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Behind the scenes of The Pirates
…talks the development of the project, the casting of the film’s voice actors, and using computer effects with stop–motion animation. Starring Hugh Grant, The Pirates set sail on April 27th…. |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…for some skits, 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… |
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First trailer for Frankenweenie now online
The first trailer for Tim Burton’s stop–motion feature Frankenweenie has just gone online and is available to watch on Yahoo!Movies. Featuring the voices of Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short,… |
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New Frankenweenie poster
The one sheet for Tim Burton’s upcoming animated movie Frankenweenie has made its way online and can be seen over at ComingSoon.net. The film marks Burton’s first stop–motion animated feature… |
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The full trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie
The full trailer for Disney’s upcoming stop–motion animated movie Frankenweenie is now online, and can be found on iTunes. The horror comedy from Tim Burton opens everywhere this October…. |
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Bad Boys II to become a feature film
…French short film, a stop–motion animated parody of Michael Bay’s Bad Boys II, became a YouTube sensation when it made its debut online earlier this year. The movie’s plot, apparently,… |
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A look at Laika
…of their ground-breaking work in rapid prototyping and 3D and how the Laika aims to push the boundaries of stop–motion animation, a discussion with Henry Selick about his involvement with… |
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More ParaNorman interviews
…of modern stop–motion animation and more with Dread Central. And Digital Facility has a running line of interviews with the filmmakers. Those posted so far include director of photography Tristan… |
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ParaNorman opens in third place
…Office Mojo. “Even with a unique concept and lukewarm competition, the movie still couldn’t break out of the standard stop–motion animation opening range, which reinforces how tricky this sub-genre is”…. |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…but Medusa and her sneaky assistant Snoops prove that they’ll stop at nothing in order to keep the diamond from escaping their clutches… Becoming the first official Disney animated sequel,… |
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Big Money Losses for Disney and Nickelodeon
…decided to write down $50 million, halting production on an unamed Henry Selick stop–motion film. ABC summer advertising was low, which came on top of the John Carter box-office failure…. |
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21 Animated Films Up For Oscar Consideration
…topped the list, along with handful of foreign traditionally animated films. What makes histroy, though, are the number of stop–motion pictures up for award and more than one could make… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…special. DreamWorks’ Shrek The Halls may have kickstarted the fashion for modern animated Christmas programs again in 2007, after many years of Rankin/Bass’ stop–motion re-runs, but Prep & Landing seems… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…Tim Watts and David Stoten’s stop–motion spoof The Big Story, complete with chin dimple! Here he is voiced by another Hollywood stalwart, Christopher Plummer, and while he’s a less successful… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…years, it’s the death of a parent that sets the plot in motion, when Nemo’s mother and almost all of her eggs are lost to a barracuda attack at their… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…stop–motion!), it’s predominantly been hand animated and as such recalls Disney’s 1950s and 60s films like The Truth About Mother Goose and Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom, which look to… |
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Henry Selick presses forward with The Shadow King
Stop–motion director Henry Selick was disappointed when Disney pulled the plug on his The Shadow King movie. Instead of nursing his wounds, he’s found a new partner. K5 International is… |
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The Boxtrolls : LAIKA and Focus Features’ next project on the way!
…a 3D stop–motion and CG hybrid animated feature based on Alan Snow’s bestselling fantasy adventure novel Here Be Monsters. The new movie will be released nationwide by Focus on October… |
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Tim Burton talks Frankenweenie box office and more
In an extensive interview with the LA Times, Tim Burton discusses the dissapointing box office results of Frankenweenie, his decision to shoot the movie in black and white, and stop–motion… |
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A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
…which a variety of animation styles, from manipulated cut-outs through stop–motion, hand-drawn, CG and even oil-painted frames, come into effect to depict each time period and, at times, Chapman’s flights… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…heroes – Jack Frost, North (aka Santa), Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny), Tooth (the Tooth Fairy), and Sandy (the Sandman) – must band together to stop an ancient spirit called Pitch… |
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Finding Dory coming November 25, 2015
…not to mention our team here at Pixar. One thing we couldn’t stop thinking about was why she was all alone in the ocean on the day she met Marlin…. |
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First trailer for Laika’s The Boxtrolls
A brand new first trailer for Laika/Focus Features’ upcoming stop–motion feature The Boxtrolls has been unveiled and is available to watch on iTunes. The new 3D animated feature from Laika… |
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George Pal’s Puppetoons to get a hi-def release
…feature contains many of the 1940 stop–motion mini masterpieces, along with new bridging animation with more modern animation stars. This limited edition will have only 3000 copies available, and will… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…directed… but in 1993 I was struck by Tim Burton’s film The Nightmare Before Christmas and instantly wanted to write the next big stop–motion musical, as one does! I went… |
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Video of 243 animated titles
Irina Neustroeva, who has described herself as a “stop–motion and media creator, a scriptwriter, [and] a teacher of animation”, has put together an amazing four-and-a-half minute video of the title… |
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Criterion Collection edition of Fantastic Mr. Fox on the way
The Criterion Collection will be releasing a special deluxe edition of Wes Anderson’s Oscar-nominated stop–motion animated comedy Fantastic Mr. Fox on Blu-Ray and DVD, Blu-Ray.Com is reporting. Among the all-new… |
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Oscar’s song shortlist includes 11 animated tunes
Seventy-five songs from 2013 films have been shortlisted for nominations in the Original Song category at the Oscars, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Those from… |
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Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…Party was the first of these, a stop–motion comedy that starred Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller. This was followed years later by a very limited theatrical run for Rudolph and… |
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Disney Interactive’s animates new short with Google
…Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story. Disney memorabilia collectors will recognize Vinylmation as the line of figurines with mouse ears. It “is a stop–motion animated film that tells the story of… |
