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Disney unveils 2011 3D Blu-ray plans including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast
…Disneynature, Touchstone Pictures and Marvel. Through the Home Entertainment division, innovative distribution methods provide access to creative content across multiple platforms. Original music and motion picture soundtracks are produced under… |
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Get caught up in Tangled‘s disc details
…division, innovative distribution methods provide access to creative content across multiple platforms. Original music and motion-picture soundtracks are produced under Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records, while Disney Theatrical Group… |
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Newman wins Grammy
…Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. It is Newman’s fifth Grammy out of 14 career nominations. All his wins have been for Disney or Pixar film work…. |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…deal with the characters’ animation? DC: We didn’t want to limit ourselves in terms of overall motion. The robots were actually all fully animated from head to toe with a… |
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Mars Needs Moms a “historic disaster” for Disney
…it cost to make. When marketing costs are brought into play, it’s quite likely that the motion capture animated feature cost as much as $200 million for the studio, something… |
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Mars torpedos Yellow Submarine
In not entirely unexpected news, The Hollywood Reporter states that The Walt Disney Studios has shut down production on director Robert Zemeckis’ proposed motion-capture remake of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine,… |
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The Ballad Of Rango
…before it. Instead of shooting straight live-action reference or simple vocal tracks, the director assembled his crew and “shot” the film not as a motion-capture exercise, but in an “Emotion… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…per Brad Pitt in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, the dreaded motion-capture has been brought into play. In the behind the scenes material shown on television in the run-up… |
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Dumbo finally on Blu-ray for 70th Anniversary!
…who store the original 70 year old nitrate camera negative in their film vaults, and for reference, to an original 1941 ‘release’ print, held by the Academy of Motion Picture… |
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Mars Needs Moms DVD and Blu-ray in August
…Blu-ray Combo Pack and 4-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack, extras on these releases will include, Extended Opening, Life On Mars: The Full Motion-Capture Experience, Deleted scenes, Fun With Seth, and more…. |
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UPDATED: New Adventures of Tintin posters
The first poster for The Adventures of Tintin has just been revealed at Empire Online. The much hyped motion capture film from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson features a cast… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…pleased with what I saw. Note that it looks better in motion than how these static screenshots make it look. Scratch Tracks: The mono sound comes through at least as… |
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Ben 10 is coming to the big screen
…into a live-action motion picture. “In ‘Ben 10,’ Cartoon Network has built a property that is loved across the world,” he said. “It has a fun premise with a great… |
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Another Change from the Academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is very busy lately. The recently banned performance capture animation (a technique pioneered by Robert Zemeckis with The Polar Express) from the… |
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Paramount Pictures to Launch its Own Animation Studio
…Viacom’s already thriving global consumer products business by seeking to capitalize on merchandising opportunities tied to all Paramount Animation releases. The division will be part of the Paramount Motion Picture… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…A. Milne’s widow, Daphne Milne, granted Disney the motion picture rights. Under this agreement, the studio crafted three Winnie the Pooh featurettes: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966),… |
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Apes Rise at the box office
…much notice, in fact, that there’s even been some talk of Andy Serkis–the actor behind the motion capture behind Ceaser–might score an Oscar nomination for his work in the film…. |
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Eddie Murphy to host the Oscars
Apparently deciding that they should go with a comedian this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced that Eddie Murphy will be hosting the Oscars next… |
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New Clips from Tintin Movie
…is opening there sooner. The trailer stills are more fluid and flexible than prior motion-performance films–this bodes well for Steven Spielberg, but the question remains if he has put enough… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…John, Rice, and Zimmer were likewise honored for their music, while Hahn earned a statue for producing the Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical. The Annie Awards selected The Lion King… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…recognised by the motion picture Academy (with the first animated nomination for Best Picture) after the achievement of Snow White was acknowledged by the famous full-sized and seven miniature statuettes… |
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Eighteen 2011 animated films up for Oscar consideration
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 18 films have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. If… |
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Serkis: Hobbit trailer is “just around the corner”
In an interview with IGN, motion-capture superstar Andy Serkis revealed that the first trailer for the hotly anticipated The Hobbit can be expected to appear in the near future. “There… |
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Can Tintin become a frontrunner for Best Animated Feature this year?
…way of being a frontrunner, though, is its use of motion capture animation, which has drawn controversy from the Academy in the past. Andy Serkis, who plays Tintin’s buddy Captain… |
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Stainton out as head of Paramount animation
The Los Angeles Times reports that just four months after taking the job David Stainton has resigned as head of Paramount Pictures’ animation unit. President of Paramount Motion Picture Group… |
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The Lorax
…a wonderful fluidity of motion to it. The character designs were unique enough to be fun and interesting without being over the top. The music was great — catchy songs… |
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Happy Feet Two
…many in the animation community, to which the movie wasn’t really seen as “animated” due to it using the motion-capture process. This isn’t a totally fair assumption to make, since… |
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Arjun opens worldwide, limited in US
…Mojo. The film, in Hindi with English subtitles, is a joint UTV Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures production. Twitch has more about the movie, while the Los Angeles Times… |
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Feeding aliens, feuding mimes, and foodie astronauts
…drop by the school you can watch in a motion simulator! The Girl Is Mime Crowd funding your project, made popular and profitable by the biggest of them all Kickstarter,… |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
…to work as part of a team, and especially the massive teams that make up the crew of a motion picture. One always has to keep in mind that the… |
