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Back to Witch Mountain for Eisenmann and Richards
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, the featured child stars of Disney’s original Escape To Witch Mountain and Return From Witch Mountain movies, will cameo,… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…re-release title, instead of the original Mr. Bug Goes To Town, but regardless it’s a nearly forgotten masterwork. The LaserDisc image looks surprisingly sharp, too. If Mr. Bug Goes To… |
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The Muppets sequel already in the works?
…not he’ll be in the sequel is also unknown, but Muppets director James Bobin is set to return, as is co-writer Nicholas Stroller. There is currently no release date for… |
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Details emerge on Open Season sequel
…the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners. Boog, Elliot, McSquizzy, Buddy and the… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…at returns to past glories were produced to introduce the characters to new audiences, although they were never shown following the unfortunately poor audience reaction to the 2003 Looney Tunes:… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…me. I didn’t want to take our limited resources and apply it to 3D. I said, “Look, I’m going to make the movie for this budget with a plan to… |
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The frog gets his own trailer
Not much to say here except that the trailer for Disney’s return–to-hand-drawn feature, The Princess and the Frog, is now up at its official site…so hop on over and check… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…catapult Tintin’s stardom to heights previously unimagined. Comparing Raiders to Tintin’s heroic exploits, the review garnered the attention of director Steven Spielberg, who instructed his secretary to bring him several… |
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Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
…the warm spring and summer and decides it is time to return when he hears the first snow of the season is about to fall. Upon his arrival, the children… |
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Python's Gilliam honored, Gulliver's details, plus new discs!
…UK with a Fellowship in recognition to his contribution to film, the highest accolade the British Academy can bestow. It’s especially neat to see Gilliam honored in this way (previous… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…feel to this release extends to the artwork: instead of the lavish foldout slipcover that opened up to list the bonuses to be found inside that graced the 40th Anniversary… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…such as Robin Hood that Walt wished to bring to the screen. His television films followed suit, though Disney’s stroke of genius was to give such assignments to established feature… |
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No new scenes for Toy Story 3D re-releases
Collider reports that the re-releases of Toy Story films in 3D will not feature any new shots and nothing will be changed in the films when they return to cinemas… |
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Nana’s back! Elisa Gabrielli on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…and said it would be really fun to animate to that voice…the rest is history. Honestly, I never thought I’d get to keep the character. I went home and told… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…into a super-strong giant mouse who is only able to cause Tom more pain! Tom continues to try and impress a female kitty, this time at the beach, in Salt… |
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First look at Frankenweenie
The first images from Tim Burton’s highly anticipated return to stop motion animation Frankenweenie have been posted online with a special behind-the-scenes article over at EW.com. The movie–a remake of… |
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Oliver & Company special edition DVD in February
…extras from the film’s 2002 debut, which include “The Making of Oliver & Company”, “Return Of A Classic”, Academy Award winning animated short “Lend A Paw”, and more. Cover art… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…his friends to their roots, while also appealing to audiences today. We were priviledged to talk with the legend, just as Disney’s latest Pooh movie is released on Blu-ray and… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…you can’t tell somebody to be creative today. Maybe today they can’t solve that story problem. Maybe the solution doesn’t come to them today. Maybe it comes tomorrow or the… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…Hence, Disney decided to bring The Lion King to IMAX. Allers and Minkoff returned to help restore the film. “We had to go through the movie and clean up certain… |
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M-I-C-K-E-Y…Happy Birthday, Mr Mouse!
…the Walt Disney Treasures series. In 2004, Mickey made a grand return to feature films in the direct-to-video adventure The Three Musketeers, and gamely sat for digitizing sessions to become… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…lived in Toronto, Canada, working as an animator on Nelvana Studio’s futuristic feature, Rock and Rule, followed by two years in Tokyo, Japan at Tokyo Movie Shinsha doing story development… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…tries to alleviate. Each one of these themes (to which Honest John’s Hi-Deedle-Dee-Dee has to be added) occurs several times in the film, ensuring the togetherness of the whole: the… |
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The Goon Test Footage
…the silver screen. The film is about a priest who gathers an army of the undead and the Goon is the only one who can return them to the grave…. |
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
…the song to ourselves instead, coming up with funnier and funnier inserts for “Chihuahua” as we went along. The cross-country animal movie used to be something to look forward to,… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…this may be the one that can most appeal to a mass audience, in addition to being nirvana to discerning cartoon buffs. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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The Cat in the Hat is coming back
The Cat in the Hat is set to make a return to the big screen…but relax, it won’t be a sequel to the critically detested 2003 Mike Myers outing. Instead,… |
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Warner Bros and Disney/Pixar to co-produce Brad Bird's live-action film
…vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco. 1906 will also mark a return for Bird to the studio that… |
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The Herculoids: The Complete Series
…scripts would suggest. To this day, it is hard to imagine a series with such well-designed characters. Oh, the humans maybe weren’t too special, wearing primitive clothes and having basic… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…concept art to describe an alternate opening sequence in which Edgar was to originally have a besotted female maid, Elvira, helping him to attend to Madame Bonfamille’s needs. Hearing that… |