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Animation Addicts Podcast #69: Princess Mononoke – Go Away
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers review Studio Ghibli’s epic film Princess Mononoke with special guest host, Rotowriter Mayra Amaya. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7641219271.mp3 Highlights: • Main Discussion: Princess Mononoke • First… |
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Only Yesterday
On July 20, 1991, Studio Ghibli released an adaptation of the manga Omoide Poro Poro by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone. Directed by Isao Takahata and recognized by westerners as… |
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The Boy and the Heron trailer is gorgeous
…from Studio Ghibli, the animation looks fantastic, and the voice cast is pretty stacked as well. The film was originally said to be Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, but that may… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…of the Studio Ghibli films found on their two-disc releases is my favorite supplement here, a Director’s Commentary to a full-length Rough Cut of the film. This is excellent stuff,… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…English language casts of Studio Ghibli films that sometimes rival the original recordings (Chloë Grace Moretz is so exceptional as the title character in The Tale of The Princess Kaguya… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Last Dragon, which continued Disney’s winning streak for feature films with great animation and a pacifist message worthy of Studio Ghibli. True, I could’ve done without some of Raya’s “modern”… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…Boy And The Heron brought Studio Ghibli back into the spotlight in a big way, and Across The Spider-Verse not only met the high expectations for it, but even shattered… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…Of Ghibli titles, and promos for anti-piracy, the D23 fan club and Disney Movie Rewards. Naturally, we wouldn’t expect the Studio to include the original theatrical trailer for The Great… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…as these lavish and very welcome sets in the near future. It’s understandable, if a disappointment; as studios release the cream of the crop it falls to more and more… |
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Lost And Found completed by Studio Aka
London’s Studio Aka has announced completion of their 25-minute animated film adaptation of Oliver Jeffers’ award winning children’s book Lost And Found. A co-production between Studio Aka and Contender Entertainment… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
With the recent passing of Joe Barbera, we have now lost both of the giants responsible for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio. These two men had amazing success in both theatrical… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…It’s impossible to work that way, in a big studio situation. But because I have my own recording studio in the basement, I was fine. I would just record the… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…cut down the costs that the elaborate and lavishly produced Sleeping Beauty had proved were too expensive. Beauty had been in production over six years at the Studio, eating up… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…at “a studio that no longer exists, called Elstree Studios”. I can let the boys know that the Studio is indeed still there – I work there, with a Roger… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…into late-period Walt, when the Studio had to make the animated films without the supervision he had shown to the early classics Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia or Bambi. By this… |
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The Rescuers
…the Studio. By the time of the film’s release the Studio had lost its way a little, trying to come up with projects that Walt might have made. A fine… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…live-action was inevitable after Hanna-Barbera introduced such elements into The Banana Splits (1968). It wasn’t until 1974, however, that the studio felt brave enough to abandon drawings, taking their chance… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…the work from the Disney Studios, as well as Superman remaining my favorite film of all time. As one is able to do when they are a child, I made… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…champion in this series of dawg-gone hysterical cartoons. The Sweatbox Review: Walt Disney undoubtedly propelled the animated movie business forward into new territory and his studio was well known for… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…friendly music cues. With Kung Fu Panda purposefully staying away from those conventions as much as possible, the Studio actually seems to have found their Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton,… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…SYNOPSIS By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…a huge Disney fan and dreamed of working at the studio from the time I saw Pinocchio at the age of nine. Early on at the studio, I got to… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…for Walt Disney in the studio’s 1942 animated classic. After leaving entertainment, Dunagan attended the University of Alabama on a football scholarship before transferring to Virginia Tech to broaden his… |
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Paramount Pictures to Launch its Own Animation Studio
Paramount Pictures has just announced that it is going to launch its first in-house animation studio: Paramount Animation. Beginning in 2014, the studio plans to release one family-friendly animated film… |
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Dreamworks Plans to Build Studio in China
Dreamworks has had a successful relationship with China since the popularity of Kung Fu Panda. To take advantage of the the burgeoning Chinese economy, Dreamworks wants to build a studio… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
Leon Schlesinger Studios / Warner Bros. Animation (1929-1959), Warner Home Video (October 16 2012), 3 disc set, 365 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.37:1 original Academy frame ratio, Dolby Digital,… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…kind of territory usually reserved for John Lasseter’s other preoccupation – Disney Animation Studios – not feel like any other feature to have emerged from The Lamp’s shadow before. Perhaps… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…for fans of the Studio: unless one was collecting LaserDiscs way back in the day it was the first time many would have been able to see pristine editions of… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
DisneyToon Studios (February 15 2002), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 20 2013), Blu-ray plus DVD and Digital Copy file, 72 mins, 1080p high-definition 1.66:1 widescreen, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround,… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
Famous Studios/Paramount (1944-1950), Thunderbean (2012), 1 Disc, 150 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $15.95 Storyboard: Famous Studios came out of the ashes of a studio that… |
