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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…the financing for these series – was not. The channel was in the middle of establishing its own brand of tween-centric programming and believed that ordering numerous series based on… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…powering themselves along. When they shoot off over London and the clouds part beneath them to reveal the city, one could almost fall into the shot, such is the depth… |
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Batman – The Dark Knight Returns: Parts 1 And 2
…Then, with the Dark Knight and his new Robin gaining attention, The Joker and the US government both take notice, leading the Caped Crusaders into battles with both the Clown… |
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Releasing soon, Internet Explorer: The Anime
…decided that Internet Explorer needed to become an anime heroine. Say what? Internet Explorer is often the punchline for IT jokes and Microsoft wanted to show they have actively been… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…is finally hitting theaters on March 22, with critics suggesting the film was worth the wait. In an Animated Views exclusive, Sanders and DeMicco discuss the evolution of The Croods,… |
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Pixar’s “inside the mind” film gets a title
…“told from the emotions taking place inside the mind of a little girl.” Inside Out is currently set to invade your brain at the movie theater on June 19, 2015…. |
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The Elusive Rose of Versailles Finally Comes West
…the web. The anime is about a girl named Oscar who was raised as a boy and serves as a guard during the reign of Marie Antoinette. The DVDs will… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season
…that will build to the end of the season. The bits of continuity in this season do give the episodes a little more weight, slightly stepping away from the “weird… |
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DreamWorks announces Happy Smekday!
…their mortal enemy. When one lowly alien accidentally notifies the enemies of his whereabouts, he is forced to go on the run with a teenage girl. The two become unlikely… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…to show the strength of the characters in the Toons format and is simply a delightful joy. Without the constraints of a feature film’s story arc, there’s the chance to… |
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Brave
…But the actual designs of the people and animals were a bit on the bland side. The leaders and sons of the three clans were the big exception. Each contrasted… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…and the rest of the down and out dogs for the sake of simplicity? Here, they take the bold step of not re-introducing any of the characters they do not… |
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Favorite Mousketeer Annette Funicello Dies
Often said to be the most beloved of all the 1950s Mouseketeers, Anne Funicello died today at the age of 70 from multiple sclerosis. Funicello attracted the attention of Walt… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…of the films. Here the locations are greatly expanded in both size and the sheer amount of them: if the previous two outings weren’t feature-quality enough, Naughty Vs. Nice certainly… |
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Voice cast for Inside Out announced
…Jones took place inside the human body, Inside Out takes place inside the mind of a little girl, with the main characters being her “emotions,” Anger, Joy, Disgust, Sadness and… |
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The Croods
…You want to get the movie promos in front of the right eyeballs, and once there you have to make them want to open their wallets — or in the… |
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Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels: The Complete Series
…the usual tropes are on display in the forty episodes, with the gang teavelling to Hawaii, meeting Bigfoot, encountering trouble at the circus, and so forth. They even eventually travel… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…and interact with the characters on the page, but there’s a little less of their bumping and fumbling with the typed text in the book they inhabit this time around,… |
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Docter talks Inside Out
Pete Docter, the Academy Award winning director of Up, recently discussed his upcoming film Inside Out with The Hollywood Reporter. The plot focuses on an 11 year old girl and… |
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The Halloween Tree
…four, one of which is a girl, and even the original Pipkin’s name has been shortened. But the changes work for the screen, tightening the story and making sure there… |
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Day of the Dead uses Kickstarter to get musical score
…film about the Mexican holiday. Day of the Dead follows a young girl who discovers the holiday’s true meaning: “to celebrate the lives of lost love ones rather than mourn… |
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Pixar’s Inside Out revealed
…the mind works, Inside Out gives people a new way to visualize their own thought process.” Riley Anderson is the young girl at the center of the film but according… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…them and holds them prisoner while he decides which one to marry. Naturally, it’s Finn and Jake to the rescue. There is a dark undercurrent to the series, though the… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…Gets Grinched (discounting the holiday theme, the previous special even loses the Halloween from its title for it’s alternate title as the more straight-forward Grinch Night), there’s some much better… |
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Paperman gets buzz
…some art, a video interview with director John Kahrs, and a sampling of tweets from people who have seen the film. A description of the short and the poster follow:… |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season
…that were left on the cels when they were photographed, revealing the low-budget nature of the enterprise; but the overall appearance is certainly drab and dingy. This may be the… |
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8 minutes of next Tinker Bell movie now online
…who’s always believed in fairies despite being told that they don’t exist. The voices from the first two films in the series are returning, with Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) joining the… |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…who can help the newer animators. There was a lot of work upfront in pre-production to document the classic characters and create guidelines for the new animators in the form… |
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Superman: Brainiac Attacks
…but dumps it all in favor of reverting to the status quo by the end of the movie. Similar “resets” are made during the story in other ways. The apparently… |
