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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…disconnect of the music simply plays the joke harder. Many times, the more real and serious the music takes itself, the harder the joke will play. For example, when a… |
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Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!
…also fixed their stardom through frequent television appearances including “The Red Skelton Show,” “General Electric Theater,” “The United States Steel Hour” “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show” and “Toast of the… |
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The Princess And The Frog: Almost There (feature film song clip)
…adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. From the creators of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, The Princess And The Frog marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…all the more since he is the only Dwarfs to have his own theme, Dopey’s Theme). They don’t calculate, like the Queen. Beside, that passage contains no tension: the Queen… |
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Fantasia 2000
…and the jack-in-the-box. The animation of “Carnival of the Animals, Finale” was the idea of Joe Grant, who had worked on the original Fantasia. He had the idea of the… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…sometimes squashed to the back, sometimes right up front, but the dialogue is clean and the slightly cartoony aspect, especially of the Scrat scenes, of the spot effects means the… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…standard DVD included in the Blu-ray package has the same special features on it as the Blu-ray. The DVD utilizes Disney Fast Play. The main difference with the Blu-ray is… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…her to the real world. However, Randall has discovered the kid, and the longer she stays in their world, the better his chances remain that Sulley will be found out… |
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The Art Of The Princess And The Frog Book – Winners Announced!
…discovery features Tiana, a young girl with big dreams who is working hard to achieve them amid the elegance and grandeur of the fabled French Quarter. The Art Of The… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…of Zorro, before discussing the set’s special features. These special features are showcased on their own disc, the sixth in the set. This disc begins with the final two hour-long… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…Bill Murray’s mistaken identity character in the underrated The Man Who Knew Too Little, though the films also clearly left their marks on the makers of Haunted Honeymoon, both the… |
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New Avatar series greenlit by Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon has officially greenlit a new series based off of their popular cartoon show Avatar: The Last Airbender. The new storyline will take place 70 years after the events of… |
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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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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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Disney and Pixar announce four 3-D re-releases
…will put it back in theaters just a few months before the film’s prequel is the following June. And finally, The Little Mermaid will see its second re-release to theaters… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…hitting the funny bone (“I hid the self-destruct button on the bottoms of their feet so no one could reach them…I think I’ve said enough”). But Phineas And Ferb: The… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…but also lots of crude, badly drawn cartoons. The sound era brought the magic of Disney, and the brilliance of the Fleischers. And somewhere in there … there was Paul… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…in itself lacked the dramatic quality possessed by the former. The last few episodes on the series, however, are the most exciting as the characters break out of their clichéd… |
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Miley Cyrus joins Hotel Transylvania
…of Adam Sandler’s Dracula, who builds the resort of the title as a way of keeping his little girl away from the mortal world. Other members of the cast will… |
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Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 39th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The slate of nominations for Best… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…typically “hip” program, again filled with songs, this time following the prototype of Girl Power long before the Spice Girls lay claim to the term. Now issued in a Complete… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…Because The Lion King was considered an original story there was always the need to anchor it with something familiar. When we first pitched the revised outline of the movie… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…at the heart of the series. The whole scope of the show feels bigger, thanks to the expanded cast and the peek into the lives of the gang, not to… |
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Bolivar To Be Animated By Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers and Weed Road have been tagged to animate the Archaia Studio graphic novel Bolivar reports The Animation Magazine. The Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke will direct and write the… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…English subtitles. Final Cut: The songs added to the movie are sure to turn some people off, and I don’t think they always found the right tone or gained the… |
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Dark Knight Returns gets its voice cast
The voice cast for DC Comics’ upcoming animated movie The Dark Knight Returns has been announced via The Hollywood Reporter. The site reports that the cast will include Peter Weller… |
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Epic details revealed
…the story of an ongoing battle deep in the forest between the forces of good and the forces of evil. When a teen age girl finds herself magically transported into… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…the years— those films have ranged from the powerful Grave Of The Fireflies to the positively delightful Whisper Of The Heart; on the other hand, we have also had the… |
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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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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…directing over the phone sometimes. The animators would send out tapes of their work to us. We’d be looking at their work on the monitors here, while talking on the… |
