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Aardman’s Timmy Time to premiere on Disney Channel
…is Aardman’s first animated television project for the preschool audience, and the stop–motion series has already enjoyed great success in its first season of broadcast overseas. Timmy Time follows the… |
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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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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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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…the Gods, she’s simply asked to do the aloof princess thing here, at least for the first half hour, where she’s pretty motionless in her Kohl eyeliner and just waiting… |
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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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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…us to two courageous little mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca. Bianca is an agent for The Rescue Aid Society, a secret rodent organization that helps those bigger than themselves out… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pirates! roundup
…with the director on the pirate theme. The Kansas City Star discusses the history of stop motion animation and how Aardman is helping the medium endure. And the Chicago Tribune… |
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2012 release dates set for John Carter of Mars and Frankenweenie
…which marks Stanton’s foray into live-action feature, will see a June 8, 2012 release while Burton’s stop–motion 3D animated flick Frankenweenie will be out in theatres on March 9, 2012…. |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume Two
…rest at this point. On the other hand, why stop now? Stay tooned, my super friends! Is This Thing Loaded? Sigh. Another lost opportunity. With so many Super Friends sets… |
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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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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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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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Animation Addicts Podcast #45: Kevin Schreck Interview
…The Thief and the Cobbler. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6660489959.mp3 Highlights: • Kevin’s interest in stop motion. • Catch and Fire: Jafar and Iago were college roommates. • Where did you get the name?… |
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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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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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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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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…they contained two stop motion films, (Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox), one digital film, (Up), and two hand drawn films, (The Secret of Kells and our movie). It’s nice… |
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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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Animated Addams Family in the works
…works, “with Tim Burton involved, hopefully to direct”. Other details at this early stage include the film will be stop–motion, possibly be shot in black and white, and will be… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox wins top honor at Annecy
Wes Anderson’s stop–motion feature Fantastic Mr. Fox topped the 50th Annecy Animated Film Festival winning its best feature Crystal award, reports Variety. The movie which was always the firm favorite… |
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Original King Kong coming to Blu-Ray in the fall
…DVD Active is reporting. The live action/stop–motion animated release will feature the same extras which were included on the 2005 special edition DVD, including a 7-part documentary, a commentary by… |
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With animated Oscar up for grabs, nominees in the spotlight
…does hope to stand next to some celebrities and get in their photos! He also discusses Hugh Grant’s performance, and the effort required to bring emotion to stop motion characters…. |
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Watch Oscar nominated short Fresh Guacamole
…ever nominated for an Oscar. Animated in stop motion by PES, the film is about a person making the title dip with some not so typical ingredients. You can watch… |
