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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…Drew and Zak Saturday are a family of world-saving adventure scientists called The Secret Saturdays. They live in a hidden base and are part of a network of scientists who… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…for the first couple of years of its life. For whatever reason I’m not sure of, it never took off, they never got to shooting it in live-action. They ended… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…of it true, most of it embellished, of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman is told through the use of his autobiographical audiobook recordings and several different animation methods to create a… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…is also a combination of the principles of classical animation, the principles of romantic comedy and the principles of action-adventure films. How did you manage to mix and, most of… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…where several lines of plot exposition have been attempted to be squeezed into just a couple of words’ worth of dialogue. Comparing the original Chinese language edition of The Magic… |
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Secret of Kells gets US distribution, Oscar run
…was the first animated feature to win the Audience Award at Edinburgh. The Secret of Kells is a France/Belgium/Ireland co-production of Les Armateurs, Viva Film, Cartoon Saloon and France 2… |
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The Secret Of Kells BD/DVD Combo Pack – Winner Announced!
…The Secret Of Kells Released on VOD, digital, DVD and Blu-ray on October 5th, 2010 through New Video’s new home entertainment label, Flatiron Film Company, in The Secret Of Kells,… |
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Win a signed Secret Of Kells theatrical poster – Winner Announced!
To celebrate New Video’s acquistion of the US television, digital, VOD and home video distribution rights to The Secret Of Kells, the highly acclaimed visual tour-de-force that was nominated for… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…format, this is what demo discs are made of, offering amazing layers of imagery unimaginable until now and far surpassing the often grainy 16mm of March Of The Penguins. I… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…of the technical details of the development work and could get a good sense of what was reasonable to ask of the technical team. I was able to know when… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
…often bounce ideas off one another for projects as well. We will have an assignment, we will work independently on some of the characters, then come back and compare notes…. |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…after the huge success of her performance of Madame Butterfly in the famous Jack Benny Program television show. One operetta at the Shrine Auditorium and one replacement of the legendary… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…excitement when I first saw that glorious camera dolly/pan around the top of pride rock as Mufasa explains the facts of the circle of life to young Simba!) and continue… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…amazing, life-affirming thing. We were pulling off of the highway and going onto the exit on Esplanade, which is one of the oldest streets in the French Quarter. As we… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…his pre-Disney short film Shades of Sherlock Holmes before getting word of the Talent Development Program. They showed off a great picture of young Clements as part of a group… |
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Miss Hokusai
…of occurrences depict the life of an artist and his talented daughter in Edo era Japan. The Sweatbox Review: The subject of this review, as with so many other Japanese… |
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True-Life Adventures true again!
…1 and 4 of the Walt Disney Legacy Collection: True-Life Adventures sets. The acknowledged problems, a topic of high activity on many message boards across the web, are: • True-Life… |
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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…falls they don’t get double the amount of offerings. As Flik awaits his punishment, and realizing the injustice of the grasshopper’s demands, he gets the dangerous idea of finding bigger… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…terrific Sing becoming a crowd-pleasing Christmas blockbuster, and The Secret Life of Pets succeeding simply because it was cute. The Minions are curiously absent for most of the first trailer… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…crew from Hergé’s widow. A series of behind the scenes featurettes continues delving into the background of Spielberg and Jackson’s discovery of the series and a full exploration of their… |
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The Incredibles
…Making Of The Incredibles, and several featurettes which take in various subjects. The documentary isn’t just your run-of-the-mill piece, being an exciting mix of talking head soundbites – all of… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…and, especially, hear abandoned songs, and the package as a whole offers a little more of this kind of material (see below). Showcasing the Oscar-nominated song of the three that… |
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The Muppets
…kind of run-down shack off-off-off Broadway). I know that some of the Muppet-mad Pixar crew supported the production, and maybe this was a way of saying thanks, but with the… |
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Soul
…the presence of death in our everyday lives is at a level usually only associated with times of war. It seems fitting that on Christmas Day in the midst of… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…the film you really are (I was Simba)! At the Tree Of Life, Rafiki takes over to offer three choices: the Hilary Duff/Raven/Disney Channel kids cover version of Circle Of… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…take in some pretty Big Themes, not least the aforementioned “circle of life” from birth to death, as well as the compassion of animals versus the inhumanity of humans. “Man…was… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…for being awarded “Citizen of the Year/Military Sector” by the City of San Diego in 1977 for his part in pushing the U.S. Department of Defense to allow dispersement of… |
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Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…Company, said, “Ollie was part of an amazing generation of artists, one of the real pioneers of our art, one of the major participants in the blossoming of animation into… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…Secret Life Of Pets, Kung Fu Panda and more between them) help to offset Laika’s less box-office bothering fare, because although this relatively new studio certainly has the tools and… |