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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…fine motion pictures before I die. It’s something that will probably keep me busy for the rest of my life! AV: So, that’s the reason you developed a relationship with… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
…sees that she is an innocent and puts a stop to the bachelor party proceedings. There was never an edict to take the sequence out, rather, the story evolved and… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…themes up with sometimes mawkish moments that stop the dramatic flow. Watership has none of that to worry about, though it is not the po-faced, sorry, sad and depressing motion… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…and a silly hat, while Rasputin’s Revenge isn’t another sequel spin-off but a rather fun game in which the player, as Bartok, has to stop the mad monk from literally… |
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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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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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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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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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Up
…Louis”. I can’t believe no-one else has noted the Kirk Douglas resemblance, especially close to the way he was caricatured in Tim Watts and David Stoten’s stop–motion spoof The Big… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…real-time, so you get that real motion happening of, say, the cameraman wasn’t aware of the action happening off-screen. Suddenly, he whips over to catch what just happened or may… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…adorable little character, and Bobby Lockwood’s voice reminded me a great deal of Paul Terry’s pitch in the stop–motion James And The Giant Peach. And way down in the cast… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…and could have done with a bigger bang and more clarity to set things in motion. But it’s fun to hear Lewis again: reprising his role, he’s not just relegated… |
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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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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…included Popeye, Dick Tracy and Superman, while due was given to stop–motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen with the publication in the US of a book that had long been available worldwide…. |
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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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Thor mighty at box office with best opening in series to date
…with Shoes On made it into the top ten while playing on just 45 screens. The critically acclaimed movie about a talking stop–motion seashell is set to go wide soon…. |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…me a great deal of Paul Terry’s pitch in the stop–motion James And The Giant Peach. And way down in the cast list, under additional voices, I noticed one Kathryn… |
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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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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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Ratatouille arrives, and Jason review lands
…Jason Of Star Command: The Complete Series. Before you wiseacres point out that this was a live action series, allow me to point out that there were several stop–motion animated… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…that might be described as digital stop–motion, though that hardly does justice to what a cool look it had. Then there was, undoubtedly, my favorite film of the year, Spider-Man:… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…variety program starting in December, 1956; and stop–motion animated Gumby was spun off of The Howdy Doody Show in March, 1957. Close to the end of their MGM days, the… |
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The Rescuers
…they’ll stop at nothing in order to keep the diamond from escaping their clutches… The Sweatbox Review: Disney’s 1977 animated feature finally gets a digital makeover and arrives looking fresh,… |
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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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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…brought together all of their motion picture appearances, including original CinemaScope shorts and sequences from other feature films, save their short lived (and best forgotten) European series and the 1990s… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…the new logo so much that he played it again to our delight. Bergman handed things over to Sean Bailey, President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, to begin… |
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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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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…his nemesis Jerry, the mouse. These collections, under the banner of The Art Of Tom And Jerry, brought together all of their motion picture appearances, including original CinemaScope shorts and… |
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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… |
