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Is that magic in the air? Must be Enchanted on the way…
…Academy Award-nominated and box-office hit came to the screen! Our own Jeremie Noyer has been speaking to all the principal crew, including composer Alan Menken, animation director James Baxter and… |
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More Giselle! More Enchanted! More Beowulf!
…he’s talking to the character designer of Giselle and the Andalasian world she inhabits, as well as the storyboard artist who helped director Kevin Lima develop the story and Giselle’s… |
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Horton Hears a Who!
…to be reviewing it! Kids, teens, and adults will have fun. And not on different levels as we usually say about a film enjoyed by all ages. It’s not a… |
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Studio 4°C Set Animated Short Dubbed Jesus
Japan’s Studio 4°C will animate a 9 minute short on the last days of Jesus Christ told from the perspective of thief who was crucified at the same time. The… |
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Stiller to play with DreamWorks' Mind
…Schoolcraft and Simons are represented by Dan Rabinow at ICM. Red Hour is repped by UTA’s Sharon Sheinwold, and directors Hood and Jefferson by the William Morris Agency and Management… |
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The Animated Seuss
…UPA star Mister Magoo, as well as being featured on numerous licensed goods. Gerald also appeared with Magoo in a television short, and as Tiny Tim in the Magoo TV… |
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Hair High winds up
…L.A. press follow: “Bill Plympton relishes the grotesque…it’s “Carrie” as co-directed by Tim Burton and David Lynch…seeded with a surprising amount of sex and gestated in increasing absurdity until emerging… |
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Dragon's Lair animated film still planned
…in the works. “We’ve had a completed script for over three years now and we’ve had some very positive meetings with the studios,” notes Goldman. “It shouldn’t be done as… |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
…pulled off easier; but as something aimed at collectors, this can come off as a pretty dopey idea. A collector buys this book for the images and memorabilia on display,… |
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The Smurfs' reason for being
…Smurf movies, but we’re not anywhere near that yet. We’re just writing the script. There’s a big Smurf demand [there], they love the blue fellas and the one blue girl.”… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…and a half of reminiscences by Gerry Anderson, supervising editor David Lane, the show’s writing staff (Christopher Penfold and Johnny Byrne), and actress Zienia Merton (Sandra Benes). They discuss many… |
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Special Dark Crystal Screening
…screening of the film there will be a Q & A with screenwriter David Odell. Odell wrote The Dark Crystal together with Jim Henson, and recently wrote the script for… |
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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After
…Eastern tune with a more conventional Western arrangement or whether I should be writing a Western with a Persia arrangement around it. So, I had to deal with very similar… |
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Vancouver International Digital Festival details
…behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype, and examines commonalities between eBay and General Electric and the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. •The fourth annual International Partnering Forum: this… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…personalities aimed at a younger audience. Apart from mice, rabbits work just as well in animation, and thus Bugs is split into two bunnies: the boisterous Buster, and girly Babs… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…stylized but not necessarily cartoon-ish. It’s a new beginning with a movie like Avatar. The worlds of animation and live action have merged and the lines are blurred. I think… |
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Bravestarr: Volume Two
…the camera pans anywhere. On the plus side, the prints are actually in pretty good shape, with barely any evidence of dust and no significant scratches. Colors are just slightly… |
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Jonny Quest to hit the big screen
…Bros. will be developing the picture along with Speed Racer, another animated TV show adaption. Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter are set to produce, whith Dan Mazeau writing the script…. |
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Justice League: Season One
…picture at the top and bottom; but because the show was composed with this in mind, the cropped image is actually more dynamic and aesthetically pleasing. The producers and most… |
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return Of Black Adam
…mayhem to all the speakers, and it comes through very nicely. Audio also comes in German and Castellano Spanish, and subtitles are available in English, French, German, and Spanish in… |
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Tinkering Tinker Bell
…Pixar executives John Lasseter and Ed Catmull decided that the project’s script remains in need of “substantial work.” In addition, there is some concern that Tinker Bell lacks appeal for… |
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Hugh Jackman fears plagiarism revelation
According to Contact Music, Hugh Jackman is nervous that his reputation as a master storyteller will go down the drain as soon as his son sees Flushed Away. In the… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…and again. It’s delightfully composed and edited with a great sense of respect for the original, but playing to a whole new audience, and combined with Sleeping Beauty’s advanced animation,… |
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Fraggle Rock movie, DVD update
…a continuation of the television series. In other words, the movie will not precisely fit the show’s timeline or cannon. With pre-planning and script writing just now beginning, one should… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…was from my childhood memories of the deep South, where I spent part of my summers as a kid with my mother’s parents and my cousins, aunts and uncles and… |
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Minimates movie moving to stores in 2006
…Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants arrive on the scene! Featuring an original script officially approved by Marvel Comics, Darktide also features the Minimate debut of Archangel, Beast and… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…extra virtuosity and authenticity and individuality from two world-famous artists. They play with such a unique style and they have so much panache. I was talking to Rodrigo and he… |
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Bedknobs and Corpse Brides
…a Burton-head recently, having penned the original draft of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and collaborating again on the Burton produced 9, a CGI version of Shane Acker’s award winning… |
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Reviews: Hoodwinked, Bambi II
Sporting a new design, Latino Review examines Hoodwinked and likes what it sees. “Some of the script could have been a little funnier, but it was defiantly good enough for… |
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Popeye returning to the big screen
…writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn penning the script. “Popeye has been my childhood favorite character,” said Spider-Manmovie producer Avi Arad. “To me he was always the everyday man who… |