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Oscar reactions from Coraline, French Roast
…Kells, done in hand-drawn animation; Coraline and Fantastic Mr. Fox, in stop–motion; and Up, in glorious CG. It’s a great day for me, my family, and for all of us… |
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Easter goodies, plus a review roundup!
…wacky Easter wabbits: Friz Freleng’s 1977 Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies pulls together some classic cartoons with new animated sequences for an entertaining enough hour, though stop–motion masters Rankin/Bass abandon that… |
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Armageddon
…to stop the sinking ship. It wasn’t until a decade later, when Bruce Willis saved a group of hostages being held at the top of a skyscraper by terrorists, that… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox wins top honor at Annecy
Wes Anderson’s stop–motion feature Fantastic Mr. Fox topped the 50th Annecy Animated Film Festival winning its best feature Crystal award, reports Variety. The movie which was always the firm favorite… |
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Original King Kong coming to Blu-Ray in the fall
…DVD Active is reporting. The live action/stop–motion animated release will feature the same extras which were included on the 2005 special edition DVD, including a 7-part documentary, a commentary by… |
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Harryhausen’s Bafta
The Hollywood Reporter has elaborated on details that legendary stop–motion animation and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen is to receive a special award at Sunday’s (26 June) British Academy of… |
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Animated Addams Family in the works
…works, “with Tim Burton involved, hopefully to direct”. Other details at this early stage include the film will be stop–motion, possibly be shot in black and white, and will be… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume Two
…rest at this point. On the other hand, why stop now? Stay tooned, my super friends! Is This Thing Loaded? Sigh. Another lost opportunity. With so many Super Friends sets… |
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2012 release dates set for John Carter of Mars and Frankenweenie
…which marks Stanton’s foray into live-action feature, will see a June 8, 2012 release while Burton’s stop–motion 3D animated flick Frankenweenie will be out in theatres on March 9, 2012…. |
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Aardman’s Timmy Time to premiere on Disney Channel
…is Aardman’s first animated television project for the preschool audience, and the stop–motion series has already enjoyed great success in its first season of broadcast overseas. Timmy Time follows the… |
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Christmas goes Pink!
…its operating subsidiaries, is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, interactive media, music and licensed merchandise. The company owns the world’s… |
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Frankenweenie 3D gets a voice cast
Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short and Catherine O’Hara have joined the voice cast of Tim Burton’s stop–motion animated feature Frankenweenie, reports /Film. The film is based on his ’80s… |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…the Gods, she’s simply asked to do the aloof princess thing here, at least for the first half hour, where she’s pretty motionless in her Kohl eyeliner and just waiting… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…eclectic bunch that represented well the three major techniques of animation, the traditional hand-drawn “classical” style, frame-by-frame model moving stop–motion, and the now approximately thirty year old use of computer… |
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LA Festival honors Will Vinton
As announced by The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Animation Festival, hosted at Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theatre between December 3-7, will honor stop–motion innovator Will Vinton with a 25th anniversary… |
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Oz Wars coming to theaters
We are definitely not in Kansas anymore. Mike Johnson (Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride) is set to direct an edgy stop–motion/CGI feature film inspired by The Wizard of Oz called Oz… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…THE COMPLETE DVD MOVIE COLLECTION The last great movie series to use stop–motion and pre-digital effects. DVD File digs deep into the four disc set. Honorable Mentions: If there’s nothing… |
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Henry Selick to make animated horror Shademaker
…be produced at his new studio, reports /Film. Selick is heading a new stop–motion animation studio in San Francisco, Shademaker Productions, whose mandate is “to make great, scary films for… |
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First look at Aardman’s The Pirates!
Aardman Animations and Sony have issued a first image and press release for their upcoming stop–motion film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, reports BleedingCool. Directed by Peter Lord… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…there are many styles to choose from. Some more realistic, some with a cartoon style, stop–motion technique and also some using the classic hand drawn cartoons style. What made you… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…Ogden Stiers seems to be going through the motions, Joan Cusack – as the new wicked witch villain – seems intent on featuring in bad animated films after Mars Needs… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…Robot Chicken-like stop–motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the original actors’ heads… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…played while Second Screen is active. Since their introduction to the short film world some ten or so years ago (as a stop–motion fan-made spoof, I believe, of Star Wars),… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…emotion in the film, but I just basically didn’t stop enjoying it from when I started till when I finished. AV: It was your first collaboration with director Chris Miller…. |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…– and actually better! – for the inevitable Toy Story 2. In animation terms, sequels didn’t used to come along everyday, and that the film, after its troubled stop-start production,… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…some of the stop–motion Rankin/Bass Christmas titles), and in the 2011 holiday gift-giving season it turns up yet again in no less than three or four re-packaged releases! Even if… |
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New Paranorman poster
Following the recent release of a new trailer, Focus Features has just revealed a new poster for their upcoming movie ParaNorman over at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. The stop–motion… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…mediums of animation, from traditional to computer to stop–motion. Using miniatures, the filmmakers were able to make significant, economical progress on Morris Lessmore before animators were hired. Joyce wrote Morris… |
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DC Nation Starts Saving TV Waves March 3
…Gromit) with its stop–motion clay animation techniques, and the unique direction and character designs of Lauren Faust (The Powerpuff Girls, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic).” Cartoon Network hasn’t had… |
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First poster for Frankenweenie
The first poster for Disney and Tim Burton‘s stop–motion animated feature Frankenweenie has been unveiled online and can be seen over at Collider. Directed by Tim Burton, the film tells… |
