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Disney projecting $30 billion in branded retail sales for 2008
The Hollywood Reporter published an interesting article this morning outlining the huge success of Disney merchandise, driven by franchises such as Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Cars and the Disney… |
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Very first images of Disney's Bolt
/Film finally offers us a first look at Disney’s CG follow-up to Meet the Robinsons, which has had a rocky production and the Mouse House kept under wraps until today…. |
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Tinkerbell to join Hollywood Walk of Fame
…get her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame later this year. She will join other imaginary characters there including Winnie the Pooh, Kermit the Frog and Mickey Mouse…. |
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New trailer for The Tale of Despereaux
Yahoo! Movies exclusively debuted the trailer for the December 19th animated feature film The Tale of Despereaux, Directed by Sam Fell (Flushed Away) and featuring the voices of Matthew Broderick,… |
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Disney drops Destino DVD release plans
Ultimate Disney reports that the Mouse House has revised its press release for Walt Disney Treasures: Wave 8 by dropping from the track list the 2003 realization of the long-unfinished… |
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The Tale of Despereaux clips, featurettes, and more
Coinciding with the release of the film, COLLIDER shares six movie clips, two featurettes and more from Universal’s upcoming animated feature The Tale of Despereaux. Directed by Sam Fell and… |
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Disney and DreamWorks deal is done and dusted
…their new “long-term distribution arrangement”, which will be presented under the Studio’s Touchstone Pictures banner. The first as yet unspecified film under the agreement will come to theaters in 2010…. |
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¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!: Speedy Gonzales Set for Guest Appearance
Toon Zone reports that everyone’s favorite fleet-footed Mexican mouse, Speedy Gonzales, will be making a guest appearance on the November 8 episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! on the Kids WB. Set… |
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Superman soars! Gulliver sinks! In a double dose of Fleischer fun!
During the 1930s there was but one outfit that could lay legitimate claim to rivaling Walt Disney in the animated cartoon stakes: the Paramount-sponsored Fleischer Studios, run by producer Max… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…from the existing elements, mostly evident in the opening titles where a soft focus, smudged “halo” is visible around the Paramount logo. As for the rest of the images, they… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
Rodney’s been back over the weekend with his promised look at the second of Disney’s recent superheroic offerings, X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2, which picks up where Volume… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…fortunate to speak with today. Jeremie’s latest interview reveals the terrific amount of detail and work that clearly has gone into every frame of the new feature version, the result… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…too much about them, so the fact they apparently warranted a big screen adaptation suggested there was more to the negativity I had picked up and maybe even good things… |
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Superman returns; Cinders III on DVD
Well, I’m a happy camper! Despite the hoo-hah and mix up over at Warner Brothers Home Entertainment and the “issues” surrounding their Superman: Ultimate Collector’s Edition megaset, the company has… |
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Classic feature reviews, Pan deals, and more…
A couple of 1970s animated features get the archive review treatment today: the original animated The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and the special edition DVD of Ralph Bakshi’s… |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
…now be the new version that gets “preserved” for hi-def and future screenings. The Mouse House used to be the best at preserving their legacy. Now they’re just screwing about… |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…(Animation Studios) shadow. If they needed a logo, why not dream up something based around the more stately WDFA moniker? The only happy spot is the use of Mickey Mouse… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
…their content on BRD and only Universal staunchly reserving theirs for HD-DVD, the Blus are certainly in the stronger position, from industry support and thereby the amount of titles available… |
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Mickey quits…
…promotions and the like. This year’s big rumors involve The Dark Knight‘s nemesis The Joker, and the casting for 300‘s Zack Snyder’s next, Watchmen, though there are plenty of other… |
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Treasures found!
…other “must have” in this wave after the second helping of Silly Symphonies. To recap on those four titles from last December: • The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…they should take it from there! As with the speedy replacements of the True Life Adventures, kudos to Disney Studios Home Entertainment for resolving these issues, and we look forward… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…TV in the 1970s. Their middle-years theatrical style was often compared to the UPA Studio, favorably and for good reason, and I’m just having a ball leafing through the pages…. |
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Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!
…a review of an older Disney title, Mickey’s House Of Villains, the 2002 compilation that sees the rogues’ gallery of badduns taking over ToonTown’s House Of Mouse nightclub. This was… |
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Not even a B- for Bee Movie!?
…stills from the movie. So I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking something wasn’t quite right there. And as for Zellweger’s “relationship” with Barry B. Benson? I’m… |
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Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!
…show, at times reaching towards the heights of DuckTales“. Praise indeed, though the Mouse House’s usual zilch approach to extras for their TV outings carries over here, so there’s nothing… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King opened the doors to such fantasy fare, the eventual winners of the big prizes have seen a return to… |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…thing and included the two Penguins cartoons in with the BD release of the film, according to the press release. Though it drops the Video Jukebox (ah, shame, he says… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…series, thus allowing perfect transition from the voice cast to continue their then very recognizable roles, Hanna and Barbera knew they would have to up the stakes for a theatrical… |
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Mega Christmas Contest DVD Bundle – Winner Announced!
…The House Of Mouse Featuring 35 Disney characters in four classic holiday stories! • Air Bud: Special Edition The original movie with new Dog-U-Commentary with the Buddies! • Schoolhouse Rock:… |
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Gong, but not forgotten
Loose Moose Productions’ Caroline Attia has directed an animated homage to the Gong Man, the iconic trademark of the UK’s Rank Films used as the intro to all their films,… |
