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Sleeping Beauty Film Facts
Celebrating the return of one of Disney’s most lavish animated motion pictures, Sleeping Beauty, to DVD and, for the first time, high-definition Blu-ray, we’ve been provided with these fascinating Film… |
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Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007
…its merry game, Night At The Museum is the kind of film the movies were made for. Speaking of awards…tomorrow sees the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, or… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…many from the all-important Motion Picture Academy themselves, and which made them an attractive proposition to DreamWorks in the first place. And there was the Wallace & Gromit bonus too,… |
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WB DVD: more Animaniacs, and The Phantom Tollbooth!
…an eye out at Bill Hunt’s excellent The Digital Bits for further updates, and they also have a full transcript of the 2007 chat in which many more classic motion… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…biggest blockbusters. We’re very excited to be working with him and his talented team in creating some incredible new motion picture experiences”. I’ve been an on-off follower of the ludicrous… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…series on the spot! After The New Adventures Of Superman there was no stopping Filmation, and they grew to dominance alongside Hanna-Barbera in the television animation market. The New Adventures… |
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Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!
As promised (it went up late last night) is my take on the motion-captured graphic novel-styled Renaissance, fresh on DVD from Miramax Films. Does it break the trend of unconvincing… |
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Weekend Roundup! Plus The Tick is back!
…big screen in a major motion picture? • Contest Corner – win giveaway copies of Disney’s Darkwing Duck Volume 2 and Warner’s 300, but hurry: both end next Tuesday at… |
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Ratatouille on DVD – Winner Announced!
…the apparent dangers of being an unlikely – and certainly unwanted – visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…faith lost in the company as of late, but I’m still puzzled as to why it uses music from a Warner Brothers motion picture. Really surprising – but very, very… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…that Mel Brooks was right, and there were, in fact, originally fifteen of the things, one of which stated that thou shalt not make terribly bad animated motion pictures such… |
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Richie, Scooby, Caspian, Boba Fett…all in the same post!
…making the impossible seem possible in big motion picture making! Lastly, I just wanted to squeeze in another mention of the Elstree Film Festival 3 that I’ve been running this… |
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles on the Road To…San Diego!
…think this crazy idea has all come true and that the wheels really have been set in motion, but Rand (and family!) left early Sunday morning to catch a plane… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…Part I is the program’s first full-length, single-story episode, and it takes the opportunity, after an intro from Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti (and his cheeks) to… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…exactly in the target audience for this (I invited a more appropriate family member to sit and watch with me), but that’s not stopped me from loving other Disney films… |
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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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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…left to right] will regroup for the hotly anticipated Iron Man 2 for Marvel, but have both confirmed participation in the fledgling studio’s The Avengers motion picture! Downey Jr –… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…threaten Disney’s artistic stronghold, but it’s a noticeable step up that retains a fine balance between Yogi’s usual appearance and the needs for more movement and characterization on the motion… |
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Yogi! New announcements! And tons of Pinocchio clips!
…to the motion picture screen, Yogi goes the route of expanding the TV series concept, and it does it very well too. A surprise success in cinemas, it was followed… |
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Dopey speaks: Snow White‘s characters and legacy!
…Snow White as a groundbreaking motion picture event, in our feature The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All, a collection of facts, figures and fun… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…it does contain a code for the D-Box motion system, which allows suitable devices to put you right into the hot seat for the action. Naturally, the image transfer (in… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…while the D-Box Motion Code will seriously rock your seats if you are so equipped. As noted above, the packaging on this new edition plays it simple: it’s just a… |
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Zorro: How Disney Legend Floyd Norman was put in jail by Sergeant Garcia!
…they were the standard motion picture union crew. There were probably many more crew members than those in view on the sets. But, I would imagine a film crew would… |
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Disney/Zemeckis’ Christmas Carol: “cold”
“On a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology level, it’s a wow. On any emotional level, it’s as cold as Marley’s Ghost”,… |
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Roger Rabbit sequel to use mo-cap
Robert Zemeckis told MTV that the Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel will feature motion-capture performances, an animation process he has used extensively over the past several years (and in tomorrow’s… |
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A Christmas Carol: season’s greetings from Jim Carrey’s Scrooge!
…Festival, Scrooge himself talked about his vision of the story, of the acting, but also about his first experience in a motion-capture movie. With the release of the film to… |
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UPDATED: Animated Film Disqualified from Oscar Consideration
…on September 1, 2007, prior to the January 1, 2008 start of the foreign films nominations cycle for 2009-2010, as stated in the third section of the Academy of Motion… |
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Ishinomori Work to Become Hollywood Film in 2012
The Anime News Network reports that a work by the late manga and anime creator Shotaro Ishinomori will be made into a live-action and CGI (computer graphics imagery) motion picture… |
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Low box-office for high-tech Christmas Carol
…than expected, coming in at just $31 million. Opening to mixed reviews, Disney is hoping another seven weeks until Christmas will give the motion-capture movie a festive boost in takings…. |
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Shakeup at Walt Disney Studios continues
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group president Mark Zoradi is leaving the company after 29 years, according to the LA Times. Following what many considered a surprise ousting of Dick Cook… |
