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Zemeckis' ImageMovers moving to Disney?
…breath away” from occuring. Specializing in motion-capture technology, ImageMovers has been involved with such films as The Polar Express, Monster House, and next year’s Beowulf. According to an insider, Disney… |
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SMILE on iTunes
…been made available at Apple’s iTunes online audio/video store. The film is CGI and utilizes motion capture technology and a musical score provided by a 45-piece orchestra. Mais has completed… |
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Beowulf graphic novel set for April release
In anticipation of Robert Zemeckis’ motion-captured Beowulf, arriving in theaters November 16, Candlewick Press will release Gareth Hinds’ graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale this April. Press release: Beowulf… |
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Trolltech's Software Enables World's Largest Animation Houses
…George Lucas in 1971, it is a privately held, fully integrated entertainment company. In addition to its motion picture and television production operations, the company’s global activities include Industrial Light… |
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Oldman, Elwes sing Christmas Carol
Moviehole reports that Gary Oldman has joined Jim Carrey in the cast of Robert Zemeckis’ motion-capture feature A Christmas Carol. Like Carrey, Oldman will play more than one character in… |
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Beowulf, Alvin Oscar eligibility verdicts
Variety writes that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has ruled that the motion-capture technology used to create Beowulf has not made it ineligible for Oscar consideration in… |
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Jon Favreau aiming for 2D look in mo-cap Neanderthals
Iron Man director Jon Favreau will next write, helm and produce the feature-length motion capture caveman comedy Neanderthals for Sony Pictures Animation, a project which was intially announced back in… |
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Gary Oldman discusses his Christmas Carol roles
Dark Knight actor confirmed to Sci Fi Wire that he would be playing at least three characters in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming motion-capture-animated A Christmas Carol: “I play Marley. I play… |
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Python's Gilliam honored, Gulliver's details, plus new discs!
…24, Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter starts the promotional ball rolling for this spring’s major motion picture, with voices including Gerard Butler and featurettes, Chapter One of the Watchmen… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…and release in feature film formats internationally. In recent times, India and China have begun to surface as potentially lucrative regions for motion picture production and distribution and here, too,… |
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Animated Grammy nominations
…The Little Mermaid, Bruce Botnick, Michael Kosarin, Alan Menken & Chris Montan, producers; Alan Menken, composer; Glenn Slater, lyricist Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual… |
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Catmull to receive Oscar's Sawyer Award
…contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry”. Catmull co-founded Pixar, as well as the computer graphics laboratory at the New York Institute of… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…Watchmen Motion Comic: Episode One (25:31) is a presentation of the entire first chapter. I passed on getting the DVD of the complete tale, but was happy to get a… |
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Broken Saints (Original Release)
…motion that will see the four eventually come together. Shandala meets a mysterious young man who promises to help her discover her past. Kamimura guards a mysterious treasure while hoping… |
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A Goofy Movie
…drives the action along here, and Carter Burwell’s big score has all the hallmarks of a classic Disney cartoon, with the “major motion picture” ethos thrown in to boot! Helping… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…Glen Keane and Andy Gaskill, as well as historians John Canemaker and the always lively John Culhane. That the film stops to reflect on the magic these two gentlemen brought… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…early motion pictures. The Sweatbox Review: As anyone who remotely knows me is aware, I am a Walt nut, and adore “spending time with him” by way of his multiple… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…shows making the transition to “major motion picture” is that they should ideally come across as a bigger, longer version of the original series, to please the fans, as well… |
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Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews
…more on the Tintin motion picture series that Steven Spielberg recently announced. Tintin was a comic book hero of my Dad’s, so I’m watching these developments closely, and am excited… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…stylization. Though this helped Monster House enormously when it came to arguing against the limitations of motion capture, there were still criticisms to be made in some of the character… |
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Mickey quits…
…its films. While I generally applaud the motion from this point on, it should be noted that productions from the past were created – as Leonard Maltin explains each time… |
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TMNT
…animation is by turns sometimes truly impressive on the Turtles – almost motion capture smooth – and then unfortunately clunky, mostly on the other, human characters. Despite being modelled more… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…creating a popularist, mainstream motion picture – there was no hiding the fact that Jungle Book was shoved in this direction to build on the mammoth success of Poppins –… |
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Bee good: Jerry's animated debut is out today, plus good news for Gilliam, and I Am Beowulf!
…the disappointing (could that be why, me thinks?) Robert Zemeckis wannabe-epic Beowulf, a visually messy combination of the motion…sorry, Performance Capture and computer generated imagery the director pioneered in The… |
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Fantasia 2000
…many different musical themes. Disney then agreed to the idea and Fantasia was set into motion. The movie opened to mixed reviews as many thought that setting music to animation… |
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Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!
…is Avatar is doing as predicted and blowing everything else out of the way. Despite the advances in motion-capture (dubbed, quite fittingly, “e-motion-capture” by director James Cameron) of that action… |
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Disney/Marvel brings Stan Lee into the fold
…three year creative and business relationship, POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment Inc., the advanced media and entertainment company led by comic book and motion picture icon Stan Lee, announced today… |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…Maestro It was as if the world had suddenly stopped. It was the end of an era at the Walt Disney Studio, and maybe even for the world. A person… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino will be hosting “What’s Opera, Doc? Animation and Classical Music” on May 14 in Beverly Hills. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event will… |
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Fantasia will amaze ya: full details
…outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures, being the first commercial film released in multi-channel sound using a process called Fantasound, and the second… |
