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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…robot action in Rand’s evaluation of the anime classic. • Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 3 – Rodney catches up with the cat and mouse for some of the… |
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12 Days of Cartoon Network’s Holiday Programming
…is that Mr. Grimm plans to auction them off to the highest bidder! His plan means that the toys won’t make it to the children who are their destinies. The… |
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Fantasia will amaze ya: full details
Walt Disney Home Entertainment has now released the full and final specifications for their upcoming release of the Fantasia: 2-Movie Collection set on November 30, 2010. The announcement, alongside updated… |
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2017 Primetime Emmy Nominations announced
…Bob’s Burgers “Bob, Actually” (Fox) Elena of Avalor “Elena And The Secret Of Avalor (Sofia The First)” (Disney Channel) South Park “Member Berries” (Comedy Central) The Simpsons “The Town” (Fox)… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…on how the inspirations and limitations of these legendary artists helped shape the future of animation. AnimatedViews: In your preface, you write that the artists of the 1950s broke the… |
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Brendan Fraser too politically incorrect for Disney?
{{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill}} gets the scoop once again in a great article on \\George of the Jungle 2.\\ Brendan Fraser, the actor portraying the title character in the original… |
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Curious George update
…well-known monkey as “the company’s Mickey Mouse,” as it will appear on everything from water bottles to the studio’s letterhead. The budget for Curious George is somewhere near $40 million,… |
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The battle for Disney heats up: Philadelphia 2004…
…new pictures of the Save Disney Briefing, at the {{link http://www.savedisney.com SaveDisney.com}} site. Across the web, {{link http://news.google.com/news/en/us/business.html other stories are springing up}}, covering the Briefing yesterday, and today’s official… |
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Frank Thomas has passed away…
…years later and explored the gags, humor and story elements that went into the features and shorts. Walt Disney’s Bambi: The Story and the Film (1990) told the behind the… |
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Starz Kids & Family Campaign
…Chicken Little; for fantasy nuts, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; for golfers, The Greatest Game Ever Played; and, last but not least, for all… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…television in the 1980s, but the Americanisation of the voices didn’t match the very British nature of the setting. These versions are much more authentic, “based on the original and… |
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Mickey's Treat press release
Ultimate Disney has the press release for Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Treat. Along with the Halloween-themed main feature, the DVD will contain the Clubhouse episodes Goofy the Great and… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…as they were, the characters from the book were not designed for animation. For example, the eyes really are the soul of the characters, and in the book, the eyes… |
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A bumper weekend post: reviews, announcements and clips…oh my!
…to check out the clips we’ve embedded into the contest page…pretty cool stuff! We’ll round out with some new announcements: the $12.1 million-grossing Fly Me To The Moon is due… |
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Wall•E expected to do big business
In another great article, Jim Hill looks at the opening weekend of Kung Fu Panda and reports that while Disney won’t discuss opening numbers for Wall•E, the Mouse House is… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…Neither of these behind the scenes programs are the usual fluff pieces, leaving it to Watching The Skies: In Search Of Extraterrestrial Life and The Day The Earth Was “Green”… |
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The Art Of Up is simplexity itself!
…writes, the images perfectly capture the “simplexity” of the production design in Up. Read his review to see what he means. After a flurry of DVD reviews the past 2… |
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Ice Age coverage, Chuck does Tom & Jerry, and more of Saturday Morning
…de Seve. The interview covers his work on the whole trilogy. Do check out Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs for this informative… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…Peanuts die-hards due to the half-hour profile of the specials’ musical Vince Guaraldi, which Rand suggests truly warrants the $30 asking price. Classic animation of the furred kind next, as… |
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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…in the textures. I look to that with the director, the production designer and the animation director, and then, for the final artistic aspect of the image, there’s only the… |
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DuckTales: Volume 2
…from the House Of Mouse. As discussed in our review of the first volume of DuckTales, the show was a homage to the wonderful comic book work of “Unca Carl”,… |
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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
…This continues the rest of the way through the story. I can understand that they had no suitable role for Bugs out of the Christmas Carol story— you couldn’t have… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…but sure to surprise and delight with the rest of the selection. With the recent True Life Adventures launch of the Legacy series and the spectacular success of Cars and… |
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New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates
…the Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys limited tin set (the further titles will get their respective once-overs very soon), as well as Richard Linklater’s… |
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Goofy's new animators spill the beans; plus dancing penguins and other new reviews
…a trio of reviews: for the surprisingly entertaining Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Great Clubhouse Hunt special based around the popular pre-school Disney Channel show, a return back to my childhood… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
…effectively been won. Titles like these from the Mouse House are what is going to propel Blu-Ray to the front of collectors’ minds when they make their move into hi-def,… |
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Weekend Update: Tom & Jerry's Tales, plus Casper winners!
A real quick one to take us into the weekend, with a brief note to point out two new review additions, for the two volumes of cartoons from the Tom… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…bit of a let down from Disney, but their upcoming The Jungle Book is shaping up to put the otherwise diluted Platinum Editions back on track, alongside more of their… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…the graveyard shift! • Book Review: The Gremlins – these guys will give you the bedtime creeps! Happy Halloween, and enjoy what will no doubt be a frightfully fun weekend!… |
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Bruce Broughton's Bambi II; More Justice League and Tom & Jerry Tales
…most handsome of DisneyToons’ films to stand up to the feature qualities of Disney animation. There are still copies of the film to be found out there, and perhaps Jeremie’s… |
