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Elemental opens
Pixar’s Elemental is now playing in 4,035 theatres according to The Numbers. It’s doing fairly well with the critics, earning a Rotten Tomatoes score of 75%. Their consensus: “Elemental may… |
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Moana 2 opens
Disney’s Moana 2 opened this week in 4,200 theatres according to The Numbers. Critics have mixed feelings, but more than not have found something positive to say, giving the film… |
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Superman arrives in breathtaking teaser trailer
The long-awaited trailer for James Gunn’s Superman is here, and let’s just say it delivers the goods. The much-anticipated event film is set to kick off a brand new cinematic… |
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Stitch runs wild in funny Super Bowl commercial
A new TV spot for the live-action Lilo and Stitch aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and you can check it out in the player above. Worth noting that… |
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Toothless takes flight in How to Train Your Dragon Super Bowl spot
A TV spot for the live-action How to Train Your Dragon was shown during the Super Bowl, and you can check it out in the player above. It teases a… |
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Flow wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature
Gints Zilbalodis’ film takes home the first Oscar for Latvia. In the Shadow of the Cypress wins Animated Short. Dune Part 2 wins for Visual Effects…. |
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It’s David vs. Goliath in new trailer for biblical epic
The full trailer for David is now online, and you can check it out in the player ab0ve. Angel Studios claims the film has already made more than $3 million… |
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Moana sets sail in first look at live-action remake
ICYMI, the first teaser trailer for the live-action Moana is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. It also expected to be play in theaters… |
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Independents going \\Thru the Moebius Strip\\
…Screenwriter James Cox previously worked on \\Oliver & Company\\, \\ The Rescuers Down Under\\ and \\Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest\\. \\Thru the Moebius Strip\\ is aiming for a 2004/2005 release…. |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…are The Rescuers, Disney’s 1977 “crossover” feature which marked the swapping of the Nine Old Men to the new generation; Popeye, Robert Altman’s 1980 live-action take on the spinach-guzzling sailor… |
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Announcing Toonacious Family Entertainment
…has contributed to such features as The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Mulan, and Home on the Range and who won the 2003 Visual Effects… |
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Nextoons: The NickToons Film Festival Announces Festival Judges
…franchises, Hamill was the voice of the Joker for the 13-year run of the animated TV series including the features Mask of the Phantasm and The Return of the Joker… |
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John Fiedler dead at 80
…in \\The Rescuers\\, Porcupine in \\The Fox and the Hound\\, and the old man who threw off Kuzco’s groove and was tossed out a window in \\The Emperor’s New Groove\\…. |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…Research Library, is they kept all the cleanup drawings. So all the scenes are there in their cleaned up stage but they didn’t keep the roughs. AN: Really? AD: That… |
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Joe Ranft, dead at 45
…on many of the most beloved modern classics out of Disney and Pixar, including: writing for \\The Brave Little Toaster\\, \\Oliver & Company\\, \\The Rescuers Down Under\\, \\Beauty and the… |
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September 2005 movie schedules for Disney Channel and Toon Disney
…Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Black Cauldron, The Emperor’s New Groove, The Fox and the Hound, A Goofy Movie, Hercules, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Land Before Time, Pocahontas,… |
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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…clips are some of the examples of the artists’ labor to be found in the “Which Way Did They Go?” presentation. To view a full press release for the event,… |
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Milt Kahl podcast
…recently with an lecture Milt Kahl gave to students at CalArts in 1976 in which he “discusses a rough cut of some of his work on Medusa in The Rescuers.”… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…to Disney in 1987, working on The Rescuers Down Under (visual development and story), Beauty and the Beast (he storyboarded the death and resurrection of the Beast), The Lion King… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…the Elves. Now, as such, he explores the look and the personalities of the different characters of the film, as well as their relationships with each other, their backgrounds and… |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…in story, first. Then, I worked with the animator on getting the correct performance. But the underlying emotion structure was in the original story reels. That wasn’t like something that… |
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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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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…it back into the movie for the special edition. They also had to go back and “clean up” the backgrounds of the castle after the sequence since the servants were… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…They’re all little real moments. Then Kelly Slater and Rob Machado – surfers in the movie, the real deal – they played roving reporters, and then Sal Masekela – they… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…about the archives is, the Animation Research Library – is they kept all the cleanup drawings. So all the scenes are there in their cleaned up stage but they didn’t… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…the villains – they’re the most interesting of the animated characters. I don’t think the villains have changed much. They all have an agenda of their own that has driven… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…until recently, a philosophy that the Studio upheld, breaking the rule but twice, for theatrical follow-ups to The Rescuers and Fantasia, but when Aladdin and The Lion King proved such… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…the new generation of artists found their solid ground, allowing them to flourish over the next decade with The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King…. |
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The Jungle Book 2
…appears throughout, while the Song Selection allows instant access to the various songs in the movie. Both use the same subtitle track. Keeping with the songs in the film, there… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…rich and deep full animation and employing all the tricks of the trade at their disposal. At the other end of the spectrum is the TV division, which produce the… |
