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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…a fair chunk of them! Topics explored include the sources of the studio’s stories, celebrations of the theme park, and hopping behind the scenes on one of his most enjoyable… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…the easy life – and meeting Angel, who secretly dreams of a life she’s never known: as a pet with a loving family. Soon Scamp is forced to decide between… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…against a box office take of less than $40m. Causing much embarrassment for the Studio, Disney accepted that audiences were not as embracing of ImageMovers’ style of motion-capture animation as… |
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The Wild Life fails to make $1 million on opening day
Lionsgate’s bad year at the box office continued yesterday with the release of The Wild Life, which failed to make even $1 million on opening day, Box Office Mojo is… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…making of this film, and looking at the premise of this one-of-a-kind enterprise. Now we get into full production, with the team facing new challenges. “I wanted this production to… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…of The Woody Woodpecker Show, featuring often print-worn cartoons, television dupes filled with timing cuts. One breath of fresh air was the inclusion of host Walter Lantz’ onscreen introductions and… |
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ParaNorman
…of the same”. That itself has come, mostly, in the form of ParaNorman, which swaps out the adventures of a young girl for the adventures of a young boy of… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
…16 min), also marking the last of the four “Once Upon A Time” shorts. Starting off with easily the most accomplished of the live-action bookends, this tale tells of Ashlad’s… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…all in Norwegian of course, and understandably so in these cases. Finally a couple of Easter Eggs reveal a fun three-dimensional point-of-view of being in the actual race, and though… |
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First look at The Book of Life
…of the Dead, with the film sending its hero to The Land of the Living, The Land of the Remembered, and The Land of the Forgotten. “I have been pitching… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…animated puppet technique, the animal cast relate the story of a group of mice who learn the benefits of putting aside their nuts instead of frittering them away. As with… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…off many of the foreign markets that were vastly important to Walt’s films, didn’t help, as was the fact that this dark and often foreboding tale didn’t offer much in… |
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The Wild Life opens
The Wild Life opens today in 2,493 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is getting pummeled by the critics with just a 15% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. A… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…character of Pumbaa! It was one of the happiest day of my life. RI: What were your visual inspirations for Pumbaa? TB: As animators we always start with the real… |
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New Charles Schulz book collects prose writings
University Press Of Mississippi, known for its extensive line of comics-related books, has just announced a new book featuring the writings of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, entitled My Life… |
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Trailers, poster for Another Day of Life released
Two trailers and a new poster for the upcoming animated/live-action documentary Another Day of Life have been revealed. Quoting the film’s press release, Life “is a movie based on the… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
…the top right today, let me put you right and say this is actually the work of character designer Peter de Sève for Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. In celebration of… |
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Roy Disney talks True-Life Adventures
Coming Soon summarizes the creation and impact of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures, using thoughts from Roy Disney. Among the memories he relays, Mr. Disney recognizes the award-winning documentaries’ long journey… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…Nemo. Shark Tale would gross a worldwide tally of $367 million against a budget of $75 million, making it a box-office hit at the time. It is available on DVD…. |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…do have a couple of gags, just jokes that are just slapstick, but most of the humor, of the laughs I’m most proud of are jokes that come out of… |
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Celebrate Life Day with The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special trailer
…reunites Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewie, Rose and the droids for a joyous feast on Life Day. Rey sets off on a new adventure with BB-8 to gain a deeper knowledge… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…with the release of Disney’s Bolt, all Disney and Pixar animated features will be presented in state-of-the-art Disney Digital 3-D. Additionally, newly converted 3-D versions of the beloved classics, Toy… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…a time-lapse video of his painting the portrait. All attendees received a packet of magnets of some of the Hench portraits as well as a hand fan for the panel…. |
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Frank Thomas has passed away…
…scenes story of the creation of one of the greatest animated films of all-time. Their final collaboration, The Disney Villain (1993), explored the richest and most colorful rogue’s gallery in… |
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Joe Grant Life Celebration tickets available
PLEASE NOTE: THIS GIVE-AWAY HAS ENDED. The Grant family and Walt Disney Feature Animation are celebrating the extraordinary life and artistic legacy of Joe Grant. Animated News has a limited… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…Ox. Bunyan and Babe tells the story of Bunyan’s attempts, with the help of a couple of kids, to rescue his ox from the evil clutches of a demented circus… |
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Exodus Film Group takes on Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo
…own – Oliver’s true-love Arabella. In a roller-coaster ride of danger, near misses, and utter confusion, they face some of the wackiest characters to ever come out of Texas. Their… |
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Jamie Foxx wants to return to life in final Soul trailer
…to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (voice of Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to… |
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The DC League of Super-Pets must fetch their masters in new trailer
The full trailer for DC League of Super-Pets is now online, and it looks as wacky and silly as you would expect it to. The movie was originally set for… |
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The Justice League needs saving in the DC League of Super-Pets trailer
The first full trailer for DC League of Super-Pets is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. The preview offers a glimpse of the movie’s… |