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Armageddon
…so big it took two studios to make!” as the publicity shouted: Allen had combined two books (The Tower and The Glass Inferno) owned by competing studios and managed to… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…be the best to suddenly spring to life and start singing? JM: We try not to be too overwhelmed by the props around us but I do carry a sketchbook… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…in order to get the footage they needed to tell a story. Not that the animals were manipulated in any way to get them to perform to a script, but… |
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Sigourney Weaver back for Avatar 2?
According to an interview with ComingSoon.net, Sigourney Weaver says that there are apparently plans for her to return in James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar sequel. Those who saw the original movie,… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
We’ve seen many of our beloved 1980s cartoon return to TV via the Hub, Cartooon Network, or single DVD release for a quick profit return. Toon Zone reports that American… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…our pick for bomb of the year has to go to Warners’ Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, which really was little more than what seemed to be… |
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Home On The Range
…top of the animation game in the 1980s and 90s, trying to find a “please all” solution that produced, for a while, animated movies that didn’t really appeal to either… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…the deluxe LaserDisc collections of the 1990s bringing new appreciation to their many animated shorts and the internet a chance for fans to exchange views and really get together to… |
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Douglas Gresham: Producing Prince Caspian
…the Narnia Nuisance more than anything else! My role is to make sure that everything in Narnia is really Narnian, and to constantly try to raise the quality of everything… |
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Secret Of The Wings
…own land, Tink wishes to return to the Winter Woods in order to meet a knowledgeable fairy who may be able to solve the mystery. She knows that the law… |
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Who's plugging Roger Rabbit? A neato coinkidink, me thinks, to mention this year's Elstree Film Festival!
…have been. Surely it’s still not too late to head into ToonTown again? Speaking of Roger Rabbit, I’ve been looking for a neat association to plug this year’s Elstree Film… |
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VES Unveils “50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Timeâ€
…executives. Its 1,500 global members contribute to all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos, games and new media. VES strives to enrich and educate its… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…whose illustrated pages slowly mesh into the animation itself. Nowadays, when all our lead characters seem to have had a troubling past or dark and tortuous backstory to surmount, it… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…quite a while to have its merchandise be character based as opposed to using the characters as a way to sell toys (although that happened too, the show even having… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…placing them above others (cough, Disney) that fail to include even the smallest token supplements. This time around we get the Looney Tunes To Tiny Toons: A Wacky Evolution featurette,… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…to simply re-treading old ground, Pocahontas’ story uniquely continues (and along the same lines as history suggests, too!) when she travels from the Colonies to London in order to find… |
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Jungle Book's Rocky the Rhino concepts!
Disney’s The Jungle Book is ready to boogie onto DVD, and the studio has released some concept, design and photo art from the Platinum Edition, available from October 2. The… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…not to include this edition in the DVD release, choosing instead to offer a totally pointless pan and scan transfer, and I have to say that despite the much more… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…never going to stretch to a dual-layered disc, though it’s given plenty of room to breathe here, not looking at all too shabby in the slightest. If anything, I’d say… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…animation. My Peoples animator Tom Bancroft and Rob Corley hurried plans to add an animation division to their comic book company Funnypages Productions. Mulan co-director Tony Bancroft announced Toonacious Family… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…tied to the cuteness of the past, but with several artists (Burton, John Lasseter, Glen Keane among them) trying to reach out into other more daring areas. Lasseter and Keane… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…is in effect too, but here you’ll find the tourists flying in crates strapped to the back of giant pterodactyls; answerphone services come courtesy of parrot-like dictabirds and garbage disposal… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…but too subtle performance into a tour de force that delivers a truly believable kind of “villain we love to hate”. Indeed the first time I saw the film, I… |
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Justice League: Doom
…professors to discuss comic book stories and how they relate to real-world issues. It’s all a little pretentious, but somehow manages to avoid being totally boring. Cyborg: His Time Has… |
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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle – The Beruna Bridge Sequence
…(prohibited because we had to guarantee returning the river to its original state). After much head scratching we proposed completely diverting the river temporary, to allow the bridge to be… |
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Jason Segal will not be involved in Muppets sequel
…given the very long ammount of time it took him to help bring the first film to theaters. “My goal was to bring The Muppets back and I did that… |
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian – Winner!
Return to the magical world of Narnia in the second installment of CS Lewis’ timeless epic The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, coming to DVD on December 2 – and… |
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The Lorax
…(Here’s a link from Mother Nature News with the details, for those who want to toss me into a pool of toxic waste byproducts from my polluting website!) Now I’m… |
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Tarzan II
…talents will not be allowed to continue to flourish in this way and perhaps be rewarded with their own, first-run, traditionally animated feature that could have seen a return to… |
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"Michael Pan?"
…interesting trivia and discover the story behind author James Barrie and his creation of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, in the article “Off to Neverland,” at Jim Hill Media…. |
