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Godzilla stomps softer than expected
…where it feels like they’re giving the whole movie away) The Secret Life of Pets 2 opens, along with the Disney-acquired Fox film Dark Phoenix. Final figures are due tomorrow…. |
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Toon producers outsource to China
…into the Chinese-language toon business, The Secret of the Magic Gourd. A tale of a vegetable with special powers, the film fared well in Asia and has been described by… |
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Actress Fay Wray dies at 96
…the 1991 ceremony marking the 60th birthday of the Empire State Building; she wrote, “Each time I arrive in New York and see the skyline and the exquisite beauty of… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…(there are no other extras save for some previews), since it looks like there are multiple editions of the movie contained herein with, it seems, the alternate The Secret Of… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…the audience, when rain occurs there’s actual physical rain in the theater. We’ve got 360-degree sound. There are gags that go all the way around the theater. And obviously this… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…in the theater. We’ve got 360-degree sound. There are gags that go all the way around the theater. And obviously this one is quite whimsical compared to the other film… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…it really became something that you could connect with emotionally. That’s where I think you could say the film really became The Croods. It became the family story; more specifically,… |
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In the Primate of His Life
…WETA used facial-motion capture. Serkis donned 132 electrode-like markers that ‘captured my facial movements as well as Kong’s eye movements. The thing about gorillas is that there is a central… |
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King Con! News from San Diego…
…fans. Check the link for the full exhaustive program, including the official announcement of an extended edition of Peter Jackson’s King Kong, while some bite-sized highlights include: Thursday, July 20th… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…the Performance mo-cap technique, with the reliance on the voice performing actors to reprise their roles in those skin-tight blue ping-pong ball covered suits. The cast is a good one… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…is for the 1925 The Lost World, with the cheesy 1960 remake the fun bonus. This edition features the closest reconstruction of the movie to its original length without resorting,… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…Wonderful World of Dreams booth. Don’t pet the goats displayed with the Thor: Love and Thunder costumes at the Marvel booth. They will bite. “We have the spectre, as animators,… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…There’s also a couple of instances of reverse footage depicting the slime “climbing” up walls and such, which is simple but effective! On the flipside of this, though, the Gamma… |
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The new Godzilla: King of the Monsters trailer unleashes the titans
…and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance…. |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…giving him a costume that looked more like the darker “evil Superman” from the third film (appropriate in retrospect, since Returns is an evil movie). By the time the movie… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…more warrior like folk descend from the cracks in the walls. Who are these people? How do they survive out there? What tribe are they? Are they even real? What… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…Kong, which was insane enough to be enjoyable, as were the Disney and Pixar offerings of the year (the superlative Raya, lovely Luca, the interminable Encanto), even if nothing was… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…surely has inherited the Earth! Bustin’ makes me feel good: the GhostBusters videogame babesInto this throng came three lone strangers…well, okay, they weren’t alone (with our families there turned out… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!
…characters on the playing field for the rest of the series. These first five shows are among the best of the entire collection here, since it deals with introducing the… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…split up, the types of role each character was expected to play, and the inevitable course every story would take. This made the show fun for those that grew up… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…the sheer amount of knowledge and care the two have for their craft and their movie is evident throughout. It was nice to hear them evoke the ethos of Walt… |
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Sony to Launch Animax Asia in January 2004
…for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Targeting the youth and young adult audience, the service will be an encrypted service and distributed via satellite and cable. Basic cable carriage… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…itself, so we’re only slightly leaping here!) is the release of The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series, available April 17th for $29.98. Produced by animation studio Filmation, the 2-disc… |
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VES Unveils “50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Timeâ€
…hard to guess which movie made it to the number one spot. This may be the only time you will ever see Darby O’Gill and the Little People and The… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…LaserDisc sets could compare with these beauties. Some were called by the classy “Exclusive Archive Collection” name, while some went by the simpler title “Deluxe Edition.” Whatever the title, they… |
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Don Waller on King-sized animation
…Don Waller, whose credits include Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Jurassic Park, and Dinosaur. Many of Waller’s thoughts regarding his experience of working on Kong are likewise included in the composition…. |
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The return of the King
Currently being sponsored by Volkswagen (shouldn’t they have done this for the Herbie film?) is the trailer for {{link http://www.kingkongmovie.com/ef239524432ba87f1ca8f70eed4b1fa7/en_splash.html Peter Jackson’s King Kong}}, which features a surprising amount of… |
