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Veteran Animator Ken Southworth dies
…more than 21 years animating for Hanna-Barbera where he worked on Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, Top Cat, Johnny Quest, Swat Kats, Scooby Doo, The Smurfs, Dino Boy and Space Ghost…. |
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Disney projecting $30 billion in branded retail sales for 2008
…Scooby-Doo…) and 6 times Nickelodeon’s (SpongeBob SquarePants). For Disney, the $30 billion target for this year-40% of which come from North America-compares to $13 billion just five years ago. The… |
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Step in time! Poppins is back, plus new discs and more!
…After 2 (a “collision of fairy tales in a twist on Snow White” apparently) for release (on DVD only) on March 24, while Warner has A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: 2nd,… |
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You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…golf course on his dirt bike! The disc also has two trailers for Peanuts DVDs, plus additional trailers for Tom And Jerry Tales: Volume 6, and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?:… |
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Eloise: Little Miss Christmas premiere
…and Monsters), Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie), Matthew Lillard (She’s All That, Scooby Doo), Curtis Armstrong (Revenge of the Nerds), and young actress Mouser as Eloise. With… |
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The Wild keeps first place for second week
…Princesses, the first Barbie title from Universal instead of Lionsgate. Interestingly, the direct-to-video movie sold nearly 500,000 units – 15% more than the franchise’s previous princess-themed installment. As for Scooby-Doo… |
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Snow White announced, plus weekend update!
…is ready to go is Rodney’s look at A Pup Named Scooby Doo: Seasons 2-4, popping up in our DVD Reviews section any time now! But for right this second… |
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Boomerang presents Laff-a-Lympics marathon
Toon Zone reports that Boomerang will air a 72-hour weekend marathon of Scooby’s All-Star Laff-a-Lympics, running from Friday, August 13, through Sunday, August 15. Beginning on Friday morning at 8:00am… |
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Top VHS sales 11/15/2003
\\Billboard\\ November 15, 2003 chart: 1 – \\George of the Jungle 2\\ 3 – \\The Lion King\\ (Platinum Edition) 4 – \\Barbie of Swan Lake\\ 8 – \\Scooby-Doo and the… |
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The Following Programs Are Not Close-Captioned for the Hearing Impaired
…Girls, The Simpsons, Justice League and Scooby Doo. Oddly enough, they’ve approved a program called Play Piano in a Flash for close-captioning funding. It may be nothing more than a… |
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Tom And Jerry DVD box art first look!
Hidden in the depths of the recently released {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/287 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? box set}}, DVD Toons reviewer Randall Cyrenne mentions a certain trailer that is “most notable for… |
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New Garfield: The Movie trailer online
…And on TV, where I saw it today in all its NTSC glory. Style is similar to the Stuart Little and Scooby CG characters. Well, I can’t blame Garfield for… |
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\\Home on the Range\\ opens today
…25% earlier this week to 49% today. {{link http://www.boxofficereport.com/wbon/forecast.shtml Box Office Report}} predicts a fourth place finish with $13 million, putting it just below \\Scooby-Doo 2\\ and above \\The Passion\\…. |
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The Animated News Haunted Mansion Mini-Review
…Scooby Doo: a group of run-of-the-mill suburbanites get trapped in a haunted house and find they all have a mystery to solve; they split up into various groups, find different… |
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Box Office Weekend Studio Estimates: April 16 – 18
…Following close behind in 6th place was Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleased with $5.1 million and a 36% drop since last weekend. The sequel’s domestic gross so far is $72.2… |
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Home On The Range holds on!
…after all, taking just over $2.2 million to sit in ninth place with a $45.5m total. Bringing up the rear is WB’s Scooby-Doo 2, with a taking close to Range,… |
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Boomerang on the UK's top toons
…reached the top ten, with runner up places going to Bugs Bunny, Popeye and Scooby Doo. Head of {{link http://www.supanet.com/entertainment/tv/frontpagenews/feature.php4 the list}} were cat and mouse act Tom And Jerry…. |
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RIP, Mako
…(2005), Happy Cat and Achoo in Duck Dodgers (2003 and 2005), Narrator in Grim & Evil (2004), The Ancient One in What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (2003), Aku in Samuri Jack (2001),… |
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Gellar turns down Buffy animated series
…problem, as Gellar notes, “I was contractually bound to Buffy, to the Scooby movies, to whatever it was. I don’t do something unless I can commit 110 percent, and I… |
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Doo to be placed into Guinness Book of Records
The BBC reports that for having 350 episodes of various, connected television series, Scooby-Doo will be placed into the Guinness Book of Records. The record was previously held by The… |
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\\Shrek 2\\ tops 2004 box office
…\\Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events\\, $94.6 million* 28. \\Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed\\, $84.2 million 29. \\The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\\, $81.9 million* 34. \\Garfield: The Movie\\, $75.4 million 59…. |
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Annie Awards results – \\The Incredibles\\ wins big
…1/2\\ – DisneyToon Studios Mickey, Donald & Goofy \\The Three Musketeers\\ – DisneyToon Studios \\Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster\\ – Warner Bros. Animation Best Animated Short Subject \\Agricultural Report\\… |
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The UK's 100 Greatest Cartoons!
…Winnie The Pooh (1966) 54 = ThunderCats (1985-88) 53 = Fantasia (1940) 52 = 2DTV (2001) 51 = The Little Mermaid (1989) 50 = Donald Duck (1934) 49 = Scooby… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…‘The Illusion of Life’.” Veteran Disney animator Leon Joosen is attached to direct. He most recently was animation director on both hit Scooby Doo films and at the pioneering CGI… |
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Exodus Film Group takes on Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo
…director on both hit Scooby Doo films and at the pioneering CGI studio, Rhythm and Hues. Pavlov’s Dog is a co-production between Melwood Pictures and Exodus. 55 Holly Star is… |
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Don Knotts dies at 81
…the title character in \\The Incredible Mr. Limpet\\, T.W. Turtle in \\Cats Don’t Dance\\, Turkey Lurkey in \\Chicken Little\\, and starred in several episodes of \\Scooby-Doo\\ where he played himself…. |
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Coverage of upcoming Warner Bros. DVDs
Toon Zone has the info on some anticipated DVD releases from Warner Bros. First, the site notifies that the official websites for The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series, Batman Beyond:… |
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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…“Gormandizing Greedy” (2:20). Finally, trailers are also included in the set for Peanuts: Deluxe Holiday Collection, Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, Scooby-Doo, Where Are you? Vol. 1, Tom and… |
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Smurfs movie finds a director
Variety reports that Raja Gosnell has signed on to direct Sony and Columbia Pictures’ live action/animated Smurfs. The editor turned director is best known for helming Scooby-Doo movies. Produced by… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…film and used it as a blueprint for the directions in where not to be headed (such as making Treebeard look like a Hanna-Barbera villain from Scooby-Doo). Other characters don’t… |