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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…referring to potential film series as “franchises” was born. Studios scrambled to find the Next Big Thing: tentpole or event pictures that could stretch to two, three, four or more… |
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2nd Annual Aniboom Awards Open for Submissions
…and intolerance, which can be viewed at www.aniboom.com. Jossie is currently working with the Aniboom Creators Studio to develop his original series, which is set to launch in 2008. Aniboom’s… |
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Titmouse, Inc. Taps DR Consulting for HD Upgrade On Hit Series Metalocalypse
“Final Cut Pro facility design experts, The DR Group, announced today that its DR Consulting division was tapped by edgy animation studio, Titmouse, Inc. to deliver Metalocalypse, its ongoing series… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
…proved to be a star for Disney, Pinto Colvig moved to Miami to work for the Fleischer studio (as the voice of Gabby in Gulliver’s Travels). The Disney studio then… |
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Animation Mentor Celebrates Graduates with Pete Docter
…ABOUT PIXAR Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of… |
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Disney and Pixar: a Hollywood marriage that works?
…has become a filmmaker-led studio and not an executive-led studio. We are very proud of that.” John’s team has heavily reworked Bolt, the tale of a Hollywood dog star who… |
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The Smurfs coming to the big screen
…at Paramount/Nickelodeon, which has an option to co-finance the Columbia/SPA incarnation and distribute internationally. The Melrose studio has yet to make a decision on its role in the film. Best… |
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Can Kung Fu Panda mark DreamWorks' return to the Oscars?
…was the studio’s last win since 2001’s Shrek but an Aardman production). Tough to digest for the only studio in town to be solely dedicated to animation and releasing two… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…an important part of the studio’s development, and yet they have never been treated on DVD like they were on LaserDisc. Pinocchio is finally coming to Platinum Edition DVD and… |
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New WDAS website
…studio’s history and discusses what it’s like to work at the studio now. The Projects section showcases the title treatments for their next several feature films as well as for… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…now head of DreamWorks Animation Jeffrey Katzenberg in which the Studio chief made an astonishing remark. Apparently, during a discussion of the films Kermode admitted to enjoying, Katzenberg branded him… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens vs. Zeta vs. Captain Toontastic?
…the spot rather than any great leaps forward for the Studio. After the magic of Kung Fu Panda I was hoping for MvA to be much more clever, witty and… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight soars into stores in July
…built upon some of the greatest characters ever imagined,” said Warner Bros. Television President Peter Roth, who also oversees television animation for the Studio. “Producer Bruce Timm and his creative… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…One day, I got a call from Westchester, New York, from a small studio I had never heard of. They said they were working on their first animated feature called… |
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Richard M. Sherman on Bedknobs And Broomsticks: a Solid Songwriter!
…Gradi, and the Sherman brothers. Put on a hiatus because of the finally greenlit launch of Poppins, its pre-production started again in 1968, just before the Shermans left the Studio,… |
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Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1
…Studios in turn cut those producers out of the picture and set up their own studio with Walter Lantz. Harman and Ising, perhaps seeing how their fortunes had hinged on… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…were tendered from animation studios, with Disney given the inside track. Disney, however, wanted to own the new character and to have merchandising rights, which was not acceptable. Instead, the… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…follows Rudolph south to warn him of a plot by an ancient foe. The Sweatbox Review: The Rankin-Bass studio is principally known for its animated television specials, but in 1979… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…entirely on Canadian soil. (A similar project in some ways came out two years earlier; but Heavy Metal, was a Canadian co-production that utilized animation studios from around the world.)… |
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The Gremlins
…studio in 1942 for a period of three weeks. They tried to hammer out details of plot and motivation, and when Dahl’s time was up he went back to Washington,… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
…cartoon show back in 1966, from a different studio; and 1980 was actually the Ranger’s second Filmation appearance, having appeared in an episode of The Brady Kids in a 1972…. |
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Bravestarr: Volume One
…of the studio. Of course, with budgetary pressures ever worsening, the studio’s closure may have only been a matter of time anyway, so long as Lou Scheimer insisted on keeping… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…found his enthusiasm for animation re-ignited following years of sometimes unfulfilling or frustrating work at various studios. He borrowed his Tiny Toons colleague Paul Dini to help him and writer… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…Europe. In 1998, Miller was hired by DreamWorks Animation, becoming a story artist on the studio’s first animated feature film, Antz (1998). Next, he served as a story artist on… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…so impatient he drops it in the mail when they’re not looking. Surprisingly, a low-budget movie studio buys the screenplay and agrees to shoot it in their forest. It’s the… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…the studios are actually releasing this stuff. My biggest problem with studios are the ones who don’t release stuff. Viacom and Paramount own Terrytoons: Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, Mighty… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…Musker’s The Frog Princess but also the inauguration of a new classical shorts program. This would keep established artists busy between the Studio’s plans for more full-length films and train… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…half years. AV: So, when you had conversations like on One Hundred and One Dalmatians, it was sort of from one animator to another. AD: He was at the Studio… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…short fiction work in prose and verse has been published in magazines in the U.S. and abroad. When Robert isn’t writing, you’ll find him painting in his studio. His large,… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…wasn’t a great option at the time, they gave us the chance to open a satellite studio in Chicago that began as a two-person studio but quickly grew to about… |
