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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Blu-ray in March
…released on Blu-ray in the US. Features on this release will include, “The World of Ghibli”, “Behind the Studio”, “The Birth Story of Studio Ghibli”, “Behind the Microphone”, and more…. |
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Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty
…of the Animals with the watercolor style, and the flamingos and the yo-yo. You may not do it a whole feature, but you can take there amazing artistic liberties in… |
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The Addams Family: The Complete Series
…a long history in the pages of The New Yorker beginning in 1938. They were still showing up there (with interruptions) until the death of creator Charles Addams in 1988…. |
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return Of Black Adam
…the Captain’s tales in the 1970s, though by then the name had been trademarked by Marvel Comics for their own Captain Marvel character. DC was forced to keep the character’s… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…in fact there are exactly NO special features that pertain to the disc’s main feature. Oh, they address the holiday season, with Trailers for the Peanuts holiday specials and the… |
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Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
…the Peanuts gang celebrates the Christmas season. The added special is really the meatier of the two, with the moving away of the Van Pelts setting off a chain of… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…remember these specials with the sweet fondness that only nostalgia can offer. Even seeing them again years later, one tends to feel the same appreciation for the specials that were… |
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Disney planning Planes franchise
…Cars universe called Planes. The films will apparently take place in the same world in which Lightning McQueen and Mater live, with the only difference being that the main characters… |
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights trailer now online
…Issacs, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights comes to Blu-Ray & DVD on June 7th, just in time for the release of the live-action Green Lantern movie in theaters the following week…. |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…act in the cartoons, so one can’t say the personnel was inferior. In fact, had the cartoons stayed under the guidance of the Fleischers, they may have evolved in a… |
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Paul not quite out of this world
Opening slightly below some expectations, the live-action/animated Paul opened to a decent $13.2 million, according to Box Office Mojo. The R-rated comedy–which features Seth Rogen as the voice of an… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…digital/hi-def film masters, the must-own comprehensive Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology (1978-2006) on Blu-ray includes all six versions of the films in the original Superman theatrical franchise — Superman: The… |
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The Fox and the Hound coming to Blu-ray
Disney has announced that The Fox and the Hound and The Fox and the Hound 2 will be coming to Blu-ray and DVD in a special 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection…. |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…their film A Night In The tropics in 1940. They stole the show, and from then on they headlined films for the next fifteen years. Tall, thin Abbott played the… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. How has the industry changed over the past 20 years? Kelly Asbury: I began in the animation business in 1983 and have been… |
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Planes teaser flies online
The first trailer for Disney’s upcoming Planes film has just been posted on their official YouTube page. Taking place in the same world as Pixar’s Cars, the film comes from… |
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Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
…stereotypical characters with flat personalities. They are standard archetypes – the tomboy, the fighter, the fat guy, the kid that gets into trouble, and the young apprentice. These can work… |
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Avada Kedavra! Harry Potter gives Winnie the Pooh the killing curse at the box office
…the final Harry Potter film saw the biggest opening weekend of all time with $168 million (beating 2008’s The Dark Knight), Pooh saw one of the lowest openings that Disney’s… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…the best time to open it? When is the opportunity for the most people to see the movie?” They felt, you put it in the thick of the summer. July… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…concluded they just didn’t feel there was enough interest to make the movie. I also don’t think they could secure the star of the first one, Christina Ricci, who was… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…The Prince and the Pauper, The Rescuers Down Under and Aladdin in a senior story capacity. Born in New York and raised mainly in Scottsdale, Arizona, Allers became hooked on… |
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The DC Universe Heats Up With Justice League: Doom and Batman: Year One
…Conroy as Batman. Bumper Robinson joins the cast as Cyborg and Michael Rosenbaum is the Flash. Bruce Timm returns as executive producer; the DVD will be released in early 2012…. |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…you believe the truth in these characters. Taking these open hearted characters and placing them within the timeless framework of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol just felt like the right fit…. |
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Two New Foreign Flicks: Redline and A Cat in Paris
…style you won’t find on US shores. These two are some of the last animated films to be released in theaters before the New Year. See them while you can!… |
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Cloudy With a Chance of… sequels?
…one to direct the film, Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn. The original Cloudy was a huge success for Sony in theaters and on DVD, and got terrific reviews from critics…. |
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Live-action Akira put on hold…again
…interest of increasing studio profits, including shutting down production on a number of movies and delaying the availability of their films on Netflix in order to encourage more DVD sales…. |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…actors together in the room and seeing them react. In a process when nothing happens in real time, that’s the one opportunity for you to have an intuitive reaction to… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
…Greetings is catching onto the popularity and revenue old eighties cartoons can generate if they are reinvented. Care Bears is the next cartoon on the reboot list with a possibility… |
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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
…Thornton, Amy Sedaris, and Salma Hayek. Were they all in mind from the beginning, or did they join later in the process? CM: We wanted them early on. We really… |
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The Muppets Release The Hunger Games Parody Trailer
Who said that the Muppet parody trailers would end when the movie hit theaters? Our favorite puppets released a new trailer for their March 20th DVD/Blu-Ray disc parodying the new… |
