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"Accidentally" a music video
At MSN, see the new Counting Crows music video “Accidentally in Love,” as heard in Shrek 2 and its soundtrack, arriving in stores tomorrow. Also, enter to win a copy… |
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Composers lined up for animated projects
…Curious George. Composing the music for Disney’s and Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe will be Harry Gregson-Williams, who has scored both Shrek… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…film: songwriter Jeanine Tesori (also of the upcoming Shrek: The Musical and Glen Keane’s Rapunzel) and composer James Dooley, formerly a collaborator with Hans Zimmer on many major motion picture… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…the CFQ Trailer Park on Thursday morning. Furthermore, a shirt transfer for Shrek The Third, as well as a trading card promo, were given, lending a look at the project’s… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…were true… In this time where practically all animation seems to be about self-parody (the Shrek series, The Lion King 1½, many of the Disney sequels), Teacher’s Pet scores big… |
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The Lion King 1½
…with their biggest traditional animated franchise, or whether the whole endeavour smacked of sheer desperation in trying to keep up with the Shrek crowd, and the new trend of having… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Purr-ee in 1962. In this time of using star names to sell a film (Brad Pitt is Sinbad! Mike Myers is Shrek! Eddie Murphy is a Donkey! Well, not quite,… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…decades of animated films to follow, even being spoofed as recently as in rival studio DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise. Fittingly, the “one that started it all” is the first in line… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…movie: how much of a parody of Disney is it? How do you make it different from Shrek? How dark can the elements be? And I think that just took… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…of looking at story and how to tell a story. On Enchanted, as opposed to something like Shrek which has a very cynical look at fairytale, we both have a… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…don’t need you anymore.” When CGI films like Shrek and Ice Age from competing studios performed well at the box office, Disney execs strangely assumed that Disney films must be… |
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Curious George update
…Shapiro and David Kirschner, also producers on the the film. Written by Karey Kirkpatrick (Chicken Run), Joe Stillman (the Shrek series), Michael McCullers (the Austin Powers sequels) and Daniel Gerson… |
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The Animatrix
…movements, martial art techniques, and fashion used in the movie have been imitated in everything from Shrek to Scary Movie to countless television shows. It really has become an integral… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…essentially setting up the tone for his performances in the Shrek films) is Eddie Murphy, who here is bags of fun, and not nearly half as annoying as Donkey could… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…years computer animated movies have been exclusive to the Disney/Pixar collaborations, but lately all studios have been joining the revolution with last year’s Shrek by Dreamworks leading the way along… |
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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
…Shrek The Third was the only HD DVD-exclusive title out there, compared to the Blu-ray exclusive Disney and Pixar movies, plus the dual format release of a few titles from… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…score that pushes all the buttons his Media Ventures partners Hans Zimmer, John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams have pushed in projects as diverse as The Road To El Dorado, Shrek… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…lot of tickets and DVDs. But classics these films were not. In 2004, the first DWA film that I actually liked a little bit came out — Shrek 2. The… |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
…feature (mentioned above in Cars). A Scanner Darkly • released on Blu-ray and HD DVD in 2007 • same features as DVD. Shrek the Third • released on… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…cover up what they’ve done to the town. A few years ago I read an article by screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean) where he was talking… |
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DreamWorks Animation income falls 45%
Variety reports that DreamWorks Animation’s latest earnings are reflecting the current revenue dips being experienced by most of the motion picture studios. Added concern for the Broadway musical Shrek and… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…knowing, but it turns out to be more along the lines of Shrek: a movie that wanted to spoof a genre but ultimately found itself wanting to be included in… |
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Home On The Range
…partnership with Pixar and the rise of PDI/DreamWorks, their biggest rival. With these two new kids on the block, providing the whiz-bang fireworks of Toy Story and Shrek, no wonder… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…(Lion King, Pocahontas, Roger Rabbit, Aladdin, Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000), DreamWorks (Prince Of Egypt, Antz, Spirit, Shrek) and Warners (Osmosis Jones, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Son Of The Mask) and is… |
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Box office forecast for Wall•E
…nothing to be ashamed of as it should easily top $190M by Sunday night on its way to pass $200M domestically, becoming DreamWorks Animation’s second biggest original film after Shrek…. |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…you! Which brings us, rather dubiously, to my comments on the third big hitter of this summer’s own trilogy of threequels. After Spidey and Shrek left us with the feeling… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…that Shrek The Halls release at the moment, but we’ll be sure to let you know what we can when we can, and Warners have now confirmed November 4 as… |
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Weekend wrap-up…
…the third spot over bigger hits Bee Movie and The Simpsons Movie. Any argument that Shrek The Third should have been in the running hasn’t been raised by anybody… Ratatouille… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…a plethora of such shorts, created long before the likes of Shrek began to turn these stories on their heads. Most of the assorted characters feature in these ones, from… |
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WALL-E looks cute!
…I wanted to leave you with a peek at the new international one-sheet for Disney/Pixar’s upcoming WALL-E. For me the wide open Japanese-style eyes are a little too big (Shrek‘s… |
