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Gillie Potter, animator who turned advertising special effects into an art form, dies…
…thought to be an essentially boring technique, to the level of an art form. He invented the device of having live action sequences taking place on a moving pack. His… |
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Coverage of the Comic-Con coverage
…air, there is no definite plan to air such shorts in a scheduled block. Meanwhile, seventy-eight episodes of Codename: Kids Next Door have been ordered, while a direct-to-video project is… |
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Pixar CEO has cancer surgery
…cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)”. Jobs will take August off to recuperate and should return to work in… |
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The teaser for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is here
…must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. Starring Keira Knightley as… |
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Actress Fay Wray dies at 96
…96. According to a close friend, director Rick McKay, Wray passed away quietly, “as if she was going to sleep.” Canadian-born but raised in Los Angeles, the diminutive actress (her… |
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Trolls Holiday TV special airing on NBC in November; TV series coming to Netflix in 2018
…the highly-successful film franchise that launched last November, is set to premiere Friday, Nov. 24 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. DreamWorks Trolls Holiday marks the return of Anna Kendrick… |
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Cruise and Spielberg all set for War…
With a third Mission: Impossible proving to be an impossible mission to pull together, Tom Cruise will at last join Steven Spielberg to star in the re-make of {{link http://www.iesb.net/movies/movie81204.htm… |
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Elmer Bernstein dies at 82
…intimate, from classically austere to energetically jazzy, and were the accompaniment to a number of immortal films of the 50s and 60s. A protégé of Aaron Copland, Bernstein worked on… |
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Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.! : press release
…hijinks come to a climax at Outback Ollie’s Animal Show, when our heroes see that justice is served and they return Jack and the jewels to Australia.” Over fifty minutes… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn
…disc–is that the approach proves to be more restricting than liberating here. That’s not to say there aren’t still giggles, because there are, but when you compare it to what… |
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Watch the Batman vs. Two-Face trailer
IGN has launched the trailer for the highly-anticipated Batman vs. Two-Face. The sequel to last year’s hit animated venture Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, it features the late Adam… |
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Rick And Morty: Rickmancing The Stone
…to fight harder to keep the marriage alive (anger that he is able to get out of his system, to a certain extent, via his vengeful fist). For Summer, it’s… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
…battles besides – is a testament to just what the show can achieve. Entering into the second half of the season, the series did not quite revert to form, making… |
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Despicable Me 3
…odd duck to review. On the one hand, there’s plenty of fun to be had with it. On the other, it’s lacking that certain…something, even if it’s hard to describe… |
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Spider Man 2 sets box office record in one day
After just one day in release, our new favorite red and blue spandex hero of the sticky web has already wrapped up The Return Of The King for the biggest… |
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Cars 3
…into the actual plot, other than to say it is very well put together. Unlike the original where we knew Lightning was eventually going to win, here the ending is… |
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New Kingdom Hearts III trailer finally arrives at E3
…for Kingdom Hearts III was revealed. It reveals the return of Hercules, Hades, Maleficent, and Pete. It was announced that a second new trailer will premiere at D23 on July… |
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Disney: back to hand-drawn, but out-sourced, animation?
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=123092 Toon Zone}} has an interesting snippet up which states that Disney president Bob Iger has announced a return to hand-drawn feature animation from the company. The catch? Apparently,… |
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Star vs. The Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni special to air July 15 on Disney XD
…The special will pick up from where the series second season ended as Star Butterfly is forced to return to her home dimension of Mewni to face the seemingly immortal… |
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Squarepants Movie soundtrack listing; Hasselhoff joins movie's cast; Wedge on Williams' Robots character
…lifeguard. [warning: USA Today article contains spoilers]. The story also briefly speaks on Robin Williams’ return to voicing an animated character, as the Oscar-winning actor voices Fender from Robots. In… |
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Florida animator tours China
…academics, government officials and animation studios. He was invited to return to China next year to tour and consult at the new soon-to-be-opened Sunchime Animation Studios, one of the largest… |
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Truth, Justice and the Middle-American Way: The Politics of The Incredibles
…you find in Batman and Superman. The other way is to return to this long tradition of taking our deepest societal fears, in this case now embodied in the news,… |
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Mulan DVD worth the double dip
…in all, the non-appearance of a redundant full-frame version has meant the filling of the discs with more original content”, says the review. “A solid return to the informatively packed… |
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Marvel launches first Thor: Ragnarok teaser trailer
…2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming, Ragnarok will see Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, and Anthony Hopkins reprise their roles respectively of Thor, Loki, Heimdall, and Odin. Cate Blanchett will play… |
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Halloween comes late this year: New Simpsons season begins with Halloween episode
Animation World Network reports that long-running television series The Simpsons is set to return for its sixteenth season with its fifteenth Treehouse of Horror episode (the first season of The… |
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Sing
…trait applied to too many animated films recently is to remind of those big song and dance endings that used to wind up every other DreamWorks animated comedy and suggest… |
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Pirates 5 gets a writer
…the script. No word on when production is set to begin, or if characters from the previous films other than Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow are set to make a return…. |
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The WB holiday slate
…town of Winter Hollow where strangers are not welcome and Christmas is not discussed. Can they unmask the headless snowman and return the spirit of Christmas back to the townspeople?… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: Tiara Trouble
…show’s popularity among its fans didn’t translate to the big screen. In 2002, Warner Bros. took a gamble and released The Powerpuff Girls Movie to theaters over a crowded 4th… |
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Dead men tell no tales; Living men, on the other hand, tell quite a bit
…to film the two movies back-to-back could change. And, in an apparent nod to Weekend at Bernie’s II, Bruckheimer hints at the possible return of Geoffrey Rush’s character, Captain Barbossa…. |
