opens today on 3,470 screens, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The film is scoring pretty well with critics, earning a 77% “freshness”… |
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Great songs never die: how art director Amos Sussigan is crafting the look of Aria For A Cow
…song: Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, who wrote the music for some of the biggest Disney movies. To have chance to work with Dan was a plus, too. AV: Can… |
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Rio 2 box office, Blue Sky’s big foreign appeal
…it eventually matches the first movie’s $143.6 million total. But the bigger prize for Blue Sky Studios may come oversees. Buzzfeed reports that while none of their movies “have made… |
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Enjoy the first five minutes of How to Train Your Dragon 2
…dynamic storyline with a new enemy, new dragons, and secrets from Hiccup’s past. DreamWorks has unleashed the movie’s first five minutes on the Internet. The clip shows how the characters… |
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Where Did These AWOL Animated Movies Get To?
…about other animated movies from other creators and studios – there’s a wealth of features and shorts that have yet to see the light of disc, especially those from far… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #65: Balto – Streetdog
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers go on a journey to watch Amblimation’s final movie, Balto. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6785765925.mp3 Highlights: • Main discussion: Balto • Live-action beginning with pigeon lady from… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…under whelmed, the movie under performed, and the toy sales stank. However, the film did beget one great thing: it inspired the creation of a superb animated series. That the… |
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Maleficent curses the box office
…the $79 million that Oz: The Great and Powerful made in 2013, but neither of those movies came out during the crowded summer movie marketplace. Final numbers are due tomorrow…. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants sequel details surface
The upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants movie finally has a name, a website, and a poster. The name for the followup to the 2004 film is The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of… |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 cast and crew discuss film
…voicing Hiccup; Gerald Butler says the movie brings him pride and moves him to tears; Kit Harington is fired up about the film; America Ferrera wants Astrid as chief; Djimon… |
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Dragon 2 still not quite taking flight at box office
Despite strong critical reception and being pretty much the only animated movie playing in theaters right now, How to Train Your Dragon 2 has more or less underwhelmed at the… |
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Transformers transform box office
The fourth Transformers movie was able to pull off what no other movie has done so far this year: a $100 million opening. Despite savage reviews from critics (which is… |
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Prolific composer Hans Zimmer to play concert this October in the UK
…2007 The Simpsons Movie (Composer) Bee Movie (Additional Music, Score Producer) 2006 Over The Hedge (Executive Score Producer) Curious George (Score Producer) 2005 Madagascar (Composer) Wallace & Gromit – The… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
Less than a year after the first Cars spinoff Planes, DisneyToon Studios has released its sequel Planes: Fire & Rescue. Where the previous movie was originally intended as a straight… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…from its status as a lovely family film. The movie’s energy, positive messages, and unique set-up propel it past its slightly derivative plot. The animation may fall just short of… |
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…there are inserts for Disney Movie Rewards and the Disney Movie Club. Unlike the Warner sets of previous seasons, there is unfortunately no episode guide or booklet. Ink And Paint:… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #86: Once Upon a Forest – How Alvin and the Chipmunks Save the Forest
…Message of the movie: stop driving cars and killing all the owls. • The owls in this film remind of the movie. • How many people are actually trying to… |
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The Boxtrolls
…right from the opening scenes, in their latest movie, The Boxtrolls, an elaborate fantasy which actually seems to have more of a visual and tonal connection to Nightmare than even… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #88: Shrek – The Anti-Fairytale
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers review DreamWorks’ second CGI animated film–the amazing, hilarious, irreverent Shrek. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5168624634.mp3 Highlights Main Discussion: Shrek (2001) Morgan and Chelsea saw this movie in… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #90: Kung Fu Panda – How to Train Your Dragon Warrior
…Fu Panda Drama at the Annie Awards. Panda sweeps! First thoughts and recollections about the movie. Is it easier to do martial arts in animation? The 2D opening sequence is… |
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Insider Access To Inside Out
…a couple of weeks ago. We like to get together for movie nights when he’s in town, as we both write film reviews— I for this humble site, and he… |
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Minions
…carry a 90 minute movie? Minions, it turns out, have been on the planet longer than humans, and their goal in life is to find the biggest bad guy they… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…it like a movie anymore. Animation moving in that direction, storytelling really involves the audience in a deeper way. Because as you would watch Duet, you are making an investment…. |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One
…The Force Awakens and Aladdin. Case Study: This region-free release comes in a standard Blu-ray case, with a Blu-ray disc on each side. There are inserts for Disney Movie Rewards… |
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Hotel Transylvania 2
…movie. What I wasn’t expecting was what we got: a hilarious but poignant story of a dad dealing with the scariest thing imaginable – his daughter growing up too soon…. |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…specifically (it’s actually set post-Christmas). Taking its cue from the more off-the-wall aspects from the series, as well as the more obvious references to the B-movies of Doug McClure (themselves… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #110: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman Interview
…for Dragon’s Lair: The Movie. The duo first started on Kickstarter, but recently moved over to Indiegogo last week. In less than a week, the new Indiegogo campaign has amassed… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…then a few clips previewing what was coming up, including bringing over a movie villain in Tokka and turning him into a kaiju-sized threat. The panel then wrapped with a… |
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The trailer for Batman: The Killing Joke is here
Batman’s been in the news quite a lot lately, with a new film now playing in theaters and a Lego Movie spin-off coming out next year. Now, a new trailer… |
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Watch the 45-minute documentary Imagining Zootopia for free online
Zootopia has proven to be one of the biggest surprises of the year so far. Not only is it the best reviewed movie of 2016, it has also become one… |
