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A look back to Walt's fair
…Family Museum}} highlights the 40th anniversary of the 1964 World’s Fair and the making of Mary Poppins. Participants in newly added video clips include Marty Sklar, John Hench, Karen Dotrice… |
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Shrek 2: number 1
…Read what DreamWorks has to say about their smash hit film here: DREAMWORKS’ SHREK 2 BECOMES THE TOP-GROSSING ANIMATED FILM IN HISTORY The first Shrek has been pushed down a… |
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AFI names best movie songs
…You Wish Upon a Star”, \\Pinocchio\\, 1940 19. “Some Day My Prince Will Come”, \\Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\\, 1937 36. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, \\Mary Poppins\\, 1964 47. “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, \\Song of… |
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Poppins DVD looking good
Okay, here we go: {{link http://www.showbizdata.com/contacts/picknews.cfm/35921/JULIE_ANDREWS_SAYS_POPPINS_DVD_IS_SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC Showbiz Data}} is the first to announce that the 2-disc Special Editon of Mary Poppins is going to be “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. Speaking briefly to star… |
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\\Spider-Man 2\\ heading to IMAX
…and Bradley J. Wechsler. “About a year ago, we did tests on the first \\Spider-Man\\, and since then, we’ve always thought \\Spider-Man 2\\ would be fantastic as an IMAX film…. |
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Playbill announces Poppins cast
Playbill online features a look at the now fully rounded cast of the {{link http://www.playbill.com/news/article/87360.html Mary Poppins}} stage show, who have just started rehearsals for a fall debut in the… |
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Dick Van Dyke: CGI artist for hire
Yes, it’s true folks! Dick Van Dyke, star of such classics as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is well into his computer animation…so much so that a visual… |
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Frank Thomas has passed away…
…Peter Pan, the dancing penguins in Mary Poppins, among others. He also animated several of Mickey Mouse’s most impressive scenes in such short films as The Pointer, and Brave Little… |
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First look at The Cat That Looked At A King
A new promotional advertisement for Mary Poppins on DVD contains a first look image at The Cat That Looked At A King, a new animated short that appears on the… |
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Ellenshaw Collectors Editions
…landscapes and renderings of classic Disney imagery including Mary Poppins, Fantasia and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea – collaborative works by Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw, and a number of new… |
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DVD Exclusive announce awards nominees
…Animated features figure in prominently with The Lion King 1½ gathering eleven nominations. Other animated features that earned nominations include: Mary Poppins 40th Anniversary Edition, The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth… |
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Pocahontas concept art preview
Eight images out of dozens and dozens of still images of concept art from tomorrow’s 2-disc Pocahontas DVD can be viewed here: Tentative title treatment The Mary Blair Canoe Tour… |
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Domain names registered by Disney reveal studio plans
Jim Hill Media writes of some website names registered by Disney, including quite a number taken just for the Tarzan and Mary Poppins Broadway shows alone. In addition, plenty of… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…or something like that, I sometimes pick from sequences that I’ve worked on. There are a few, there are just a few, that I feel okay about. Most of it… |
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Cinderella Grab Bag
…missing is the infamous Bill Murray golfing scene from Caddyshack. There’s also a preview of the February 2006 Bambi sequel (which on several very recent Disney DVDs was referred to… |
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Fanning cast as Coraline
Dakota Fanning will voice the title character in Laika Entertainment’s animated feature Coraline, accounts The Hollywood Reporter, by way of Coming Soon. With Bill Mechanic of Pandemonium Films and Mary… |
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Caption Contest
…Cæsar and Aladdin’s! – Next time they’ll think twice about swimming in the King’s money bin. – Glomgold: Looks like our oil investments went bust. Scrooge: You said it. –… |
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Irving Ludwig, RIP
…in launching successful marketing campaigns for such heavyweight Disney classics as Fantasia and Mary Poppins. He is remembered as an honest businessman who never sacrificed personal relations to business endeavors…. |
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Bedknobs and Corpse Brides
…short about humanity’s fight for survival, for Universal’s Focus Features. After doing a rewrite on executive producer Robert Zemeckis’ Monster House, she was offered many horror projects, but says in… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…Cosby impression] “What are you talking about? It’s Jell-O, you see, because you don’t get much…” So, anyway… AN: I remember hearing about Art. I knew about him as I… |
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Animated movies found among poll of greatest family films
Courant.com points to a British television poll which lists the greatest family flicks of all time. Animated movies chosen in the poll include: Shrek (#2), Mary Poppins (#3), Toy Story… |
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Update on Disney's DTV slate; American audiences ignoring British humor?
…Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit may have inspired studio executives to make certain humor changes to Flushed Away, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, and the Mary Poppins Broadway show… |
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Song of the South, Team America on "least politically correct" list
…many as possible.” The entire list of “least politically correct” films includes: Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, There’s Something About Mary, Caddyshack, Love and Death, Kentucky Fried Movie, Team America: World Police,… |
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Anima Mundi 2006
Celbi Pegoraro has posted his report on The 14th International Animation Festival Anima Mundi 2006 held recently in Brazil. John Canemaker gave a lecture on the contributions of Mary Blair… |
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Everyone's soundtrack
…on the Ball”), Wyclef Jean with Kontrast (“What You Do”), Lonestar (“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”), Mary-Chapin Carpenter (“The Bug”), and American Idol’s Paris Bennett (“The Tigers”). Meanwhile, John… |
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Beauty & the Beast named 22nd "greatest movie musical"
…Beast, coming in at #22. Containing some animation as well, The Wizard of Oz landed in the third position, while Mary Poppins arrived at 6th place. As for the top… |
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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…Flushed Away to Madagascar, Chicken Run, James Bond, Toy Story, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Caddyshack, Star Wars, Mary Poppins, Superman, Batman, X-Men, Lady and the Tramp,… |
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Pop in to catch Poppins at the El Cap
The holiday season may be winding down now but you can still have a jolly holiday with Mary Poppins during its three week engagement at Disney’s own El Capitan Theatre… |
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Enchanted
…tower, surrounded by the friendly forest critters we’ve come to know most notably from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty – only, they’re not quite how we remember them. There’s a… |
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Eloise in Hollywood to premiere on Starz Kids & Family
…television event will include interviews with Liza Minnelli, the godchild of creator Kay Thompson and inspiration for Eloise, and Mary Matilyn Mouser, the voice of the show’s title character. Eloise… |