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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…batch of cartoons were made at a time when theatrical shorts were on the way out and the Studios were looking to their back catalogs to fill any of those… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…let go of her past. Sunset Boulevard is also a filmmaker’s film…it crackles with barbed dialogue aimed at the Hollywood Studios, and is even set on the Paramount backlot, where… |
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Inside The Box: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs DVD and Blu-ray Disc Comparisons
…Disc 2: • Hyperion Studios: be digitally transported to 1937 to discover the original studio Walt built, where Snow White was conceived and developed, featuring 1937 Premiere newsreel footage and… |
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The first and fairest meets the latest for Thanksgiving!
…whizz-bang CGI features. Debuting in US theaters nationwide today, The Princess And The Frog has been garnering rave reviews, has restored the real magic to the Studio in the public… |
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Going West, stop-motion style!
…CREDITS: Going West Stop-frame animation by Andersen M Studio Design and Animation: Line Andersen Photography and Lighting: Martin Andersen Sound Design: Mikkel H. Eriksen / Instrument Studio Commissioned by Colenso… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…likes of Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark, from other studios. It was back in those days when Walt’s son in law, Ron Miller, ran the company, and… |
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Paprikaas awarded Nickelodeon’s Kung Fu Panda series
…on Penguins of Madagascar,” stated Mark Taylor, senior vice president and general manager of Nickelodeon Animation Studios. “They have developed a world-class CGI production studio and animation team with an… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…instead. Anderson resisted the temptation to go for computer animation and retained Selick’s medium of choice, stop-motion, shooting the film just outside London at the Three Mills Studios, with much… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…the evolution of the Walt Disney Studio. The artists at both studios spent years making short films, learning the strengths and weaknesses of their medium, developing their skills, learning how… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…to be known. Selick’s directorial adaptation of Burton’s poem The Nightmare Before Christmas, a project the ex-Disney animator had developed while at the Studio in the early 1980s before it… |
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Christmas goes Pink!
…2011 holiday period. Full details can be read here: RUBICON STUDIOS TEAMS WITH MGM ON NEW ANIMATED PINK PANTHER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL A VERY PINK CHRISTMAS Rubicon Studios is once again… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…the stories behind the creation of one of his most successful characters, and certainly one of the deepest Disney characters ever – the Beast from the Studio’s celebrated Oscar-nominated feature… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…all mostly perished in the shadow of the little alien that wanted to phone home. As did the Disney Studios’ ambitious sci-fi drama Tron, but while the above mentioned films… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
Leon Schlesinger Studio, MGM, and UPA, for the First Motion Picture Unit (1943-1945), Thunderbean (December, 2010), 1 disc, Approx. 120 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, Not Rated, Retail:… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
He’s the animator of Cogsworth, Iago and Kronk. But today, he comes to us, at the invitation of Walt Disney Studio Home Entertainment, to talk about his supervising the animation… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…feud all over again in this debut high-definition assembling of their classic earliest shorts! The Sweatbox Review: For a studio that was once rivals with Tom & Jerry’s producing outfit… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…on the lack of evidence included in this set from his contemporaries at the studio of the time (Freleng, McKimson), who have been somewhat overlooked here. As such, any attempt… |
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The Lady of Names, Making an Animatic
…said, we think you’ll find some gems in these labors of love from outside the studio system. This week we have a solo stop-motion effort from Adam Ciolfi and a… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…know any better, anyone would think Chuck was the sole artist responsible for the majority of the Studio’s Looney Tunes cartoons. To casual movie viewers it’s perfectly understandable: when Chuck… |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…studio. Rich and the whole studio very consciously wanted to make sure that Wreck-it Ralph picked up where Tangled left off. Hopefully, we’ve achieved that! The Art of Wreck-It Ralph… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…the studio announced Crood Awakening as a joint venture with Aardman Animations. The picture was to be their fourth collaboration, following Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of… |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
…and reassembled for the shoot. But for Broom, two set builders and a few assistants made the sets considerably smaller and closer to the studio. Always humble, Lang credits Studio… |
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Pixar team leads Disney renaissance
…it by turning Disney into a filmmaker-driven studio like Pixar. “We are so, so excited to have the renaissance of Disney animation. We were dedicated to bringing the studio back”…. |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…pretty sure it is history of art that has been made. After working for 38 years at Disney, Glen Keane decided to leave Burbank to launch his own studio and… |
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Cinderella
…source material (to the point where it was marketed in theaters as Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book), rather than as a repeat of what the studio had done before with… |
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Strange Magic
…indefinitely, Star Wars ran for over a year, became the biggest smash of the time and changed film releasing forever, its two sequels allowing Lucas to play the Hollywood studio… |
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Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about “rising” Moom
…the Pacific, in teaming up with Japanese studio Marza Animation Planet (famous for the Captain Harlock series). The final film is another Tonko wonder, definitely touching to the deepest of… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…interplay of music and film with LACO @ the Movies: An Evening of Disney Silly Symphonies, a program of dazzling and delightful Academy Award-winning animation created by Walt Disney Studios… |
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Finding Dory
Pixar’s Finding Nemo was released thirteen years ago. It was the studio’s biggest hit at the time, earning over $300 million. Only two other Pixar films have reached that milestone… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…curious that the studio behind acclaimed hits like Shrek and How to Train Your Dragon decided to make a major motion picture about them some two decades after the height… |
